Scroll through the A-Z list of independent shorts from all over the world. Click on the title for a detailed page on each film. Remember, this is the 2007 list!
Amelia and Michael
A married couple appear to have all the trappings of wealth, success and happiness, but both Amelia and Michael have secrets they are concealing from each other.
Animal Book
Two sisters exist in a threatening world of giant machinery in which their purpose is to serve and maintain. Without warning, a normal day is interrupted by a mysterious flying book and one of them is offered a chance to escape the world for a better life.
The Anniversary Present
A black comedy delving into the volatile emotionality of newlyweds.
The Apology Line
The most talked-about short documentary of the year: based around the creation of a real-life 'apology line' where members of the public can anonymously confess to absolutely anything, over the phone.
Badmouth
A retro short set in 1988 North London. A tale of tragedy and loss, set against the portrait of a neighbourhood. Shot in one continuous take, in high def.
Beauty Is The Promise Of Happiness
Kill your deities. Open your eye.
Being Mickey
Mickey arrives in Croatia from the USA, unable to cope with George Bush's politics.
Bella
Bella strolls on the beach of her youth, reflecting on life.
The Big Lie
An old Scottish Brigadier remembers fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
Blinders
Where fantasy and reality meet for a drink...
Blood On His Hands
In a historic trial, James Taylor must choose whether his brother’s murderer is sentenced to death or spend the rest of his life in prison.
The Bridge (Austria)
The story is based on an actual occurence and took place on a bridge during the war of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
The Bridge (UK)
A 30yr old man with schitzophrenia and a 19yr old girl are forced to leave their own homes - to seek a better life only to find loneliness and desperation...until one day, fate intervenes.
The Chair
A businessman refuses to get out of his office chair.
Cherries
A class of teenage boys have a lesson they'll never forget and one that will change their lives forever
Cheat Neutral
Since the sixties concentrations of heartbreak, cheating and jealousy in the atmosphere have risen dramatically. CheatNeutral.com provides a market-based solution to this essential problem of modern life, by offering to offset your infidelity…
Club Soda
A young kid arrives in New York from Boston to become an actor and is befriended by a cast of characters while hanging out at a bar. He robs the joint which brings him into conflict with his friends forcing him to re-evaulte his life and change.
The Collectors
Two strangers have to spend an uneasy night together in the middle of a large English forest after Edgar, a butterfly collector, helps Julia, a woman who has hurt her ankle whilst walking. Help, and the truth, won’t arrive until the morning.
La Coupure
A private boys' school teacher is brutally assaulted one night and must return to a life that feels not her own.
Cranium Theatre
Enter the world of the Brain Farmer-- A quaint rural plot of land where he tends his crop of brain cabbages which he grows from sections of his own head.
The Death Strip
East Berlin 1980, Mike (11) and his family attempt an escape across what was known as the Death Strip to West Berlin.
Deface
Sooyoung is a faceless worker in North Korea. But when his daughter dies of starvation, his outrage drives him to vandalize the propaganda billboards that decorate the town, an act that is punishable by death.
The Demonology Of Desire
A love story... with a caustic heart.
Dragonflies
Short story about two teenagers living in the small town at the seaside.
Dunny
An obese eleven-year-old with an affinity for chocolate tries to give a love letter to a girl that doesn't like him and winds up at dinner with her suburban family.
E.C.U.
A documentary on a univercity trip to Paris, with personal opinion as a major factor.
Eels Aal im Schädel (EELS)
A traveler suffers from a mysterious disease. He is searching for salvation in this animated film.
Elevator Music
Problems arise when a conservative old man walks into the same lift as a 15 year old girl who likes to play loud music from her mobile phone.
The End
The story of a writer who is trying to write the story told in the film.
Farmer Brown
Follow this pillar of the American work ethic as he feeds the chickens,
chops the wood, digs up the garden, and deals with incursions from other
realms into his idyllic world.
Fetch
His name is John Fetcher but everyone calls him 'Fetch' because he gets things, that's what he does.
First Impressions From People That I Met On The Street
Do you think I am good looking? If you were to see me on the street would you look at me?... In a world of perceptions you are not who you are but what other people think you are!
Fission
A motion graphic film about a man see himself as a graffiti on the wall.
Flighty
A short film about butterfly speed dating.
Forna
A short film about a cock in a garden.
Forward
A short film involving a re-enactment of the Civil War and other, more personal, bad breakups.
Shorts: The Animated
12:30 Saturday 6 October Cineworld
There are sixteen animated films in this program.
Documentary Shorts 1
16:30 Friday 28 September
There are eight films in this program.
Documentary Shorts 2
16:30 Wednesday 3 October Cineworld
There are seven films in this program.
