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A selection of bite-sized films from around the globe... a good place to spot the feature film directors of tomorrow.



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here and thereHeaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix)
(Director: Magali Charrier; Writer: Trevor Williams; Cast: Simone James)
A woman is in love with two different men, but can't decide between them.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Willie Doherty)
Spooky goings on in a country lane as a narrator recalls ghosts from the past. See:

(Country: UK; Director: Marcelo DeOliveira)
Documentary.

(Country: UK; Director: Oliver Refson; Cast: Nickolas Grace, Stephen Wight)
An ageing actor finally secures the audition of a lifetime. But just how badly does he want the role?

(Country: US; Director: Spike Jonze, Ty Evans)
Skateboarding inflected pop video.

Bits And PiecesSunroof (Benazir Bhutto Assassination)
(Country: US; Director: Bill Plympton)
A lonely pooch falls victim to a bad case of puppy love.

(Country: US; Director: Kirsten Kearse)
A young woman dresses up to please her lover - in unusual ways.

(Country: Austria; Director: Ella Gallieni)
Black and white examination of a film studio.

(Country: US; Director: Hassan Said)
Experimental short about the events of 9/11.

(Country: Austria, Afghanistan; Director: Lida Abdul)
Children play amid the relics of war on the outskirts of Kabul.

StandbyWhy I Don’t Speak Serbian (in Serbian)
(Country: UK; Director: Kirk Hendry)
What happens when an obssession with junk food goes too far...

(Country: UK; Director: Harry Watt, Basil Wright; Writer: W.H. Auden; Cast: John Grierson, Stuart Legg)
A short examination of the postal service as it existed in 1936.

(Director: John Williams)
Atari struggles with his useless robot, but his real struggle is more complex.

(Country: UK; Director: Alan J Harper)
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh in 1932.

(Country: UK; Director: Laurence Henson)
Documentary considering a steel mill. A Kind of Seeing.

Shadows & DustTransgress
(Country: UK; Director: Mark Littlewood)
A look at Scotland's International Festival. A Kind of Seeing.

(Country: UK; Director: Basil Wright; Writer: Basil Wright; Cast: John Grierson)
A short history of Scotland and the character of its people. A Kind of Seeing.

(Country: UK; Director: Edward McConnell)
Archive short detailing the Scottish landscape. A Kind of Seeing.

(Country: UK; Director: Margaret Tait)
Archive portrait of the Edinburgh street. A Kind of Seeing.

(Country: US; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt)
Animated silent comedy about one boy and his balloon. An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt.

The ShutdownFull Employment
(Country: US; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Cast: Don Hertzfeldt)
A mundane man suffers from horrifying mental trauma. An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt.

(Country: US; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Cast: Don Hertzfeldt)
Part of a trilogy of hand-drawn films. An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt.

(Country: US; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Cast: Don Hertzfeldt)
Dark family secrets cast a shadow over Bill's recovery; in this second chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's Everything Will be OK. (Winner of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Grand Jury Prize, US). An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt.

(Country: US; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Cast: Don Hertzfeldt, Jennifer Nyholm, Sara Cushman, Karin Anger, June Shields, Kenneth Cook, Noah Harpster, Robert May, Kinsey Packard, Nicole Gabriella Scipione)
Evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years. An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt.

(Country: USA; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Cast: Robert May, Don Hertzfeldt, Jennifer Nyholm)
Rejected surreal vignettes & the animator suffers a nervous breakdown. An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt.

night sideJunk
(Country: Austria; Director: Harald Hund, Paul Horn)
The film is, apparently, meant to symbolise the loss of existence. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: Mozambique; Director: Sergio Cruz)
Snapshots of the lives and rituals of African culture, through contacts with the local dance and music community. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: France; Director: Camille & Manolo; Cast: Bez Manolo)
Black and white study of horses on a beach. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Deutsch)
Experimental film created by film shot by the filmmaker and his father. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: UK; Director: Alex Barrett)
An abstract journey over the bridge. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

