NEW SHORTS: Global Stories
Sat 16 Jan 12:00 Hackney Picturehouse (screen TBC)
A session of global short films by UK based filmmakers that takes us across countries and cities, from the city streets of Brooklyn and Kathmandu to the remoteness of Kyrgyzstan and Siberia, to the suburbia of Middle America and New Zealand.
Film running order:
VANISHED Colette McWilliams & Glemerson Carrilho 14 mins
BLACKOUT Raghav Pasricha 20 mins
MAYA Veemsen Lama 15 mins
TALGAR THE HUNTER Charlie Crane 13 mins
TAMARA Sofia Safanova 16 minutes
MADELEINE Ollie Verschoyle 10 mins
SKANK Sophie Francesca 7 mins
BROOKLYN BLUES Dean Loxton 9 mins
106 mins
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BLACKOUT
Raghav Pasricha 20 mins
Blackout is a short fiction film about Anirudh, a struggling journalist who sees an opportunity for a story when he gets word of a neighbour’s death – a retired army general with deep roots in the community. The film follows Anirudh’s attempts to separate fact from fiction, as he grapples with the demands of his new employer versus his professional ethics.
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BROOKLYN BLUES
Dean Loxton 9 mins
A troubled Brooklyn couple visit a psychic healer for help, but things only get worse.
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MADELEINE
Ollie Verschoyle 10 mins
In a small American town a mundane event offers a glimpse in to a normally unseen world of mysterious connections. A businessman rushes for his train but just misses it. As he waits for the next service another world seems to open up before him and we witness a series of disparate characters each enter their own state of delusion, rapture or heightened awareness.
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MAYA
Veemsen Lama 15 mins
Narrowly escaping the clutches of the slave traders, Maya, Bikram and Kancha suddenly find themselves trapped in the heart of Kathmandu. Vulnerable, penniless and alone, they are forced to live their life on the streets with only hopes and dreams of happiness.
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SKANK
Sophie Francesca 7 mins
In a cheap living room in small-town New Zealand a children’s birthday party is in full swing. While the kids are caught up in the ecstasy of the party, young mum Hayley is entangled in more ‘adult’ affairs.
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TALGAR THE HUNTER
Charlie Crane 13 mins
Talgar the Hunter is a beautiful, peaceful and moving short film about loss and reconciliation. Part documentary, part fable. Talgar takes a journey through kyrgyzstan's bleak landscape to heal his closest companion Tumara the Golden Eagle. There is only one man alive that can bring inner peace back to this quiet hero.
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TAMARA
Sofia Safanova 16 mins
Siberian bus conductress Tamara introduces her teenage son Max to the colleague she started dating recently. As they meet in a jolly karaoke bar, she gets suspended between the two men and is forced to look for her own self instead.
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VANISHED
Colette McWilliams & Glemerson Carrilho 14 mins
A Young man drives his elderly mother from the Brazilian country side to Sao Paulo City, to find out what happened to his father, who disappeared 35 years ago. Powerful yet surprisingly light hearted, Vanescer is an acutely observed road-trip drama that examines the modern, inter-generational fallout of Brazil’s Military Regime.
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