Late Afternoon

Late Afternoon (2019) is an Irish animated short you can watch online on iFILM — nine minutes that somehow hold a whole life. Elderly Emily keeps slipping between the present and the past.

A cup of tea, a few bars of a song, a familiar scent, and she's a girl by the sea again, then a young woman in love. Her memories hand back the moments she's most afraid to lose, so she can finally hold onto the here and now. Hand-drawn by Cartoon Saloon and director Louise Bagnall, the film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short, with Fionnula Flanagan voicing Emily. A soft, watercolour ache of a film about memory, dementia and love. Stream Late Afternoon (2019) online on iFILM.