Sometimes, brevity is the soul of wit. And of concise and incisive filmmaking. This programme is designed to demonstrate this. We’ve mobile phone films and music videos, documentary snapshots and experimental oddities, punchy animations and compact dramas. All they have in common is their brief length. And the intelligence with which they explore and exploit the form.
Advisory Cert 15
Wednesday 28th November at 8.00pm
NIAMOS Screen 2, Chichester Rd/Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU
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BLOCKED
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Michal Dzierza, Wri / Cast: Heather Coombs
UK, 2018, 3 min 08 sec
An urban garden. A woman on the brink decides to call time’s up on her relationship. But the past won’t leave her alone.
YELLOW AND RED MAKE ORANGE
UK Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Jay Hollinsworth.
USA, 2017, 4 min 38 sec
An illegal prairie cockfight is the setting for a struggle to find place and peace in the rural west of the 1970’s.
JASMINE STUNG
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Partho Gupte, Prod: Amole Gupte.
India, 2017, 5 min
A 10 year old boy is trying to sell jasmine flower strings on a hot and busy Mumbai street, in the hope of getting his little sister her first meal of the day
BROKEN DREAMS
Greater Manchester Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Nick Cinelli, Prod: National Film and Television School, Wri: Jessica Sinyard
UK, 2018, 2 min 45 sec
Sal hopes will power, imagination, and music can bring her and her father’s dreams to life. Sadly, it’s all just a mirage in the desert.
99
World Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Stephen Kilkie, Prod: Karen Calder
UK, 2018, 2 min 54 sec
A comment about a friend’s social media pic leads to serious consequences.
ALL HAPPENED BEFORE.
Europe Premiere
Dir / Wri: Gloria Mercer, Prod: Aidan West
Canada, 2018, 5 min 20 sec
An enigmatic snapshot of a young girl’s life.
WITH ME
North West Premiere
Dir / Wri: Azadeh Ghochagh, Prod: Morteza Gheidi
Iran, 2017, 5 min
A girl tries to run from her past..
SAVING POOH
UK Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Julia Trachtenberg.
Israel, 2017, 2 min 32 sec
An almost forgotten memory of grandma “Matrushka” when she was a little girl.
WHEN MUM IS DONE
Greater Manchester Premiere
Dir: Natasha Hawthornthwaite, Prod: Ian Fenton. Nick Oakley
UK, 2018, 2 min 41 sec
An intimate exploration of empty nest syndrome.
EACH AND EVERY SHADE
UK Premiere
Dir: Sarah Ibrahim, Prod: Aiden Reynolds
Kuwait / USA, 2018, 3 min
What constitutes someone too dark, or not dark enough, or just light enough to pass?
POST MORTEM
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: James Todd
UK, 2018, 5 min
Death is carrying out his grim job in the final days of the world. In his loneliness, he finds an unlikely friend.
THE ABANDONED ZOO
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Ethan Kogan, Prod: Jessica Silvetti.
USA, 2016, 1 min 50 sec
A child comes face to face with a fear of the dark and the unknown.
QUICKSAND
Dir / Wri: Jennifer D. Bianchi, Wri: Troy Sanders
USA, 2018, 2 min 35 sec
“When I was a little girl, I used to think some pretty crazy things.”
REPERCUSSION
Dir / Wri: Negin Homayounpour, Prod: Mehdi Khanjari.
Iran, 2018, 4 min 21 sec
A family is watching a war movie. Suddenly, they experience the same events…
ALL YOUR THOUGHTS ARE GARBAGE
World Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Lucas Becker
Brazil, 2018, 34 sec
The exponential effects of really believing in your thoughts, anxieties and terrors.
BURNT ORANGES
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Patrick Bokin
Ireland, 1 min 30
A disturbed man recalls the events leading to his imprisonment.
THE DAWN CHORUS
Dir / Wri: George Wu, Prod: Cherry Jordan.
UK, 2018, 2 min 30 sec
Ever wondered what a group of puppets powered by a Jazz quintet looks like?
HATE FOR SALE
UK Premiere
Dir / Prod: Anna Eijsbouts, Wri: Neil Gaiman.
Netherlands, 2017, 2 min 39 sec
We live in a world in which we consume hate as much as we are consumed by it.
PEN PALS
UK Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Matthew Hyatt.
USA, 2018, 2 min 34 sec
A young widow struggling to cope with loneliness shares her information on a pen pal website but receives more than just spam.
WORD OF MOUTH
UK Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Tak Nakano.
Australia, 2018, 4 min 58 sec
Why does handmade food taste better? A Sicilian reveals all.
SOUL MATE
UK Premiere
Dir: Mahdi borjian
Iran, 2017, 2 min
A boy rushes home from school and makes an unexpected decision
WE
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: David Yorke, Prod: Helena Anthony, Kotryna Sniukaite.
UK, 2016, 4 min 39 sec
A snap shot look into the highs and lows of an intense relationship.
AS WE DIE
UK Premiere
Dir / Prod: Agata Bert, Jordi Estrada.
Spain, 2018, 3 min
The rumble of the waves and the approaching storm conjures an evil prophecy announced from the beginning of the relationship: all things have an end.
FULL CIRCLE
World Premiere
Dir / Wri: Reza Aghaei
Iran, 2018, 2 min 50 sec
A man returns home at the end of the night …
WARSNARE – SYNDROME
North West Premiere
Dir / Wri: George Thomson & Lukas Schrank, Prod: Visitor Studio
UK, 2018, 3 min
A man living in isolation is awoken by a mysterious intruder.
SHE
World Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Mehdi Shahpiry
Iran, 2018, 3 min
Man, Woman, Adhesive, Closet!
MEDIOCRITY, FOR MICAH DAHL ANDERSON (WHO IS AMAZING AND NOT MEDIOCRE)
UK Premiere
Dir: Drew Danburry, Wri: Drew Barlow
USA, 2018, 3 min 23 sec
A hand drawn animated music video
SALVATION
UK Premiere
Dir: Karim Sherif, Prod: Cocaina Studios
Egypt, 2018, 2 min 40 sec
An attempt to portray emotions through visuals.
A BIAS TAPE
UK Premiere
Dir / Wri: Lynnette Taylor
USA, 2018, 3 min 42 sec
The world inside a music box reveals the twisted narrative that replays generation after generation.
DREAM BUBBLE
Dir / Wri: Richard Howe, Prod: Kane Clover, Mark Horne.
UK, 2017, 2 min 20 sec
A sleeping girl enters a world run by the King of Sleep who want to keep her asleep forever. Can she escape?
M.A.M.O.N. (MONITOR AGAINST MEXICANS OVER NATIONWIDE)
North West Premiere
Dir / Wri: Alejandro Damiani, Prod: Juan José López, Wri: Santi Vecino, Juan Andrés Fontán, Javi Cruzado, Enrique Codesio.
Mexico / Uruguay, 2018, 5 min 55 sec
While Donald Trump is undergoing heart surgery, a portal to another reality opens. Latinos start falling from the sky and landing in the desert on the Mexico – US border…
TRT: 97 min 17 sec