Full programme:
NOT FOR SALE
Director: Matthew C. Levy
2013 / 11 min / United States
http://matthewclevy.com/
Inside an antique shop where nothing is for sale, Anthony Pisano invites you to stop in, reflect on life, play jazz and satisfy your curiosity.
TOUCH LIFE
Directors: Leo Bruges and Marcin Knyziak
2014 / 13 min / United Kingdom
Agata is living the life of the modern, independent blind woman when she meets Matt. He is attentive and loving, and now he wants to introduce Agata to his American family 3,000 miles away. In the days leading up to the trip, Agata ponders on what it means to be in a relationship.
HOW I LIVE, AS YOU WANTED TO KNOW
Director: Christian Einshøj
2014 / 15 min / Denmark
http://www.einshoj.com/
The young filmmaker’s grandfather has lived alone since his wife died last year. But now he has met a new woman online. To persuade her to visit him, his grandson helps him shoot a small film about what the title promises: how he lives. The result is a warm, loving and understatedly witty ‘home video’. Every small detail is full of the stories of a lifetime.
COSMIC VALENTINE
Director: Chris Cascarano
2015 / 5 min / USA
dotwebdotinfodotnet.com/
This film explores the profound and gritty wisdom of our channel to the cosmos: the bodacious, blonde-haired astrologist ‘Angel Eyedealism’. Our cosmic sage is an East Village icon, counselling thousands of people on love and how to get it.
HONEYMOON
Director: Grzegorz Krawiec
2010 / 30 min / Poland
http://www.polishdocs.pl/en/director/1482/grzegorz_krawiec
Tomek has just left prison after 7 years. On his release day he joyfully marries a fellow inmate, Agnieszka. While she awaits her trial from prison, Tomek begins a new start in life, reconnecting with his estranged mother and searching for a home for himself and his new wife. The couple work to sustain their romance while navigating the strict regulations separating prisoners from the public.
A KISS, DEFERRED
Animated by the Moth Collective
Directors: Daniel Chester, Dave Prosser, Ifor Ashton, Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
2015 / 4 min / UK
http://mothcollective.co.uk/
A 12-year-old girl’s life is shattered by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Years later, she receives an email from her childhood crush.
TRANSGENDER, AT WAR AND IN LOVE
Director: Fiona Dawson for the New York Times
2015 / 13 min / USA
http://www.fionadawson.com
www.transmilitary.org
This short documentary shares the challenges of a transgender military couple, who are banned from serving openly.
This is an external screening taking place at the Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ). The event is free and open to all.
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Full programme:
HOTEL 22
Director: Elizabeth Lo
2014 / 8 min / Germany
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless. This film captures one dramatic night on the Hotel 22 bus.
ENTREMUNDO (WORLDS ON EDGE)
Director: Thiago B. Mendonça
2014 / 25 min / Brazil
One day in the most unequal neighbourhood of Sao Paolo.
IF I DIE ON MARS
Director: Ed Perkins
2015 / 10 min / UK
Meet the three aspiring astronauts willing to leave behind everything—and everyone—to travel to Mars…and never return. Over 200,0000 people from around the globe are competing for four seats on a MarsOne spaceship and the chance to be the first humans to colonise Mars. In If I Die on Mars, director Ed Perkins asks three finalists about their ambitions, their fears, and their reasons for leaving earth forever.
PERFECTION IS FOREVER
Director: Mara Trifu
2015 / 18 mins / UK
Human beings always aspire to become something more, doing their best to hold back time in pursuit of eternal love, youth and beauty. In Hollywood, two lost souls seek to become heroes under the shade of a lonely palm tree.
LUCHADORA
Director: River Finlay
2015/ 12 mins/ United States
‘Luna Mágica’ is a professional Lucha Libre Wrestling star who dreams of becoming World Wrestling Champion while struggling to make ends meet as a single mom in Mexico City and regain custody of her son, who was taken by her estranged husband who claims she is unfit to be a mother because of her profession as a luchadora.
The evening will include short stories capturing the essence of big issues, films showing life in other parts of the world under difficult or extraordinary circumstances, and stories focusing on remarkable individuals.
The lineup:
LOOKING AT TIME
Director: Brandon Lavoie
2015 / 3 min / USA
http://www.brandonlavoiefilms.com/
Salim Shariff, a 72-year-old watch repairman originally from Bombay, India, now living & working in Jackson Heights shares his memories of living in NY for the past 30 years.
STREET ANGEL
Director: Stella Scott
2014 / 4 min / UK
http://www.stellascott.net/
Street Angel follows an angel-card reader through London as she looks for connections and people who need guidance. The film blends the hyper-real with the familiar, offering us a new perspective on our everyday realities.
A WEE NIGHT IN
Director: Stuart Edwards
2014 / 11 min / UK
http://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/tag/stuart-edwards/
Chrissy is now 95, frail but full of life. From her house in a village near Glasgow, she engages in activities that keep her active. Today, Chrissy’s 91-year-old boyfriend Bill is coming over for a nice evening that will pass by according to the slow rhythm of age. An intimate, heartwarming portrait of love in old age, full of recognisable, comedic moments.
CALLING UKRAINE
Director: Jean Counet
2015 / 12 min / Netherlands
http://www.tamfilms.com/
Through a Skype call the daily life, dreams and fears of a family in Eastern-Ukraine is revealed while the bombs are falling in the background. A grandmother in Latvia phones with her sister and child who live in the war zone of Eastern-Ukraine, months without often having water and electricity. We see the traces of the war on the face of the grandmother who, like the viewer is powerless.
THE TYPIST
Director: Kristine Stolakis
2015 / 8 min / USA
From the archives of the “queer Smithsonian,” San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, comes the forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran tasked with writing the military discharges of outed gay seamen. The Typist details a conflicted clerk’s participation in discrimination and his divided allegiance to homosexuality and heroism.
MARATHON
Director: Theo Rigby, Kate McLean
2015 / 9 min / USA
http://www.immigrant-nation.com
Julio Saucé, an undocumented, Ecuadorian New Yorker, struggles to makes ends meet, all while running 80 miles a week to train for the biggest race in the world, the New York City Marathon.
GOING BACK HOME
Director: Tim O’Donnell
2015 / 17 min / USA
http://www.GoingBackHomeMovie.com
Fueled by the ghosts of a tragic past, a Lost Boy of Sudan works three jobs in a tireless effort to achieve the American Dream and return to his wife and children halfway across the world.
