SHORTS PROGRAMME 4
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SHORTS PROGRAMME 4: THU 21 OCT, 6.40PM & MON 25 OCT, 6.30PM
HE MURDERED SLEEP
Dir. Jeremy Boxen - 18:45 - English - Canada - World Premiere
What do you get when the Scottish Play is shoved through a cyberpunk grinder? Neon nightmares and laser gun blues.
SWIPED
Dir. Edward J Douglas - 3:43 - English - Canada - UK Premiere
When Melody decides to swipe a few hot guys on her augmented reality dating app, she meets her match in a man who may be more—or less—than meets the eye...
SOLAR SAILOR
Dir. Philip Reinking - 10:03 - Chinese - UK - UK Premiere
In the future, a girl returns to the abandoned earth but finds that humans aren't particularly welcome anymore.
THE SIMULATION
Dir. Faye Fillingham - 10:29 - English - UK - London Premiere
An insomniac woman generates an AI to alleviate her guilt related to a mysterious corpse, but her creation has other ideas.
HOSPICE
Dir. Soo-young Kim - 11:07 - Korean - Korea - World Premiere
A man awakens in hospital, tied to the bed, with no idea where he is. His nurse says she will make him comfortable, but what excatly does that mean?
RED STRING OF FATE
Dir. Lovina Yavari, Lance Fernandes - 10:00 - English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese - Canada - London Premiere
In the year 2090, a robotics engineer tries to bring her fallen lover back to life.
JUNE
Dir. Dwayne Cameron - 14:54 - English - New Zealand - International Premiere
Willow and David receive a serious diagnosis from their doctor and attempt to deal with the mundane as their world disintegrates around them.
ISKRA
Dir. Adrian Replanski - 11:30 - French, Russian - France - UK Premiere
As a strange plague tightens its grip on an isolated rural village, a young woman's contact with the outside world breeds unrest amongst a superstitious townspeople.
jettison
Dir. JJ Pollack - 11:13 - English- US - World Premiere
A restless young woman ships off to fight an interstellar war, only to struggle with the effects of being cut off from her home by both time and space
