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FUTURE SHORTS 

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Drama

Rita 

Dir: Fabio Grassadonia. Antonio Piazza, Italy. 2009. 

18 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Rita is ten years old and 

blind since birth. She lives in a seaside 

neighbourhood of Palermo. Rita is 

stubborn, curious and feels thwarted 

by an overprotected dictatorial mother. 

The claustrophobic world of her home 

is suddenly breached by a mysterious 

presence. It’s a boy on the run. Wounded, 

terrified. The meeting between the two of 

them is highly enigmatic. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film Bratislava 

International Film Festival 2009. Prix 

Arte Premiers Plans d’Angers Film 

Festival 2010. Best International Short 

Film Edinburgh International Film Festival 

2010. Diploma of Merit Tampere Film 

Festival 2010. Award for Directing Aspen 

Shortsfest 2010. 

SCREENINGS: Rotterdam FF 2010. Cannes 

Critic Week 2010. Hamburg Int. Short FF 

2010. 

Father Christmas Doesn’t Come Here 

Dir: Bhekumuzi Sgweje Sibya, South Africa, 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: A young, black girl with low 

self-esteem writes a letter to Father 

Christmas asking for long, straight hair 

for Christmas. Her dream is almost ruined 

by a cynical man who tells her Father 

Christmas doesn’t exist. This makes her 

resort to extremes to achieve her goal. 

With the help of her grandmother, she 

recovers from the ordeal of not knowing 

how to love herself; she also learns that 

being beautiful isn’t about what you look 

like but about being yourself. 

AWARDS: Best Narrative Short Film 

Tribeca 2010. Best Short Film Tri 

Continental Film Festival 2009. 

SCREENINGS: Tribeca 2010. Tri 

Continental Film Festival 2009. Durban 

International Film Festival 2010. 

Vancouver Short Film Festival (World’s 

Best Short program) 2010. Rehoboth 

Beach Independent Film Festival 2010.

Fireworks 

Dir: Victor Hugo Duran. USA. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: Growing up in Los Angeles, 

the fourth of July was always about 

fireworks. Against the holiday backdrop in 

South L.A., Fireworks is a coming-of-age 

story of two adolescent boys on a quest 

to impress a group of girls. 

SCREENINGS: Tribeca 2012, LA Film 

Festival 2012 

A Distraçao de Ivan 

Dir: Cavi Borges, Gustavo Melo, Brazil. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: This film tells the story of 

Ivan, an eleven-year-old boy. He lives 

with his grandmother in the suburbs 

of Rio de Janeiro. Amidst his everyday 

tricks and squabbles with friends, he will 

mature. 

SCREENINGS: Cannes Semaine de la 

Critique 2010.

Collision 

Dir: Nick Matthews. Australia. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: Memory and mortality 

collide as a man reflects on a former 

relationship during a brief moment in 

time before a life-changing event. 

AWARDS: Best Cinematography 

Flickerfest 2011. 

SCREENINGS: Melbourne International 

Film Festival 2011. 

Proxima Estación 

Dir: Carlos Agulló Coloma. Spain. 2011. 

4 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: A woman on the subway 

dreams of what life could be.

Baba 

Dir: Zuzana Spidlova. Czech Republic. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: “Mom has never asked me, 

she just brought granny home. Now she 

lies in the middle of my room and I have 

to take care of her. All the time.” 

AWARDS: 1st Prize, Cinefontation Cannes 

2009. Best Film & Best Director Famufest 

2008. 

Swimming Lesson 

Dir: Kat Goh, Singapore. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: On the way to the airport, a 

mother frets over her daughter who is 

leaving home for the first time. Suddenly, 

she finds herself on a curious detour 

that plumbs muddy memories, only to 

surface with a dazzling lesson in both 

life and swimming. 

AWARDS: Silver Screen Award for Best 

Director. 

SCREENINGS: Singapore International Film 

Festival 2009. Toronto Singapore Film 

Festival 2010.

War (Uerra) 

Dir: Paolo Sassanelli. Italy. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Portrait of life in a small 

Italian town examining the various effects 

of war in a beautiful period setting. 

AWARDS: Cinema Without Borders Best 

International Film Award 2010. 

SCREENINGS: Venice Film Festival 2009. 

Palm Springs International Short Film 

Festival 2010. Seattle International Film 

Festival 2010. 

Celia and Sunrise 

Dir: Antoni Sendra Barrachina. Spain, 2012. 

5 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: The story of two cargo ships 

stranded 100 feet from the beach.

Scumbag, Pervert and the Girl In Between 

Dir: Bruce Hwang Chen, Taiwan. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: A high school outcast tries 

to impress a girl by retrieving her stolen 

pair of P.E shorts from a town pervert. 

AWARDS: National Board of Review 

Student FIlm Winner 2010. 

SCREENINGS: Taiwan Golden Horse Film 

Festival 2010. Student Academy Awards 

Regional Finalist 2010. 

La Fin du Monde 

Dir: Michael Havenith. Belgium. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: Serge is a security agent in 

a supermarket. He works with Chris, his 

hierarchically superior. Serge is a model 

employee and waits patiently until Chris 

gives him more responsibilities. He will be 

able to then claim with an advance and 

to perhaps even manage to allure Aline, 

a young cashier more worried about the 

state of the planet than by the transports 

amorous with Serge. One evening, right 

before closing, the lightning strikes and 

plunges the store in the black. Serge tries 

to contain hysterical customers while 

Chris tries to repair the breakdown. 

SCREENINGS: Interfilm 2010. Prague Short 

Film Festival 2011. Festival de Louvain 

2010.

Coming Up 2010 

30 min each. 

Drama. 

The Future WAGs of Great Britain - Dir: 

Destiny Ekaragha 

Disguised as a WAG and with Missy’s help. Kim 

starts clubbing with football players to get inside 

tips on forthcoming games. 

Would Like to Meet - Dir: Alex Garcia and 

Wayne Yip. 

When 30-year-old Hayley is diagnosed with a 

brain tumour, she insists that her husband Phil 

looks to the future. 

Half Term - Dir: Sam Donovan. 

The boredom of the school holidays gives way to 

unexpected adventure for two lads on a run-down 

estate. 

I Don’t Care - Dir: Harry Wootliff. 

Luka is contemplating his life on the eve of his 

30th birthday. 

Boy - Dir: Matthew Lenton. 

Kept a prisoner in his room, the boy is all alone 

until he finds a mouse. 

Eclipse - Dir: Michael Lennox. 

Ben is captivated by his flighty friend and 

neighbour Chloe who toys endlessly with his 

affections. 

Dip - Dir: Lisa Gornick. 

Fate throws a pickpocket and Somalian immigrant 

together on a London night bus. 

13 1/2 

Dir: Haris Vafeiadis. Greece. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: Aphrodite is thirteen and a 

half. Her friends call her Tin-Tin. 

Aphrodite is in love with Lou. Aphrodite 

wants to grow up. 

AWARDS: Winner Fujifilm Shorts 2011.

Apricot 

Dir: Ben Briand. Australia. 2009. 

10 min, Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Do you remember your first 

love?... Do you remember your first kiss? 

...Do you remember?... 

La Vie d’un Chien (The Life of a Dog) 

Dir: John Harden. USA. 2002. 


SYNOPSIS: A wonderful homage to Chris 

Marker’s La Jetee and an ode to freedom 

of love. 

AWARDS: Best Narrative Short, Los 

Angeles Film Festival 2002. Special Jury 

Recognition, Aspen Shortsfest 2003. Best 

Short, Seattle International Film Festival 

2002.

Figure / Ground 

Dir: Scott Ligon. USA. 2010. 

11 min. Animated Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: The director’s father is slowly 

dying. He dramatises the experience in 

a hybrid of multiple visual approaches; 

live-action video, composite image and 

painted animation. 

The Highway M8 

Dir: Nadejda Zaretskaya. Russia. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A young Russian girl breaks 

free from her father’s oppressive 

household near Highway M8. 



Continental Film Festival 2009. 

SCREENINGS: Tribeca 2010. Tri 

Continental Film Festival 2009

3 x Sins of London Films 

Dir: George Milton. UK. 2009. 

16 min, 11 min, 16 min. Drama Comedy. 

SYNOPSIS: Sins of London is a triptych 

of short films by critically acclaimed 

director George Milton; three tales of 

moral crisis, united by theme yet each 

told through a different lens... a comedy, 

a drama and an existential thriller. Written 

by long-standing Milton collaborator Mark 

Tilton, the Sins of London triptych is a 

powerful testament to the new, brave and 

exciting cinema coming out of the UK. 

Imprints 

Dir: Amanda Boyle, UK. 2007. 


AWARDS: Best Short Raindance 2009. SYNOPSIS: A consultation takes place 

between a neurologist and a yound 

woman with amnesia. She has blacked 

out her past and desperate to find out 

who she is.

Superhero 

Dir: Hanneke Schutte, South Africa. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: An amnesiac finds himself 

stranded in the middle of an arid 

landscape dressed as a superhero. He’s 

assisted and spurred on by a young 

black boy who wholeheartedly believes 

that he is a superhero. But as the man’s 

memory returns, he discovers that he’s 

been anything but a hero. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film and Best 

Cinematography South Africa Film & 

Television Awards. 

SCREENINGS: Montreal International Black 

Film Festival 2010. Bird’s Eye View 2009. 

Snapshots 

Dir: Kate Barker, Andres Rosende, USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Snapshots is composed of 

seven love story vignettes, capturing 

different moments in couple’s 

relationships. Ranging from first kiss to 

breaking up, the film unfolds over the 

course of one day, moving around the 

neighborhoods of New York City. 

SCREENINGS: SXSW 2010. Savannah Film 

Festival 2010. Indianapolis International 

Film Festival 2010.

And the Red Man Went Green 

Dir: Ruth Meehan, UK. 2002. 

2 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: An old woman’s world is 

turned upside down at a pedestrian 

crossing as she negotiates the hectic 

streets of London. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, DepicT! 2006. 

Winner, Cocotte Minute competition, Court 

de Brest 2006. Best International Film, 

Teheran 2006. 

At the End of the Sentence 

Dir: Marisa Zanotti, Scotland. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: This darkly comic film follows 

Sue and his teenage son as they await 

the release of Sue’s father from prison. It 

is an emotional journey through strange 

and beautiful landscapes. 

AWARDS: UK Film Council Audience 

Award, Encounters Bristol 2006. Best 

British Short, British Independent Film 

Awards, Nominated 2006. BAFTA 

Scotland, Best New Screenplay, 

Nominated 2005.

Ciudad Perdida 

Dir: Sergio Garcia, Diego Forero, Colombia. 2004. 

9 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Juan is a thief on the mass 

transit system. When a beautiful young 

woman boards a city bus he attempts to 

seduce her and steal her precious phone. 

SCREENINGS: Sydney Latin American 


Crossing Tracks 

Dir: Marcus McSweeney, UK. 2005. 

3 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: This experi-mentary short 

is seen through the eyes of Alan, a 

trainspotter. The film questions society’s 

notions of normality as Alan reveals 

himself to be more than just a bloke at 

the end of a platform. 

AWARDS: ‘Best of British’, Brief 

Encounters Short Film Festival, 

Nominated 2005.

El Encargado (The One in Charge) 

Dir: Sergio Barrejón. Spain. 2008. 

8 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Martin is put in charge of his 

class during the teacher’s absence. He 

must write on the blackboard names of 

those who speak. An easy job... until the 

class bully starts talking. 

AWARDS: 1st award Gotham Film Festival 

NYC, 2008. 1st Award Navas Film Festival 

(Spain), 2008. 

Fender Bender 

Dir: Daniel Elliott. UK. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: Rasmus and Aleksander 

struggle with their thoughts and emotions 

after being affected by the same 

accident, until they finally come together. 

An exploration of guilt and frustration. 

AWARDS: Best European Short Film, 

European Film Academy Awards, 

Nomianted 2004.

Girl Climbing Trees 

Dir: Jared Katsiane. USA. 2006. 

4 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: A girl climbs trees as a 

familiar voice talks about freedom. 

The Girl with the Yellow Stockings 

Dir: Grzegorz Muskala. Germany. 2008. 

6 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: A young couple is spending 

the day in bed. He asks her to marry him. 

