Round 38: Cork International Film Festival
CORK SHORTS
Hosted by: Shannon Cotter
November 17th 2026
8:30pm - The Roundy
We are excited to host our third official collaboration with Cork International Film Festival and again feature filmmakers from the Irish Shorts 3: Best Cork Short Competition programme in our film talk. The shorts will screen the same day - 6pm - in the Everyman, Cork. Find full programme and tickets here
Thomas Heising
With Danish-Zambian roots, Thomas now lives in Cork working with science communication. Over the years in the city, he's been involved with various campaigns related to queer activism, housing, anti-genocide and natural heritage. He uses video, animation and graphics to communicate topics that he thinks are important to raise awareness of, while also doing his best to show up in physical manifestiation.
Liadán Roche
Liadán is a trans filmmaker and playwright from Cork, best known for her award-winning short film debut TERRATOMA (2024).
She received the SDCC Individual Artist Bursary and participated in both Fishamble’s Cruising the Boards workshop series and the Abbey's Box of Tricks to develop her first full-length play, BROODMARE.
Her newest short film HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE (2026) is a trans romance/horror about doomed love in the Irish housing crisis.
As a disturbed woman, she is drawn to creating work about disturbed women.
Aideen Barry
Aideen is an Irish visual artist and filmmaker whose interdisciplinary practice spans experimental lens-based media, film, performance, and installation. Her filmmaking uniquely blends visual trickery and phantasmagoric narratives, exploring themes of cultural memory, intersectionality, and environmental change. Barry’s films often foreground marginalised voices and histories, revealing their resilience through immersive audiovisual worlds.
Her notable films include *Klostės* (2022), an ambitious collaborative project involving nearly a thousand Lithuanian citizens that helped secure Kaunas’ UNESCO World Heritage status and is held in the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National Collection. Barry’s work frequently incorporates multidisciplinary collaborations, such as with Inuit throat singer ᕇᑦ Riit and Irish harpist Aisling Lyons in *ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ / Seachmalltacht / Oblivion* (2021), which melds suppressed musical traditions through sound and moving image. Her new film, Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle (2025), commissioned by The Arts Council of Ireland, and getting its Irish Premier at CIFF, continues her exploration of folklore, othering, ecology, and archival research through ethereal cinematic language.
Barry collaborates extensively with composers Philip Miller, Irene Buckley, and Tshegofatso Moeng, choreographers Junk Ensemble, and other artists, creating expansive, socially engaged filmic works. She is a member of Aosdána and the Royal Hibernian Academy, with a distinguished international profile in contemporary art and film.
