A selection of shorts about personal connections that are being made, being broken, being sought or simply being.

PROGRAMME

WHITE GLASS GLOBE
Dir. Hassan Jafari Dariush | 20 mins | Iran
In a society bound by tradition and religion, an Iranian girl and an Afghan refugee risk everything for a secret love. While one dreams of freedom and the other fights for survival in a world that denies them both.

YA HANOUNI
Dir. Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib | 3 mins | France
While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?

FRIDAY IS MUSHROOM SOUP
Dir. Arnold T Rice | 17 mins | UK
Burnt-out home carer Kate finds herself in uncharted territory when her favourite cranky client Doug drops some unexpected news.

WILDFLOWER
Dir. Carina Pierro Corso | 5 mins | Portugal
A feeling of emptiness, a restless mind and two pieces of land. What is born from the void that unites them? Wildflower is a poetic essay about the undesirable, the lack of control and duality that seeks to explore the different possibilities of interaction between human beings and the uncontrollable side of nature.

A SIGHT OF HER
Dir. Hediye Khaniyan | 16 mins | Iran
A casting director pushes a young actress by probing her personal relationship with her father to evoke a reaction. A Sight of Her explores the troubling intersection between artistic vulnerability and ethical boundaries.

YOU HAD MY SMILE
Dir. Tobias Little | 8 mins | UK
Burrowed in a long-forgotten harbour town in the depths of winter, Owen Maddock prepares to set out on one last boating excursion in an attempt to heal the aching grief buried in the heart of the former sailor.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Dir. Tom Gentle | 6 mins | UK
Confronted by an old acquaintance, Lee is taken aback by the question, “Do you have kids?” It’s a friendly question tossed casually into conversation, but for Lee it has a complex and difficult answer. How to encapsulate the world within her, another dimension where the traumatic and beautiful exist side by side? Exploring and enduring this place, Lee finds the strength she needs to answer.

HOLY HEAVÊNESS
Dir. Farnoosh Abedi, Negah Khezre Fardyardad, Mohammad Ghaffari | 10 mins | Iran
The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones. There are wounds in life that eat away at you like leprosy. The weight of the death of loved ones sometimes becomes so overwhelming that to get rid of this weight another birth is inevitable.

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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