Notes On Blindness and Exchange And Mart
Afronauts
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Frances Bodomo; Writer: Frances Bodomo; Stars: Diandra Forrest, Yolonda Ross, Hoji Fortuna)
The story of the first Afronaut, a 17-year-old Zambian girl training for a moon launch.
UK premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 2.
Burger
(Country: UK, Norway; Year: 2013; Director: Magnus Mork; Writer: Magnus Mork; Stars: Zaman Ahmadi, Akram Akbari, Matthew Ashford, Emily Barber, Charlotte Brimble, Mathew David, Barry Francis, Cherie Harewood, Sarah Howells, Kiel Lillie, Neal McWilliams, David Ian Sterl, Kieran Thomas, Sam Thorne, Gareth Wilson)
It's late night in a burger bar in Wales..
Narrative. Short Film Programme 2.
Cruising Electric
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Brumby Boylston; Writer: Brumby Boylston; Stars: Peter Giles, Richard Van Slyke, Wil Wesley)
The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising.
International premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 1.
The Cut
(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Fatih Akin; Writer: Fatih Akin, Mardik Martin; Stars: Tahar Rahim, George Georgiou, Makram Khoury, Akin Gazi, Lara Heller, Numan Acar, Alejandro Rae, Dustin MacDougall, Shubham Saraf, Joel Jackshaw, Anna Savva, Korkmaz Arslan, Sesede Terziyan, Aida Adele Golghazi, Arevik Martirosyan)
A man survives the Armenian genocide and goes in search of his lost daughters.
Narrative. Short Film Programme 2.
Dawn
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Rose McGowan; Stars: Tara Lynne Barr, John Grady, Hannah Marks, Reiley McClendon, Michael Moskewicz, Julia Sanford)
Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life.
International premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 1.
Dawn and The Cut
Exchange And Mart
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Martin Clark, Cara Connolly; Writer: Cara Connolly; Stars: Ewen Bremner, Grace Chilton, Emily-Jane McNeill, Lorne MacFadyen)
A girl boarding at a remote highland school undertakes a challenging self-defence test, but things don't go according to plan.
Narrative. Short Film Programme 1.
I Think This Is The Closest To How The Footage Looked
(Country: Israel; Year: 2012; Director: Yuval Hameiri, Michal Vaknin; Writer: Yuval Hameiri)
A man with poor means recreates a lost memory of the last day with his mum. Objects come to life in a desperate struggle to produce a single moment that is gone.
Documentary. Short Film Programme 2.
The Last Days Of Peter Bergmann
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2013; Director: Ciaran Cassidy)
In 2009, a man claiming to be from Austria arrived in the town of Sligo, Ireland. During his final days, Peter Bergmann went to great lengths to ensure no one ever discovered who he was and where he came from.
UK premiere. Documentary. Short Film Programme 2.
Life's A Bitch (Toutes des connes)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: François Jaros; Writer: Guillaume Lambert; Stars: Guillaume Lambert, Marie-Ève Milot, Marie-Claude St-Laurent, Sarah Pellerin, Darisse-Desbiens Annie, Karim Babin, Félix-Antoine Boutin, Andrée Chalifour, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, François Lambert, Maxime Laurin, Catherine Lavoie, Mathieu Lepage, Marie-Daniel Lussier, Marie-Laurence Lévesque)
Love. Grief. Choc. Denial. Sleeplessness. Bubble bath. Mucus. Masturbation. Pop tart. Pigeons. Toothpaste. Hospital. F__k. Bye. Hair. Sports. Chicken. Bootie. Kids. Rejection. Squirrels. Cries. Awkward—95 scenes, five minutes: life's a bitch.
UK premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 2.
Love. Love. Love.
(Country: Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Sandhya Daisy Sundara)
Every year, through the endless winters, her love takes new shapes and forms.
Documentary. Short Film Programme 1.
Marilyn Myller
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Mikey Please),
Official Site
The torment of the artistic soul.
Narrative. Short Film Programme 1.
MeTube: August Sings Carmen “Habanera”
(Country: Austria; Year: 2013; Director: Daniel Moshel; Writer: Daniel Moshel; Stars: August Schram, Elfie Wunsch)
George Bizet's Habanera from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with electronic sounds for MeTube, an homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the internet.
UK premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 2.
Notes On Blindness
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Pete Middleton, James Spinney; Writer: Pete Middleton, James Spinney; Stars: Rafe Beckley, Ellie Bindman, Anoushska Bruce, Celia Henebury, Stanley Pemberton-Warbrick, Lorelei Winterfrost)
Adaptation of John Hull's audio diary about the experience of losing his sight.
Documentary. Short Film Programme 1.
The Obvious Child
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Stephen Irwin; Writer: Stephen Irwin; Stars: Ron Masa)
Somebody broke the girl's parents. The rabbit was there when it happened. It was an awful mess.
UK premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 2.
Of God And Dogs
(Country: Syria; Year: 2013; Director: Abounaddara Collective; Writer: Abounaddara Collective)
A young, free Syrian soldier confesses to killing a man he knew was innocent. He promises to take vengeance on the God who led him to commit the murder.
European premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 1.
Phantom Limb
(Country: UK, Australia; Year: 2013; Director: Alex Grigg; Writer: Alex Grigg; Stars: Clifford Hume, Sarah Jones)
James and Martha narrowly survive a motorcycle accident. During the aftermath, however, James begins to experience Martha's phantom pains.
Narrative. Short Film Programme 1.
Yearbook
(Year: 2014; Director: Bernardo Britto)
A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.
International premiere. Narrative. Short Film Programme 2.