You’re The Stranger HereA Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing
(Country: UK; Director: Ben Rivers)
Visiting Yorkshire bee keepers, Britain’s self-declared king of the eccentrics and a hermit-like forest clearer might not be the most obvious people to seek out on a road trip across the UK... but the director and artist focuses on them. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: USA; Director: Rebecca Meyers)
A side of the universe turned away from the sun. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: US; Director: Marie Losier; Writer: Marie Losier)
Slapstick musical in a boxing ring. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: Canada, France, Yemen, Bangladesh; Director: Christopher Becks)
Experimental 16mm silent short Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

(Country: US, Canada; Director: Chris Kennedy)
Experimental film, which may well be silent, showing in showcase of films concerned with the nature of space. Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place.

I Know Where I’m GoingPapal Broken-Dance
(Country: Russian Federation, Netherlands; Director: Masha Godovannaya)
Experimental short. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: US; Director: Scott Nyerges)
Abstract short considers life in flux. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: US, South Korea; Director: Kangmin Kim)
Experimental film created by working directly on film strips. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: Canada; Director: Angela Joosse, Marcia Connolly)
Experimental film. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: Spain; Director: Antoni Pinent)
Experimental film using footage from early Hollywood films. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

KeelWithout You
(Country: UK; Director: Luke Fowler)
Artist's response to the digital revolution. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: France; Director: Cecile Fontaine)
Experimental film, examines a woman, insects and loggers in a wood. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: France; Director: Frederique Devaux)
Experimental film, sees women and children stay at home while the men go into exile. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: Mexico, Australia; Director: Steven Andrew McIntyre)
Unusual filmmaking, directly printing the image using stencil art. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: UK; Director: Tim Sidell)
Our google-fu isn't up to much - more on this one later. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

Horn DogThe Man And The Woman
(Country: US; Director: Kerry Laitala)
Experimental shimmering on celluloid. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: US; Director: James Cole)
Experimental film examining the nature of film. Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: US; Director: Justin Chouinard)
We've failed in our hunt for info on this, but the showcase it screens in is concerned with "exploring the physical properties of the filmstrip". Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality.

(Country: US; Director: Christopher Harris)
Experimental short. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Country: UK; Director: Kirsty Dootson)
Showing as part of experimental showcase focussing on "creating new sensual experiences". Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

Orange BombsAutumnal
(Country: UK; Director: Nick Cope)
Fourth in a series of short film collaborations between electroacoustic composer Dr Tim Howle and the filmmaker. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Country: UK; Director: Samantha Rebello)
Experimental, abstract film. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Country: UK; Director: Simon Payne)
Experimental film composed of single frames from sequences of expanding and contracting irises, reformatted for different aspect ratios. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Country: Austria; Director: Michael Palm)
Experimental film involving funnels and a very long zoom. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Country: US, Russian Federation; Director: Paul Clipson)
A Super 8 film poem. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

Little CanyonPhotograph Of Jesus
(Country: Japan; Director: Makino Takashi)
Experimental film about chaos and the cosmos. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Country: Austria; Director: Manuel Knapp)
Animation and abstract painting go to form this experimental short. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Country: Austria; Director: Billy Roisz)
Abstract animated short film about the synchronicity of artificial processes. Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux.

(Director: D G Scott)
Short subject. Bridging The Gap.

(Director: Richard Simpson)
A domestic portrait of faith and family. Bridging The Gap.

Lessons From The NightColor Film
(Country: UK; Director: Peter Gerard)
Documenting the lives and culture of Glasgow’s traveller community as they move away from a dependence on travelling with funfairs. Bridging The Gap.

(Country: UK; Director: Johanna Wagner)
Observational documentary about the filmmaker's father and his love of analogue technology. Bridging The Gap.

(Country: UK; Director: Theresa von Eltz; Writer: Theresa von Eltz; Cast: Kit Jackson, Robbie Jarvis, Carla Juri, Daniel Unwin)
A teenager visiting Sicily befriends a stranger but experiences painful memories when visiting local ruins. Bridging The Gap.

