Encounters 12 · Bristol
245 films from 30 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 10 award winners.
The first combined Encounters festival merged the Brief Encounters and Animated Encounters brands under one roof. Peter Lord CBE presented Desert Island Flicks choosing his ten favourite animated films, while Ken Russell showcased his recent experimental shorts in a BAFTA Short Film Paradise session interviewed by Mark Kermode. Shelley Page of DreamWorks Animation programmed the Emerging Talent strands, and filmmaker focuses featured Idris Khan and Asif Kapadia. The jury included Peter Henderson of Film4, Caroline Norbury of South West Screen, and Christoffer Olofsson of Uppsala. A preview of Aardman's Flushed Away capped the animation programme.
Mark is half-American, half-Slovak. And he has strong beliefs. In a trip to Slovakia he meets Tomas who is wearing a T-shirt that offends his beliefs.
This darkly comic film follows the emotional journey of two brothers from mornign through to night as they try to come to terms with their relationship with their father who stumbles back into their lives one dark Christmas night.
Set in 1930s Germany, Benjamin's Struggle is the tale of a young Jewish boy's attempt to steal the original manuscript of Hitler's Mein Kampf, in the hope that it will end the suffering of his family.
Beryl acquires a digi video camera and becomes obsessed with filmmaking, using it to keep a video diary of her friend Mandy's wedding, with disastrous and hilarious consequences.
A gang of inner city kids have discovered a dark new sport… urban fox-hunting Ben's desperate to get in with them but, when he's finally given the chance, he realises there's no turning back and that membership comes at a price.
The contents of a kitchen take life when there is nobody around. Their principal activity is darts match between the corkscrew and the vase. One day, a new contender arrives.
With an average lifespan of just a few weeks, speed-dating seems the perfect solution.
Armand works on the assembly-line of a ravioli canning factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps out, promising to fulfill any two wishes…
The Pax Americana is watching over our tranquility, insures our comfort, and guarantees our prosperity. An idyllic postcard of the new Empire.
The journey of a young boy.
Four people each get to tell the story of their first time. These are stories that range from comedy to trgedy, stories from last year or from the 1920's, stories that are remembered with nostalgia embarrassment or even horror.
Brilliant Noise takes us into data vaults of solar astronomy to reveal the sun's finest unseen moments. The black and white grainy quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, usually hiding the processes and mechanics behind the capturing procedure.
A ten minute stop-frame animation making use of photocopied faces, chalk drawings, slide projections.
An angry piece of animation for a Gravenhurst track.
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the internet.
Jerky but smiling characters from this short film will take the audience through this animated pageant inspired by a book by Thomas Hobbes called 'The Leviathan', written in 1651.
Certain material and aesthetic qualities act as a trigger to desires, evoking a sense of the perverse or conjuring up fantasies. The materials have been dislocated from their original purpose and intention, revealing new readings, meanings and questions.
Tensions mount in surely the shortest game ever, as match emotions and park life are merged and condensed into mere minutes through the simple yet hugely evocative animation.
Graphic designers Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters explore the inherent boundaries and systems of the grid, their most elimentary tool.
A day out with Dad turns into a lesson in life. Growing up doesn't always mean that adults have all the answers. Or that children have all the fun. This film contains very strong language.
Channel hopping romance as two on screen lovers try valiantly to be together.
A young father is put ot the test when he realises the true extent of his family's expectations.
How long is it since I dreamed I was in heaven? Rabbit Stories is a study of mental illness; a portrait of a young schizophrenic man called Fenton Fuller.
A bold tale of real time revenge when a young couple come face to face with their worst nightmare.
Who said romance is dead? A hospital orderly falls for a beautiful woman and tries everything he can to win her affections. There's just one little problem… A touching tale of love across the divide.
When a wallet is dropped on a busy main street, the passer-by who finds it struggles to do the right thing.
Two hours of electrical storm in two minutes.
