Póg mo Pigeon
2024 · 7m · Ireland
Directed by Clíodhna Lyons
Genres: animation, coming-of-age, drama
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, tender
In 1970s rural West Cork, a young boy named Mikey lives under the stern eye of his mother's Sacred Heart icon. When he befriends a wild pigeon named Pidgey in the forest, the bird follows him home during family prayer time — upending the sanctity of the sitting room and reshaping Mikey's relationship with his devout mother forever.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
1970s West Cork boy, Sacred Heart icon, wild pigeon disrupts family prayer, title is a bilingual fart-joke on "póg mo thón" — that mix of devout-mother heaviness and "kiss my arse" cheek is a real Irish register. Seven minutes. Yes.
A bilingual pun on 'póg mo thón' framing a 1970s West Cork story about a pigeon disrupting devout family prayer — the cheek and the sincerity coexist genuinely. Seven minutes; properly Irish in its tonal range.
7-minute 1970s rural West Cork animation under a Sacred Heart icon, title is a bilingual pun on 'póg mo thón' — that cheeky linguistic gesture inside a sincere religious-constraint coming-of-age is a specific Irish formal move. Couldn't access the YouTube embed but the conceit is strong.
Reviews
The jury praised the film for its originality, storytelling, and haunting beauty.
Clíodhna and the team did an amazing job bringing Polly's concept to life.
Festivals
- Galway Film Fleadh 2024
- Foyle Film Festival 2024, Best Animated Short