KINO SHORTS 83 – THURS 19TH MARCH 2026

KINOFILM presents: KINO SHORTS 83, THURSDAY 19th MARCH 2026,
Venue: Cultplex Cinema 2, 50 Red Bank, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M4 4HF

Box Office/Doors Open: 7:00 pm, Theatre open 7.15pm, Start at: 7:30 pm
Tickets will be on sale on line from 16.00 hrs on SAT 14th March on our eventbrite page (click on the button above).
Part 1.

R3D@CTED

Dir/Wri: Georgia Wood, Pro: Caelum Savage, UK, 2025, 14:46 mins

‘A young girl’s life turns upside down when faced with the zombie apocalypse.’

 

KISS ME THRU THE PHONE

Dir/Wri: Scarlett J. Stribley, Pro: Anne van Brugge (Salford University), UK, 2025, 7:09 mins

A lonely woman finds love in an unlikely place: a phone box haunted by a decades-old caller.

 

DRIP – THE RADIOACTIVE NORTH

Dir/Wri/Pro: Harry Paterson, Co-Pro/Wri: Jasmine Wilkinson, UK, 2025, 14:35 mins

After the apocalypse, Skane, a young scavenger, fixes a camera to document life. When the group’s matriarch dies, long-held traditions are thrown into doubt, dividing the group over how her body should be laid to rest.

 

AMDRAM

Dir: Jessica Townend, Wri: Evie Prescott, Pro: Maia Dukes (Salford University), UK, 2025, 5:06

Recently retired Craig sheepishly enters his local amateur dramatic society where he must battle with his emotions and conquer Shakespeare to win over the snobbish actors.

FOLLOWED BY Q&A THEN INTERVAL AND NETWORKING

PART 2.

END OF THE LINE

Dirs: Annie Bowers, George Simper, Leif Clayton, Wri: Annie Bowers, George Simper, Sam Livermore, Pro: Gabriel Taylor-Wrigley, George Simper, UK, 2024-26, 16:24 mins

An anthology of three short films (The Brief Case of Maya Moon, The Red Widow, and The Extraordinary Experience of Dick Shatner), all of which take place on one reality defying steam train.

 

EXIT

Dir/Pro: Jack Berry, Wri: Han-Roze Adonis, Co-Pro: Gwyneth Evans & Kitty Ball, UK, 2025, 6:47

A woman wakes to a creeping dread that reality is unravelling around her. As visions blur into terrifying truths, she’s pulled towards an answer that she may not be ready for.

 

ALEXA

Dir/Wri: Michael Farrell, Pro: Abigail Nankivell, UK, 2025, 6:00 mins

A woman’s humanity is threatened when her husband acquires a domestic android.

 

SOUNDCHECK

Dir/Wri: Olivia Phillips, Pro: Samuel Trow (Salford University), UK, 2025, 6:55 mins

When a major record label rep appears during a band’s soundcheck, their quietly talented guitarist must decide between the safety of staying with the band that holds her back, and the uncertain freedom of standing alone.

FOLLOWED BY Q&A AND NETWORKING AT THE BAR

Programme length 78 mins plus Q&A’s

PLEASE NOTE: THE SECOND IN OUR KINO SHORTS SPRING SEASON WILL TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY 22nd APRIL

POSTER GALLERY

 


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