A gang of inner city kids have discovered a dark new sport… urban fox-hunting Ben's desperate to get in with them but, when he's finally given the chance, he realises there's no turning back and that membership comes at a price.
Beryl acquires a digi video camera and becomes obsessed with filmmaking, using it to keep a video diary of her friend Mandy's wedding, with disastrous and hilarious consequences.
From the primordial ocean to the cities of the data age, evolution is a line through time.
If you thought life is bollocks, wait until you get a load of death. We follow Martin (1966-2003) as he discovers this.
Life is difficult enough for 15 year old Isla, lviing with her mother, boyfriend and baby. Tensions rise when Mum Ali starts flirting with boyfriend Gav, and the troubled teenager takes matters into her own hands in a shocking climax.
My neighbour's a right looney. He always banging our wall down. I'm used to it. I think other people's houses are well weird. There's no knockin' - right?
A wry documentary about Holocaust tourism in post Schindler's List Poland. A whistlestop tour from kitsch Judaica in Krakow to hot-dogs at Auschwitz. Is our view of history being changed?
A coming-of-age drama, set in a small seaside town which explores the frustrations of a young bully as she struggles to accept her family.
Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic.
A neo-Nazi skinhead is apprehended because he has attacked two black teenage boys. As we are taken backwards through the story we realise that things may not be as 'Black & White' as they appear.
A solo project from director Alex Chandon; his first computer enhanced project. Taking London on a trip by way of Escher. Deconstructing both modernist and neo-classical landmarks to rebuild a new, impossible cityscape of upside-down roads and liquid sky.
Love in a backwards world.
A film about memory and what memory makes us - in many ways it defines who we are and how we behave, and adefines who we are as people.
One week in the life of an actor as he searches for motivation and struggles to retain dignity in his latest role – dressed as a big red arrow outside a shopping centre.
A celebration of rock music in the Arab world and a portrait of a music fan on a quest to reconcile his love of metal with a disapproving world.
A science fiction film about the last remaining survivors of an epidemic, struggling to find a cure, and to stay alive.
When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabiit, great riches follow, but for how long?
With promises of faster connectivity resulting in better productivity and ultimate happiness, aspirations haven't changed that much - just the method by which people try and achieve this goal.
A medieval thief steals an artefact that can make him immortal.
when Ujbaz Izbeneki descends into hell, nobody is prepared for the chaos that follows in the wake of the man who has lost everything… and anything!
Created in-camera this mixed media animated adventure combines found objects with images cut from magazines that are weaved into a non linear narrative and manipulated into a dark story of romance and psychological tension.
On the eve of war in Bosnia, two boys go looking for treasure in an abandoned hill fort oblivious to the encroaching danger. Instead of gold they find a gun and overnight both their lives are changed forever.
Umut turns the meat behind the grill, but his thoughts are elsewhere. He struggles to keep up and the boss is on his case. He gambles to forget, but how long before his life falls apart.
Marjorie is an 89 year old retired vaudevillian actress. Fortunes have faded but the memories of magnificient past are vibrant.
A week in the life of an irritated woman.
This darkly comic film follows the emotional journey of two brothers from mornign through to night as they try to come to terms with their relationship with their father who stumbles back into their lives one dark Christmas night.
2034. Bovey, Wilson and Stoichita are the crew of a tiny deep space research vessel experimenting with the growth of wheat under alien sunlight. The crews' world is disrupted by an inexplicable cosmic phenomena.
The sim of this film was to push the limitations of dynamic three-dimentional character motion performance and vector rendered emotive facial animation on the interweb. It turned out OK and our mothers are very proud of us.
From the dancing manias of the middle ages to biting nuns, from twitching schoolgirls to thousands of people convinced their genitalia are vanishing, the Professor takes us on a musical journey through mass hysteria, the madness of normal people.
A young woman visits an undertaker to organise the funeral of her father. Unusually self-possessed for someone freshly bereaved, she catched the eye of the friendly undertaker who, in a spectacularly ill-judged moment, shows her a special trick with disastrous consequences.
