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BBFC Ratingf-rated FilmBafta Shorts 2017

Certificate15
Year2017
Director(s)Various
CountryUK
Running Time1HR 38MINS
SeasonMain Programme

The EE British Academy Film Awards brings to you the best British short films from the last twelve months.

These eight perfectly formed films will take you on a rollercoaster ride through the imaginations of the BAFTA winners of the future. Full details of all films can be found at queensfilmtheatre.com.

"A bright, broad-minded movie medley" ★★★★ – PETER BRADSHAW, THE GUARDIAN

 

The Party

Dir: Andrea Harkin | UK | 2016 | 15 mins

Belfast, 1972. Laurence welcomes his cousin and man-on-the-run Mickey to a night of drinking, dancing and young love. But in the morning, reality catches up with them.

A Love Story

Dir: Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara | UK | 2016 | 7 mins

Two creatures fall in love, weaving a colourful world together. But when darkness threatens to consume one of them, the other must fight to stay together or risk being torn apart.

Mouth of Hell

Dir: Samir Mehanovic | UK | 2016 | 15 mins

A child labourer in the burning coalfields of Jharia, India has to make a choice. Should he do what is right, or save his dying mother?

Standby

Dir: Charlotte Regan | UK | 2016 | 6 mins

Gary and Jenny share the same cramped 'office space' as all beat cops: the front seat of a police car.

Tough

Dir: Jennifer Zheng | UK | 2016 | 5 mins

Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.

Consumed

Dir: Richard John Seymour | UK | 2016 | 19 mins

A cinematic voyage through the mines, landscapes, factories and ports of Chinese production.

The Alan Dimension

Dir: Jac Clinch | UK | 2016 | 9 mins

Alan Brown uses divine powers of recognition to foresee the fate of mankind... and breakfast. Meanwhile, Wendy has had enough of being married to 'the next step in cognitive evolution'.

Home

Dir: Daniel Mulloy | UK | 2016 | 20 mins

Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday.


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