We’ve stalkers and trolls, clowns and killers, predators and prey, delusional gangsters, creepy clowns, and risky online relationships in this collection of queasy, uneasy tales, guaranteed to unsettle and unnerve.

Advisory cert 18

Saturday 1st December at 6:15pm

NIAMOS sc. 1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU

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SPEED DATE                                       

UK Premiere

Dir / Wri: Victoria Scarborough & Tim Pope, Wri / Cast: Matt Taylor and Martha Franks

UK, 2017, 14 min 21 sec, Cert 15

A guy from out of town locates his ex at a Speed Date in order to propose marriage.

THINGS THAT BLEED                         

North West Premiere

Dir / Prod: Simon Giles, Prod / Wri: Aegina de Vas, Prod: Alan Church, Csaba Wagner.

UK, 2017, 9 min 12 sec, Cert 15

A failing actor, haunted by his girlfriend’s abortion; slowly descends into madness as he is unable to ignore events from his past

ANIMAL                                               

North West Premiere

Dir: Alex Cole

UK, 2017, 13 min, Cert 15

Rose stumbles into a world where morals no longer seem to apply. Everyone has an animal living within them; the forest unearths it.

THE BALLAD OF A HAUNTED MAN           

North West Premiere

Dir / Prod / Wri: Emma Pitt, Prod: Dan Shoring.

UK, 2018, 16 min 31 sec, Cert 15

A lonely mortician’s search for company takes a dark turn.

THE BATHTUB CLOWN                              

North West Premiere

Dir / Prod / Wri: Jamie Maule-ffinch.

UK, 2017, 6 min 55 sec, Cert 15

A clown sits in a bathtub and drowns in his own deep thoughts. Is he all who he appears to be?

 

 

ELROY’S BIRTHDAY                                   

Greater Manchester Premiere

Dir / Wri: Ravin Vythelingum, Prod: Henriette-Mercedes Spiering.

UK, 2018, 14 min, Cert 15

A young Asian man blinded by rage and grief confronts an internet troll responsible for a racist attack.

BRITISH SUMMER TIME                              

UK Premiere

Dir / Wri: Jonathan Hughes, Wri: Dan Paul Murphy, Prod: Nick Oakley, Ian Fenton.

UK, 2018, 2 min 56 sec, Cert 12

A day at the beach quickly takes a sinister turn.

MASTER OF CEREMONIES                              

North West Premiere

Dir / Prod / Wri: Toby Wharton, Arran Shearing.  

UK, 2018, 9 min 41 sec, Cert 15

A young man’s false sense of identity rapidly disintegrates and he is forced to confront his own isolation.

MY FRIEND VICTOR                                   

World Premiere

Dir / Prod / Wri: Kamil Iwanowicz.

UK, 2018, 9 min 26 sec, Cert 18

Tommy, a 13-year old lonely boy, needs a friend. Victor is all he’s got

.TRT: 94 min 42 sec