Two old university friends, Raj and Tom, escape their complicated lives through alcohol and drugs on a boy's night out. When they finally reveal their painful realitites, the consequences are unforeseen.
Sun Yee is staying at her late Grandmother's flat. When the apparition of her Grandma appears, Sun is suddenly aware of the truth about her Grandma's death and the dangers that lie ahead.
Bro9 is a quietly disturbing film unveiling a portrait of one man's struggle to understand the emotional consequences of a childhood loss.
Set late at night ina na anonymous airport bar, this short film plays with the group dynamics of strangers. Atmospheric and moody, it looks at the modern fear of engaging with others, the unknown horrors that can lurk in people's pasts and the simple pleasure of reengaging with another human being.
Hassan waits for his turn to bat for a local cricket team, reflecting on his disillusions and the temptation to join a fundamentalist cause. His turn to bat arrives and Hassan is ready to explode.
Nazia's beloved mother has died and grief a wedge between her and her family as she questions her faith during the traditional 40 Days of Islamic mourning. As Nazia falls apart, it's left to her seven year old daughter to bring her back from the brink.
Troubled teenager Jay is dared to spend the night in a dark, forgotten tunnel connected to an ominous old Victorian Manor. Left alone, Jay has a shocking, life-changing encounter. Is it a ghost or just games that children play?
Robert visits his mentally disturbed friend and recounts the details of a vicious street attack, only to discover that his own perception of reality has been turned upside down.
Using custom-made scripting, the melodies and rythms of Double Adaptors music spawns a nano scale environment that shifts and contorts to the audios resonances. Layers of energetic hand drawn animations, play over simple vector shapes that form atomic scale associations.
There are special little flies in Africa that sing everybody to a sleep. That's why everone sleeps so well in Africa.
How to cook Armenian bread.
From cleaning teachers' motorbikes to caterpillars in school dinners, schools certainly aren't what they used to be! Year 2 pupils from Air Balloon Hill Infant School, Bristol have brought former pupil's stories to life in a flurry of animated energy.
The contents of a kitchen take life when there is nobody around. Their principal activity is darts match between the corkscrew and the vase. One day, a new contender arrives.
Set in the mid-eighties, Dick Terrapin is a short black comedy, a coming-of-age story about a pet terrapin who tries everything to get his owner to hate him. Finally through a twist of fate he succeeds.
Some people are different, against their will. All they wish for is to be equal to others, deliciously mixing amongst the crowd.
We follow a small robot, with a tape like face, on his journey through a musical landscape.
We follow two main characters, a curious 'Magic Cat' and his new companion and joruney witht them on their unpredictable adventures to strange worlds, and see all the new discoveries they make on their way.
Night after night, a clumsy murderer enters the same room with the intention of killing its occupant, who is only willing to get some sleep.
An elusive creature moves about the soot-lined interiors of a Victorian city, spreading malice and hate. An unsettling yet charming tale.
Clockwork creatures living in harmony in an organic world, survive attack to mend their ailing master.
A dolls house family wins in the lottery and takes a cheerful trip to Italy.
Set in a typical east London high street during and atypical hot, dry, English summer 'After the Rain' is a love story between neighbours Lian and Adrian; who suffer from surreal compulsive obsessive disorders.
Worlds collide. Interactions take place. Some poepl move forward. Some people move backward.
Mark is an American in London for the culture of drinking. Panda is a talking Chinese bear, here to mate with a female he can't bear. Trapped and lonely, they become friends. Mark loves Sarah, Sarha only loves moths, and if Panda won't mate Mark will have to give him a hand...
Henymoon is about a woman who finds herself unexpectedly in an emotional and physical limbo. Newly married couple, Dawn and Zoran, stop off at a motorway service station en route to their honeymoon. Dawn goes to the toilet and when she returns she becomes increasingly convinced that her new husband has abandoned her to question how well she really knows him.
A father rediscovers his childhood fears.
