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A wide ranging shorts section with contributions from The Magic Lantern and The Artist and Cinema Video Programme gives cinema-goers the chance to see lots of fascinating films from up and coming directors and established stars.

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

(Country: Spain, US; Director: Rodrigo Blaas; Writer: Rodrigo Blaas)
A girl is enchanted by a mysterious toyshop.

(Country: Portugal; Director: João Salaviza)
A man under house arrest is taunted by children. Winner of the short film Palm d'Or at Cannes 2009.

(Country: Japan; Director: Makoto Yabuki)
Crystalline and needle-like shapes evolve in a series of mysterious rooms.

(Country: UK; Director: Henry Coombes)
A new look at the Scottish highlands as imagined by the Victorian aristocracy.

Without YouYou’re The Stranger Here
(Country: UK; Director: Paul Wright)
A portrait of one man's grief and desperation following the death of his wife.

(Country: UK; Director: Werner Herzog)
Puccini reinvented, Ethiopian style.

(Country: France; Director: Damien Dufresne)
A man working on a building site and hoping to escape his past is confronted with an unsettling reminder.

(Country: UK; Director: Louis Paxton)
An outbreak of hysterical dancing takes place in Glasgow.

(Country: UK; Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah)
An ordinary man decides to become a superhero and rid the world of wheel clamps.

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

(Country: Spain; Director: Javier Chillon)
When a Soviet space vehicle crashes in Fifties West Germany, its chimpanzee passenger spreads a deadly plague.

(Country: UK; Director: Stephen Fingleton; Writer: Stephen Fingleton; Cast: Ben Caplan, Jess Randell, Ben Willens, Jonathan Rhodes, Eva Tecedeiro)
Nelson is tasked with driving his best friend's estranged wife to her new home. During the tense car journey, he finds his loyalties tested. ,

(Country: Austria; Director: Harald Hund, Paul Horn)
The film is, apparently, meant to symbolise the loss of existence.

(Country: UK; Director: Colin Kennedy)
The future of a precarious romance depends on a dog.

(Country: US; Director: Evelyn Lee)
After being shot, a man is forced to exist with his head and body separate.

(Country: Thailand; Director: Apichatpong Weerasathakul)
A return visit to the site of a political massacre.

(Country: UK; Director: Nathan Rae)
A hitchhiker discovers Britain through a series of encounters with the people who give him lifts.

(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.

(Country: Canada; Director: Patrick Bergeron)
A partly animated documentary exploring the details of life during a train journey through Vietnam.

(Country: Italy, Taiwan, France; Director: Tsai Ming-Liang)
The heroine of Puccini's opera finds herself stranded in a Kuala Lumpur bus station.

(Country: Faroe Islands; Director: Marianna Mørkøre, Rannvá Káradóttir)
Experimental film set against the backdrop of the Faroes.

(Country: US; Director: Brent King)
A group of people experiment with a new anti-addiction medication.

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

(Country: Ireland; Director: David O'Reilly)
Set in the far-off future, this is the story of the difficult relationship between a very emotional cat and her husband, a tedious mouse.

(Country: Canada; Director: Kazik Radwanski)
A middle aged woman confronts the confusion and loneliness of Alzheimer's disease.

(Country: Spain; Director: Àlex Brendemühl)
Two men in football strips meet a woman whilst walking through a remote place.

(Country: Germany; Director: Volker Schreiner)
An exploration of confounded communication through the distortion of sound.

(Country: France; Director: Jérémy Clapin; Writer: Jérémy Clapin, Stéphane Piera; Cast: Julien Boisselier, Theo Grimmisein)
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cm from himself.

(Country: US; Director: Fred Worden)
Symbolic images become separated from the things they ordinarily represent.

(Country: Latvia; Director: Vladimir Letschiov)
A former pilot reminisces about his life.

(Country: UK; Director: Iain Finlay)
A woman watches a man perform bizarre acts of destruction.

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

(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.


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