She says no...at first. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, German Film 

Academy Awards (Lola) 2008. 

SCREENINGS: Nouveau Cinéma Montreal 

2008.

In the City 

Dir: Mark Bethune. Canada. 2002. 

3 min. Drama. 

On S’Embrasse 

Dir: Pierre-Olivier Mornas. France. 2001. 

6 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: A slice of life in the city. SYNOPSIS: A young girl walks into a pub 

to prepare an audition that she will have 

in ten minutes. Having a problem to learn 

her lines, she asks a man to help her. 

They start rehearsing... 

AWARDS: Pathe ‘5 Minute’ Award, Brief 

Encounters Int’l Short Film Festival 2001. 

SCREENINGS: Cannes Film Festival, 

Director’s Fortnight Selection, 2001.

Shame 

Dir: Tom Geens. UK. 2005. 

3 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: In an empty but cosy 

suburban living room, a woman suddenly 

appears from behind a sofa with 

extraordinarily big hands. She starts 

talking about her hands and how she 

has learned to live with them. Then her 

mother comes back home... 

SCREENINGS: Oskariada Film Festival, 

Warsaw 2008. 

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not 

Dir: Jamie Rafn. UK. 2003. 

8 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: It’s as easy to ruin a romance 

as it is to pluck the petals off a flower.

Solkatten 

Dir: Stina Bergman. Sweden. 2003. 

7 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: It is easy to brush off 

someone who is approaching you 

verbally, but what happens if you use an 

entirely different language? That is the 

question asked by this funny and sensual 

film about two strangers waiting for a 

train. 

AWARDS: Best Film, DaKino International 

Film Festival, Bucharest 2004. Winner, 

Premio FICE, Arcipelago Int’l Festival 

of Short Films and New Images, Rome 

2005. 

Surprise 

Dir: Ben Dodd. UK. 2006. 

1 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Hitchcockian short film noir 

where a romantic murder is not as it 

seems. 

AWARDS: BBC New Filmmakers Award, 

2007.

Black Dog 

Dir: Ian Fenton, UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: When Chris is sent across the 

city to take a tonic to his ailing 

Grandfather, he finds himself on a 

chilling journey of self-discovery in 

this audacious re-imagining of a classic 

fairytale. 

AWARDS: North Star Prize, Northern 

Lights Film Festival 2006. 

La Apertura 

Dir: Duska Zagorac. UK / Argentina. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: Daniel is about to get it all 

- the girl, the dream, the way out of his 

poor Buenos Aires neighbourhood. There 

is only one problem - he has to betray 

his best friend. 

AWARDS: Best of the Festival Audience 

Award, Zinebi Festival of Documentary 

and Short Film, Spain 2005.

I’ll See You In My Dreams 

Dir: Miguel Angel Vivas. Portugal. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: In a town filled with the 

undead, only one man seems to be 

able to stop them. That man is Lúcio, a 

worker whose wife recently turned into 

a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked 

in the basement. In a local tavern he 

finds a second shot at true love, but this 

blooming romance is threatened by the 

situation plaguing the town. 

AWARDS: International Fantasy Film 

Award, Fantasporto 2004. Grand Prize, 

European Fantasy Short Film, Amsterdam 

Fantastic Film Festival 2004. Best 

Portuguese Film, Algarve International 


Skeletons in the Closet 

Dir: Ulrik Friberg, Sweden. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A woman and a man wake up 

on the floor in a musty flat, remembering 

nothing of who they are or why they 

are there. As they try to piece together 

how they ended up in this situation, their 

brutal, clumsy, and yet erotic nature is 

revealed - but at what cost?

There are Monsters 

Dir: Jay Dahl, Canada. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: There’s something that’s just 

not right in this small Canadian town. 

SCREENINGS: London Film Festival 2008. 

Atlantic Film Festival 2008. 

La Piattaforma 

Dir: Laura Chiossone, Italy. 2004. 

7 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: A white square in a blue sea, 

a microcosmos where you can hear time 

passing by.

A Bout de Truffe (The Truffle Hunter) 

Dir: Tom Tagholm. UK / France. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: After years of searching, Jean 

Dubois a struggling truffle hunter, makes 

the discovery of a lifetime- with 

devastating results on his relationship 

with his partner/lover/pig, Carinne. 

AWARDS: Winner, TCM Shorts 2007. Best 

British Short Film, British Independent 

Film Awards 2007 

A Shadow of a Doubt 

Dir: Esben Tonnesen. Denmark. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Choosing to love another 

person, to confront your inner doubts and 

fears is a lonesome and frightening task. 

Often it is easier to run away. Liv wants 

to fall in love. She longs to have another 

person in her life, but her head is filled 

with doubts and anxiety. 

AWARDS: Festival Grand Prize, FICA Film 


SCREENINGS: Venice International Film 

Festival, 2007. Clermont-Ferrand Short 

Film Festival, 2007.

Tricko (The T-Shirt) 

Dir: Hossein Fazeli. Slovakia. 2006. 

9 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Mark, who is half-American, 

half-Slovak, walks into a small store in 

Slovakia. At first he’s happy to find a 

fellow fan of baseball with the Stars 

and Stripes on the wall. On his way out 

however, his eyes fall upon an anti-God 

T-shirt the store clerk is wearing while 

standing under the American flag. We all 

know you should never talk religion and 

politics, hence the chance meeting leads 

to something far more sinister. 

AWARDS: Best Screenplay, Leicester 

International Short Film Festival 2006. 

International Jury Award, Encounters 

Short Film Festival 2006. Best Short Film, 

Bianco Film Festival 2007. 

Alex and her Arse Truck 

Dir: Sean Conway. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A scooter riding zelophile 

called Baby Shoes, his dogfart 

nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex, her black 

lover Nylon, a mentalist named Poubelles 

and a pair of drug dealing lesbians. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, British 

Independent Film Awards, Nominated 

2008.

Baghdad Express 

Dir: Nimer Rashed. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: The film tells the story of 

Maya, a teenage girl working in her 

father’s Arabic restaurant, who’s forced to 

decide which comes first: her dreams 

or her family… 

AWARDS: Time Out Award for Best 

London Film, London Short Film Festival, 

Nominated 2009. 

Bale 

Dir: Alastair Mackay. UK. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: ‘Bale’ is the story of 3 young 

boys, 4 teenagers, and the British 

countryside. It’s about a desertion, 

a misunderstanding, and a cruel 

overreaction. And the sparking of a chain 

of events that leads uncontrollably to a 

terrifying outcome... 



Continental Film Festival 2009.

Both 

Dir: Bass Breche. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: In July 2006 during the Israeli 

– Lebanese war, a former Lebanese 

militia sniper creates his own dream-like 

fantasy world in London. This world of 

solitude turns into an obsessive fixation 

on an imaginary muse. Even if war is 

meant to be continuous, “Both” is a 

message of hope, love and truth from the 

city of the endless wars, Beirut. 

C’est Plutot Genre Johnny Walker 

Dir: Olivier Babinet. France. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Tired of his incessant 

divagations, Solveig kicks her boyfriend 

Étienne out for the night. He goes to his 

friend Bip’s, where he keeps turning his 

troubles over. He’s sick of the same old 

life. Shortly after, Étienne finds himself 

locked in a time loop. 

AWARDS: Special Jury Award, Clermont- 

Ferrand Short Film Festival 2009.

Can’t Stop Breathing 

Dir: Amy Neil. Scotland, 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: A delicate portrait of a mother 

and daughter’s strained existence 

together in the Scottish countryside. A 

birthday celebration is hampered by a 

crumbling life that is held together by a 

daughter’s love. 

AWARDS: BAFTA Scotland, Winner, Best 

New Work 2005. BAFTA Film Award, 

Best Short Film, Nominated 2005. British 

Independent Film Award, Best British 

Short, Nominated 2005. 

Citizens 

Dir: Juho Kuosmanen. Finland. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: ‘Citizens’ tells the story of 

Yasin and Marko, who are citizens of 

Helsinki. Plan A for both of them is to 

earn a living and live a decent life. Now, 

Marko needs to buy a car and Yasin 

wants to sell one. This simple act of 

selling a car turns into something 

unpleasant – and both men are forced to 

go on living according to Plan B. 

AWARDS: Prix Arte, Premiers Plans Film 

Festival, 2008. Second Prize, Locarno 

Film Festival 2008.

Cocoon 

Dir: Hana Tsutsumi, UK / Germany. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A toddler is trapped in her 

home with her dead mother. As the 

weeks go by no other dwellers in the 

apartment block have realised that there 

might be a serious problem with one of 

their neighbours. Only Nick, the postman, 

acts after becoming suspicious when he 

finds the letters he has delivered have 

been posted back through the letter box. 

Compassion (Medelijden) 

Dir: Tom Geens. Belgium. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A curious woman secretly 

follows home a street beggar but all she 

finds is touble.

The Elephant Garden 

Dir: Sasie Sealy. USA. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: The Elephant Garden is the 

story of two sisters growing up amidst 

the constant construction and red clay 

of the New South. Elisabeth’s headlong 

rush into love confuses her little sister, 

and Chloe’s struggle to reconcile the 

shifting boundaries between childhood 

and adolescence results in strange, new, 

dark emotions and high fiction. 

AWARDS: Winner, Tribeca Film Festival, 

Student Visionary Prize, 2008. 

Five Feet High and Rising 

Dir: Peter Sollett. USA. 2000. 


SYNOPSIS: Victor, a twelve year-old boy 

growing up on New York City’s Lower East 

Side experiences what growing up is all 

about. 

AWARDS: Jury Award, Aspen Shortsfest 

2000. Cannes Film Festival, Cinefondation 

Award, 2000. Silver Moon of Valencia, 

Valencia International Film Festival 2000 

SXSW Competition Award, SXSW Film 

Festival 2000. Sundance Film Festival, 

Short Filmmaking Award 2000.

Heavy Metal 

Dir: Zaida Bergroth. Finland. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Set at the end of the 80’s, a 

village in the middle of Finland, 15-yearold 

Hevari, the only long-haired boy 

in tow, is the coolest guy in the world 

according to Kate next door. Hevari who 

is used to being the laughing stock of his 

peers prepares for the Friday night disco, 

hoping tonight everything will be different. 

AWARDS: Main Prize, Tampere Film 

Festival 2007. Audience Award, Tampere 

Film Festival 2007. Best Fiction Film, 

Kettupaivat Short and Documentary 

Film Festival 2007. State Quality Award, 

Finland 2007. 

Honeymoon 

Dir: Miranda Bowen. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A newly wed couple arrive at 

a service station in the middle of the 

night. Zoran disappears to make a 

phonecall but when he fails to return 

Dawn begins to wonder just how well she 

knows her new husband.

In Passing 

Dir: Chris Croucher. UK. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Blitz mother Fay Travers 

carries on the war on the Home Front 

alone her son and husband away on 

the front line. One morning she receives 

a letter she feels unable to open. That 

night, a surprise encounter in a shelter 

means she is able to open her letter. 

“The most perfect short film I’ve seen in 

years.” Billy Williams (DOP) Gandhi, 

Sunday Bloody Sunday. 

Juvenile 

Dir: China Moo-Young. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: The story of a single parent 

father with a teenage daughter and the 

day she brings home her new boyfriend. 

The film explores the emotional 

tensions of a father not wanting his little 

girl to grow up, and conversely an adult 

behaving like a child to get his own way. 

SCREENINGS: Sundance Film Festival, 

2008. Berlinale Film Festival, 2008.

Lars and Peter 

Dir: Daniel Borgman. Denmark. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Lars (9) just wants his father 

to be happy. His mother is gone and 

life has been empty and dysfunctional 

without her. On the eve of his birthday, 

Lars’ dad gets drunk and has an 

embarrassing argument with the 

next-door neighbour before masturbating 

in the backyard. Lars sees everything; 

and he has to figure it all out by himself. 

SCREENINGS: Cannes Film Festival, 

2009. Chicago International Film Festival, 

2009. Sao Paulo International Short Film 

Festival, 2009. 

Liar 

Dir: China Moo-Young. UK. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: Four characters, a drag queen, 

a city boy, a lad, and a loner are all 

uttering falsehoods, inflated fibs, and 

tragic untruths…nobody knows who’s 

telling the truth because every one 

seems to be a LIAR. 

