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The Cat PianoTouche
(Country: UK; Director: Tim Travers Hawkins; Writer: Tim Travers Hawkins; Cast: Adam Buxton, Tamsin Clarke)
Dark animation which gathers together voices of detained asylum seekers.

(Director: Roger Deutsch)
A memoir of early adolescence constructed from a 1950s instructional video.

(Country: US; Director: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders; Writer: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders; Cast: Hank Harris, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Damian Young)
Adelaide is looking for love in all the wrong places. ,

(Country: Finland; Director: Ville Kerimaa; Writer: Ville Kerimaa; Cast: Kaisa Leppänen, Samuli Vauramo)
A woman makes a life-changing decision to have a baby, against the will of the father, marking the end of one relationship and the beginning of another.

(Country: UK; Director: Julian Kerridge; Writer: Julian Kerridge; Cast: Joanne Anderson, Dylan Brown, Jack Guttman, Michelle Holmes, Zoe Iqbal, Ray Keith, Alison King)
Nineteen, washed up and pissed off, Daryl is going nowhere fast. His 'not quite' girlfriend wants to get on Coronation Street! His mother does his head in and there's the boat! That big daft, stupid stuck boat...

1000 VoicesLegacy: Black Ops
(Country: UK; Director: Mia Vuorio; Cast: Fran Landesman, Carolyn Cassady, Bob Dorough, Tom Smothers, Simon Wallace)
Biography of jazz lyricist and poet Fran Landesman.

(Country: UK; Director: Zak Emerson, Daniel Gifford)
Details to follow.

(Country: US; Director: Marc W. Havener; Writer: Rick Cree; Cast: Micah Cree, Rick Cree, Rick Mumford)
Examination of a complex father-son relationship, set in Kansas.

(Country: UK; Director: Catrin Doyle)
Sorry, no details yet, but it was short-listed for the Glamorgan Purchase Prize.

(Country: UK; Director: Matt Strachan; Writer: Daniel Hesford; Cast: Holly Horner, Gerard Mcdermott)
A hairdresser's mind wanders as she trims Downing Street fringe and imagines the consequences of an assassination attempt using only hair salon essentials.

(Country: Italy; Director: Ermanno Olmi; Writer: Ermanno Olmi; Cast: Stefania Berselli, Maral Kinran, Matteo Bessone, Marco Costantini, Paolo Ferro, Maurizio Marchetti)
The true story of two Italian students who won an award for a useful invention.

(Country: US; Director: Madeline McCarty)
Short music video.

(Country: Denmark; Director: Alfred Nguyen)
Animation about Vietnamese boat people.

(Country: US; Director: Jacqueline Smessaert; Writer: Jacqueline Smessaert)
A frustrated artist tries to impress a beatnik chick by going robotic.

(Country: UK; Director: Jonathan Simcox)
Details to follow.

(Director: Mayumi Yabe; Writer: Mayumi Yabe)
One of three films that makes up the collection Peaches, this film examinations domestic abuse in rural Japan.

(Country: UK; Director: Adam Hutchings; Writer: Adam Hutchings; Cast: Brendan Patricks, Martin Bendel, Kezia Burrows, Peter Henderson)
After suffering a concussion, a man becomes convinced that his father is an impostor.

(Country: Turkey; Director: Hakan Oztan)
Details to follow.

(Country: Australia; Director: Ari Gibson, Eddie White; Writer: Eddie White; Cast: Nick Cave)
In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town’s singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Alessandro Molatore)
Documentary which looks at the lives of three street children in Manila.

(Country: UK; Director: Martin Gooch)
Details to follow.

(Country: UK; Director: George Milton; Writer: Mark Tilton; Cast: Stacey Roca, James Frost, George Lenz, Laurie Hagen)
Details to follow.

(Country: Canada; Director: Alan Miller; Writer: Alan Miller, Hector Hugh Munro; Cast: Connor Stanhope, Valerie McNicol, Michael Dobson, Darryl Bosa, Iain Graham, Cristien Murphy, Tania Saulnier, Denise Steller, Tom Summers)
Darkly comic tale about a young boy who uses his imagination to fight the oppressive rule of his uptight guardian, Miss Anthrop. ,

(Country: UK; Director: Charlie Graley)
Details to follow.

