Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom
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Bored of his supermarket job in China, Yu Ming spins a globe, lands on Ireland, studies Irish because it is the official language, and arrives to find that nobody understands him. Daniel O'Hara's 13-minute comedy is a gentle, pointed joke about the gap between the language on paper and the one people speak, with Frank Kelly as the older Irish speaker in a bar who sets him on a better path. It was shortlisted for an Oscar, and it plays in Irish with English subtitles.
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