AWARDS: Jury Award, NPA Awards, 

Nominated 2006. Audience Award, NPA 

Awards, Nominated 2006. 

SCREENINGS: Cannes Film Festival, 2006.

The Making of Parts 

Dir: Daniel Elliott. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A man’s love and tenderness, 

which he once shared with his wife, is 

now slipping away from him. As one 

sexual existence ends, another is just 

beginning. 

AWARDS: Winner - Prix U.I.P. Best 

European Short Film, 63 Venice Film 

Festival. Nominee Best Short Film, 

European Film Academy Awards 2006. 

Meat 

Dir: Slava Ross. Russia. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: Love is too much of a 

luxury. This word is mostly taken from 

sentimental books. The real life is 

simpler and more terrible. It crashes 

people’s destinies like pieces of meat in 

a meat-chopper. A little boy comes into 

the cruel world to become a man. He 

has to take his father’s place. And that’s 

his mother he has to protect and to 

forgive. 

AWARDS: Best International Narrative 

Short, Rome International Film Festival. 

Grand Prix, Zinebi, 2003. Special Jury 

Prize / Best Cinematography, Saint Anne 

Film Festival 2003.

Milan 

Dir: Michaela Kezele. Serbia. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Yugoslavia during the 1999 

NATO air raids: Two brothers are making 

plans to go and play “hide and seek” 

in the forest. As Milan (6) gets to the 

meeting point on time, his brother, at 

the same time, is fighting for his life. 

As Milan starts looking for him, he 

surprisingly finds someone 

else … 

AWARDS: Shortlisted for Academy Award 

Nomination 2008 

La Parabolica 

Dir: Xavi Sala. Spain. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: During the broadcast of 

the Pope’s visit, Vicente’s television is 

broken. Desperate, he decides to make a 

homemade parabolic dish. 

AWARDS: Arte Short Film Award, Dresden 

International Film Festival 2008.

Les Amours Perdus 

Dir: Caroline Sasha Cogez. Denmark. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: ‘Did you know, that people in 

relationships are happier than others. - 

It’s scientifically proven. The question 

is whether the relationship makes you 

happy, or whether only happy people 

find someone to be with.’ In the twentyfour 

hours around the concert of world 

famous flute player Michala Petri three 

people are trying to grasp on to love. 

Lovesick: A Faerie Tale 

Dir: Patrick Collerton. Estonia. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: An Estonian teenager, hung up 

on gangster glamour, is lured from 

Tallinn into the forest where she 

experiences an altogether different kind 

of seduction by the modern day spirit of 

Kalevipoeg.

Paraffin 

Dir: Laurence Easeman. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Working as a security 

transporting precious computer parts up 

to Scotland, ex-paratroopers Finn and 

Tony Know very little about each other. 

That is until they journey back to London, 

when Finn starts to suspect Tony is not 

all he appears. Finn confronts Tony about 

the disappearance of a local child with 

unexpectedly dramatic results. 

AWARDS: Commendation, Festival 

Fantastic Films 2006. 

SCREENINGS: Raindance Film Festival, 

London 2006. 

Passing Hearts 

Dir: Johan Brisinger. Sweden. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: The story of Daniel’s poignant 

meeting with the family whose late son 

saved his life. 

AWARDS: Audience Award, Berlin Film 

Festival 2006. Audience Award & Best 

Cinematography, Aspen Film Festival 

2006. Humanitarian Award, Lilla Film 

Festivalen, Båstad. Audience Award, 

Brest European Short Film Festival 2006. 

Prix Européen du Conseil Régional de 

Bretagne.

Ralph 

Dir: Alex Winckler. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: 16 year old Ralph travels 

alone to Marseille in order to try and find 

his best friend Clare and declare his love 

for her. 

AWARDS: BAFTA, Best Short, Nominated 

2009. Best British Short, Leeds 


Rocco Paris 

Dir: Sean Conway. UK. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: Rocco Paris begins as a study 

of loss and ends as the beginning of a 

love story. It is a playful and pretentious 

nouvelle vague homage shot on b/w 

16mm film featuring a Kurt Cobain 

obsessed protagonist. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film of the Year 

Award 2005, London Curzon Cinemas. 

Winner, London Short Film Festival 2005.

The Second Life of the Sugarbowl 

Dir: Didier Canaux. France. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: We follow an old bum in 

an urban setting while he picks up 

objects that we believe are useless. But 

appearances are deceiving... This grumpy 

old man reveals himself to be a 

magician. He invents a world of sound 

in order to illuminate the night of a little 

girl. In the second life of the sugar bowl, 

humans and objects are not what we 

think they are. 

AWARDS: Prix du Public, Les Mardis de 

l’Escurial Paris, October 2007. 

September 

Dir: Esther May Campbell. UK. 2008. 

21 min. Drama 

SYNOPSIS: In an in-between world of 

flyovers, grass verges and dead-ends, 

where the motorway hum serves as a 

constant reminder of the speed of other 

lives, Marvin is not going anywhere. Until 

an extraordinary adolescent arrives and 

changes his world forever. 

AWARDS: BAFTA, Best Short Film, 2009. 

Best Film, London Short Film Festival 

2009. Best British Film, Brief Encounters 

Film Festival 2008.

Suite for Two 

Dir: Marko Raat. UK. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: A rich woman returns to her 

hotel suite to discover one of the young 

maids going through her belongings 

and trying on her clothes and jewellery. 

Rather than report her, the older woman 

subjects the girl to verbal and physical 

violence. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, Cultural 

Endowment Prize, 2003. 

Top Girl 

Dir: Rebecca Johnson. UK / Germany. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Brixton rude girls Donna and 

Felicia are inseparable best friends but 

aspiring MC Donna is unquestionably TOP 

GIRL. Truthful, tender and brutally comic, 

Top Girl tells a story about girls growing 

up in a man’s world.

Trip 

Dir: Harry Wootliff. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Trip is an emotionally charged 

tale about a dad who tries to do the right 

thing by his two daughters but chooses 

the worst way to go about it. 

What Does Your Daddy Do? 

Dir: Martin Stitt. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: The story of a deep cover 

policeman infiltrating a paedophile ring 

and the subsequent effects on him, his 

family, and those around him. 

AWARDS: British Independent Film 

Awards, Best Short Film, Nominated 2007.

Where is Estel? 

Dir: Jared Katsiane. USA. 2007. 

3 min. Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Fiction story about a girl and 

her friends, the day after she has joined 

the military. 

Path Lights 

Dir: Zachary Sluser. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Bobby is the voice of pulpy 

detective novels on audio, as well the 

automated answering service of a tree 

cutting company. One day while walking 

his dogs, a bottle falls from the sky 

almost hitting him. Bobby decides to 

track down the culprit. 

SCREENINGS: Woodstock Film Festival, 

2009 Clermont-Ferrand, International 

Competition, 2010. International Film 

Festival Rotterdam, 2010.

Documentary

The Mystery of the FLying Kicks 

Dir: Matthew Bate, Australia. 2010. 

14 min. Documentary. 

SYNOPSIS: Murder, sex, drugs, art, 

politics... sneakers hanging on telephone 

lines have become a powerful urban 

symbol, inspiring genesis theories both 

hilarious and sinister. In an effort to get 

to the truth once and for all, we asked 

the people of earth to help us solve this 

mystery... 

AWARDS: Best Short Documentary MIFF 

2010.. 

SCREENINGS: SXSW 2010. Edinburgh Film 

Festival 2010. Brooklyn Film Festival. 

CPH: DOX Copenhagen. Sheffield Doc Fest 

2010. 

Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul 

Dir: Orlando von Einsiedel. UK. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: Fazilla dreams of representing 

her country at an international sporting 

event when she grows up. The only catch 

is that she is a skateboarder and lives in 

Afghanistan. 

SCREENINGS: Sundance Film Festival 

2011. Sheffield Doc Fest 2010. SXSW 2011. 

Rotterdam International Film Festival 

2010. Stockholm International Film 

Festival 2010.

Radiostan 

Dir: Tomas Sheridan, Russia / UK. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: People from different ethnic, 

economic and religious backgrounds 

speak of their struggles, immigration, 

racism, the ‘old days’ in the USSR and 

their dreams for the future. 

SCREENINGS: Uppsala International 

Film Festival 2010. Clermont-Ferrand 


Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011. 

Amar 

Dir: Andrew Hinton. UK. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: Amar is 14 and top of 

his class. Someday he’d like to be a 

professional cricketer, but for now he’s 

the family’s main breadwinner, working 

two jobs six and a half days a week on 

top of attending school in the afternoons. 

This short observational documentary is 

a simple journey with Amar through his 

daily life. 

AWARDS: Finalist Vimeo Festival 

(Documentary).

Lessons from the Night 

Dir: Adrian Francis. Australia. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: As dusk approaches and 

workers stream out of the city, thousands 

of individuals are about to begin their 

day’s work. They shuffle through 

subterranean car parks, sprawling 

shopping centres and soaring office 

towers, leaving behind a trail of gleaming 

floors and emptied waste paper baskets. 

They are the cleaners -an invisible and 

underpaid army whose necessary work 

goes unnoticed. 

AWARDS: Special Jury Mention In the the 

Palace International Short Film Festival 

Bulgaria. Grand Prix, Best Documentary 

and Best Photography International TV 

Festival Montenegro. 


2009. Edinburgh International Film 

Festival 2009. Silverdocs 2009. Los 

Angeles Film Festival 2009. 

A Fish Supper 

Dir: Orlando Von Einsiedel. UK. 2012. 


SYNOPSIS: A lighthearted observational 

documentary following a day in the life of 

Phil as he does what he does everyday, 

fish.

Divino Freestyles 

Dir: Fábio Yamaji. Brazil. 2009. 

6 min. Animated Documentary. 

SYNOPSIS: Divino (Divine) can tell stories 

and does it with undisguised pleasure. 

What is more, he is very quick. During 

a verbal session of freestyle, which he 

learnt from his 102-year-old grandfather, 

he presents his philosophy in just a few 

minutes, which includes a number of 

funny life stories, anecdotes and words 

of wisdom. 

SCREENINGS: Abu Dhabi Film Festival 

2009. Krakow Film Festival 2010. 

Heartland Transport 

Dir: Cody Stokes, USA. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: Ed Reggi and Scott Emanuel 

chartered a bus taking seventeen same 

sex couples from St. Louis, MO to Iowa 

Cita, IA to be legally married. 

AWARDS: Winner of the Princes Grace 

Film Award 2010. 

SCREENINGS: Roof Top Films 2010. The 

CHicago International Gay and Lesbian 

Film Festival 2010. San Francisco Indie 

Film Festival 2010.

Traffic Jam 

Dir: Oskar Forsten, Arthur Franck. Finland. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Two delivery truck drivers 

stuck in traffic give confessionals while 

waiting for the traffic lights to change. 

AWARDS: Special Prize Tampere Film 

Festival 2010. Grand Prize and Best 

Documentary B&W Audiovisual Festival 

2010. 

Peter and Ben 

Dir: Pinny Grylls. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Peter and Ben is a touching 

and quiky story of how two “black-sheep” 

form an unusual and enduring bond. 

AWARDS: Best Documentary, Aspen 

Shorts Fest 2008. Four Docs Best 

Documentary, London Short Film Festival 

2007.

Team Taliban 

Dir: Benjamin Kegan. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: A provocative glimpse into 

the world of independent professional 

wrestling. Adeel Alam is a Muslim 

wrestler who plays a terrorist in the ring, 

struggling to balance his devout faith 

with a lifelong passion for wrestling. The 

result is a powerful doc that explores the 

impact of The War on Terror in American 

culture through the unique lens of 

professional wrestling. 

SCREENINGS: Austin Film Festival 2009. 

Silverdocs 2009. Tribeca Film Festival 

2009. Palm Springs International Short 

Film Festival. BFI London Film Festival 

2010. Chicago International Film Festival 

2009. Between the Lines 2009. 

The Madman and the Cathedral 

Dir: James Rogan. Spain, UK. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: The Madman and the 

Cathedral is a documentary about one 

mans dream to build a cathedral. In 

1963, Don Justo Gallego Martinez laid 

the foundation stone of a cathedral. A 

peasant with no architectual training, no 

contruction experience and no tools, he 

turned his back on the fields and starting 

building. He had no blueprints and no 

planning permission. He had not even 

seen many cathedrals. All he had was 

the unshakeable conviction that God 

wanted him to build a cathedral.

