British Panorama: British New Wave 2 (Cert 15) 29th Oct (8:15PM)

The denial of freedom, the power in word reclamation, knowledge in retrospect, the complexities of returning home, ancestry and morality, endangered spaces, reflections on death and separation and chance encounters that change trajectories bring this selection of British films into vibrant focus. 

TICKETS

SEALSKIN (UK)

Dir/Wri: Daisy Leigh-Phippard,  Prod: Anna Venuto, Lara Karam

United Kingdom, 2019, 13 min 41 sec, Cert 12A

When Tara is denied her freedom and finds a sealskin, she must decide whether to use it to escape, or return it.

 

TO MY YOUNGER SELF

Dir/Wri: Owain Astles, Prod: Owain Astles, Rob Mitchell

United Kingdom, 2020, 3 min 46 sec, Cert 15

A man impacted by the trauma of incarceration as a youth gives his younger self advice on how to protect his spirit.

BETH 

Dir/Wri:Ava Bounds,  Prod: Bryan Bounds

United Kingdom, 2020, 12 min 26 sec, Cert 15

A true story of one asylum patient’s struggle as her focus on returning home does not go as she planned. 

WELLOW

Dir: Sally Waterman Wri: T. S Eliot

United Kingdom, 2020, 10 min, Cert 15

‘Wellow’ dwells upon place, ancestry, mortality and religion, triggered by the redevelopment of the artist’s late Grandfather’s Baptist church in a rural village on the Isle of Wight. 

THE BEEKEEPER

Dir/Prod: William McGregor

United Kingdom, 2020, 12 min, Cert 15

A tenant beekeeper shares the complexities of living in a place slated for new development with positive financial for her community but sad implications for herself and the environment.

HUG

Dir/Prod: B Welby Wri: Shaun Kobrak

United Kingdom, 2020, 4 min 35 sec, Cert 15

A young man, having missed his chance to say goodbye to his recently passed mother, finds a way to embrace her in her passing.

THE BODY AND THE NAME

Dir: Christina Ruloff, Wri: Howard Barker , Prod: Christina Ruloff

United Kingdom, 2020, 13 min 27 sec, Cert 15

Although dead, Mary consciously contemplates her past and the relationship with her lover. 

 

EMILIE & ELMA

Dir/Wri: Edoardo Cimatti, Prod: Brandon Dalby

United Kingdom, 2019, 8 min 19 sec, Cert 15

Past, present and future collide as two sisters, Emile and Elma, struggle with loss and their shared fear of separation.

BOY IN THE BACK SEAT

Dir/Wri/Prod: Scott Pickup, Prod: Jonny Ross, James Owen, Simon Marriott

United Kingdom, 2022, 12 min 49 sec, Cert 15

1986. A young boy is left unattended in the car while his volatile dad takes care of some ‘business’ in a dodgy local pub. What could possibly go wrong?

TRT: 89 min 38 sec

 

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