(Country: China; Director: Yumiko Beppu; Writer: Yumiko Beppu)
A little girl tries to find a new 'mum' to marry her single dad. Part of the Peaches collection.

(Country: Australia; Director: Melvin Montalban; Writer: Trinni Franke, Melvin Montalban; Cast: Richard Brancatisano, Julie Goss, Tahki Saul, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith)
The mischievous matchmaking god is the victim of his own arrow.

(Country: France; Director: Elsa Blayau)

(Country: Germany; Director: Marco Gadge; Writer: René Jacob; Cast: Michael Schrodt, Thomas Dehler)
Two gangsters are held up by a traffic light on their way to deliver a package which absolutely must not be late.

(Country: Canada, US; Director: Robert Budreau; Writer: Robert Budreau; Cast: Stephen McHattie, Ted Dykstra, Sten Eirik)
Exploration of the death of jazz icon.

(Country: US, UK; Director: Matthew Mishory; Writer: Matthew Mishory; Cast: Clint Catalyst, Kevin Collins, Jeremiah Dupre, Matthew Mishory, Edward Singletary, Kaiden Blake, Samuel Perone, Aldo Vento, Andreas Andrea, Dalilah Rain, Stuart Potter, Juan Guillen, Kamran Ali Taylor, Samuel Garfield, Jeff Onassis)
Short filim about the filmmaker.

(Country: US, South Korea; Director: Kangmin Kim)
Experimental film created by working directly on film strips.

(Country: UK)
Details coming soon

(Director: Aki Sato; Writer: Aki Sato)
Part of a triumverate of short films - Peaches - this tells the story of a lonely wife and a gay man trying to reconnect with a former lover.

(Country: UK; Director: Dominic Brown)
A rare insight into the struggle of the West Papuan people under Indonesian occupation.

(Country: UK; Director: Richard Oliver; Writer: Paul Watson, Richard Oliver, Matt Cook; Cast: Helen Mutch, Andy Bates, Barry Martin, Harry Towb)
Love story set in the midst of the 1997 general election.

(Country: UK; Director: Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith, Adam Smith; Writer: Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith; Cast: Maryam d'Abo)
A fairytale of love and loss.

(Country: UK; Director: Sally El Hosaini; Writer: Sally El Hosaini; Cast: Beatriz Romilly, Amber Rose Revah, Badria Timimi)
Secrets come out on the night before a wedding in a British-Arab family.

(Country: US; Director: Frey Hoffman; Writer: Frey Hoffman, Malik Yusef; Cast: Ronald L. Conner, Zanny Laird, Malik Yusef)
Story of a teenager who idolises Hollywood gangsters... which leads him to sign up to a street gang.

(Country: UK; Director: Alex Tweddle)
Documentary about a British Pakistani girl abused at home and sent to Pakistan to marry aged 13.

(Country: Sweden; Director: Markus Bohman; Writer: Markus Bohman; Cast: Christopher Papastefanou, Rickard Åberg, Kent Arvidsson, Millan Forsström, Jenifer Thejls, Henrik Westberg)
Frank, more known as God, tries to save a depressed man from killing himself. ,

(Country: Australia; Director: Edwin Mcgill; Writer: Edwin Mcgill; Cast: Kristian Beddow, Sharon Davis, Carter Doyle, Siobhan Heenan, Catherine Lee, Tony Nikolakopoulos, Stuart Orr, James Vegter)
A woman is caught between love for her daughter and trauma from the past.

(Country: UK; Director: Alberto Rodriguez)
The course of true love doesn't run smoothly for an ageing alien and a love-struck gran.

(Country: UK; Director: George Milton; Writer: Mark Tilton; Cast: Dan Fredenburgh, William Beck, Elize du Toit, Orla Fitzgerald, Jo Bourne-Taylor)
One of a series of comic parables, entitled Sins Of London, this focusses on a disastrous dinner party.

(Country: US; Director: Lin Oeding; Writer: Lin Oeding, Matt Olmstead; Cast: Ian Bohen, Cindy Chiu, Jay Giannone, Jeremy Luc, James Harvey Ward)
A romantic couple encounter a bunch of philosophical thugs.