Cemetery People 

Dir: Alessandro Molatore. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Over 6,000 people make their 

home among the tombs of Navotas 

Cemetery, located in the Philippines on 

the shores of Manila Bay. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, Sedicorto Film 

Festival 2009. Special Jury Mention: 

Human Rights, Festival Salento FiniBus 

Terrae 2009. 

SCREENINGS: San Sebastian Human 

Rights Festival, 2009. 

The Cleaner 

Dir: Joon Goh. UK. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: An immigrant office cleaner 

lives a life out of sync: cleaning by night, 

sleeping by day. 

SCREENINGS: London Short Film Festival.

Chinese Tongue Diagnosis 

Dir: Eric Fong. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: This film comprises a series 

of short clips of people sticking their 

tongues out at the camera, together with 

a lively soundtrack and on-screen text 

indicating their dietary preferences and 

tongue diagnoses by TCM doctors. As the 

voluntary participants were of different 

ages and different cultural backgrounds, 

this work also offers a celebration of 

their physical and cultural diversity. 

Even If She Had Been a Criminal... 

Dir: Jean-Gabriel Periot, France. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: France, the summer of 1944, 

at the time of the Liberation. The public 

punishment of women accused of having 

affairs with Germans during the war... 

AWARDS: Grand Prize, 36th Tampere Film 

Festival 2006. Best International Short 

Film, 51st Cork Film Festival 2006. Grand 

Prize, Best Int’l Short Film, 21st Odense 

Film Festival 2006.

The Ice Tribe 

Dir: Heidi Vilkman, Finland / UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Whether it’s called ice hole 

swimming, polar bear dipping or just plain 

old madness, this short documentary 

explores an unusual, spiritual past time in 

the midst of an icy, Finnish landscape. 

Lipari 

Dir: Frank van den Engel. Netherlands. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: On the idyllic island of Lipari 

near Sicily a few traditional swordfish 

hunters are still active. The days are over 

where these fisherman were 

self-evidently succeeded by their sons. 

Lipari pays homage to an almost extinct 

profession. 

SCREENINGS: Official Selection Eco 

Vision, 2008.

This is Slovenia 

Dir: Michael Frank. Slovenia. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Josko Joras is an obstinate 

man caught between two fires. He lives 

on the disputed border between Slovenia 

and Croatia. 

The Apology Line 

Dir: James Lees. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Feeling guilty? The film is 

based around the creation of a real-life 

‘apology line’ where members of the 

public can anonymously confess to 

absolutely anything, over the telephone. 

Beautiful visuals pick out moments that 

might otherwise pass us by, given new 

meaning by the apologies which are 

sometimes funny, sometimes haunting, 

but always fascinating. 

AWARDS: Prix UIP Best European Short 

Film, Cork 52nd Int. Film Festival. Best 

Short Documentary, Hot Docs 2009. Jury 

Special Mention, Clermont-Ferrand 2009.

Children of Manila 

Dir: Alessandro Molatore. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: The Philippines are home to 

an estimate 1.5 million street children, 

many of whom survive by begging and 

selling salvaged recyclables from the 

streets of Metro Manila. 

SCREENINGS: San Francisco Short Film 

Festival, 2009. Cork Film Festival, 2009. 

Filipino International Film Festival, Los 

Angeles 2009. Potenzo Short Film 

Festival, Italy 2009. 

Lost and Found 

Dir: Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull. UK. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: Jim Lee was born in a field in 

Kent on November 1st 1936. Abandoned 

from birth, his childhood memories 

were a blur. The visual background of 

Lost & Found is formed by a collage of 

discarded footage collected from charity 

shops, boot sales and private collectors 

around the country, creating a visual 

representation of his life.

Possessed 

Dir: Martin Hampton. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Enter the complicated worlds 

of four hoarders; people whose lives 

are dominated by their relationship to 

possessions. The film questions 

whether hoarding is a symptom of 

mental illness or a revolt against the 

material recklessness of consumerism. 

When does collecting become hoarding 

and why do possessions exert such an 

influence on our lives? 

Cheat Neutral 

Dir: Beth Stratford. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: From the high street to the 

houses of Parliament, cheatneutral.com 

sparks an important debate about the 

inadequacies of carbon offsetting. 

AWARDS: Winner, Best Documentary, 

Rushes Film Festival 2007.

Mental Block 

Dir: Karen Palmer. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Mental barriers can be just as 

formidable as physical ones, especially in 

the world of free running. 

AWARDS: Finalist, IFC.com Documentary 

Competition, 2008.

Comedy

Tumult 

Dir: Johnny Barrington. UK. 2011. 

13 min. Comedy. 

SYNOPSIS: A tribe of Norse warriors 

traipse across a barren land after battle. 

Bloodied and wounded, their chief is near 

death. He is about to hand over power to 

his son when an army of a completely 

different kind…descends upon them. 

AWARDS: Nominated for Best Short Film 

BAFTA 2013. 

SCREENINGS: Sundance 2012, SXSW 2012, 

Palm Springs 2012. 

Voyage D’affaires 

Dir: Sean Ellis. France. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Jean Paul Clement is on a 

business trip. He checks into the Dolphine 

Hotel for seven nights where we learn he 

has one saved message on his mobile 

phone and a personal dilemma 

AWARDS: BAFTA, Best International Short, 

Nominated 2009.

The News 

Dir: Luke Shanahan. Australia. 2009. 

4 min, Comedy. 

SYNOPSIS: Gina and Daniel are madly in 

love. They arrange to meet at the café 

where they first met, each with exciting 

news. 

How I Met Your Father 

Dir: Alex Montoya. Spain. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Ana and Mikel crash into 

Ana’s bedroom in a flurry of kisses; but 

when they get down to business Mikel is 

unable to “perform”. Mikel leaves with 

a few mumbled apologies and his tail 

firmly between his legs. Will Ana see 

the funny side and give him a second 

chance? 

AWARDS: Winner, Best Fiction, Kino Fest 

2009. 

SCREENINGS: LA Film Festival 2009. 

Hawaii International Film Festival 2009. 

Ankara International Film Festival 2009.

Two Laps 

Dir: Owen Trevor. Australia. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: Two friends. One race. Two 

laps. No prisoners. Val and Pete have 

been swimming together every morning 

for the past seventeen years. Once a year 

they have a race, two laps up and back. 

AWARDS: Best International Film, Rushes 

Short Film Festival. 

Maybe 

Dir: Pedro Resende. Portugal. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: What happens when a single 

cup of coffee is not enough? “Maybe...” is 

about a boy, a girl and a moment where 

creativity and love come together. 

AWARDS: Curtinhas (Honorable Mention), 

Vila Do Conde Film Festival.

The Black Hole 

Dir: Phil and Olly. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A sleep-deprived office 

worker accidentally discovers a black 

hole - and then greed gets the better of 

him... 

AWARDS: Winner, Virgin Media Shorts 

Award 2008. 

The Barberless Barber 

Dir: Cody Stokes. USA. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: The light-hearted story of a 

hairy man’s constantly thwarted attempts 

to find a barber, told in a silent film 

style.

Heavy Metal Drummer 

Dir: Toby MacDonald, Luke Morris. UK. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: A teeneage, metal-head misfit 

rocks the Arab world in this amusing 

tale of one music fan’s quest to follow 

his metallic muse despite a disapproving 

society. 


BAFTA 2006. Diploma of Merit Tampere 

Film Festival 2006. Studio Award Aspen 

Shorts Fest 2006. 

SCREENINGS: Berlinale 2006. Flickerfest 

2007. Lausanne 2008. Brisbane 


Bitch 

Dir: Dom Bridges. UK. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: After an encounter with a 

sweet old lady in a grocery store, a 

young man finds that buying a tin of tuna 

is more difficult than it seems. 

SCREENINGS: Encounters Short Film 

Festival, 2009.

A Small Silent Film About Death 

Dir: Steve Rainbow. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A man emails his wife telling 

her he has reached their honeymoon 

hotel. Unfortunatly the email gets 

misdirected to a woman who is 

burying her husband. 

Je T’aime John Wayne 

Dir: Toby MacDonald. UK. 2000. 


SYNOPSIS: The story of a young middleclass 

Englishman who lives out his 

dream of being French cinema icon Jean 

Paul Belmondo, a fact that his family 

won’t let him forget. 


BAFTA 2001. Winner Panorama Award 

Berlinale 2001. Best Short Films European 

Film Awards 2001. Winner TCM Award 

London Film Festival 2001.

Crazy Hands 

Dir: Charlie Graley. UK. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: A man wakes to discover that 

his hands have a life of their own. 

AWARDS: Best UK Short - Raindance Film 

Festival, 2009 (Nominee). 

SCREENINGS: Free Net World festival 

2009 Serbia. Iasi International Film 

Festival 2009 Romania. Imaginaria 

Film festival 2009 Italy. Golden Knight 

International Film Festival 2009 Malta. 

Jordan Short Film Festival 2009 Jordan. 

Jaipur International Film Festival 2010 

India. 

Where Have I Been All Your Life? 

Dir: Jim Field Smith. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Liam’s innocent quest 

uncovers a series of dark secrets in an 

otherwise quiet suburban household.

Goodbye to the Normals 

Dir: Jim Field Smith. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Six-year-old Magnus has 

decided to run away to America. He’s all 

packed and ready to catch the boat, 

but is this just another one of his little 

games? 

AWARDS: Winner, Base-Court Switzerland 

Prix du Public, 2006. 

A Day in a Life 

Dir: Nicolas Danenens. Belgium. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Mario and Tom are two street 

punks who want to rob a bank. They ask 

the young Turkish Emin to be their 

getaway driver. Nothing quite goes to 

plan, as three stories converge in this 

high-stakes game. 

AWARDS: Critics Prize, Brussels Short 

Film Festival.Best Short Film, Strasbourg 

International Film Festival.

Stig 

Dir: Henrik Gyllenskiold and Tomas Nordstrom. 

Sweden. 2007. 19 min. Comedy. 

SYNOPSIS: STIG is a man in his forties. He 

is probably middle-class, works fulltime, 

gets a decent pay check and drives 

a nice new car from a well-known 

Japanese carmaker. He is married, or 

at least living together with a woman, 

and he dresses well without overdressing. 

He is a normal Swedish man, 

yet he performs what most people would 

consider totally irrational acts… why? 

SCREENINGS: Istanbul International Short 

Film Festival 2008. Just For Laughs Film 

Festival, Canada 2009. 

One of Those Days 

Dir: Hattie Dalton. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Mild mannered suburban 

Englishman Howard Whittham discovers 

that due to a clerical error on Judgment 

Day he has been confused with the 

genocidal tyrant Vlad the Impaler and 

must endure a seemingly never ending 

bureaucracy to clear his name and get to 

heaven. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, Catalonian Film 

Festival 2009.

Busker 

Dir: David Wigram. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: An aspiring Mime Artist is 

feeling utterly defeated – even a tonedeaf 

guitarist is getting more attention 

from the public. Determined to win 

an audience, the Mime pulls out his air 

guitar to conjure raucous music 

from thin air. 

SCREENINGS: Zurich Film Festival, 2006. 

Raindance Film Festival, London 2006. 

The Yellow Smiley Face 

Dir: Constantin Popescu, Romania. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Mia and Florin Popescu are a 

little scared of the technological changes 

going on around them. To them, the 

computer is nothing more than a 

piece of furniture until the chance to 

communicate with their son, Alex, 

who lives in USA, makes them step into 

the virtual world. They explore this 

new territory using the instructions Alex 

has sent them in a letter, making 

for heart-warming comedy.

Tell It To The Fishes 

Dir: William Sinclair. Ireland. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: The tide is slowly coming in 

and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has 

been dropped on an isolated beach, his 

feet set in concrete. 

Ten Thousand Pictures of You 

Dir: Robin King. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: An exhilarating roller coaster 

ride through the animated pictures of 

Sarah’s world, as she seeks revenge 

upon the movie star who broke her 

heart!

