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A Thousand Empty Glasses
United Kingdom, 2012, 14 min.
One night. One decision. One life. A drunken evening exposing long-held secrets forces a young man to make a life altering decision.... more
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All That Way For Love
United Kingdom, 2011, 20 min.
Stuck in Malawi en route to surprising his girlfriend in Mozambique, young Simon unwittingly gets caught up in the toxic relationship between a nomadic older couple with a complicated history.... more
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Bella Fleace Gave A Party
United Kingdom, 2011, 15 min.
This gorgeously mounted period piece, based on an Evelyn Waugh story, introduces us to a wealthy older woman whose avaricious younger cousin pays a visit with more than a family reunion in mind.... more
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Connected
United Kingdom, 2011, 8 min.
When a man demands to return his cell phone because it never rings, a frazzled shop worker quickly learns that it is the customer that is not functioning properly.... more
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Early Birds
United Kingdom, 2012, 21 min.
A 12-year-old girl, Mila, shares a very curious bond with her coach and next door neighbor, which comes to a head one early morning as he prepares to leave, bound for a new home in Italy.... more
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Exit
United Kingdom, 2011, 13 min.
Parlor tricks, much in fashion years ago, should always be executed with great care and consideration as the consequences can be irreversible.... more
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The Farmer's Wife
United Kingdom, 2011, 18 min.
This exquisitely crafted drama tells the story of a woman forced to run the family farm alone after the passing of her husband – a situation that climaxes with the day the farm and everything on it is sold at auction while she stoically goes about her daily routine. But in the end, nothing about thi... more
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Friend Request Pending
United Kingdom, 2011, 12 min.
You’re only as old as your last posting, in this amusing tale of cyber romance starring Dame Judi Dench as a widower hot to trot online with a man she recently met at a party.... more
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Good Night
United Kingdom, 2012, 28 min.
Two teenage girls obsessed with growing up fast spend an ominous night on the town in this cautionary tale about the dangers of overreaching, when innocent play crosses the line into dangerous seduction.... more
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Grandmothers
United Kingdom, 2011, 9 min.
This animated documentary brings to life in vivid detail the remarkable grandmothers who have courageously fought for the truth about their relatives who were “disappeared” by the Argentine military dictatorship of the 1980s. Winner: Best Animation, Aspen Shortsfest... more
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The Gruffalo's Child
United Kingdom, 2011, 27 min.
In this follow up to 2010 ShortFest award winner The Gruffalo, one little Gruffalo ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse.... more
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Hold On Me
United Kingdom, 2011, 17 min.
The story of a relationship, from that first rush of recognition when bf/gf status is established, through blossoming romantic adventure, to moving in together and all that goes with it… this engaging story traces the rocky road of romance between two young lovers in contemporary London.... more
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How Much For My Brother?
United Kingdom, 2011, 15 min.
Oscar, a precocious ten-year-old boy with the time-honored problem of how to get rid of an annoying younger brother, devises a surprising solution. ... more
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Is This a Joke?
United Kingdom, 2012, 20 min.
Tim’s an affable guy who loves to laugh, but when his girlfriend leaves him with the words “You need to grow up, your life is a joke!” he’s thrown into a head spin, turning to his friendly neighborhood bar and best friend Cliff for solace. Then a guy walks into the bar… ... more
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Khaana
United Kingdom, 2011, 8 min.
A pregnant, orthodox Muslim woman living in London has an appetite for life as well as for food, in this delightful exploration of the ways in which her homeland’s culture intersects with her still novel foreign surroundings.... more
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Kirkcaldy Man
United Kingdom, 2011, 17 min.
Whatever became of the Scotttish darts champion Jocky Wilson? This insightful documentary seeks to find the man who was once the pride of Kirkcaldy and the myth that has long faded into memory.... more
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Lunch Date
United Kingdom, 2011, 11 min.
Waiting for her date at a restaurant, Annabel instead meets his teenage brother Wilbur, who has some bad news.... more
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The Mapmaker
United Kingdom, 2011, 18 min.
This gorgeously haunting film traces the arc of a couple’s relationship from beginning to end as a man (Charles Dance) narrates the story of his life with his beloved wife (Jenny Agutter) through to its bittersweet denouement.... more
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Matchhead
United Kingdom, 2012, 14 min.
At a cognitive dissonance therapy session, a counselor gets more than she bargained for when an unexpected relationship is ignited. ... more
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Metro 7 bis
United Kingdom, 2011, 9 min.
A woman meets a handsome stranger on the Parisian subway, unaware of the lengths to which he has gone to catch her attention.... more
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My Kosher Shifts
United Kingdom, 2011, 22 min.
At a small hotel in London that caters to orthodox Jews, the fascinating, informal conversations between the receptionist -- a young woman and atheist -- and a panoply of guests are captured by a “fly-on-the-wall” camera.... more
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Pitch Black Heist
United Kingdom, 2011, 13 min.
Oscar nominated Michael Fassbender (“Shame”, “X-Men First Class”) plays one of two men hired to pull off a very difficult heist in this smart caper comedy which won the 2012 BAFTA award for Best Short Film.... more
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The Pub
United Kingdom, 2012, 7 min.
A night in the life of a Polish barmaid turns into an increasingly arduous evening as the clients multiply and the drinks keep flowing fast and loose.... more
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Shirin
United Kingdom, 2011, 13 min.
It’s late in the afternoon at the Sadak household in London. Shirin and her father have supper alone. The usual awkwardness of a father and his young adult daughter is increased by the distance her father feels at Shirin’s assimilation into British culture. As they wait for Shirin’s mother, the awkw... more
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Special Delivery
United Kingdom, 2012, 5 min.
When a clumsy mailman accidently drops a lit cigarette through the mail slot in a house on his route along with the daily mail delivery, he goes to extraordinary lengths to retrieve the offending object and avoid setting the house on fire.
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The Station Master
United Kingdom, 2012, 21 min.
A lonely Station Master at a remote, rural outpost encounters a woman stranded overnight at his station, and after some hesitation, invites her to spend the night in the warmth of his humble home. This unexpected encounter reawakens the Station Master's enthusiasm for life as the two talk long into ... more
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Taking Life
United Kingdom, 2011, 14 min.
When a woman has a horrible day at the office, she comes home and takes it out on her housekeeper, leading to dire circumstances that she could not have foreseen… ... more
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Tumult
United Kingdom, 2011, 13 min.
A tribe of Norse warriors heading across a barren landscape after a failed raiding mission runs into an army of a wholly different sort, as some warp in the time/space continuum seems to open up before them…... more
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What You Looking At?!
United Kingdom, 2011, 9 min.
A young Muslim woman in a Burkhßa finds herself trapped in an elevator with a flamboyant drag queen when their building’s power goes out, leading to a culture clash of major proportions in this hysterical tale of East meeting West when things go South.... more
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Will Sampson (...and the self-perpetuating cycle of unintended abstinence)
United Kingdom, 2012, 13 min.
Poor Will has had no luck with the ladies, but with his first big date with an online infatuation looming, he enlists the advice of his worldly-wise best friend Niall to coach him in the secret art of seduction.... more
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Worm
United Kingdom, 2012, 16 min.
Grieving Philip and his wife Susie have moved into his late father’s home, the day after the funeral. But when Susie finds a worm in her dragon fruit and insists Philip get rid of it, she sets in motion a series of events that puts the worm in control…and Philip out in the cold. ... more
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