Local Shorts
Joel, the Superman
Dir: Ben Weiner
London 2008
10 Mins
Nine year old Joel, starved of parental affection, retreats into an iconic person to protect himself after accidentally killing his pet goldfish.
Drama
Paths of Gloria
Dir: Melanie LeblondMexico/ London 2008
20 mins
An intimate portrait of Gloria Mestre – “The Mexican Goddess of Dance”, who performed on stage with Maria Callas and appeared in more than sixty movies of the “Golden Age of Mexican Cinema” in the 1940’s and 1950’s
Documentary
Signs
Dir: Sunny KingLondon 2008
2 mins 3 secs
A cybercafé owner has more than he can handle when a customer can’t read the signs.
Comedy
Stolen Clothes
Dir: Christopher CargillLondon 2008
23 mins
Downtrodden Lloyd decides to rob unsuspecting city worker Alex only to find a photo in Alex's wallet that binds the two and changes both their worlds
Drama
Stiletto
Dir: William MagerLondon 2008
16 mins 14 secs
A Hitchcock Blonde asks an unwitting stranger to mind her handbag. She disappears. A darkly comic thriller that pays affectionate homage to the master of suspense.
Thriller
Baghdad Express
Dir: Nimer Rashed
London 2008
11 mins 9 secs
A young girl working in her father’s Arabic restaurant is forced to decide which comes first: her dreams or her family.
Drama
The Constant Father
Dir: Rupert BryanLondon 2008
12 mins 37 secs
When the past shapes the future can we succeed where our parents failed? Following news of his father’s death, Tom returns to the family home he hasn’t seen for fifteen years to confront his past.
Drama
We Call Her Daisy
Dir: Stefan GeorgiouLondon 2008
23 mins
A young woman struggling to make the life in London she wants must deal with an unexpected circumstance the only way she knows how and must come to terms with the fact that it will effect her more than she realises.
Drama
Pressurized
Dir: Rudolf BLondon 2007
2 mins 30 secs
A short, sharp satire for these turbulent times.
Drama
The Magnificent Moustache
Dir: Alina GavrielatosLondon 2008
3 mins 30 secs
Exploring issues of identity, gender and desire, the main protagonists are female and in their quest to understand themselves they get a moustache: a visible masculine trait that exposes them to another dimension of their own personalities.
Experimental Drama
Dear Anne Frank
Dir: Ahmad El-Sanhouri
London 2007
16 mins 17 secs
Aisha, a 13 year old Muslim girl, is delighted to get the part of Anne Frank in a school play, but her mother is shocked to discover that her daughter is playing the role of a presecuted Jewish character.
Drama
Crone
Dir: Mikey PleaseLondon 2008
5 mins
It is peculiar what people notice and what they choose to blind their eye to!
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