We’re here for a short time! The short film format is compact, concise and impactful in these films from across the world.
There will be also be a 15-minute Q&A with some of the featured filmmakers after the screening on Sept 25.
Countries
VariousCLADDAGH
Truth and loyalty blur when three brothers encounter a lifeless body on the shoreline. Screening as part of Shorts Programme 4.
MARY MOTHER
Mary lives in a remote village in Afghanistan.
Last Call Lenny
A used furniture salesman helps a suicidal jazz radio DJ end his life in the most complicated way possible.
CRYSTAL LAKE
A group of radical teen girls take over a skate park, with helmets over hijabs, to form an all-female force on the half-pipe.
SHINING STAR OF LOSERS EVERYWHERE
In 2003, Japan was plunged into economic darkness, and its people needed a ray of hope.
The Silence
(Il Silenzio)
Fatma, a Kurdish refugee in Italy, must translate the news of her mother's diagnosis. She reacts only with silence.
TEN SECONDS OF CARLA
(Carla en 10 secondes)
During a party, Gaby begins to suspect that spreading rumours of a football team gang-bang may well involve her best friend, Carla.