(Country: UK; Director: Jane McAllister)
Documentary about the Scottish national dress. Bridging The Gap.

(Country: UK; Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh; Cast: Dakota Blue Richards, Thomas Malone)
A few carefree days away from depressing thoughts at home are what Mum has in mind. But at the beach Cass doesn’t feel in a very holiday-like mood. She just wants to fall off the face of the earth. Cinema Extreme.

ReachAkbulak
(Country: UK; Director: Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson; Cast: Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Teresza Srbova, Johanna ter Steege, Kate Cook, Corinne Furmann)
A filmic response to the still photograph archive of Stanley Kubrick. Cinema Extreme.

(Country: UK; Director: Tom Geens; Cast: Kate Cook, Anthony Smee, Ella Peel)
Margot has a crazy leg. She lives in a fascist regime where they shoot people with crazy legs. Cinema Extreme.

(Country: UK; Director: Sarmad Masud)
Two boys travel through Nottingham attempting to reassemble the cast of a hit play. Coming Up Scheme.

(Country: UK; Director: Magali Charrier)
Short drama. Coming Up Scheme.

(Country: UK; Director: Victor Buhler)
A hardworking builder bonds with his foreman's daughter. Coming Up Scheme.

This Way UpBoutonniere
(Country: UK; Director: Alex Winckler; Writer: Richard Bean; Cast: Andrew Tiernan, Michael Socha, Sam Kelley, June Watson, Ryan Kygill)
Two thieves break into a farm, but they're not alone. Coming Up Scheme.

(Country: UK; Director: Hope Dickson Leach; Writer: Stewart Thomson; Cast: Edyta Budnik, Anne Downie, James Grant, Lisa Greenwood, Natalia Kaczmarczyk, Kimberly Neill, Jamie Quinn, Kevin Quinn, Anna Wendzikowska)
Coming to grips with the Glaswegian dialect...? Coming Up Scheme.

(Country: UK; Director: Jo McInnes; Cast: Jason Hughes, Kirsty Bushell)
A brother and sister experience crises together. Coming Up Scheme.

(Country: UK; Director: O Nathapon Wongtreenatrkoon)
A boy tries to take back his child from its crack-addicted mother in this part of Channel 4's Coming Up Scheme. Coming Up Scheme.

(Country: Jordan; Director: Ben Mandell, Jackie Sawiris)
A look at the mosaic of modern day Jordan. Document Shorts.

Horsefingers 3: StarfuckerThe Stars Don't Twinkle In Outer Space
(Country: Canada; Director: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk; Writer: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk)
A high-speed animation film documenting the art of livestock auctioneering. Document Shorts.

(Country: US; Director: Meghan O'Hara)
Exploring the relationship between colours and the words we use to describe them. Document Shorts.

(Country: Australia; Director: Adrian Francis; Writer: Adrian Francis)
As dusk approaches and workers stream out of the city, Maia is about to begin her day. She reflects on life, work and toilet bowls as she goes about her nightly cleaning round through silent, empty spaces. Document Shorts.

(Country: US; Director: Emile Bokaer)
Documentary about a man struggling to come to terms with memories of war and his addictions in a community of homeless veterans Document Shorts.

(Country: Iran; Director: Majed Neisi; Writer: Majed Neisi)
Husband and wife orange farmers deal with cluster bombs in the aftermath of the 33-day War Israel waged against Hezbollah. Document Shorts.

Miracle FishPets In Pots
(Country: The Netherlands; Director: Simonka de Jong)
A girl whose parents have divorced finds solace with her pets... even the ones in formaldehyde. Document Shorts.

(Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark; Director: David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn)
Abouk was five years old when he was captured. Like thousands of other children, he was kidnapped in Sudan by militia close to the government and forced to work as a slave. He was later liberated by an organisation led by James Aguer. Slaves is based on an interview that was conducted in 2003. Document Shorts.

(Country: Switzerland; Director: Mischa Hedinger)
Customers tell the filmmaker personal stories in a very public place. Document Shorts.

(Country: Switzerland; Director: Ursula Ulmi)
Two kids sleeping on the moon wake up. Family Shorts Programme.