(Director: Liam Gavin)
Details to follow.

(Country: Tanzania; Director: Thomas Whitworth)
We'll bring you details, as soon as we can find some...

(Country: UK; Director: Marco Espirito Santo; Cast: Fred Fannon, Sean Power (voice),)
Exuberant call to action in an emergency which mixes live action footage with collage. ,

(Country: US, India; Director: Gregg Helvey; Writer: Gregg Helvey; Cast: Sagar Salunke, Ulhas Tayade, Rajesh Kumar, Madhavi Juvekar, Debu Bhattacharya, Rishi Raj Singh, Mukesh Barahti)
A young boy attempts to escape from the brick kiln where he is forced to work as a bonded labor slave in India.

(Country: US; Director: Adam Leon, Jack Pettibone Riccobono; Writer: Adam Leon, Jack Pettibone Riccobono; Cast: Xavier Peña, Tysheeb Hickson, Ra'eed Harris, Jelani Swaby, Alisa Alexander, Bo Riccobono)
A night of adrenaline and rights of passage.

(Country: US; Director: Eric Poydar; Writer: Brett Portanova, Eric Poydar; Cast: Lionel Mark Smith)
Larry reminisces on life as a black actor, positivism, and where to buy the freshest oranges in Inglewood...all with an eye on the phone and his mind on the Southside of Chicago. Described as a "mofaux" documentary.

(Country: UK; Director: Rupert Bryan)
Sorry, no information available... we'll bring you some as soon as we can.

(Country: Nigeria, UK; Director: Thomas Ikimi; Writer: Thomas Ikimi; Cast: Idris Elba, Eamonn Walker, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Richard Brake)
A former special agent holed up in a hotel room in the aftermath of a failed Eastern European mission grows suspicious of his brother's political success. See: ,

(Country: US; Director: Jim Capobianco; Writer: Jim Capobianco)
Animation shows Leonardo create a flying machine.

(Director: Kate Jessop)
Based on a short story by David Constantine.

(Director: Andy Jenkins; Writer: Andy Jenkins)
A homeless kid finds a coin that could change his life forever.

(Country: France; Director: Gautier About; Writer: Gautier About; Cast: Gautier About, Alain Fromager, Emmanuelle Destremau,)
A Basque man new to Paris throws a party to make friends, but finds himself stuck with three guests who outstay their welcome.

(Country: Spain; Director: Andy Muschietti; Cast: Victoria Harris, Berta Ros, Irma Monroig)
Spooky short, sees two sisters try to avoid their mother.

(Country: UK; Director: Susanna Wallin)
Story focussing on a young girl catching reindeer.

(Country: USA; Director: Leah Shore; Writer: Leah Shore)
Animation pastiche in which an elderly man recalls some bizarre memories.

(Country: US; Director: David Green; Cast: Emanuel Borria, Ryan Bradley, David Cross, Martin Dusig, Daniel Hartley, Genevieve Jones, Sunny Peabody, DeAnn Trimarchi, Justin Uretz)
An ice block invades a refrigerator.

(Country: US; Director: Robert Postrozny; Writer: Jessica Simons; Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert Postrozny, Carl B. Montgomery)
Mickey Rourke's aging acting teacher, Carl Montgomery Baker, has one last student he hopes to mentor to stardom...

(Country: Italy; Director: Elisa Minuzzo, Nicola Crivellari)
What is the difference between a ready-made and a real object?

(Country: US; Director: Kyle Bell; Writer: Kyle Bell, Matthew J. Hayes; Cast: Kyle Bell)
Animated adventures of a foundling mouse who becomes a flying circus attraction.

(Country: UK; Director: Matt Tromans; Writer: Matt Tromans; Cast: Sean Brosnan, Brawley Nolte, Nick Nolte, Margo Stilley)
A young American in London tries to come to terms with his brother's death as he drifts through the city.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Vittoria Colonna)
True story of an Irish transgender person and their fight for recognition of their basic human rights.

(Country: UK; Director: Tom Fry; Writer: Tom Fry; Cast: Anthony Richardson, Mandy Kaplan)
An adulterous doctor gets into trouble via internet dating.

