Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

UK SHORTS
UK short film is alive and its heart is beating faster than ever. Gauge its pulse in this selection of the very best
that will make you fall in love with the art of short length storytelling.
Sunday 19 September, 8.30pm
PART I: THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
(CFF 15) 86 mins.
Ideals of home and family give us a place where we tend to refer or return to.
Here our heroes take us through the challenges arising from the depths of our psyches.
Friday 24 September, 5.30pm
PART II: RELATIONSHIPS - THE ETERNAL RIDDLE
(CFF 15) 74 mins.
WITHOUT
Director: Natalia Andreadis. UK. 4 mins.
A woman is trapped in a room with
a vicious Doberman watching her
every move. Will her captor be
revealed?
WATCHING
Director: Max Myers. UK. 14 mins.
The ability to spot where truth lies
– and where lies begin – will make
or break you in this edge-of-yourseat
thriller.
MARIGOLDS
Director: Stephanie Zari. UK. 16 mins.
Dark secrets of a suburban
housewife’s dusty existence surface
when an unexpected visit from her
son threatens her fragile state.
MY DAD THE
COMMUNIST
Director: Lab Ky Mo. UK. 17 mins.
Tony yearns to break
down the cultural barriers
between him and his
‘inscrutable’ Chinese dad
before it’s too late.
ENNIS ROAD
Directors: Si Allen, Adam Greves.
UK. 5 mins.
A former council odd-job
man is gradually thrown
into turmoil when a
mysterious local gang
conspires to drive him over
the edge in this coming-ofgeriatric-age
film
SIS
Director: Deborah Haywood. UK.
11 mins.
When Lauren and Amy hear
there is a man who ‘likes
children’ living in the area,
they decide to track him
down to show him their
handstands.
SALTO MORTLAE
Director: Christos Massalas. UK.
19 mins.
A woman trapped inside
‘stereotypes’ seeks for
a new context (and new
attire), in which her
distorted femininity can
find shape and possibility…
Who says love is easy? Delve into the deep ends of what love does to you and what scars you
should look for once it has gone.
TIME TRAVEL
BOYFRIENDS
Director: Josephine Halbert.
UK. 10 mins.
A woman remembers
moments from her love affairs
with famous men from history.
Based on the director’s book
of the same name.
ECHOES
Director: Rob Brown.
UK/Poland. 11 mins.
Would you risk everything to
give someone else a life you
can never have? A female sex
trafficker faces an unexpected
moral dilemma.
WHORE
Director: Fyzal Boulifa. UK. 11 mins.
When angry Muslim youth
Azeem overhears a group
of girls gossiping about his
white girlfriend Gemma his
suspicions are flared - and
so begins a sadomasochistic
game in which both parties
seek to gain control.
SCENT
Director: Darren Bolton. UK. 17 mins.
The harrowing tale of John, an
elderly man gripped with grief
following the death of his wife
Patricia, exploring themes of
love, loss and denial.
I’D RATHER HAVE
A MEMORY THAN A
DREAM
Director: Matt Strachan. UK. 2 mins.
The line between a man’s
memories and dreams blur,
mutating into something his
ageing mind can’t escape from.
SARAH
Director: Ashar Aftab, Steve Pool.
Scotland. 23 mins.
A chance encounter between
Drew and Sarah is told as a
sequence of Drew’s fractured
recollections. An essay on
how we distort, re-interpret
and recompose our memories
over time.
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