Special Festival Advance Screening 27th of January

Kinofilm will be holding two advance preview events for the Manchester International Short Film & Animation Festival. The first of these will take place on Wed 27th January at Central Library. Come get a taste of what’s to come during Kinofilm Festival with a special selection of shorts from this year’s Festival.

The screening takes place at 6.00pm, but join us from 5.30pm onwards for a pre-screening glass of wine. Event concludes at 7.30pm.

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW HERE @ EVENT BRITE:

Limited number of tickets available at only £3.00 (untill midnight Monday 25th when the tickets go up to £5.00)

Venue Details:
Central Library Event Space
St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD

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“HIGHLIGHTS” PREVIEW PROGRAMMES

PROGRAMME 1, 27th January at Central Library
Time. 6.00pm (Doors open from 5.30pm when you can join us for a glass of wine). Tickets just £5 or £3 concessions.

MEDIATION
Dir / Prod / Wri: Francisco Lorite, Prod: B. Winett, F. Rodriguez, Starring Freddy Rodriguez, Marley Shelton USA, 14 min 10 sec, Cert 15
INTERNATIONAL / BLACK COMEDY
A divorce mediation spirals out of control for a husband, his soon-to-be ex-wife and their court-appointed mediator, in this mean-spirited, pitch-black comedy that reunites Freddy Rodriguez (SIX FEET UNDER) with his GRINDHOUSE co-star Marley Shelton.

IT GIRL
Dir / Prod / Wri: Oriol Puig Playà
Spain, 3 min, Cert 15
SPANISH / COMEDY
Overwhelmed by her husband’s medical bills Sofia takes a desperate measure: she becomes an egoblogger.

RECYCLABLE PLASTIC
Dir / Wri: Pablo R. Montenegro, Prod: Luis Adern Ortoll, Luis Alberto Vera
Spain, 9 min 33 sec, Cert 15
SPANISH / ROMANTIC
Does plastic dream about the pleasures of the flesh?

MARK AND ALAN
Dir / Prod / Wri: Robert Reed, Wri / Star: Joseph Kennedy
UK, 2 min 10 sec, Cert 15
COMEDY / MANCHESTER
Mark likes Karen, a lot. So he tries to give her a call….

THE FUTURE PERFECT
Dir / Wri: Nick Citton, Prod: James Brown, featuring the voice of Zachary Quinto
USA 12 min, Cert 15
SCIENCE FICTION
“History belongs to those with the money to change it”. 150 years in the future, a time-travelling agent is given an assignment which causes him to question the nature of his mission.

LA TETE DE L’EMPLOI (Right Person For The Job)
Dir / Wri: Wilfried Meance, Wri: Loic Gaillard
France, 7 min, Cert 15
COMEDY / EUROCINE
Jean is in his 50s and has been laid off after his company downsized. He has a meeting with his Employment Advisor at the Job centre – a smug young man less than half his age…

BAER
Dir / Wri: Pascal Floerks, Prod: Julia Smola
Germany, 9 min, Cert 15
EXPERIMENTAL / SATIRIC / DOCUMENTARY
A young man narrates the life story of his WWII veteran father. Who just happens to have been a bear…

S T U T T E R R E R (Oscar Nominated 2016)
BRITISH DRAMA / ROMANTIC
Dir / Wri: Benjamin Cleary, Prod: Serena Armitage & Shan Christopher Ogilvie
UK, 12 min 54 sec, Cert 15
An online relationship helps a lonely typographer mask his acute speech impediment…

LEAVING HOME(Uit Huis)
Dir: Joost Lieuwma
Netherlands, 6 min. 36 sec., Cert 12a
ANIMATION
A father decides his son is old enough to leave home-only each time he does, he returns in increasingly strange ways.

THE RED HUNTER
Dir / Wri / Prod: Alvaro Ron, Wri: Clara Viola, Rafael Alvarez
Spain, 8 min, Cert 15
SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY / COMEDY
Sarah, a nerdy teenager, steals her mum’s car to go on a date. But something will happen with that car that night that will change her life forever.

DANCE OF THE NEURONS
Dir / Prod: Jody Oberfelder, Eric Siegel
USA, 5 min 4 sec, Cert 12
EXPERIMENTAL / DANCE
24 dancers embody the birth of neurons, activating the brain/body. Created in consultation with leading neuroscientists.