(Country: Australia; Director: Jonathan Dower)
A young girl describes the moments leading up to her birth. Family Shorts Programme.

JacintaLight Of Darkness
(Country: UK; Director: Lucia Morgan)
Animated adaptation of a Mexican legend, sees pride come before a fall for one little bat Family Shorts Programme.

(Country: UK; Director: Thomas Stark Holland; Writer: Thomas Stark Holland; Cast: Paddy Glynn, Nigel Richards, Victoria Gillmon, Ben Nealon)
A penny proves a lucky charm for a woman down on her luck. Family Shorts Programme.

(Country: US; Director: Sebastian Davis)
Story of a seventh-grade outcast and his relationship with a latch-key classmate... which comes under threat when he tries to pluck up courage to ask her to the Spring Dance. Family Shorts Programme.
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(Country: UK; Director: Nicky Lianos; Writer: David Lemon; Cast: James Bachman, Sophie Hattersly, Tyler Kennington, Alice Lowe)
A short children's film about monsters and imaginary friends. Family Shorts Programme.

(Country: USA; Director: Anna Gaskell)
Child friendly photo and video gallery. Family Shorts Programme.

Dropping FurnitureNetherland Dwarf
(Country: Australia; Director: Miranda Nation; Writer: Miranda Nation; Cast: Virginia Cashmere, Kira Coghlan, Ming-Zhu Hii, Kat Stewart)
Story of a little girl who wants to fly. Family Shorts Programme.

(Country: UK, Italy; Director: Tomás Sheridan)
Documentary about one man's collection of memories on film. Winner of the Cameo Cinema's Jim Poole award. GMAC Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: David Newbigging; Writer: Gordon Mclean)
Mockumentary about civil servants roles as wardens become the police. GMAC Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Julia McLean)
Sometimes Charlie Wilson finds temptation is too hard to resist... GMAC Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Zak Hanif)
Exploring the nature of power and conflict within the traditional Asian family. GMAC Shorts.

On Time OffParaphernalia
(Country: UK; Director: Ben Soper; Writer: Ben Soper; Cast: Will Anatsui, Tess Mitchell)
Sex comedy about a young couple who break into an abandoned school for some illicit fun. GMAC Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Robin Haig)
A teenager is forced to visit her granddad and an outing forces her to make a choice... GMAC Shorts.

(Country: UK, Japan, Germany; Director: Max Hattler)
Futuristic stop-motion animation. International Animation 1.

(Country: France; Director: Jean-Luc Greco, Catherine Buffat)
Story about a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a feisty dog, Colchique. International Animation 1.

(Country: Germany, Poland; Director: Izabela Plucinska; Writer: Irene Dische, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Anna Jadowska, Izabela Plucinska; Cast: Jolanta Fraszynska, Roma Gasiorowska, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bohdan Lazuka, Maria Peszek, Maciej Stuhr, Borys Szyc, Robert Wieckiewicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wiktor Zborowski)
Short animation about a bunch of rabbits living in the Berlin Wall. International Animation 1.

Western SpaghettiI Am So Proud of You
(Country: France; Director: Camillelvis Théry)
On the last polar day, up on the howling ice a little Inuk man and a mischievous bear see their white world metamorphosed into a huge whale ocean of darkness. International Animation 1.

(Country: Australia; Director: Glen Hunwick; Writer: Glen Hunwick; Cast: Mac, Matilda, Mutt)
A farmer, a dog and a cow on a tiny farm. International Animation 1.

(Country: Canada; Director: Marv Newland)
Pen and paper animation - all on postcards - each one was sent through the post before being animated. International Animation 1.

(Country: Australia; Director: Luke Randall)
A robot given the gift of life has just one limitation... the length of his cable. International Animation 1.

(Country: Australia; Director: Caroline Huf)
Experimental stop-motion animation. International Animation 1.

ParallaxAlbert’s Speech
(Country: Canada, France; Director: Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
Chirascuro sketches of a naked woman accompany the observations of a man consumed by desire. International Animation 1.

