Uisce Beatha ('Whiskey / Water Of Life') - Multi Award-Winning Irish Titanic Short Film
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- Set in 1912, 'Uisce Beatha' (Gaelic for Whiskey or Water Of Life) is the true story of Tom, a young Irish man who leaves his home in rural Ireland to cross the ocean on the ill-fated 'Titanic'. But a night of celebration beforehand results in a twist that will affect Tom's fate drastically....
WINNER: Filmmakers' Choice, DC Shorts Festival 2013
WINNER: ‘Made In Cork’ - Cork Film Festival 2012
WINNER: 3rd Place Audience Prize: Chicago Irish Film Festival 2013
NOMINATED: Best Drama - Healdsburg International Film Festival 2012
NOMINATED: Best Short Film / Best Director - Lewiston-Auburn Film Festival 2013
NOMINATED: Best Short Film - Julien Dubuque International Film Festival 2014
Official Selection:
Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2014
Helsinki Film Festival 2014
Raindance Film Festival 2013
Boston Film Festival 2012
San Francisco Irish Film Festival 2012
Fastnet Short Film Festival 2013
Waterford Film Festival 2013
Ford ‘8 Minutes’ competition
Dare Media Underground Short Film Festival 2012
Underground Cinema Film Festival 2012
Detours en Cinecourt 2012
RTE Shortscreen 2014
Starring Tadhg Hickey, Jack Healy, Martin Purcell and David Cooney
Written by Tadhg Hickey
Produced by Aideen Wylde
Directed, Shot and Edited by Shaun O' Connor
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Filmed on location in County Cork
This film was researched, written, cast, shot and edited in exactly one month, with a total budget of less than 300 euros. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
RIP Martin Purcell, who played the barman. He was an excellent singer and had an upbeat demeanor about him. Not to mention his wit.
He will be missed.
Thank you Shaun . I will extend that to his wife and family.
A fondness for the drink rarely saved a life but on this occasion...
This is exactly the same story my mother told of her uncle, leaving a tearful family in Abbeyleix he headed to Cork to catch the Titanic, meeting up with friends in Cork, he got drunk and missed the boat, ashamed to go home he turned up at my Great Grannys house like a ghost after the news broke. I wonder how many other young men had the same good fortune at this time!
Wow!!
Wonderful!
A friend's great uncle did the same.
This is all about father and son love. Just wonderful, the young man was ashamed for having lost the boat while the father was all in joy for not having lost his only son.
What a gem of a show, this proves that quality doesn't have to cost a fortune.
So wonderful. I blundered across this film two or three days ago and have already watched it several times. I particularly like the performance of the actor who plays the father. He has a perpetual scowl on his face and a sharp tongue for his son. Before the boy goes away, the father reaches out to embrace him or at least place an affectionate hand on his shoulder, but can't bring himself to do it. Later he's devastated when he believes his son is dead. Then Tom miraculously returns, and the father can't believe it. He reaches out to touch the boy, as if to make sure he's not a ghost, and it makes that long, slow embrace that closes the film so poignant. Just marvelous!
On a scale of 1-10, an absolute 10,
Tears here........
Beautiful. Bears the weight and emotion of the prodigal son story.
The whiskey was truly "the breath of life"!
By god that’s well written and well shot, well done, there’s something romantic abs Irish father and son relationship even tho we don’t know how to show it in real life
I don't know how many times I've watched this now, but I cry every time. What a beautiful creation.
Truth be told....had me in tears.
And me as well, having lived in Ireland for 8 years!
Wow! I watched this short film while breakfast and It makes me smiled at how God blessing for this young man fate. Ah....Go home, son, your old man needs you more🌹
I come back to watch this every now and again. The end always makes me shed a tear or two, in that soul-cleansing happy way. Fantastic work Mr. O' Connor.
Authentic, touching, vivid and superbly executed.
Didn't read the description before I started watching. As soon as I saw 'White Star' on his ticket, it hit me. Well done.