Dog Years 

Dir: Sam Hearn and Richard Penfold. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Ben, 39, castrated mongrel, 

needs love. Good sense of humour 

essential. Made on a budget of £4.90 

for ham and sausages this Super 8mm 

short film was shot on 1x50 ft roll and 

edited in-camera under the Joy of 8mm 

initiative. 

AWARDS: ITV West Award for ‘Outstanding 

Talent’, Brief Encounters 2004. UK Film 

Council Audience Award, Brief Encounters 

2004. 

Dog Years 2 

Dir: Sam Hearn and Richard Penfold. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Ben, 46, frustrated mongrel, 

inflamed anal glands, needs ointment. 

Warms hands essential. The sequel to the 

international award winner, Dog Years. 

SCREENINGS: Aspen Shortsfest, 2006.

Worm 

Dir: Ryan Vernava. UK. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: When a detective arrives at 

a young girl’s family home in order to 

investigate her disappearance, it soon 

becomes obvious he has bitten off more 

than he can chew. 

SCREENINGS: London Short Film Festival 

2011. 

Five Minutes 

Dir: Konstantin Ivanov. Russia. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Just before the New Year, 

inhabitants of one building are inspired 

by the singing of Lidmia Gurchenko to let 

loose.

La Cheval 2.1 

Dir: S. Scott-Hayward and A. Kirkland. UK. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: The dreams of a man who has 

always wanted to be a horse... 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, Depict! 2003. 

Best Short Film, SuperShorts 2004. 

Men at Work 

Dir: Fausto Caviglia. Italy. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Milan. The city wakes up and 

goes to work. Luca wakes up but he 

doesn’t have a job. He makes a call to 

Michele. The conversation is a race to 

demonstrate who is the busiest, the most 

efficient businessman. 

SCREENINGS: Circuito Off Venice 

International Film Festival 2008 [Special 

Mention]. Odense International Film 

Festival 2008. Reggio International Film 

Festival 2008. Budapest International Film 

Festival 2008. Maremetraggio Festival 

Internazionale del Cortometraggio, Triest 

2009. Puertorico International Short Film 

Festival, San Juan 2009. La 25° Ora 

Festival del Corto, Rome 2009.

Neighbor 

Dir: Eric Lynne. USA. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: This is the story of a 

neighbourly, yet rather unusual, invitation 

to a house party. 

AWARDS: Best New Director, D&AD New 

Directors Competition 2003. 

SCREENINGS: Los Angeles International 

Short Film Festival, 2003. HBO U.S. 

Comedy Arts Festival, 2003. 

No Bar 

Dir: Cleiton Stringhini and Paulo de Tarso Disca. Brazil. 

2002. 8 min. Comedy. 

SYNOPSIS: A Brazilian federal law 

enforces cigarette manufacturers to print 

illustrated messages on all packages of 

cigarettes in order to discourage smoking. 

This may cause some controversy 

between retailers and consumers. 

AWARDS: Jury Award, Best Director / 

Best Short Film, 35th Festival de Brasília 

2002. Audience Awards, Best Director 

and Best Short Film, 31st Festival de 

Gramado 2003.

Noodles 

Dir: Jordan Feldman. France. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: When a beautiful woman 

enters a café, strange happenings ensue… 

Occupied 

Dir: Christian Filek. Austria. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: She has smuggled everything 

she needs aboard. Nobody saw or 

noticed anything. All moves have been 

carefully studied. The goal clearly within 

reach. Let the mission begin... 

AWARDS: Jury Award & Audience Award, 

Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 2006. Best 

Foreign Short Film, Big Island Film 

Festival 2006.

Oedipus 

Dir: RONG. UK. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: A hand-warming tale of love, 

incest and death. Be warned no film 

called Oedipus can ever end happily. 

AWARDS: Winner BBC New Filmmakers 

Award. Clermont-Ferrand 2006: 

International Compeition: Finalist. 

Oh Great Now Look What Happened 

Dir: Gerbrand Burger. Netherlands. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Oh Great Now Look What 

Happened is a fascinating and puzzling 

impression of a strange and unexpected 

event. An indefinable feeling of fear and 

threat is portrayed in a short film that is 

both melancholy and funny.

One Small Leap 

Dir: James Walker and Ed Boase. UK. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: 21 July 1969: Neil Armstrong 

makes one giant leap for mankind. In 

Muskogee, Oklahoma, one man is turning 

back the evolutionary clock. Based on a 

true story. 

AWARDS: Cocotte Minute Award, Best 

European Short Film Festival 2003. Best 

Direction, Capalbio Cinema 2003. 

Pinch Me Jesus 

Dir: James Scott. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Shows the length at which TV 

Preachers are willing to exploit religion 

for financial and political gain.

Please Do Not Put Any Ducks Into 

This Chute 

Dir: Johnny Burns. UK. 2004. 1 min. Comedy. 

SYNOPSIS: A man, a chute, a duck and 

the future of the world... 

Potatoes 

Dir: Matt Golding. UK. 2002. 


SYNOPSIS: A brief mockumentary on the 

origins of this staple food.

Gash 



SYNOPSIS: A child cries, a crack addict 

mother tries to comfort him - This is 

social realism. This is Gash. 

SCREENINGS: Aspen Shorts Fest 2005: 

Finalist. Montréal/Just For Laughs/ 

Comedia/Eat My Shorts 2005:Finalist. 

London £50 Film Festival 2005: Special 

mention. 

Don’t Break Up With Megan 

Dir: Jay Dahl. USA. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A love story about girls, 

drinking beer, girls and voodoo dolls. 

SCREENINGS: Atlanta Film Festival, 2004.

Boyclops 

Dir: Jay Dahl. UK. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: This energetic short comedy 

chronicles the trials of a one-eyed 

teenager in an epic athletic contest with 

a two-eyed rival. 

Industrial Love Dwarf No.7 



SYNOPSIS: Ever wondered why one day 

you can wake up and you just don’t love 

someone any more? This cutting expose 

reveals all…. 

AWARDS: Super Shorts 2005: Finalist. 

Brief Encounters 2005: Best of the South 

West: Finalist. 

SCREENINGS: BBC 3 Mini Masterpieces 

2004.

Pound 

Dir: Evan Bernard. USA. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Two friends run into each 

other on the street and greet each 

other with the world’s longest and most 

complex handshake. 

Remote 

Dir: Johnny Burns. UK. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: Lying on the bed in her sexiest 

underwear, her television on and head on 

his lap, she looks at him and wonders 

‘Would we still be together if I couldn’t 

get BBC2?’

Shit Happens 

Dir: Rob Brown. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Life for a deserting Russian 

WWII Soldier takes a darkly comic turn 

as he encounters a landmine. 

Stage Fright 

Dir: Mark Bethune. Canada. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: Through the eyes of an 

unseen character, we are whisked 

through a bustling backstage area before 

being thrust on stage to perform in front 

of a hushed and expectant audience.

This is Me 

Dir: Sam Arthur. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Bertie is in a coma whilst his 

wife enjoys the high life. Witness the rise 

and fall of this couple living under 

the Heathrow airport. Based on a real 

phenomenon air lines would rather we 

didn’t know about, this film is a little 

thing with a lot of impact. 

AWARDS: Winner, Eurostar “London 

Coming” Competition 2006. 

On a Train 

Dir: Barnabus Toth. France. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: In a train traveling across 

Europe, two young travelers, one 

Hungarian, the other Finnish, meet each 

other... without managing to communicate. 

SCREENINGS: Huesca International Short 

Film Festival, 2005.

Asshole 

Dir: Chadd Harbold. USA. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Vincent Allen goes to the 

doctor and finds out he’s an asshole. 

Maxima Pena 

Dir: Juanjo Gimenez. Spain. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: During a regional football 

match, the trainer tries to guide his team, 

instead of attending his father’s funeral. 

AWARDS: Best Comedy, Los Angeles Intl. 

Shorts Film Festival, Nominated 2006. 

Audience Award, Festival du Cinéma 

Méditerranéen de Montpellier 2006. 

SCREENINGS: Chicago International Film 

Festival.

Medium Rare 

Dir: Stefan Stuckert. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A dark tale of lust and desire, 

set at night in a dreamlike cityscape. Carl 

is a loser, a victim, the kind of man 

who never has much luck. When he 

has a bizarre encounter with a rich and 

beautiful stranger it seems his fortunes 

are about to change… 

AWARDS: Bronz Busho Prize, Budapest 

Short Film Festival 2008. Winner, Silver 

Bear, Austria’s Festival der Nationen 

2008. 

The Namemakers 

Dir: Andri Luup. UK. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: Two unemployed men get the 

idea of making money by giving names 

to newborns, but it isn’t as easy as they 

think.

Rattlesnakes 

Dir: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson. Iceland. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Anton is a used car salesman 

going through a mid life crises. He 

decides one day to ignore his routine 

ways and buy cowboy boots. We follow 

him for one week and see how his 

colleges and life at home changes. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, Icelandic 

Edda Awards, Nominated 2007. Best 

Script, Langlois International Short Film 

Festival 2007. Best Comedy, Best Actor, 

Achievement in Film, Audience Award, 

Columbia Film Festival 2007. 

La Lecon de Danse 

Dir: Phillippe Prouff. France. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: This film is dedicated to all 

the people who want to impress others 

with revolutionary dance training. You will 

no longer have an excuse not to move 

your body to the sound of digital beats. 

Two left feet? No rhythm? No problem. 

One man breaks it down in this hilarious 

instructional dance class. 

AWARDS: Jury Special Mention, 

Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival 

2007.

St. Mercedes Day 

Dir: Hendrick Toompere Jr. UK. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: A short about a woman living 

with a man who loves his car more than 

her. His absurd love for his car takes on 

religious proportions. 

Un Hombre Tranquilo 

Dir: Arantzazu Gomez Bayon. Spain. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A colourful and surreal 

portrait of a family in 1980’s Spain told 

through family holidays and a daughter’s 

impression of her parents. 

AWARDS: Best Short Flm, Subimagen 

2007. Best Screenplay, Medina Del 

Campo International Film Festival 2007. 

Jury Prize, Medina Del Campo.

Alptraum 

Dir: This Luscher. Switzerland. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: In the Swiss Alps, a man 

watches the finals of the EURO 2008 with 

Switzerland playing. Just before the 

game ends there’s a heavy bang and the 

TV turns black. The man soon discovers 

that the ball from the game is stuck 

in his satellite dish; suddenly HE is in 

control of the outcome of the game. 

SCREENINGS: Zurich Film Festival. 

Bamberger Kurzfilmtage Germany. Fest. 

Int. Du Court Métrange Clermont Ferrand. 

L’Arbitro 

Dir: Paolo Zucca. Italy. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: In the hellish mayhem of 

a lowest division football match, the 

destinies of two thieves cross paths. 

AWARDS: Special Jury Award, Clermont- 

Ferrand Film Festival 2009. Best Short 

Film, David di Donatello, Rome 2009.

Libre Indirecto 

Dir: Juanjo Gimenez. Spain. 1997. 


SYNOPSIS: During a regional soccer 

game, a goalkeeper is sent off from the 

game. A very special supporter will 

cheer up the substitute the rest of 

the match. 

AWARDS: Canal+ Short Film Award, 

Festival Montpellier 1997. Special Jury 

Prize, Nuremberg Festival 1998. 

SCREENINGS: Los Angeles Shorts Film 

Festival.

Animation

On Departure 

Dir: Eoin Duffy. Ireland. 2012. 

5 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: A lone traveller makes his 

way through an airport before finally 

accepting his journey’s end. 

SCREENINGS: Galway Film Festival, 

Clermont Ferrand. 

Don’t Look 

Dir: Nick Khoo. Australia. 2012. 


SYNOPSIS: A morality tale of what 

happens to a young man when he simply 

cannot resist the temptation to simply 

take a look.

Blik 

Dir: Bastiaan Schravendeel. Netherlands. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: A boy moves to a new 

neighbourhood and falls in love for the 

first time. 

AWARDS: People’s Choice Award, 

Netherlands Film Festival. 

SCREENINGS: Annecy, DOK Leipzig. 

Voice on the Line 

Dir: Kelly Sears. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: An atmospheric tale of Cold 

War paranoia, where figures from archival 

films from the 1950s are recast in a 

large-scale secret operation that veers 

bizarrely off course. 