(Country: US; Director: PES)
Everyday objects become delicious ingredients as we learn how to cook spaghetti through stop-motion. International Animation 1.

(Country: US; Director: Tom Schroeder; Writer: Jay Orff)
The animated journey of a young man fleeing the draft during the First World War. After taking a job on a cattle ranch in eastern Montana an accident occurs causing him to reflect back on his life as he seeks medical attention in a nearby town. International Animation 1.

(Country: Slovenia; Director: Dusan Kastelic)
A peasant couple's lives... and a wife's deception. International Animation 2.

(Country: Germany; Director: Andy Kaiser)
A German soldier and French aviator find themselves in the same bomb crater in the First World War. International Animation 2.

RoundSlaves
(Country: Israel, France, Holland; Director: Michal Kranot, Uri Kranot)
During open heart surgery, senior army officer Amos Klein returns to significant events in his life that correspond to key moments in Israeli history. International Animation 2.

(Country: Sweden; Director: Jonas Odell)
The animator uses different techniques to explore the nature of mendacity. International Animation 2.

(Country: Russian Federation; Director: Maria Mouat; Writer: Maria Mouat, based on the story Old World Landowners by Nikolay Gogol)
Animation about the touching relationship between a man and a woman. International Animation 2.

(Country: France; Director: Virginie Taravel)
In a toy shop, a string musician, decides make a friend... but things don't turn out as expected. International Animation 2.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Jonathan Ostos Yaber; Writer: Jonathan Ostos Yaber; Cast: Moisés Palacios)
A puppeteer looks back on his life and the joys he has given. International Animation 2.

HarvesterThe Black Dog's Progress
(Country: Germany; Director: Steffen Schaeffler)
Animation sees a passionate amateur audition for a costume drama. International Animation 2.

(Country: Estonia; Director: Kristjan Holm)
Animation about what comes to mind when you're almost asleep. International Animation 2.

(Country: US; Director: Elliot Cowan)
The peace and quiet of B and R is shattered by the advent of war. International Animation 2.

(Country: India, US; Director: Sushrut Jain)
The plight of a live-in maid in India. International Shorts 1: Trapped.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Rory Bresnihan)
A man becomes trapped in an apartment. International Shorts 1: Trapped.

RejectedAll The House (Haditha Massacre)
(Country: Australia; Director: Luke Doolan)
A young outcast finds solitude in a fantasy world only to be brought back to reality when faced with a psychotic man. International Shorts 1: Trapped.

(Country: Canada; Director: Kazik Radwanski; Writer: Kazik Radwanski; Cast: Tim Braddock, William Forrest, Declan McCarthy, Julie McCarthy, Gina Sylvester)
Isabelle Rodarte is out in the snow, looking for her house. The beginning is the middle is the beginning. International Shorts 1: Trapped.

(Country: China, US; Director: Ruowen Yan)
Fate and music form a connection between two very different people. International Shorts 1: Trapped.

(Country: US; Director: Coley Sohn; Writer: Coley Sohn)
A dark comedy revolving around a simple teenage girl's attempts to survive her overbearing mother's exuberant plans for a prom she’d rather not attend. International Shorts 2: Family Affairs.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Juanita Wilson)
Based on the true story of a father and his young daughter in Eighties Russia. International Shorts 2: Family Affairs.

(Country: US; Director: Olivia Silver)
Greta's dad is moving the family cross-country. Promising a California paradise he packs half the household into a dented station wagon. All that’s missing is Mom. International Shorts 2: Family Affairs.

(Country: Israel; Director: Olga Sitovotsky)
A middle-aged woman's fears fuel her daughter's anxieties, but will a cry for help end their estrangement? International Shorts 2: Family Affairs.

(Country: Australia; Director: David Michôd; Writer: David Michôd; Cast: Jack Egan, Ewen Leslie, Mirrah Foulkes, Justin Rosniak)
Harry really wants a rabbit. Harry's dad really wants his wife back. And somehow in the middle of all this wanting, they both seem to have forgotten that they already have each other. International Shorts 2: Family Affairs.

