2021
Award Winners
ANNA
Directed by Dekel Berenson
Filmed in: Ukraine
Completed: April 1, 2019
Run Time: 15 minutes
Language: Ukrainian (English subtitles)
Living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine, Anna is an aging single mother who is desperate for a change. Lured by a radio advertisement, she goes to party with a group of American men who are touring the country, searching for love. Nominated for a short Palme d'Or, BIFA award winner for Best British Short Film, was shortlisted for a BAFTA, more than 200 selections and dozens of awards.
The Waste Land
Directed by Wang Meng
Filmed in: China
Completed: May 31, 2020
Run Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Language: Chinese
A rural youth who has nothing to do and becomes insane due to his persistent pursuit of love.
Red t' Blue
Directed by Jay Martin
Filmed in: United Kingdom
Completed: August 31, 2020
Run Time: 23 minutes
Language: English
Redt'Blue is a documentary short, focusing on how, and why, the ex-mining town constituency of Mansfield swung from the Labour party, which had held it for a consecutive 94-years, to the Conservative party in the 2017 snap-election. A party which had not claimed the seat since its creation in 1885.
EXHIBITION
Directed by Sylvia Borges
Filmed in: Germany
Completed: February 6, 2020
Run Time: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Language: German (English subtitles)
In the age of smartphones an exhibitionist struggles to get the attention he needs.
Time is God
Directed by Pepo Alfaro
Filmed in: Spain
Completed: April 8, 2020
Run Time: 4 minutes
Language: N/A
Director's statement: "TIME is not real - it is a human construct to help us differentiate between now and our perception of the past. The concept of time is simply an illusion made up of human memories, everything that has ever been and ever will be is happening RIGHT NOW."
Dorothea and the Myotragus
Directed by Núria Abad & Marta Hierro
Filmed in: Spain, United Kingdom
Run Time: 1 hour 40 seconds
Language: English
1909, a young British woman boards a ship towards Mallorca, following the path of some mysterious bones found in a cave. For two years, she climbs, crawls and explores every cavity in the rocks of Mallorca, Eivissa and Menorca, narrating her experience in her diaries. The first of those diaries ended up in flames during a fire, but the rest have survived to tell the story in detail. "Dorothea and the Myotragus" is a documentary that includes animation to recreate the diaries written by one of the most important female palaeontologists of all time during her stay on the Balearic Islands, a woman who struggled against the gender stereotypes of those days and who discovered mysterious extinct Mediterranean animals, such as the mythical Myotragus Balearicus.
Area A
Directed by Gareth Loughlin
Filmed in: Palestine
Completed: May 14, 2020
Run Time: 13 minutes 43 seconds
Language: English
A taxi driver from Bethlehem whose movement is dictated by an occupied territory reflects on media and the sense of being trapped.
Edge of Chaos
Directed by Alyssa Girvan
Filmed in: Ireland
Completed: September 17, 2020
Run Time: 1 hour 26 minutes 30 seconds
Language: English
THE EDGE OF CHAOS is Alyssa Girvan's debut feature, where she explores the consequences of traumatic family secrets that no one has mentioned in decades. The film follows the well-respected and wealthy Keenan family, whose members only hold loose connections to each other. When their alcoholic daughter Carrie attempts to blackmail the family patriarch Derek over his corrupt business dealings, she doesn't know what consequences her actions would bring. For the first time in years the family has to come together as one and it is only when they accept their own failings as a whole, that they finally find back together again.
Day X
Directed by Manuel Weiss
Filmed in: Germany
Completed: August 17, 2019
Run Time: 1 hour 36 minutes
Language: German (English subtitles)
A single, widowed woman is abruptly torn from her difficult daily routine by the abduction of her daughter, only to discover a horrible family secret.
While We Wait
Directed by Alyssa Girvan
Filmed in: United Kingdom
Completed: July 1, 2020
Run Time: 35 minutes 29 seconds
Language: English
A documentary exploring the Norfolk Mental Health service through the experience of 10 patients impacted by waiting lists that can run for years.
Darker, Darkest
Directed by Jerome Velinsky
Filmed in: Australia
Completed: September 5, 2019
Run Time: 14 minutes 30 seconds
Language: English
A man wakes from a nightmare to find he's being stalked by a mysterious intruder lurking outside his house...