There’s wise guys in crisis and young men out of their depth, robberies gone wrong and suicides gone South, a journey into the night and a view from a window, and all the dark deceptions of the photographer’s art, in this selection of sinister and shadowy crime shorts.
Advisory Cert 15
Wednesday 28th November at 8.30pm
NIAMOS sc.1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU
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MIKE’S
Greater Manchester Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Lukas Leitner, Prod: David Fisslthaler.
Austria, 2016, 14 min 58 sec
During their nightshift two policemen stop at a gas station to take a coffee brake – but something seems weird…
CAT NOIR
Greater Manchester Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: O’Neil Bürgi.
Switzerland, 2018, 6 min 23 sec
A letter, a broken heart. The sound of the rain. A black cat, a plan.
PHOTOSHOOT
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Maida Hals, Prod: Håvard Wettland Gossé.
Norway, 2018, 10 min 20 sec
A photoshoot between two modern and successful women gradually develops into a power struggle with roots in their shared past.
NEAR CHANGE
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Cast: André Sogliuzzo, Wri: Daniel D’Agostino.
USA, 2017, 9 min 34 sec
Sometimes in life you find yourself at a crossroads between who you are, and the life you find yourself living.
EINGANG AUSGANG
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Tania Podveikina, Prod: Philipp Hatzl
Austria, 2018, 13 min 16 sec
One evening a woman breaks the rhythm of her everyday life. She dives into the unknown to find out if she is still there.
WALE
Manchester Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Barnaby Blackburn, Prod: Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers, Sophie Alexander
UK, 2018, 20 min
Wale is an 18-year-old mobile mechanic, who learned his trade whilst serving time at a young offenders institution. Now he’s out, living with Mum and trying to get his own business going – not so easy when you’re a young black male with a criminal past.
LUCY
North West Premiere
Dir / Wri: Roberto Gutierrez, Prod: Rafael Ponce, Wri: Hector Torres
Venezuela, 2018, 14 min 50 sec
A solitary Foley Artist secretly films his neighbor and reconstructs the sounds of her life, while creating an imaginary relationship that leads him to discover closely the true sound of his obsession: Lucy.
TRT: 88 min 01 sec
