A face from the past, and a confused recollection, the pursuit of nirvana and a chance of salvation, youthful dreams and ambitions and the tyranny of ageism, the immigrant experience and the dance of life, all in our programme of the best of British women filmmakers.
Advisory Cert 15
Friday 30th November 6.00pm
NIAMOS sc.1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU
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BITTER SEA
Greater Manchester Premiere
Dir / Wri / Cast: Fateme Ahmadi, Prod: Emma Parsons
UK, 2017, 14 min 48 sec, Cert 15
To keep her job and home in London, an immigrant single mother has to hide her daughter from her boss and landlord.
OYSTERS
North West Premiere
Dir: Pratyusha Gupta, Prod: Emma Duffy, Wri: Sharmila Chauhan.
UK, 2017, 12 min
A woman meets a man from her past, forcing her to make an impossible choice.
AAMIR
Manchester Premiere
Dir / Co-Prod / Co-Wri: Vika Evdokimenko, Co-Prod: Emma Stone, Co-Wri: Oliver Shuster
UK / France, 2017, 16 min 22 sec, Cert 15
13 year old Aamir is stranded alone in the largest unofficial refugee camp in Europe. Katlyn, a thinly stretched volunteer, becomes his last hope for salvation.
WHAT HAPPENED TO EVIE
North West Premiere
Dir: Kate Cheeseman, Prod: Georgina French, Carol Younghusband
UK, 2018, 10 min 37 sec
A girl’s fractured memories distort the truth of a sexual assault.
CALLING HOME
Greater Manchester Premiere
Dir / Wri: Megan K. Fox, Prod: Paul Romero Méndez
UK, 2017, 19 min 40 sec
Dorota moves to London with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, but her path is altered by an abusive relationship.
LADY M
Manchester Premiere
Dir: Tammy Riley Smith, Prod: Karen Newman, Wri: Melissa Knatchbull
UK, 2018, 11 min 45 sec, Cert 12
Hell hath no fury like an older woman scorned.
HOW NOT TO MEDITATE
North West Premiere
Dir / Wri: Jo Lane
UK, 2017, 2 min 58 sec, Cert 15
One woman’s meditation journey, and the distractions along the way.
TWENTY, FORTY, SIXTY
North West Premiere
Dir / Prod / Wri: Rebecca Dale-Everett, Prod / Wri: Katie Dale-Everett
UK, 2018, 6 min 10 sec
“My mother went into labour at the Saturday Night New Year’s Dance. So really from my first movement in the world, I was connected to dance.”
TRT: 93 min 17 sec