SCREENINGS: Sundance, IndieLisboa, 

SXSW.

The Surprise Demise of Francis 

Cooper’s Mother 

Dir: Felix Massie. UK. 2008. 6 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: The story of Francis Cooper 

and his mother; Emily Maddison and that 

man’s face; and Craig MacKay and his 

cat, narrated by the British author, Alexis 

Sayle. 

AWARDS: Best South West Region 

Animation, Animated Exeter, 2009. 

SCREENINGS: Encounters Short 

Film Festival, Bristol 2008. Annecy 

International Animated Film Festival 

2009. 

Lifeline 

Dir: Andres Salaff. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: A brilliant scientist travels into 

various dimensions and realms in search 

of his lost love. 

AWARDS: Student Academy Award, 

Bronze Medal.

Royal College of Art 

Animation Showreel 2012 

Immersed - Dir: Soledad Aguila, 4min / Adult Cardiac - Dir: Joshua 

Armitage, 5min / Anomalies - Dir: Ben Cady, 12min / Tired of Swimming 

- Dir: Anna Eijsbouts, 6min / Velocity - Dir: Karolina Glusiec, 6min / 

P.E.R.F.O.R.M.A.N.C.E. - Dir: Karolina Glusiec, 2min / Sweet Lemons - Dir: 

Martin Jackson, 6min / The Other Side - Dir: Jing Li, 7min / Last Breath 

- Dir: Ying Ping Mak, 8min / Demon Kills - Dir: Ying Ping Mak, 5min / 

BOOGODOBIEGODONGO - Dir: Peter Millard, 4min / Left Nude - Dir: Peter 

Millard, 1min / Hogan - Dir: Peter Millard, 2min / Left - Dir: Eamonn 

O’Neill, 12min / I’m Fine Thanks - Dir: Eamonn O’Neill, 5min / Ellipsis - 

Dir: Simon Roberts, 5min / The Beast I Am - Dir: Sam Steer, 11min. 

I’m Fine Thanks 

Dir: Eamonn O’Neill. 5 min. 

A man struggling to deal with the loss of 

his youth as well as everyday life. 

AWARDS: Nominated for Best Short 

Animation BAFTA 2013, Best Graduate 

Film - Ottawa International Animation 


SCREENINGS: Annecy Animation Festival, 

2012. Edinburgh Film Festival 2012. 

Last Breath 

Dir: Ying Ping Mak. 8 min. 

An account of events when Yeuk Seng 

slowly grasps the fact that he has 

become a social outcast as a breathing 

person. Refusing to give in, he is now 

struggling to live in a city that he does 

not belong to anymore. 

SCREENINGS: Screened at Annecy 2013.



Decoration - Dir: Ben Wheele, 6min / Belly - Dir: Julia Pott, 7min 

/ Within Within - Dir: Sharon Liu, 3min / Nature’s Voice - Dir: Peter 

Jessien Laugesen, 7min / How Life Tastes - Dir: Soyoung Hyun, 7min / 

The Woman Who Married a Pig - Dir: Laurence Weedy, 9min / Tourbot 

Skippy - Dir: Aaron Lampert, 6min / High Expectations - Dir: Liron Kroll, 

3min / Zobeide - Dir: Julian Krispel, 5min / Henrick - Dir: Yoonah Nam, 

4min / 3tu4 - Dir: Ben Thompson, 7min / The Natural Order of Things 

- Dir: Sarah Beeby, 5min / NOA - Dir: Setaka Mizuno, 5min / Nomads - 

Dir: Tom Senior, 5min / This Is Not Real - Dir: Gergely Wootsch, 7min / 

Slow Derek - Dir: Dan Ojari, 7min. 

Belly 

Dir: Julia Pott. 7 min. 

I can feel you in my Belly. 

AWARDS: Best Graduation Film, Chicago 

Film Festival, 2011. Canal + Award, 

Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, France 

2012. Special Jury Award For Animation, 

Afi Film Festival, 2012. 

SCREENINGS: SXSW 2012. Chicago Film 

Festival, 2011. Sundance 2012. 

Slow Derek 

Dir: Dan Ojari. 3 min. 

The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he 

struggles with the true speed of planet 

earth. 

AWARDS: Grand Prix, Animayo, 2012. 

Grand Prix, Animated Encounters 2011 

SCREENINGS: London Film Festival, 

Sundance Film Festival, 2012, Oberhausen 

2012, Stuggart 2012.



Untitled - Dir: Daniel Adderley, 4min / 12 Sketches on the Impossibility of 

Being Still - Dir: Magail Charrier, 8min / Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Dir: 

Daniel Chester, 5min / Little Brother - Dir: Callum Cooper, 7min / The 

Nest - Dir: Emily Copper, 11min / On the Water’s Edge - Dir: Tommaso de 

Sanctis, 9min / Thursday - Dir: Matthias Hoegg, 7min / The Boy - Dir: Adnan 

Dalali, 10min / I Can See It Through the Trees - Dir: Silas Money, 4min / 

Self Service - Dir: Silas Money, 3min / Earthbound - Dir: Sara Muzio, 7min / 

The Eagleman Stag - Dir: Michael Please, 9min / Matter Fisher - Dir: David 

Prosser, 7min / White Hair - Dir: Yuka Takeda, 5min / My Mother’s Coat - Dir: 

Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits, 6min / Traumdeutung - Dir: Lauri Warsta, 5min. 

The Eagleman Stag 

Dir: Michael Please. 9 min. 

The larger our past gets the smaller our 

present feels. 

AWARDS: Best Short Animation BAFTA 

2011, Annecy (France) Special Jury 

Distinction 2011, LA Film Festival (USA) 

Best Animated Short 2011, Chicago Film 

Festival, Best Short Animation 2011, 

Clermont- Ferrand Film Festival. Special 

Mention, South by Southwest 2011. 

Thursday 

Dir: Matthias Hoegg. 7 min. 

An everyday love story set in the not so 

distant future sees blackbirds battling 

with technology, automatic palm readers 

and power cuts. 

AWARDS: Nominated, BAFTA Best 

Animation Short Film 2011. 

SCREENINGS: Annecy International 

Animation Festival. 

OTHER AWARDS: Matter Fisher - Nominated for Best Short Animation Film BAFTA 

2010. Little Brother - Screened at Sundance 2011. Mad Dogs and Englishmen 

screened at International Women’s Festival in Seoul 2010. 12 Sketches on the 

Impossibility of Being Still screened at London Film Festival 2010.



Mad Val - Dir: Comfort Arthur, 6min / What They Could Take With Them, 

They Took - Dir: Veselina Dashinova, 4min / Fly Out The Window - Dir: 

Nikita Diakur, 3min / A Galaxy Over There - Dir: Martin Earle, 8min / 

Something Strange That Smells Awful Sweet - Dir: Ryan Edquist, 10min / 

Norwich to Sherringham - Dir: Bali Engel, 6min / Fighter Pilot - Dir: Russell 

Etherige, 7min / Bruce - Dir: Tom Judd, 3min / Passing - Dir: Seong Jun 

Lee, 10min / Sam’s Hot Dogs - Dir: David Retamero, 9min / Dark Island - 

Dir: Jons Mellgren, 9min / Flowerpots - Dir: Rafael Sommerhalder, 5min / 

Wolves - Dir: Rafael Sommerhalder, 6min / I See What You’re Saying - Dir: 

Lottie White, 5min / What Light - Dir: Sarah Wickens, 4min. 

What Light 

Dir: Sarah Wickens. 4 min. 

The sunlight cast through a bedroom 

window breaks free and takes on new 

shapes as it journeys around the room. 

AWARDS: Shortlist, British Animation 

Awards. 

SCREENINGS: Edinburgh Film Festival, 

London Film Festival, Stuttgart 

International Festival of Animated Film. 

Bruce 

Dir: Tom Judd. 3 min. 

What happens when a video game 

becomes real? 

AWARDS: Winner, The Eksjo Animation 


SCREENINGS: Edinburgh Film Festival. 

OTHER AWARDS: Flowerpots - Best Swiss Film, The Fantoche International Animation 

Film Festival 2009. Wolves - The Conran Foundation Award 2009. What They Could 

Take With Them, They Did - Student Animation Award, Kinofilm European Short Film 

Festival 2010. Sam’s Hot Dogs - Screened at Chicago International Film Festival 2010.

Jazz That Nobody Asked For 

Dir: Rune Fisker and Esben Fisker. Denmark. 2013. 


SYNOPSIS: Sometimes a song can get 

stuck in your mind. Become a little piece 

of unwanted music, that keeps looping for 

the rest of your day. 

Mars! 

Dir: Joe Bichard, Jack Cunningham. UK. 2010. 

4 min. Animated Drama. 

SYNOPSIS: Humans blast off from 

Earth to colonise Mars on a mission to 

gather its natural resources, upsetting 

a clandestine community far below its 

surface.

All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) 

Dir: Louis Hudson. UK. 2011. 


SYNOPSIS: A tiny man living inside a cat 

gets into a sticky love triangle. 

AWARDS: Best Comedy Short London 

Short Film Festival 2011. Finalist, Best 

Short Film British Animation Awards 2011. 

SCREENINGS: Milano Film Festival 2011. 

Curta Cinema Rio 2011. Alicine 2011. 

Encounters 2011. 

Road Rage 

Dir: Nick Khoo. Australia. 2011. 

2 min, Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: So much can go wrong when 

you are stuck in traffic.

Stuck in a Groove 

Dir: Clemens Kogler. Austria. 2010. 


SYNOPSIS: What do Massive Attack, 

Madonna and Angela Merkel have in 

common? 

SCREENINGS: Edinburgh Film Festival 

2011. Uppsala 2011. Oberhausen 2011. 

Hamburg 2011. 

Mei Ling 

Dir: Stephanie Lansaque, Francois Leroy. France. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Mei Ling, an idle young 

Chinese girl, lives alone in her apartment 

waiting for her lover. Until the day when 

she discovers a tiny octopus hidden in 

the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt 

it to escape from her boredom. The 

octopus grows. Soon Mei Ling has a new 

challenge in her life. 

AWARDS: Excellence Award Busan Short 

Film Festival 2010. Best Short Film 

Anim’est International Animation Festival 

2009. Grand Prize Festival International 

du Court Métrage de Lille 2009. 

SCREENINGS: Angers First Film Festival 

2011. Clermont-Ferrand Short Film 

Festival 2009. Annecy International 

Animation Film Festival 2009.

Please Say Something 

Dir: David O’Reilly, Ireland. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A troubled relationship 

between a Cat and Mouse set in the 

distant future. 

AWARDS: Winner, Golden Bear, Berlin 

Film Festival 2009. Best Animated Film, 

German Short Film Award 2009. Special 

Distinction Award, Annecy Film Festival 

2009. 

Vovo 

Dir: Luiz Lafayette Stockler. UK. 2010. 

2 min, Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: He was bald with some liver 

spots on his head... 

SCREENINGS: Anim’est Animation 

Festival, Romania (2010). Brest 

International Short Film Festival, France 

(2010).

The Art of Drowning 

Dir: Diego MacLean. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Exploring the lighter side of 

death through its interpretation of a poem 

by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. 


2010. Toronto International Film Festival 

2010. SXSW 2010. 

The Truth Quiz Show 

Dir: Wu Kung. Germany. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Why did the famous athlete 

Lan Lan suddenly become sick? A wellknown 

TV show tries to find out the truth. 

SCREENINGS: Interfilm Festival Germany 

2010. Mostra Film Festival 2009. 

Internationales Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart 

2009.

Western Spaghetti 

Dir: PES. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Everyday objects become 

delicious ingredients as we learn how to 

cook spaghetti through stop-motion 

photography. 

AWARDS: Sundance Film Festival, 

Honorable Mention, 2009. Audience 

Award, Annecy Animation Festival 2009. 

TIME Magazine’s #2 Viral Film of the 

Year, 2009. 

The Lost Tribes of New York City 

Dir: Andy and Carolyn London, USA. 2009. 

3 min. Animated Documentary. 

SYNOPSIS: The street furniture of New 

York City is animated to interviews with 

its population about life in the Big Apple. 

SCREENINGS: Florida Film Festival. 

London International Animation Festival. 

Be Underground Film Festival.

Bonefeather 

Dir: Nathan Gilliss, Callum Paterson. Canada. 2009. 