(Country: New Zealand; Director: Michelle Savill; Cast: Matt Scheurich, Lee Hutson, Sandra Jensen)
Sometimes the best party is the one you don't want. International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit.

(Country: Taiwan; Director: Chuang Ching-Shen)
A girl who lives alone with her father has a surprise for him on her 18th birthday. International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit.

(Country: Austria; Director: Christoph Kuschnig)
Alex, a laborer and trucker, has his day of reckoning when attractive 14-year-old Lili appears in his pickup truck. International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Michael Kinirons, Elaine Harrington; Cast: Jane McGrath, Robbie Sheehan, Michael Winder, Conor Horgan)
A bored teen's journey off the beaten track leads to an unforgettable encounter with two brothers. International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit.

(Country: USA; Director: Destin Daniel Cretton; Writer: Destin Daniel Cretton; Cast: Brad William Henke, Tania Verafield, Phoenix Henke, LaKeith Stanfield, James Hansen, Adam Shapiro, Katelin Chesna Henke, Whitney Ball, Andy Bonilla, Jared Callahan)
A film about kids and the grown-ups who hit them. International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit.

(Country: UK; Director: Matilda Tristram)
What to do on a peaceful afternoon when you are upset but you don't know why. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Helen Piercy)
Stop motion animation considering what happens when a rabbit dies... McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Nicholas Brooks)
A hand-drawn animation film that describes a short journey of loss and reunification. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Jessica Cope)
An old lady comes to terms with her final moments. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Laurie Hill)
Documentary focusing on the bizarre requests by the Getty Images picture archive. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK ; Director: Kristian Andrews)
The growing pains of a 14-year-old Norfolk boy. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Emma Curtis)
Animation about a compulsive collector. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK, Sweden; Director: Anders Jedenfors, Jamie Stone)
Kubrick-inspired animated pop video. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Jon Dunleavy)
Trouble brews when a little girl follows a tooth fairy into the forest. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Felix Massie; Cast: Narrated by Alexei Sayle)
The story of Francis Cooper and his mother; Emily Maddison and that man's face; and Craig MacKay and his cat. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Toby Jackman; Writer: Mahalia Rimmer)
A cat may have nine lives - but how many different lives can a cat live today? McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Philip Bacon)
An enormous cliff top, blue sky, multiple deaths and a man keeping a meticulous note of it all. McLaren Animation 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Richard Fenwick; Writer: Richard Fenwick; Cast: Nicholas Burns, Stuart Laing, Di Botcher, Steve Oram, Katie Lyons, Tim Healy)
A look at a best man's plight from the inside out. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Duncan Raitt, Jon Marsh)
Short about a vanishing alien. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Stephen Irwin; Writer: Stephen Irwin)
Flip books tell the disturbing story of the black dog. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: The Brothers McLeod)
Based on a series of stream of consciousness postcards sent by the filmmaker to their son. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Gili Dolev)
Award-winning animation about a boy and a duck, pop-up-book style. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Nicholas Hampshire)
A fruit collector sparks the wrath of a forest. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Steve Warne, Julian Krubasik)
Animation... which we presume involves the big cats (but we can't find any info on this films, so we may be wrong). McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Matthew Walker, Ben Lole)
Having missed his train Nathan decides to pass the next two hours with some coffee and a crossword. If only had decided not to sit by the window. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Bill Porter; Writer: Bill Porter)
Minimalist animation about a trip to the beach. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Kirk Hendry; Cast: Mago Serpico)
Man’s place in the history of the Earth, told through hand shadow performance. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Will Adams; Writer: Will Adams)
An astronaut tries to terraform a hostile planet with the help of a malfunctioning robot. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith)
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Linda McCarthy)
Join the Unbelievable family – Spandisman, Consommé and Delphinium – for this darkly festive look at Christmas. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Tal Rosner)
Exploration of London's industrial suburbia. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: UK ; Director: Dylan White)
A darkly comic animation set in the Australian outback of a bloodthirsty hunter and his mythical quarry. McLaren Animation 2.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Julián de Tavira; Writer: Julián de Tavira, based on the play Victoria Station by Harold Pinter.; Cast: Rodrigo Vazquez, Hector Holden)
A cab driver and his dispatcher converse, but each seems to be keeping secrets. Mexican Shorts.

