Alice, you must be dreaming (Lilian Parodi) 23 minutes 15          

Inspired by Lewis Carroll's –Alice in the wonderland”. An imaginary trip, using the symbols and characters of the original book, and connecting them to this young lady called Alice.    

 

Fierce Vexation of a Dream (Gavin Henry & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock) 30 minutes 15 

Focuses on the story of 2 characters from •A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Shakespeare's timeless themes of love, jealousy and identity are presented in modern context, which offers a hard-hitting reflection of contemporary teenage relationships.        

 

Parallel 42 (Luis Castro) 10 minutes U                   

 

L.A. Joy (Luis Castro) 7 minutes U              

 

Madrid, Madrid (Luis Castro) 10 minutes U                       

 

Root (Seyed Reza Razavi) 15 minutes 15     

The Root is a story about addicts and tramps that live in the south side of Tehran. They do criminal actions and use each other's corpse to make money and use drugs.       

 

The Boys Of Autumn (Mehdi Rahmani) 30 minutes 15     

Yasser and Yossef are two 8 and 9 years old brothers who live with their father. The father makes them do unusual and work to earn money and the only one who can help them is their estranged mother.

 

Trinity (Kevin Meal) 15 minutes 15

The Price of Greed.                

 

Man Out Of Time (Gurcmetan Singh) 13 minutes 12A     

After a terrible accident, Harry wakes on the kitchen floor. His life has changed in a moment. Everything is out of sync. Can Harry escape spiralling further into violence and insanity?  Only mother can save him...         

 

Above & Below With James Trueman (Matt Taylor) 7 minutes 15        

Award-winning news broadcaster James Truman's investigations lead him from Walthamstow to the Kingdom of Heaven, via Swindon, while reporting on a very unusual industrial dispute.      

 

Hearts, Minds and Arms (Geoff Bussetil) 10 minutes 15  

May 2003, Washington DC. A Presidential speechwriter's day is ruined by a bad case of collateral damage on the front line of the War on Terror.  He must turn bad news into good before the world wakes up for breakfast.         

 

Super-Anon (Stephen H. Plitt) 10 minutes 12A     

Superheroes get all the glory - sending their untalented relatives into therapy! Super-Anon is a support group for family relatives of superheroes.

 

Viva Liberty! (Dishad Husain) 20 minutes 15         

Parnoid Muslim, Woody Ali, finds himself accidentally taking a holiday in America's notorious detention centre, Camp Liberty.   

 

Ten Minutes (Ben Mole) 17 minutes 15     

Andy has the task of looking after his father's magazine, but he's well out of his depth. Things take a turn for the worse when Andy accidentally shatters a CD containing pictures for a vital news story ten minutes before the magazine goes to print.        

 

Powerless (Matt Daniels) 90 minutes 15     

When a devastating terrorist attack leaves Britain powerless, Sarah's family find themselves alone and struggling to survive in a new and uncertain world.    

 

Shooting Shona (Abner & Kamma Pastoll) 90 minutes 15

Shooting Shona is an intimate thriller about the disappearance of Shona's flatmate and her subsequent struggle to find her.

 

Private Road  (Barney Platts-Mills) 90 minutes 15

We saw the stars in Private Road.

 

A Page Of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa) 60 minutes 15 

A fascinating and unique glimpse of Japanese silent  film. Using no intertitles to relay his disturbing tale, Kinugasa relies solely on visual invention, expressionistic camera angles, penetrating close-ups and superimpositions.

 

Total time =547 minutes