In this unique tribute to the great filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, his daughter Isabella collaborates with Guy Maddin to create a loving and very personal portrait.
A corpse of a young woman lies in the hospital morgue, just having arrived from a major catastrophe. Two couples argue about the identity of the girl.
the discipline of D.E. is one of the finest shorts by Gus van Sant who made as many as fourteen between 1967 and 1991. In this narrated version of a short story by William S. Burroughs we learn the principles of 'Do Easy' and the complications that can arise from the quest to perfect each movement in order to find the most efficient way of doing everything - even nothing.
Director Adam Davidson made The Lunch Date while he was a student at New york's Columbia University. The film went on to become a worldwide success, winning the Palme d'Or and an Oscar. The film explores ideas about fear and stereotyping through the story of a well-to-do white woman who is forced to confront her prejudice while stranded in a train station.
Tim Burton's first short film tells the sad tale of Vincent Malloy, a suburban boy who wants to be just like his idol, Vincent Price (who provides narration for the film).
An old woman negotiates the hectic streets of London. At a pedestrian crossing her world is turned upside down.
Eccentric characters and quirky animation combine to great effect in this twist on a classic boy-meets-girl story.
Things aren't quite what they seem in this minimal line animation about a tree.
A deserting russian WWII soldier is faced with an impossible dilemma.
A very short film about time, life and death.
With an average lifespan of just a few weeks, speed-dating seems the perfect solution.
An abstract animation inspired by the energy of nights and bright lights in the city.
An autistic child finds a way of bringing order to a confusing and overwhleming world of people, places, sights and sounds.
Africa is dying… to play football. An optimistic twist on a normally dark reality.
A science fantasy about a frantic journey home from a scrambled mission to solve the ultimate questions.
Shot on one roll of Super 8mm, this surreal stop motion animation charts the belligerent antics of Mark and Lucien. A teddy bear saves the day.
As the gap between ground and flight 502 gets smaller, one passenger doesn't want to sing along.
Small robots from space arrive as tourists on planet earth several million years ago and take pictures as souvenirs of their trip. One of them wanders away from the group and meets an ape-man. Communications between these two races prove to be difficult.
An old traditional ritual… Druids destroy living colours, but one of them opposes…
A young girl is ent to an orphanage where she begins sketching fiery visions. When the head of the orphanage sees her talent, he exploits her art for profit.
A character roams about a strange world searching for things to feed his machine-like creature. Have you ever seen an Unidentified Gnapping Object?
Armand works on the assembly-line of a ravioli canning factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps out, promising to fulfill any two wishes…
After witnessing the death of her father, a young girl's reality blurs with her memories as she journeys into the layered walls of her urban landscape, where fear and sadness take the form of painted and pasted street art characters.
Business as usual at a normal airport. But have you ever thought about the pilot's egos? Two aircraft crews try to find out which plane burns more rubber on a quarter mile.
Yuval arrives at his friend's apartment and begins to suspect that they are plotting to do him harm. The signs build up slowly but surely, up to the point when paranoia becomes reality.
Temerario is the story of Rio, a young cowboy shot and left for dead in the desert. Rio finds himself in a dream of revenge where he is forced to confront his own shadowside.
Wojna is used as a social spot for UNICEF. It tells the story of a little girl at war. She hides in the destroyed schoolbuilding but a soldier finds her and shoots. Reality or a bad nightmare?
A story of espionage in full cold war, in a center of Russian's launching rocket. Who of the two camps will be victorious?
romantic meeting of two mechanical snails in the moonlight.
Carlito, a small laboratory mouse, endures all kinds of experiments…
In a restaurant kitchen, a chicken dreams of escape and freedom while trying to survive a poultry race organised by the team of cooks.
Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.
The greatest tango dancer of the 20's is stuck in a wheelchair after an accident. Thanks to his wife, he recovers the use of his legs, the time of one imaginary dance.