(Country: Mexico, Canada; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Writer: Nicolás Pereda)
Documenting how people in a Mexican Indian village cope with death. Mexican Shorts.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Karla Castañeda; Writer: Karla Castañeda)
Animation sees an old lady embroidering her destiny. Mexican Shorts.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Gabriela Retes)
A get-together takes an unexpected turn after a power cut. Mexican Shorts.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Elisa Miller)
A woman heads north, trying to avoid the authorities by hiding out at a soap factory. Mexican Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Dominika Švecová)
Documentary. Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening.

(Country: UK; Director: Amy Rose)
Documentary about a boy trying to create a new breed of chicken. Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening.

(Country: UK; Director: Lou McLoughlan)
A record of the National Galleries Education Outreach Project accompanying the exhibition 'Tracey Emin: 20 Years' at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, August 2 to November 9 2008. Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening.

(Country: UK, Germany; Director: Julian Schwanitz)
Last year's director of Niddrie Bricks returns with a new documentary. Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening.

(Country: UK; Director: Adam Stafford)
Alan Bissett recalls the intense experience of growing up next to one of Europe's largest petrochemical plants and the harrowing experience of an explosion that deformed his father. Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening.

(Country: UK; Director: Dhivya Kate Chetty, Martin Clark)
The story of one family's trip to Durban Aquarium. Screening with Follow The Master.

(Country: UK; Director: Matt Hulse)
Time-lapse dance by the seashore. Screening with Follow The Master.

(Country: UK, Kosovo; Director: Phil Collins)
Set in the political turmoil in Kosovo Collins records testimonies from politicians, public figures and ordinary people - recounting in Serbo-Croat the reasons why they no longer speak the language. Screening with Goodbye, How Are You?.

(Country: US; Director: Caroline Koebel)
Examination of the assassination of the former Pakistani Prime Minister. Screening with Nakba.

(Country: Germany; Director: Gabriele Schwark)
Experimental film considering the life of a woman and world events. Screening with Nakba.

(Country: US; Director: Caroline Koebel)
Consideration of the November 19, 2005 killing by US Marines of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Screening with Nakba..

(Country: UK; Director: Julius Amedume; Cast: Lisa Diveney, Katie Borland, Amy McAllister, Gregg Lowe, Michelle Whitney, Hannah Wood, Phoebe Mcintosh, Howard Corlett)
A new girl at school faces peer pressure to join a gang. Screening with Salvage.

(Country: Mexico; Director: David Pablos; Writer: David Pablos; Cast: Sebastián Aguirre, Rodrigo Azuela, Daniel Corkidi, Ana Elena Kelly, José Martínez, Rubén Pablos)
A group of siblings respond to a family tragedy by rejecting adult authority and exercising their own brutal form of justice. Screening with Surrogate.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Sofìa Carrillo; Writer: Sofìa Carrillo)
Various personalities share feelings of solitude inside a labyrinthine house. Screening with The Fish Child.

(Country: Germany; Director: Matthias Vogel, Thomas Oberlies; Writer: Thomas Oberlies, Matthias Vogel; Cast: Wilfried Elste, Mark Auerbach, Wolfgang Stegemann, Antje Rau, Martin Baden, Rainer Knepperges, Rainer Gerlach, Fred Yorgk, Andreas Merker, Stefan Bergel)
Short film about the future of employment. Screening with Tony.

