Review: New Irish Shorts at Gaze
2026's New Irish Shorts are urgent and heartfelt. Familiar queer tales of tradition and family come in new shapes and sizes as Khushi Jain reviews.
James Hudson5
James is a programmer, curator, writer & the founder/director of TITE (Trans Image/Trans Experience), Ireland’s first festival dedicated to trans and non-binary cinema. A programmer at GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival, James has shaped its shorts programme while championing bold queer cinema. His writing on queer & trans life appears in The Stinging Fly, Southword Editions, Monstrous Regiment & The Liminal Review. He also works with the Small Trans Library Dublin & Trans Writers Union.
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