(Country: US; Director: Becky Korman; Writer: Becky Korman)
The director travels to Cuba to reconnect with the forgotten past of her grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Brian Durnin; Writer: Brian Durnin)
Five characters collide with cosmic consequences.

(Country: US; Director: Ronni Raygun)
Surreal music video from the 1920s set to Whispering Jack Smiths' 'Gimme A Little Kiss'.

(Country: US; Director: Susan Cohen; Writer: Susan Cohen; Cast: Traci Dinwiddie, Suzy Nakamura, Eric Lange, Teresa Huang)
Diagnosed with breast cancer, Julia struggles to come to terms with her life and new self image.

(Country: UK; Director: Melodie Lamotte D’Incamps; Writer: Melodie Lamotte D’Incamps; Cast: Betty Krestinsky, Clementine Mazzoni, Lucette Martini)
Anna is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and is about to enter a nursing home. Lucette, the housekeeper, is packing up the home where Anna has always lived and Clementine, Anna's grandaughter, comes to help and spend the last days in the house with her grandmother.

(Country: UK; Director: P.D. Blake; Cast: Alan Convy, Andrea Corr, Neil Pearson)
Details to follow.

(Director: Yves Courbet)
Short.

(Country: UK; Director: Simon Atkinson, Si & Ad, Adam Townley; Writer: Simon Atkinson, Adam Townley; Cast: Lee Ingleby, Charity Wakefield)
Nothing says I love you like a post-it.

(Country: UK; Director: Adam Wimpenny; Writer: J S Hill; Cast: Russell Tovey, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Burke, Melanie Gray, Victoria Wicks)
A lonely Londoner takes drastic action after being snubbed by a girl.

(Country: UK; Director: Thomas Whitworth)
Details to follow.

(Country: UK; Director: Tom Daley)
Dark comedy.

(Country: UK; Director: Ashley Thorpe; Writer: Ashley Thorpe; Cast: Ed Berry)
One need not be a house to be haunted.

(Country: UK; Director: Clint Dyer; Cast: Alison Steadman, Aml Ameen, David Harewood, Susan Vidler)
Details to follow.

(Country: US; Director: Stewart Hendler; Writer: Richard Bloom, Lonny Pugh; Cast: Steve Filice, Sarah Jane Morris, Greg Rikaart, RuPaul, Irene White)
A chance encounter at a bus stop may hold the key to moving on.

(Country: UK; Director: Owen Williams, Adam Wright; Writer: Owen Williams, Adam Wright; Cast: Michael Dixon, Kiki Kendrick, Richard Hollingworth, Rob Jones, Gwenda Williams, Christopher More)
Orwellian tale in which the top man in an underground resistance movement sets out to uncover the truth behind a corporate behemoth.

(Country: UK; Director: Mark Davis)
Details to follow.

(Country: UK; Director: Chris J. Taylor; Writer: Chris J. Taylor; Cast: Gary Kitching)
An ex-con fresh out of prison tries to atone for his past, but finds going straight harder than he expected.

(Country: US; Director: Shanti Thakur; Writer: Shanti Thakur; Cast: Mike Callahan, Carson Grant, Guy Olivieri, Youngblood Roche, Gayle Kelly Landers, Kristopher Kling, Olivia Villanti, Paul Breen, Shanti Thakur, Chandler Sante, Sherry Russell, Sadie Jones, Danielle Sante, Tyler Anderson, Sri Gordon)
In this surreal satire people race to live above the 13th floor to double their life-span as a "sky-person".

(Country: Italy; Director: Paolo Sorrentino; Writer: Umberto Contarello, Paolo Sorrentino; Cast: Monica Dugo, Roberto Bernardini, Renato Gnani, Francesco Iacorossi, Flavio Gregori)
Rugby and trusting the bank.

(Country: UK; Director: Esteban Gitton; Writer: Esteban Gitton; Cast: Pablo Gitton, Javed Khan)
For two boys on opposite sides of the world, school means very different things.

(Country: US; Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Writer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elmore Leonard; Cast: Carla Gugino, Eric Stoltz, Xander Berkeley, Elizabeth Clemmons)
The tale of a former rock-and-roll goddess who may or may not have burnt her house down. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard.