(Country: UK; Director: Tatiana Korol; Writer: Tatiana Korol; Cast: Janina Rudenska, Sergey Vidrashku, Milla Kaminskya)
Eight years after moving from Russia to Germany, 17-year-old Olja spends her summer holidays with her grandmother in a Russian village. Olja no longer feels attached to the country of her birth. Yet when she meets her childhood friend, Sasha, Olja begins to look at her experience from another perspective. Trailblazing Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Ralitza Petrova; Writer: Ralitza Petrova; Cast: Artur Arbrecht)
Blue-blooded German in a plot to meet the Queen Trailblazing Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Erik Bostedt; Cast: James Dunnett, Sean O'Donnell, Lee Boland, Marcelle Douglas, Chris Paulsen)
A small mood-piece on Kensington's famous landmark - Trellick Tower Trailblazing Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Rob Evans, Michael O' Sullivan; Writer: Rob Evans, Michael O' Sullivan)
An odd musical troupe for a farmer's wife Trailblazing Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Eva Pervolovici; Writer: Eva Pervolovici, Monica Stan; Cast: Ionana Blaj, Lari Giorgescu, Bogdan Dumitrescu, George Calin)
Romanian drug trafficking and young infatuation. Trailblazing Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Momodou Musa Touray; Writer: Duane Wharton; Cast: Ewan Alman, Judd Batchelor, Bashir Bazanye, Jamaal Chipmunk Fyffe)
A story about a black family in a violent city Trailblazing Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: David Bell; Writer: David Bell)
A toy reveals unexpected powers. Trailblazing Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Krishnendu Majumdar; Cast: Christopher Eccleston)
A door-to-door salesman offers a mum an opportunity to change her life. UK Shorts 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Daniel Elliott; Writer: Daniel Elliott; Cast: Aisling Loftus, Jonathan Phillips, Michael Socha)
Jade is pregnant. She has to make a decision. Which path will she take? UK Shorts 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Blake and Dylan Ritson; Cast: Ben Wishaw, Hayley Atwell, Hattie Morahan)
A charity worker faces trouble when he falls for a mysterious woman. UK Shorts 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Leanne Welham; Writer: Leanne Welham; Cast: Silas Carson, Kathryn Sumner)
Driving home one night in London, a woman accidentally hits a man who shouldn't be there. UK Shorts 1.

(Country: UK; Director: Emma Sullivan)
A guesthouse owner doesn't want James to leave... UK Shorts 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Paul Wright)
A portrait of one man's grief and desperation following the death of his wife. UK Shorts 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Julian Barratt, Dan Jemmett)
Story of a worn-out Punch and Judy man. UK Shorts 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Ian Cottage; Writer: Ian Cottage)
A holidaying father and daughter encounter a girl intent on becoming friends - no matter what the consequences. Features work by Sundance award-winning cinematographer Lol Crawley. UK Shorts 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Jørn Utkilen; Writer: Jørn Utkilen; Cast: Kazmin Borrer, Noel Boyd, Giselle Hammond, Kezia Doran, Nicola Jo Cully)
Grim twist on Red Riding Hood. UK Shorts 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Peter Thwaites)
Space adventure sees two children, 'Starman' and 'The Princess', struggle to escape their doom. UK Shorts 2.

(Country: UK; Director: Alastair Mackay; Cast: Bradley Badder, Millen Gee, Ashley Vere, Michael Socha, Perry Fitzpatrick, Finn Atkins, Chanel Cresswell, Alan Ouwin)
On a long summer’s day in rural England, two groups of teenagers find a remote hide away where fun and games soon lose their innocence. UKFC Completion Fund Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Ben Winter; Cast: Alix Dunmore, James Cartwright)
Having found what appears to be a safe refuge in an old church, two strangers struggle to maintain an already fractured relationship. UKFC Completion Fund Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Robert Sproul-Cran)
An elderly couple are starving in a condemned tenement, trapped by their terror of a creature on the stair. UKFC Completion Fund Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Haydn Butler; Cast: Napoleon Ryan, Lee Ingleby)
Two furnace stokers are supposed to be burning all the music in the world. But some things just won't burn. UKFC Completion Fund Shorts.

(Country: UK; Director: Eicke Bettinga; Cast: Matt Smith, Guy Flanagan, Amanda Boxer)
A man whose brother died the previous year tries to help his father to cope. UKFC Completion Fund Shorts.

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