WildKind (Cineál Fiáin // أبناء الفطرة)

Production Country: UK
Running Time: 7mins
Year: 2025

Voiced by three generations of one family, WildKind is a poem painted to awaken the senses, a fluid journey of hope and healing across our shared watercolour motherland. A universal bedtime story, a call to nurture a life wild and kind.

This film is available with English, Irish or Arabic voiceover.

FILM CREW:
Director: John McDaid
Producer: Ciara Tinney
Exec Producer: Fionnuala Deane
Writer: Ciara Tinney
Editor: John McDaid
Sound Design: Robbie Boake
Composer: Robbie Boake
Animation: Morgane Tissier, Hugo McCrea

Cast: Jo Tinney, Ciara Tinney, Adabelle Boake, Fiadh Rós Boake, Birdie Blue Boake


FESTIVALS:
Fastnet Film FestivalMay 2026
Brighton International Animation Festival April 2026
Lethbridge Independent Film Festival April 2026
Toronto Irish Film FestivalMarch 2026
Animation DingleMarch 2026
St Patrick's Film Festival March 2026
The Lake County Film FestivalMarch 2026
Sedona International Film FestivalFebruary 2026
PEQUE FILMES of International Children Film Festival of GaliciaFebruary 2026
Chicago Irish Film FestivalFebruary 2026
Capital Irish Film FestivalFebruary 2026
McMinnville Short Film FestivalFebruary 2026
Aguilar Film FestivalNovember 2025
Foyle Film FestivalNovember 2025
This Is England November 2025
SCAD Savannah Film FestivalOctober 2025
Clones Film Festival Short Fiction, Animation & Documentary CompetitionOctober 2025
Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival October 2025
Kerry International Film Festival October 2025
TAF Thessaloniki Animation Festival October 2025
London Breeze Film FestivalOctober 2025
Disappear Here Film FestivalOctober 2025
Galway Film Fleadh July 2025