5 min. Animated Comedy. 

SYNOPSIS: In a forest of corduroy and 

felt, Bonefeather and his beady-eyed 

Neighbor disrupt the peace of the 

morning with an obnoxious mating song. 

They are suddenly stopped when a 

beautiful female arrives. Though they 

dance their best, they fail to impress her. 

AWARDS: Best Animation Canadian 

Student Film Festival 2009. 

SCREENINGS: Toronto International Film 


The Head 

Dir: Matias Vigliano, Dante Zaballa. Argentina. 2007. 

2.15 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: Surreal animation 

incorporating hand-drawn animation 

alongside computer graphics. A 

marauding robot head goes on a 

rampage. 

SCREENINGS: London International 

Animation Festival 2010. Onedotzero 

Festival 2010.

A Letter to Colleen 

Dir: Andrew and Carolyn London. USA. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A man troubled by his exgirlfriend 

tries to put his demons to rest. 

AWARDS: Best Digital Short Film, 

Raindance Film Festival, Nominated 2008. 

A Menina Gorda (The Fat Girl) 

Dir: Pedro Lino. Portugal. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: This little, fat girl has a 

sentimental heart. 

AWARDS: Winner, Young Portuguese 

Filmaker, Cinanima Festival 2004. Winner, 

Best Screenplay, Barreiro Video Festival 

2004.

Au! 

Dir: Hegyi Magdolna. Hungary. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: The story – based on Victor 

Pelevin’s novel ‘The Life of Insects’ 

– follows fictional beings that exist 

simultaneously as humans and insects. 

Their life experience and motivations are 

similar to our own, but we are not 

sure about their real nature. This 

ambiguity remains until the end, when 

the film reveals its concept about this 

ambiguous existence. 

Average 40 Matches 

Dir: Burkay Dogan. Turkey. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A group of matchsticks come 

to life and work together to satisfy their 

craving for cigarettes.

Bald Dad 

Dir: Kristian Andrews. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Mum said we don’t live with 

Dad because he’s a bit irresponsible; I 

knew that was true because of the time 

we went camping. 

SCREENINGS: Official Selection, Lille Film 


The Big Push 

Dir: Ian Fenton. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Why is this old woman putting 

so much effort into pushing a huge pram 

to the top of a hill? 

AWARDS: Virgin Media Shorts Award, 

Nominated 2008.

The Bumblebee Fur Coat 

Dir: Agnes Miesenberger. Austria. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A young girl gets her semiperilous 

fashion fix. 

Bus Ride 

Dir: Aline Helmcke. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: This drawn animation follows a 

bus journey from one stop to the next.

Change 

Dir: Gerd Jonas. Austria. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Inspired by president Obama’s 

speech, a gluttonous couch potato 

decides to make a change. 

The Children 

Dir: Chai-Yu Huang. Taiwan. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: Colour varies with children’s 

voices, emotion, and movement, 

conveying and depicting the intriguing 

and amazing characteristics of 

children.

Codehunters 

Dir: Ben Hibon. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: In a futuristic industrial city, 

four mercenaries team up to rescue their 

fallen leader from the armies of a 

ferocious dictator. 

AWARDS: Best Short Film, 25th Imagina 

European Digital Content Creation Festival. 

Without You 

Dir: Tal Rosner. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A visual exploration of 

London’s industrial suburbia. Following 

colours and surfaces into abstraction, the 

film reveals the complexity of apparently 

simple forms.

Days Like This (Series of 10) 

Dir: Joel Simon. Ireland. 2008. 

30 min (10 x 3 min). Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: An uplifting series of ten, 

three-minute shorts illustrating the 

extraordinary stories of ordinary people; 

from the very poignant (a woman 

recalling her fondest Christmas memory), 

from life-changing journeys (a man’s 

quest to overcome alcoholism), to 

seemingly ordinary events (a woman 

overcomes her fear of deep waters). Days 

Like This describes a day or moment, 

which holds special significance in the 

life for each narrator. 

THE BIG MATCH / BLUE / BLUE CHOPPER 

/ THE GRANDPARENT’S GRAVE 

/ LITTLE BLUE FLOWER / LONELINESS / 

OCEAN WALKING / RED ROSE OF 

NEWCASTLE / SIBERIAN VEGETARIAN / 

WASHING OF HANDS 

* [Films are available as a 30 minute 

series or separately at 3 minutes each] 

Easy 

Dir: Vessela Dantcheva and Ivan Bogdanov. 

Netherlands. 2002. 3 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: Easy tells the tail of a casual 

sexual relationship of convenience 

between an older couple. It seems on 

the surface to have become routine and 

easy, but underneath this ease lays a 

dark secret.

Everything Was Life 

Dir: Ellie Land. UK. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: ‘Everything Was Life’ is an 

animated documentary looking at the 

practice of female genital mutilation. 

AWARDS: Best Experimental Student 

Film, Independent’s Film Festival 2005. 

InterFilm, Berlin, Special Mention 2005. 

Garden of Fetish (Fetishu Darzs) 

Dir: Karlis Vitlos. Latvia. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A painter is searching for an 

entrance to a lost garden- the only place 

where he can create artworks. When he 

finds it, he turns into a fetish.

Hum 

Dir: Søren Bendt Pedersen, Denmark. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: The small turntable-headed 

robot Hum sits left alone in an old 

workshop. He decides to create a friend 

to have fun with. 

SCREENINGS: Oslo Science Fiction 


Lucia (Part 1 of the series Lucia, Luis and the Wolf) 

Dir: Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah and Joaquín Cociña. 

Chile. 2007. 4 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: Lucía remembers the summer 

in which she fell in love with Luis. The 

furniture within a bedroom is shaken and 

destroyed, meanwhile the charcoal Lucía 

appears and vanishes on the walls. 

AWARDS: Grand Prix, Wooden Wolf Prize, 

Animated Dreams Film Festival, 2009. 1st 

Prize, Best International Film, Fantoche 

International Animation Film Festival, 

2009. Grand Jury Prize, FIBABC, 2009. 

Literaturwerkstatt Berlin Prize, Zebra 

Poetry Film Festival, 2009.

Luis and the Wolf (Part 2 of the series Lucia, 

Luis and the Wolf) Dir: Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah 

and Joaquín Cociña. Chile. 2007. 4 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: Luis is waiting for Lucía in 

the forest. He appears and disappears in 

charcoal on the walls of a room filled 

with broken objects that constantly shift 

around. 

SCREENINGS: Kunstfilm Biennale, 2009. 

7ª Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosur, 

2009. EMAF, 2009. Breda International 

Film Festival, 2009. 

* [Films are available as a set of two or 

separately] 

The Lifesize Zoetrope 

Dir: Mark Simon Hewis. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: One man’s life told in one 

giant human sized zoetrope. 

AWARDS: Main Prize, Tampere FIlm 

Festival 2007.

The Lines 

Dir: Leo Murray. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: In a hilltop prison in the dead 

of night, a man begins his plan for 

escape. 

SCREENINGS: Official Selection, Dresden 

Film Festival, 2008. 

Little Dinosaurs 

Dir: Dana Dorian. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A five-year-old Scottish boy 

discusses the best way for a group of 

small dinosaurs to stop a big dinosaur 

from picking on them. 

AWARDS: BAFTA 60 Seconds of Fame, 

2008: Regional Winner (Scotland). Best 

Animated Film, In The Bin Short Film 

Festival 2008. Virgin Media Shorts Award, 

Best Short Film, Nominated 2008.

Living in the Dark 

Dir: Thomas Leung. Australia / Hong Kong. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: A young man remembers a 

childhood with a blind father and his own 

temporary sightlessness. 

AWARDS: Best Tertiary Animation, Atom 

Awards 2006. Best Film, Victorian 

Student Animation Festival 2005. Best 

Cinematography, Bondi Short Film 

Festival. 

Lost Utopia 

Dir: Mirai Mizue. Japan. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: This remarkable animation, 

which uses 5000 original, hand-drawn 

pictures, draws on the famous biblical 

tale of Adam and Eve as its motif. 

AWARDS: Best Animation, Cordoba Int’l 

Animation Festival 2007.

Sorry I’m Late 

Dir: Thomas Mankovsky. UK. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: A young man misses his bus, 

and goes on an incredible journey to 

reach his destination. 

Matchbox 

Dir: Emil May, UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: The cars inside look a bit like 

the cars outside.

Morris and the Other 

Dir: Edwin Rostron. UK. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A hypnotic journey through a 

bleak, shimmering netherworld populated 

by a series of fantastical characters, 

lovingly drawn in 2B pencil. 

AWARDS: Official Selection Eat My Shorts 

festival, NFT London, 2007. 

My First Crush 

Dir: Julia Pott. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Animated animals represent 

the director’s friends as they discuss 

their first experiences with love in a 

series of earnest interviews. 

AWARDS: Audience Award, Amsterdam 

Film Experience Festival 2008. People’s 

Choice Award, Standing Rock International 

Film Festival 2008.

No Room for Gerold 

Dir: Daniel Nocke. Germany. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: After ten long years in the 

flat, Gerold the crocodile is being thrown 

out. Is there a conspiracy against him? 

Does newcomer Ellen the wildebeest 

have something to do with it? One thing 

is for sure - the wild days are now just 

distant memory. 

AWARDS: Awards of Distinction, Ars 

Electronica, Linz 2006. Special Mention, 

International Short Film Festival 

Oberhausen 2006. Silver Award, Box 

Shorts Film Festival, 2008. 

Not Long Now 

Dir: Joe Berger, UK. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: A small boy amuses himself 

on a long and boring train journey. 

AWARDS: Finalist, Nokia Shorts, London 

2005.

On Time Off 

Dir: Bill Porter. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Drawn from life and from the 

director’s memories of working in an ice 

cream café in Cornwall, these images 

form an animated landscape that takes 

the viewer on a journey through fire and 

ice cream and micro-fictions between 

strangers on a sweltering holiday beach. 

SCREENINGS: Official Selection, London 

International Animation Festival, 2008. 

Passe Vite 

Dir: Bert Dombrecht, Korneel Detailleur, Ben 

Verschooris, Belgium. 2006. 2 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: The production line at the 

fruit factory goes awry, causing havoc 

among the bananas and tangerines and 

producing strangely delicious 

results.

Pavement 



SYNOPSIS: A short film exploring the 

various patterns of London’s streets. 

SCREENINGS: Official Selection Lille Film 


PES Animations (Series of 10) 

Dir: PES, USA. 

Animation. 

1) BABY NUT 

2) CAKE COUNTDOWN 

3) DOGS OF WAR 

4) DROWNING NUT 

5) FIREWORKS 

6) MARRIAGE IS FOR… 

7) MOTH 

8) PEE-NUT 

9) PRANK CALL 

10) ROGUE PEANUT 

* [Films are available as a series or 

separately]

The People and the Whale 

Dir: Peter Larsson, Sweden. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A whale has got stranded 

on a beach and the people go there to 

watch the spectacle. It becomes a very 

special afternoon for all involved. 

The Black Dog’s Progress 

Dir: Stephen Irwin. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: A tragic, darkly animated and 

powerful journey through the life of one 

dog as he travels from abusive home to 

even worse.

Prayers for Peace 

Dir: Dustin Grella. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: Confronts the memory of 

the artist’s younger brother killed in the 

current conflict in Iraq. 

AWARDS: Best Animation, Cinema City 

International Film Festival 2009. Best 

Short Film, Utopia Film Festival 2009. 

SCREENINGS: DOK Leipzig, 2009. 

Rabbit Punch 

Dir: Kristian Andrews, UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Nothing happens where we 

live so we do special ops. 

AWARDS: 4mations Emerging Talent.

Roof Sex 

Dir: PES. USA. 2001. 


Skip and Lester 

Dir: Lance Myers, USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: XXX “chair-on-chair” action!! SYNOPSIS: It’s Lester’s first day on the 

job at Copy-O’s copy shop and his boss, 

Skip, has given him just one direction - 

Don’t let anyone use the big paper 

cutter in the back!

Stubble Trouble 

Dir: Joseph Meredith, USA. 2000. 


SYNOPSIS: A lovelorn caveman fights a 

losing battle with his hyperactive beard in 

pursuit of love. 