Cow encounters of the weird kind: A herd of cows gets visited by a UFO, keen on messing with them. But wait! Who messes with who?
A Parisian giraffe leads an monotonous life. She decides to become astar by taking a miraculous pill.
In a building, a grandmother bangs on the wall in order to stop her neighbour from singing so loud in the shower.
On his long journey, intergalactic space trucker Eugene occupies himself with mail-ordering various useless gadgets to support his lazy lifestyle. When his merchandise is attacked by a nasty disease, his little robot Han-D can no longer handle the workload.
Lub Lub is enjoying the tasty fruit on top of his hill when some sneaky bullies come to ruin his day. Lucky for Lub Lub he has friends in high places!
Set in a parallel world where a 24/7 work force is in place, a young night worker becomes distracted by the increasing lack of time he gets to spend with his day worker wife.
Action! Thrills!! Sensations!!! Primitive Love!!!!
An absurd tragedy, to accompany a melancholic song by the Tiger Lillies.
There is nothing Plute loves more than working out to the beat of disco music. Unfortunately, his flamboyant routine is interrupted by unexpected company who offers him a sweet deal. Delusional from low-blood sugar, Plute embarks on a psychedelic journey.
The journey of a young boy.
An exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the animated pictures of Sarah's world, as she seeks revenge upon the movie star who broke her heart.
Sometimes taking aplane can be anguish…during the night preceding her travel, a woman has a funny and choreographical nightmare.
Kadir Mutlus' happy life gets turned upside down when he discovers that his moustache is missing. This short is playful yet profound in its portrait of exclusion and short-lived fame which diversity can generate.
In a Greek Temple, three Caryatids support a pediment against all odds.
Glenn is a great marathon man, but isn't it his wife who should step onto the podium?
A typical American family has a day out at the beach, their seemingly perfect lif is turned upside down…
The bakery is doing fine, the girls are in pretty good shape and productivity is at its highest. That's until Ute moves in…
After decades apart, two old ladies run into each other at the hairdressers.
An unbeatable recipe to lighten up life on public transport.
A short film about something 'improper'. But what and who is most out of place?
Two small brothers get into big trouble when their mum steps out of the house for a short errand. Di is a simple tale about love-hate relationship of two young brother in 70s Singapore.
A brother. A sister. Her best friend. One long hot summer day in Chascomus, Argentina. And the love triangle that ensues.
a man carries his dead wife to the truck of the car in front of their 4-year-old daughter. Together they drive to a lake far into the forest. However, everything is not what it seems…
A few people gather in a strange house to face the arrival of a new world.
immersion in a zone where fluid forms and the absence of words reveal that silence precedes all things.
Mark is half-American, half-Slovak. And he has strong beliefs. In a trip to Slovakia he meets Tomas who is wearing a T-shirt that offends his beliefs.
With mechanical precision this 'landscape animation' captures the tension between differences and repititions of form sampled in a suburban housing estate.
Inspired by Stanislav Lems short stories about the spacemen Ljon Tichy, X tells a tale of space travel adventure.
A fluid, virbrant and kinetic riff on one of Al purdy's best-known poems.
Before dawn, the wheat is quietly undulating on the hillside. Before dawn, people will rise and other people will take away their hope.
The Pax Americana is watching over our tranquility, insures our comfort, and guarantees our prosperity. An idyllic postcard of the new Empire.
An ordnary day in the life of two brothers, earning their living by juggling oranges and throwing cartwheels between cars and their heavy exhaust fumes at a crossroads in Guatemala City.
Madam Fang, Mrs. Nguyen and sister Ah Lan are three old friends who have little in common save for unfulfilled dreams. When they venture out for a lively night at the local mega casino, fortune deals them an unexpected hand.
A film about family, friendship, fishing and…
In the early hours, a man leaves a train station and gets into a taxi. It should have been an uneventful ride, but chance crosses the path of three strangers fro much longer than any of them would wish.
A man and his very young son have been on the run for a long time. When they reach their destination, they realise that they are still in trouble.