(Country: US; Director: Bill Baykan; Writer: Bill Baykan; Cast: Rob Janas)
After a crushing breakup, Michael journeys through the five stages of grief.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Liam Gavin; Writer: Liam Gavin; Cast: Brendan Conroy, Jenn Murray)
An encounter between a teenager and an elderly men... after she knocks him down with a boosted car.

(Country: UK; Director: Cass Marks)
Details to follow.

(Country: UK; Director: Max Blustin; Writer: Max Blustin; Cast: Lauren Shein, Daniel Mendoza)
A man resorts to unconventional means to get money from his girlfriend.

(Country: UK; Director: Ornette Spenceley)
A seasonal worker mum struggles against her daughter's attachment to the local community.

(Country: UK; Director: Bert & Bertie, Katie Ellwood, Amber Templemore-Finlayson; Writer: Bert & Bertie, Katie Ellwood; Cast: Paul Bhattacharjee, Ford Kiernan, Craig Parkinson, Camilla Rutherford)
A dark and quirky love story.

(Country: UK; Director: Chris Klockner; Writer: Alex Barker; Cast: Toby Kebbell, Alex Barker, Marcus Lezard, Stephen Gressieux, Dave Whitlam, Matthew Shanfari, Rupert Bryan, Jolene Farmer, Rachael Kahn)
Billy and Eva are two people who meet in the gap of time between life and death. A short and sweet moment where memories are shared over a cup of tea and biscuits.

(Country: US; Director: Jason Stone; Writer: Joe Meno, Jason Stone; Cast: Chris Aguilar, Johnny Brazell, Sean Christian Day, Sean-Christian Day, Jeff Edwards, Craig Harrill, John Hawkes, Rick Mueller, Greg Travis, Robert Van Winkle, Bellamy Young)
Two boys try to come to terms with the loss of their father, while their mother's boyfriend has to decide whether he can shoulder the responsibility.

(Country: Canada; Director: Doug Karr; Writer: Doug Karr; Cast: David Alpay, David Huband, Catherine Black, Shannon Beckner, David Cormican, Ann de Villiers, Connor Edwards, Colette Kendall)
An introspective look at the enigmatic life of an influential ancestor that pushes an individual to immerse himself in a nefarious web of danger and infamy.

(Country: UK; Director: Paulina Tervo; Cast: Majda Al-Bahr, Niveen Al-Sawi, Hanan Al-Sharef, Yusra Mansur)
Snapshot documentary about the lives of four women from the West Bank who work in male-dominated jobs.

(Country: UK; Director: Nick Broomfield)
Documentary about the Kingsnorth six, environmental activists who scaled the chimney of Kingsnorth power station.

(Country: France/USA)
Details to follow.

(Country: UK; Director: Rebecca Johnson; Cast: Rumbi Mautsi, Naomi J. Lewis, Alexis Rodney, Jay Brown, Kerron Darby)
Donna is fifteen and fearless – the hottest babe in the whole of Brixton. She and her best friend Felicia are looking for Legz, a cool guy of around 20 who has a sound studio – in the bedroom of his mother’s flat. But Donna’s date with him doesn’t exactly go as she expected...

(Country: UK; Director: Trevor Hardy; Writer: Trevor Hardy)
A cat decides to pick on a dog stuck in a car.

(Director: Ben Newman)
A children's school for soldiers.

(Country: UK; Director: Van Poynton; Writer: Leigh Oakley, Van Poynton; Cast: Bradley Hall, Geoff Loynes, Maria Massini, Ben Smith)
A troubled schoolboy coerces his cousin to take part in a crazed plan to break into a mysterious abandoned house in the forest.

(Country: UK; Director: Portia Barnett-Herrin; Cast: Barbara Joslyn, Rosy Benjamin, Shaun French, Natasha White)
In a cloud of mistaken glamour, making films can be murder.

(Country: Australia; Director: Ariel Kleiman; Writer: Ariel Kleiman; Cast: Anna Dudas, Alex Ford)
A jogger might be struggling... but it isn't safe to stop.

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