BAFTA 2019
Runtime: 114 min.
Age: 18+
Age: 18+
Eight stories – eight short films, different in style, genre and narrative shot by British Directors and nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Wale is a drama about a minor black criminal trying to start a new life; The Blue Door is a horror about the mysteries that hide in an ordinary apartment with a bedridden old woman; I'm OK is an animated fantasy on the life and work of the Austrian artist Oscar Kokoschka. The whole palette of the main trends in modern British cinema – in one session
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Wale
Year: 2018
Country: UK
Director: Barnaby Blackburn
Cast: Jamie Sives, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Clare Perkins
Genre: short
Language: English
Runtime: 20 min.
Country: UK
Director: Barnaby Blackburn
Cast: Jamie Sives, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Clare Perkins
Genre: short
Language: English
Runtime: 20 min.
An 18 year old youth offender is trying to get his own business going as a mechanic. But enterprise isn't so easy when you're a young, black male with a criminal past. And it doesn't get any easier when you're framed by one of your new clients for a harrowing crime.
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA Awards nomination – Best Short Film
Aesthetica Short Film Festival – Festival Prize (Best Thriller)
BendFilm Festival – Best Narrative Short Film
BronzeLens Film Festival, Atlanta, US – Best Short Film, Best Actor
Dances With Films – Grand Jury Award (Best Short Film)
Kinofilm Manchester International Short Film Festival – Best British Short Film
Urbanworld Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize (Best Short Film)
73 коровы
73 cows
Year: 2018
Country: UK
Director: Alex Lockwood
Genre: short, documentary
Language: English
Runtime: 15 min.
Country: UK
Director: Alex Lockwood
Genre: short, documentary
Language: English
Runtime: 15 min.
A beef farmer struggles with his conscience every time he takes his cows to slaughter, and so sets about doing something extraordinary.
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA Awards – Best Short Film (UK)
Я в порядке
I'm OK
Year: 2018
Country: UK
Director: Elizabeth Hobbs
Genre: short, animation
Language: English
Runtime: 6 min.
Age: 12+
Country: UK
Director: Elizabeth Hobbs
Genre: short, animation
Language: English
Runtime: 6 min.
Age: 12+
In 1917, Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was in hospital, injured and shell-shocked from World War I, and heartbroken from the end of his famous love affair with Alma Mahler.
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA nomination – Best Short Animation (UK)
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Premiere
Холостяк, 38 лет
Bachelor, 38
Year: 2017
Country: UK
Director: Angela Clarke
Cast: Bryan Bale
Genre: short, documentary
Language: English
Runtime: 16 min.
Country: UK
Director: Angela Clarke
Cast: Bryan Bale
Genre: short, documentary
Language: English
Runtime: 16 min.
The story of a homosexual man and his time in London during the 1960s.
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA nomination – Best Short Film (UK)
Марфа
Marfa
Year: 2018
Country: UK
Director: Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
Genre: short, animation
Language: English
Runtime: 9 min.
Country: UK
Director: Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
Genre: short, animation
Language: English
Runtime: 9 min.
An isolated town in the Texas borderlands. A place out of time. A shrine to minimalist art. Home to a remote festival. A place where unexplained lights tremble in the night sky. And then there's the giant lemon.
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA nomination – Best Short Animated Film (UK)
Encounters International Film Festival – Best of British Animation
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – participation
Encounters International Film Festival – Best of British Animation
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – participation
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Хулиганьё
Roughhouse
Year: 2018
Country: UK
Director: Jonathan Hodgson
Genre: short, animation
Language: English
Runtime: 16 min.
Country: UK
Director: Jonathan Hodgson
Genre: short, animation
Language: English
Runtime: 16 min.
Three friends embark on a new adventure in a strange town, but when a manipulative new member joins their gang, their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences.
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA – Best Short Animation (UK)
Синяя дверь
The Blue Door
Year: 2017
Country: UK
Director: Paul Taylor
Cast: Janie Booth, Annie McGrath, Gemma Whelan
Genre: short
Language: English
Runtime: 9 min.
Country: UK
Director: Paul Taylor
Cast: Janie Booth, Annie McGrath, Gemma Whelan
Genre: short
Language: English
Runtime: 9 min.
A kind and caring nurse, Clare, is opening the door to her new job, but maybe some doors are best left shut...
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA nomination – Best Short Film (UK)
Terror in the Bay Film Festival – Mora Award (Best Mini-Short Film)
Terror in the Bay Film Festival – Mora Award (Best Mini-Short Film)
Поле
The Field
Year: 2018
Country: France, India, UK
Director: Sandhya Suri
Cast: Mia Maelzer
Genre: short
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 19 min.
Country: France, India, UK
Director: Sandhya Suri
Cast: Mia Maelzer
Genre: short
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 19 min.
Lalla is a poor agricultural labourer in an Indian village preparing for the harvest of its remaining cornfield. Director Sandhya Suri crafts a refreshingly layered portrait of a woman who bravely pursues a different kind of life than the one she’s been granted.
Awards & Festivals:
BAFTA Awards nomination – Best Short Film
BIFA nomination – Best British Short
Toronto International Film Festival – Short Cuts Award (Best International Short Film)
Sundance Film Festival – participation
Melbourne International Film Festival – Best Fiction Short Film
London Film Festival – participation