Ina blind world incapable of seeing the results of its own actions, and unable to look beyond its own narrow concerns, Alex is driven inexorably to meet his ultimate destiny.
Maria couldn't sleep last night. She knows that her mother Carmen leaves her every night, and she knows why.
France, the summer of 1944, at the time of the Liberation.
Gathered in a room, men and women stand still, petrified, staring… Incapable of moving, they seem to be stopped by an invisible force.
An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary animator Norman Mclaren.
Edwin and Edson, 9 and 11 years old, work crushing rocks witht heir father in a mine. However, remarkably, their intense working conditions have not altered their love for life.
A weekend dad goes fishing with his 8-year-old son Martin. The father has been absent for most of his son's life, and trapped in a small rowboat he is confronted with his life choices. Thanks to his father, Martin has gotten an unpleasant glimpse of the realities of adult life, and now he also demands to be treated like an adult. Otherwise, their roles will be reversed.
A surprising visual and aural arrangement synthesises ambient sounds into an inspired musical that tells the story of creaking beds and three unruly children.
Different stories are told in a Parisian suburb, linked by a suicide.
A man talks to himself. Is he crazy?
A film about the thin paper in between cardboard. How fragile items need to be properly protected.
A girl is having trouble falling asleep. Everything is topsy-turvy. The next day, everything is back to normal again. Was last night on the bus just a dream?
The old lady and her last moment of life.
A giant tiger mysteriously appears in a big city. It will reveal the hidden reality in an otherwise ordinary night.
From a completely hostile surrounding, life shows up and blossoms. An homage to master Cartola, on the 25th anniversary of his absence.
A young woman prepares a recipe for American-style lobster, which calls for cutting the live lobster into pieces, before throwing it, still alive, into boiling oil. Alone in her kitchen, faced with the two lobsters that are still moving, she tries to kill them as cleanly as possible.
An old man who spent his life arbitrating the arguments of his two best friends finds himself on the way to their funerals. Incapable of choosing between the two processions, he undertakes a long and contemplative walk…
Sprossling tells the story of a woman who grows her dreamchild in a flower pot. But the perfect motherhood has unexpected side effects.
An ill fated and unconsummated romance between a fan and a flower magically creates a fairy tale ending. A very atypical Bill Plympton film.
A young mormon man gets a little too involved with his latest convert. When her husband comes home from prison, his true mission is uncovered.
A Ukranian fairy tale. One day Zlydni - evil forces that bring misery - come to settle at petro's house. His envious neighbours are happy as Petro's household falls apart. However, when eventually Petro gets rid of the Zlydni, his neighbours are no longer peaceful.
This animated film has been inspired by the letters of Japanese children from the Czech Republic.
A man surrenders.
An experimental film that traces the efforts of a group of beach dwellers to pass an overcast windy day.
Ingemar works at an exotic greenhouse. When his Japanese boss goes away for a trip he can't resist entering 'the forbidden room'. There he finds a big mysterious pot which he waters. The next day he sees that a couple of fingers have grown up from the earth. He continues to water and soon appears, Mebana - something in-between a woman and a plant.
End of war. An army officer is executing the last prisoners-of-war in front of his own troop. Their only chance for survival is playing Beethoven's symphony on the violin. To him this mortal ritual costs more than the lives of his soldiers, and his own.
The 'Venetian', an infamous criminal, has extortedthe 'Eskimo' and now he rules the street. He fears no one. Or does he?
Three rituals. Three figures. Three modern day journeys of transcendence.
A film about animals in five chapters. These animals are subject to strange and deadly situations.
An enthusiastic cop fights a desperate battle against a deranged mutant to save the life of a damsel in distress.
A sequel to the Oscar nominated short 'Guard Dog'. This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results.
The depiction of an individual's descent into his own madness, capturing the perverse poetry of insanity by using motifs of dream, blockout, amnesia and final annihilation.