AWARDS: Academy Award, Best Animated 

Short Film, Nominated 2002. Best 

Animation (2nd Place) Palm Springs 


Best Animation, Annie Awards, Nominated 

2002. 

Suba 

Dir: Alastair Graham, UK. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: Based on the work of 

composer Mitar Subotic (Suba), this 

animated short follows a robot invading 

the rainforest and opposing another 

machine summoned by the natives. The 

story refers to the civil war in 

the former Yugoslavia.

Subsidized Fate 

Dir: Lance Myers, USA. 2003. 


SYNOPSIS: A man unquestioningly follows 

bright signs lit up with neon lights, but 

when they guide him into a strangers 

bedroom things get out of hand… 

AWARDS: Special Jury Award, SXSW Film 


Sukki’s Story 

Dir: Thomas Leung, Australia. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: ‘Sukki’s Story’ reflects on 

Thomas Leung’s changing relationship 

with his mother when he leaves Hong 

Kong to start his new life in a new 

country. 

AWARDS: Best Sound Design, Victorian 

Student Animation Festival 2005.

Sweet Dreams 

Dir: Kirsten Lepore. USA. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: A cupcake builds a boat of 

sugar cubes and sails into the unknown. 

When a storm washes him up on a 

strange alien inhabited by vegetables, he 

befriends the vegetables and falls in love 

with a butternut squash. The vegetables 

build him a new ship so he can sail 

home, and the squash gives him some 

seeds to plant. When he gets home 

another storm washes his town away, but 

he uses the fruits of the squash’s seeds, 

along with the skills he learned from the 

vegetables, to save his friends and build 

a new town. 

Tales of Mere Existence (Series of 6) 

Dir: Lev, USA. 2006. 

Various. Animation. 

1) THE COOL GUYS (1’46) Lev knows The 

Cool Guys won’t be so cool after high 

school is over... will they? 

2) HAIRCUT (0’51)You never know when 

a good haircut will come in handy. 

3) HORNY (1’19) Lev lists the things that 

make him feel horny. 

4) HOW I SIT ON THE BUS (2’10) Lev is 

challenged with sitting the way a guy 

should sit on public transportation. 

5) PICKLE (0’39) Lev recalls when he 

tested his heterosexuality with a pickle. 

6) PROCRASTINATION (1’13) Lev has a lot 

of stuff to get done. He will start 

getting his stuff done... in a minute. 


separately]

This Way Up 

Dir: Smith and Foulkes. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: When a falling boulder flattens 

their hearse, A T Shank & Son have a 

bad day, as they make their way crosscountry 

with just a coffin for 

company. 

AWARDS: Academy Awards Best 

Animated Short Film, Nominated 

2009. Best Animation, Rhode Island 

International Film Festival 2008. Best 

Animated Short, Palm Springs Film 


T.O.M 

Dir: Tom Brown and Daniel Gray. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A young boys journey… AWARDS: Cartoon D’or, Finalist, 2007. 

Sundance Film Festival, Honourable 

Mention, 2007. Special Jury Award, Aspen 

Shortsfest 2007.

Vizen 

Dir: Fruzsina Gaal. Hungary. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: A couple are sitting in a boat 

having their everyday arguments about 

their relationship when jealousy turns fish 

and birds into men... 

AWARDS: Winner of Best Animation, 

Szemletek festival, 2007. Offical 

Selection, London Film Festival, 2008. 

Wake Up 

Dir: Vessela Dantcheva and Ivan Bogdanov. 


SYNOPSIS: The interaction between a lazy 

cat and a hyperactive bird.

Wake Up, Freak Out, Then Get A Grip 

Dir: Leo Murray. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Chalk and talk promoting 

citizen’s understanding of ‘tipping points’ 

and ‘feedbacks’ in the Earth’s climate 

systems. It’s much, much later than 

you think. 

Wanted 

Dir: Damien Jones, UK. 2009. 


SYNOPSIS: An extraordinarily lucky 

bandit and his horse narrowly escape the 

gallows. 

SCREENINGS: Animated Exeter, 2009.

Wish 

Dir: Vessela Dantcheva and Ivan Bogdanov, 


SYNOPSIS: The melancholic film follows 

an unlucky lonesome creature and his 

attempts to find a guardian angel. 

Little Big Love 

Dir: Thomas Mankovsky, Sweden. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: Love is hard when you’re a 

little robot in a big world. 

AWARDS: Best Swedish Film, Stockholm 

International Film Festival 2004. Winner, 

The November Festival 2004. Winner, 

Young Swedish Design 2004.

Bicycle Messengers 

Dir: Joshua Frankel. USA. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Animated Bicycle messengers 

weave between the live action streets of 

New York City, highlighting the peculiar 

relationship between messengers and the 

contemporary city in which they operate. 

Lovesport (Series of 10) 

Dir: Grant Orchard. UK. 2007. 

10 x 2 min. Animation. 

SYNOPSIS: For all you Hoppers, Skippers, 

Jumpers, Kickers, Throwers, Shooters, 

Divers and Climbers, this is the series 

for you. 

ALL IN WRESTLING / BASKETBALL / BIG 

GAME HUNTING / DOMINOES / HIGH 

DIVING / MOUNTAINEERING / 

PAINTBALLING / PARK FOOTBALL / PING 

PONG / SKI JUMPING / SUMO / THE 

DOGS 


separately]

A Film About Us 

Dir: Pedro Lino. UK / Portugal. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: Is there any room for 

individuality in a world of identikit office 

blocks and battery farmed workers? 

AWARDS: Best Film, Barreiro Video 

Festival 2006.

Music Videos

Benga ‘Baltimore Clap’ 

Dir: Kristofer Strom. UK. 2010. 

3.40 min. Animated Music Video. 

SYNOPSIS: Unsuspecting creatures 

are submitted to cruel and unusual 

punishment on a production line. 

Skream ‘Listening to Records on my Wall’ 

Dir: David Wilson. UK. 2010. 

3.35 min. Animation and Live Music Video. 

SYNOPSIS: A new creation myth is 

portrayed using mixed media and 

colourful set design. A young man gives 

birth to a star that brings life to his 

otherwise dark world.

Minilogue ‘Hitchhiker’s Choice’ 

Dir: Kristofer Strom. UK. 2009. 

4.15 min. Animated Music Video. 

SYNOPSIS: An ever-morphing series of 

line drawings full of fast paced insights 

and curious characters. The film is set to 

a pounding beat that makes this into a 

hypnotic journey. 

I Want More 

Dir: Dan Gordon, UK. 2004. 

3 min. Music Video. 

SYNOPSIS: An energetic music video.

Experimental

Butterflies 

Dir: Cormac Faulkner. UK. 2007. 

12 min. Experimental. 

SYNOPSIS: ‘Butterflies’ was created 

through a series of workshops with adults 

with learning difficulties in Coventry, who 

were creating artworks inspired by 

butterflies. The film is a series of studies 

of some of the participants as they work, 

and it is inspired by the artworks that 

they created. 

AWARDS: First Prize, EU XXL Film Mobile 

Award, 2009. 

Copy City 

Dir: Denise Hauser. UK. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: Copy City is an experimental 

exploration into marginal worlds, having 

its roots in the new media development, 

Web 2.0 and real/virtual life. 

SCREENINGS: Best of Emagiciens, 2008.

High Plains Winter 

Dir: Cindy Stillwell, USA. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: High Plains Winter is an 

attempt to understand what becomes 

of the human spirit in a vast, wintry 

landscape. Through color and black and 

white super 8 and 16mm images of 

snowscapes traversed by largescale 

powerlines, small strings of feeding 

cattle, and the occasional grain bin 

dotting the whiteness, humans find a way 

to leave traces in what very often seems 

an environment hostile to their existence. 

AWARDS: Best Experimental Film, Rural 

Route Film Festival, New York 2006. 

Winner, Judges Award, San Diego Women 


Hutte 

Dir: Philipp Hirsch. Germany. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: A cottage on the water in the 

claws of a spoiler; a metaphor for 

ephemerality and childish malevolence.

Inside 

Dir: Philipp Hirsch. Germany. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: Dazzling camera work through 

water and forest gives a dizzying sense 

of a young woman’s perspective as she 

flits in and out of consciousness. 

Kinetic Sandwich 

Dir: Eric Dyer. USA. 2002. 


SYNOPSIS: Through a process that 

converts mass into time, Kinetic 

Sandwich explores the secret motion 

hidden in an everyday object. 

AWARDS: Best Animated Film, Ann Arbor 

Film Festival. Best Experimental Film, 

Red Bank International Film Festival. Best 

Experimental Video, MicrocineFest.

Immerse 

Dir: Anton Groves. Romania. 2008. 


SYNOPSIS: This effervescent short plays 

with the idea of creatively questioning the 

microscopic level of existence, the ‘inner 

space’ that exists all around us but that 

we are unable to see. 

AWARDS: Winner Best Film, Film Minute 


Kamogawa 



SYNOPSIS: A two-screen-projection 

depicting various incidents around 

the bridges of Kamo River in Kyoto; 

‘Kamogawa’ explores the relationship 

between still and moving images.

Manderlay 

Dir: Paul Barritt. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: The narration of a nightmare 

with goatmen baby ballerinas, a 

toothfairy without a face, scissors and 

other horrific participants. 

Numerical Engagements 

Dir: Chelsea Walton. USA. 2004. 


SYNOPSIS: This hand-processed, optically 

printed love poem explores an intimate, 

roaming rendezvous. Lush and colorful, 

the rhythm of editing resembles a 

heartbeat. 

SCREENINGS: Film Arts Festival of 

Independent Cinema, 2004.

Rabbit Stories 

Dir: Sean Conway, UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Rabbit Stories is a study of 

mental illness: a portrait of a young 

schizophrenic man called Fenton Fuller. 

AWARDS: Finalist, BBC New Filmmakers 

Award. Best Experimental Film, Lux, 

Nominated 2006. 

Solace 

Dir: Jared Katsiane, USA. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A teenager wanders his 

neighborhood, drifting in and out of the 

lives of friends and strangers. 

AWARDS: Silver Mikeldi, Bilbao Int’l 

Festival of Short Film and Documentary 

2005.

Superhero 

Dir: Jared Katsiane, USA. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A young boy waits at a 

bus stop, drawing his ideal self as a 

superhero. 

Walking 

Dir: Alexandre Bayle. France. 


SYNOPSIS: Following someone’s footsteps 

through a sound- journey in the heart of 

a city where sound is light.

Quietsch 

Dir: Baran Bo Odar, Germany. 2005. 


SYNOPSIS: A musical of sorts, one with 

noises, creaking beds and three unruly 

kids. 

AWARDS: First Prize, Film festival Zlin 

2005. Special Jury Mention, Schweriner 

2005. Special Jury Mention, Filmfestival 

Raunschweig 2005. 

Performer 

Dir: Olaf Wendt. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: A man runs through a forest. 

Another figure runs in the distance. They 

chase each other through a series of 

enviroment’s and through ever 

increasing obstacles. Finally they face 

each other head-to-head... 

AWARDS: Honorary Award, Sopot 

Film Festival 2006. Seahorse Award, 

Moondance 2006.

CO2 or You? 

Dir: Tama Gempton. Canada. 2007. 


SYNOPSIS: With climate change 

becoming a reality, humanity’s faith in 

technology to solve our climate problems 

is challenged by our inability to give up 

on harmful technologies. 

SCREENINGS: Ecofilms, 2008. Cine’Eco 

International Festival, 2008. 

Guilty by Nature 

Dir: Joseph Barnett. UK. 2006. 


SYNOPSIS: Set on a militant horticultural 

nursery, Guilty By Nature follows the life 

cycle of a wild and vigorous shrub; 

exploring ideas of individuality and 

persecution. The film is shot with 

extreme close-ups, varied frame rates 

and an exaggerated soundscape. 

AWARDS: Best Experimental Film, 

London Short Film Festival 2007. Best 

Experimental Film, Concorto Film Festival 

2007. 

SCREENINGS: Edinburgh International Film 

Festival 2006.

Shed 



SYNOPSIS: Children play “I can see you...” SCREENINGS: Professional Category, 

Darklight Film Festival 2006. 

Unbearable Heat 



SYNOPSIS: The nightmarish narration of 

an extreme drought in the city.

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