By far a superior film than anything out of Hollywood these days, thumbs up.
A great work of art says a lot with very little... In this case, an eight minute film is more powerful than some two-hour Hollywood tripe.
Studying this film for my English class our teacher showed it to us today. Loved it and absolutely brilliant. Well done!
Great movie!! Deserved all the awards!!
Reminds me of an old chinese tale that bad things could turn out good, but good things turn out bad as well.
Very easy to understand, yet very emotionally acted story with a light philosophical touch
Absolutely brilliant! Apart from the reference to the ill-fated Titanic, it is a kind of re-interpretation of the return of the prodigal son motive. Love it ❤
That was brilliant. A very well made film. Touching, it reminded me of my Grandpa Pat Joe, whose farm I would work at in the summers in County Leitrim. Tough Old IRA man and strong farmer. Never touched a drink in his life as he was a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart. But always had Guinness and cider along with the lemonade or ginger ale when he hosted a seisiun at his home. I never saw him hug my old man or kiss my Grandma but he had love in his heart for us all. Just hard for him to show it. Like Tom's Da.
Thanks Patrick, glad to hear you enjoyed it
Your grandpa was a tough IRA man. The "old" part is only a media invention to allow southern poiticians be hypocrites. There was never any such thing.
Ive only just stumbled across it but great work. The end should hit anyone but especially anyone who's a Father.
Such a simple idea, the type one comes up with on a bar having a drink wirh friends. Great execution, little details, tough love becomes real.
That wink and admonition is everything about my ancestral homeland. Everything.
I love this film. I use it with my English students to talk about Ireland in general and then to practise conditional sentences, like 'What would have happend if...' Top stuff!
A truly great example of the bad decisions most of us make at a young age, and it doesn't hurt to tell kids growing up how to avoid the stupid times, and know what matters. This little film was beautiful !
Simple and beautifully impactful story.
Have to admit I shed a tear or 2, beautiful short story.
Beautiful story
3.5 thousand likes in 8 years for this little gem. A video of a cat falling of a table gets hundreds of thousands of likes. Is the world unjust or just tasteless and trivialised beyond belief. It’s hard to say, but what can you do?
Produces a very lasting after taste.
The Irish version of The Prodigal Son... Well done
Well said
Beautiful story, it gave me goosebumps at the end. Irony after irony, and that lovely Iilting Irish brogue.
My favorite short film, a masterpiece..
Roman Zahin Thank you!
It's inspired me to make short film, i'll start soon in my country Bangladesh!
have you watch "the call" ?
a 4 min. short film. try it
Definitely
Aye, well done, indeed!
I rate all movies by the cry factor and that was, if not the longest in duration, was the fastest to happen! Well done.
Just now seeing this. What a great film.
Wow, really didn’t realize I’d be sobbing like a baby after a story of only 7.5 minutes. Good job, there.
Absolutely brilliant and beautiful.... and yes a good whiskey can save your life!
Im not crying, thank god for the whiskey
Holy shit, I task any father to watch this and not shed a tear... Brilliant!
This is by far the greatest short film I have ever seen, fantastic job
So do i
Great work of art! i love the scene on the train, the way you make appear the abstraction of the character in the silence of the conversation between the two old mens, and the flat on movement of what is outside the windows to reinforce the idea. You make me almost smell the green of the fields, and revive my passage on Ireland when i was walking Europe. Really Great Work! Rregards frome a starting cinema director in Uruguay!
Tears in my eyes at the end! What a fantastic short film. The young man had a great singing voice too.
Yes he did
Powerful ! So many layers to it. Powerful.
What a wonderful narrative and the production values were tops.
His father said that the drink would be the end of him. The drink was what actually saved him.
Why would you spoil the movie and show up as the bleeding top comment?
That’s why Whiskey is the water of life!
Ironic
Fantastic acting, and beautifully shot, but I can't help but feel like there was just a tiny missed opportunity! Would have been such a crazy twist if you gave no one any indication the boat he was boarding was the titanic, and then make sure no one mentioned it directly by name until the very end! Buuuut whatever doesn't even matter really, very well done!