A man that no one knows is walking in the park without getting anywhere. When the winter arrives and he dies, the local government arranges a big fair in the park.
Greg is reluctant to bring his fiancee home for Thanksgiving dinner. Little wonder, as his brother Todd has a habit of stealing his girlfriends. But that's the least of Greg's worries as Todd has something even more sinister up his sleeve.
A hypochondriac must confront his darkest fears when his home is invaded by a foul mouthed, beer guzzling tumour.
A ;1991' commercial for the Rev. Marion DuFresne's new album 'Pinch Me Jesus'. Including his timeless classics 'Issuses with Tissues' and 'Come Sit on My Lap'. A gift the kids are sure to love!
The story is based on Chushingura (the tale of the forty-seven Ronin), a historical event that was popularised in Kabuki theatre.
Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark.
SPIF is a spoof of the public information films of the fifties with an adult twist. Episode One is a handy guide to sex… on your own!
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe have travelled to malta to shoot the 'sword and sandal' epic 'Gladiator'. However, there are problems on set, and this time its not Russell's temper that isn't being kept in check.
A satirical take on technological failures starring Tikuf, the atomic anomaly, where everything that can go wrong will go wrong!
Sophie's well ordered lifestyle is turned upside-down when her half-sister comes to stay.
Brothers Grimm meets Hammer House in this tale of a father at the end of his tether with his misbehaving son.
the story of a young brick who discovers, in life, its not always easy trying to fit in.
Catharsis follows the journey of a soldier forced to face his demons after being abandoned by his platoon. Through the beauty and serenity of nature he is able to rediscover his humanity and break free from the machine of war.
Forgotten by his family and overlooked by social services, Danny is coming of age in a rough East Bristol housing estate. As he falls under the influence of Jaz, a violent local criminal, one day in his life will shape his future.
many short sketches show the attempts of our character to escape from his post-it prison.
When Elanor journeys through her imagination to the clock of routines, Bert follows hoping to put a melody back into their lives.
Somewhere in the wilderness of Bengal, a little boy awaits the return of his mother.
A little diversion can lead to the most unexpected adventure.
A celebration of the multitude of imaginative ways that Hitchcock attacks the characters in his films.
During an investigation into arguments I found myself needing to argue, but with whom?
This is a story about family, independence, growing up and cities. It declares its intention to make you smile from the outset.
Set in 1930s Germany, Benjamin's Struggle is the tale of a young Jewish boy's attempt to steal the original manuscript of Hitler's Mein Kampf, in the hope that it will end the suffering of his family.
A short film about getting revenge on annoying cold callers.
Royalists rave and republicans rant beneath the Union Jack.
It's definitely a dog day afternoon for one mutt who gets a surprise visit from his vet's finger.
We meet Maggie a strange collector of glass objects d'art called Flimsies.
Dave calls on God to meet him in a café, but not to discuss what you might expect!
A suicidal misfit has a brief encounter with a train station help point.
A theft involving biscuits, a TV and absolutely no police whatsoever.
A small frog is struck by love, then struck by a truck. His adventure continues in the depths of a subterranean salad -processing factory. Determined not to end up sliced, our hero battles his way through a myriad of menacing machines.
In the bizarre yet not unfriendly world of a deserted café, two men exchange their time and unspoken thoughts.
Jeff has an 'F'-ing good time in the bush!!!
The Audition reflects common experiences and struggles of actors told in quirky and touching way. Ridiculous bravado and snide comments one would expect during an audition. Funded by BBC Talent Shorts and produced by Bristol based Calling The Shots.
Pride comes before a fall when The Parkie tries out his new hairpiece.
Anyone for extras? The phone never stops ringing for Derek, budding West Country masseur, as we listen in on the hidden world of the massage profession in a quiet English seaside town.
Annie is obsessed with local history. She's trying to forget her own past.
Carol Morley returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980’s, five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic blur. In Morley’s search for her lost self, conflicting memories weave in and out revealing a portrait of the city, its pop culture and the people who lived it.