Shorts programme 2
Tuesday 28th March, 9.15 - 11.30pm
@ Texture, 67 Lever St, Manchester M1 1FL
1.
Enemies Within
Dir. Sélim Azzazi
France | 2016 | 27mins | Language: French with English subtitles
In the 90's, during the algerian civil war, terrorism reaches France. Two men. Two identities. One fight.
2.
FOUND
Dir. Richard Hughes
Australia | 2016 | 20mins | Language: English
Ten years on, a father's relentless search for his daughter leads him to a remote farmhouse, three states away from where she went missing.
3.
Wanderlust
Dir. Barnaby Boulton
UK | 2016 | 9mins | Language: English
A young, naive traveller relies on her older brother as a guide through endless woods and a wilderness with no end in sight, but when her guide suddenly disappears she is forced to re evaluate her position in life and dependancy on her brother.
4.
Pazzo & Bella
Dir. Marcello Di Noto
Italy | 2017 | 15mins | Language: Italian with English subtitles
A gangster offers to Pazzo and Bella the possibility to get a huge sum of money to kill a man. Pazzo is coward on a wheelchair. Bella is a alcool and gambling addicted. They have never been doing something like this in their lives. But Bella is a dangerous woman and want to change her life no matter how. Pazzo doesn't want anything, but Bella in his live. He loves her. And this is a problem.
5.
Hipopotamy
Dir. Piotr Dumala
Polish | 2014 | 12mins | Language: No dialogue.
A story about a terrifying encounter between men, women and children.
6.
Heathen
Dir. Siobhan Mulready
Australia | 2016 | 10mins | Language: English
To win the attention of his father, 14-year-old Trent is conducting an anthropological study on the effects of the drought on his rural community. But with the aridity spreads anger and despair, and the discovery of a dark side to his father leads Trent into a darkness of his own.
7.
The Cyclops
Dir. Hugh Mulhern
UK | 2016 | 12mins | Language: English
Luka comes home to apologise, but can his little brother Lip forgive him?
8.
A Battling Body
Dir. Laura Ghazal
France | 2016 | 2mins | Language: French
A Battling Body" is the story of a fight : a one minute choreography to illustrate a whole life, a young life, hampered by multiple sclerosis , stopped in its tracks by violent and unpredictable outbreaks. A musical and poetic short film to talk about the disease another way.
9.
Relentless
Dir. Tayanna Todd
UK | 2016 | 6mins | Language: English
A young Latina boxer determined to go pro finds herself conflicted after receiving a full academic scholarship to Georgetown.