Beautifully done. So sad, yet so wonderful to watch. Thank you for sharing :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'll drink to this!
Bloody hell. That pulls at your heart don't it? Thank you.
love the fact he had no idea what is going on or what happened lol
Extremely beautiful.
Loved it!
k, i am from Venezuela, i have a bout 2 years traveling in Latinoamerica, loocking for jobs (to get some money for me and my family -Father, Mother, Sister and my Grandma-), and to meet many places, people and food, this travel so far has been fcking amazing, i have meet many people from all kind of countries even from places i never heard off, but by these days, i miss so much my family, i miss so much the long talks with my father, i miss so much the warm hugs and food of my mother, i miss so much the smile of my sister and the long walks with my grandma, i miss the beaches of my country, i miss the cofe, but i wont get back till i get my ass to Europe, just few places loocking in this wonderfully made video makes me want to go there so hard.
The last escene just break a lil my heart, but was indeed very strong and beatifull, i hope my father awaits for me a lil longer. Thanks so much for this beattiful sorty.
I am afraid you haven't learned enough from this story if you postpone seeing your family as it might be too late
a grand story!
Lovely take on the Prodigal Son.
Yes
I finally found it again! Omg
That was so sweet... 💚🍀
Sublime, from the beginning to the extremely emotional ending. Fantastic. Thank you
deserved all the awards it got beautiful piece of film, thanks for sharing
Wonderful
Thank you for this touching short.
Wow, this was something else. 8 min of pure joy.
what a lovely piece of art u have there! tnk u ❤
What a beautiful film, we boozers get it right some of the time!!
I agree
Now that brings a tear...
Beautiful.
As an Irish American, having spent 8 years living in Co. Clare where we own a cottage on Galway Bay, I will say this was just wonderful! I, too, had tears in my eyes, as I know too well the emotions involved! What a masterpiece! WELL DONE and thank you!
Sometimes your biggest mistake is the best twist of fate.
It brought tears to my eyes my uncle died in that he was a great captain of the ship
Wat an absolute king I solute ur mom
Ur a strong man
Heart-wrenching yet uplifting!😊👍
Very beautiful movie, I loved it.
Loved it, mate!
Big league pitcher Tug McGraw once quipped, “Ninety percent I'll spend on good times... and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
Very good. Enjoyed that a lot!!
Wonderful work , beautifully told story
+Adrian Heffernan Thanks Adrian!
Excellent. Final scenes with father waiting for the son, brings the Bible story of The Prodigal Son to mind.
joekilgobinet
Yes! That is just what I was thinking.
Great film lad, keep up the good work!
Amazing!
Oh, it was a wonderful film it was!
Brilliant !!!
Well done. Very well done.
Wonderful!!
beautiful
😢 beautiful
Nice film.... Thanks
beautiful work well done
Great Story!
Amazing! My love to Ireland! Is breá liom Éire ❤
Do you know your cousin Ruadrí in Belfast? He has some testimony in here with your Cousin Garrett and Sinéad. It is about remembering Kinsale for some silly nonsense reason.
drive.google.com/file/d/1HTW01U5OLaRSz7HeCMlaVpCNr66RS2PY/view?usp=drivesdk
love it!
great, really enjoyed it.
aww that made me teary
That's a good one !!!
Lindo! Belas locações, trilha sonora especial, ótimas atuações e direção. Maravilhoso o roteiro! Amei!
The heading has a spoiler that hints at the twist of a great short film. I saw it first at the Chicago Irish Film Festival.
I love it.
Oh so good...
Much love from a remote Village in odisha ♥️♥️♥️
Stfup
best you tube video I have ever found. Thank you.
Really?! 'Cause there's this one, where a kid dressed like a zombie, sort of, says: "I like turtles" to a reporter. Oh man... OH MAN!
Grand!
Big love from Kildare ☘
Brilliant Tadgh
Lovely