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The Neolith
Daniel Boocock / United Kingdom / 30 minutes / English Language
A mysterious individual takes action against a pack of bloodthirsty outsiders whose thirst for dominance is thriving.
Bernard
Paul Flannery / United Kingdom / 4 Minutes / English Language
Animation
Bernard is annoyed and flabbergasted at being called the black sheep of the family for nothing more than his lifestyle choices and drinking habits. Not happy with being labelled a boozer and a liability he is seizing this moment to unload his outrage on anyone who will listen, if it takes him all day.
Birthday Girl
Portia A. Buckley / United Kingdom / 17 Minutes / English Language
Starring: Rebecca Callard, David Judge, Curtis Flowers
Set in Manchester’s notorious Moss Side, a single mother’s 43rd birthday party ends in disaster when her lover unexpectedly arrives and clashes with her overprotective son.
The Last One
Kamil Krawczycki / Poland / 12 Minutes / Polish Language with English Subtitles
Starring: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Witold Dębicki, Elżbieta Jarosik
75 years old Zofia focuses only on preparations for her own death. Life suddenly decides to surprise her more than once.
Schmetterling
Ella Scanlon / United Kingdom / 10 Minutes / English Language
Starring: Edmund Attrill, Mairin Schmidt, Mehdi Benali
Ralph, a film subtitler who is numb to the world around him, begins to notice changes in himself after watching a butterfly documentary called "Schmetterling".
Schmetterling (2019) was awarded Best Drama or Comedy short film by guest judges from the BFI NETWORK.
The Last Mermaid
Fi Kelly / United Kingdom / 16 Minutes / English Language
Starring: Janey Godley, Sanjeev Kohli, Gabriel Quigley
Vape-smoking, whisky-swigging middle-aged mermaid PEARL hides away on the banks of a remote Scottish loch keeping herself to herself. Owner of an aquatic fantasy sex-line site, she lives a very different life to her enchanting ancestors ... she's the ultimate fish out of water.
The Lost Scot
Julien Cornwall / United Kingdom / 15 Minutes / English Language
Starring: James Corrigan, Christopher Adams, Chris Kaye
After a clay shoot goes wrong, a miserable cynic, an alcoholic and an accountant find themselves lost in the Scottish Moorlands with the body of a gamekeeper.
Absent
Libby Burke Wilde / United Kingdom / 5 Minutes / English Language
Starring: Imogen King, Kaine Zajaz, Lucy Thackeray
Ruth
Alex Rollins Berg / United States / 10 Minutes / English Language
Starring: Lynn Cohen, Barbara Tirrell
A middle-aged woman struggles to keep her high-pressure job while tending to her elderly mother.
Princess
Edem Kelman / United Kingdom / 10 Minutes / English Language
Starring: Robinah Kirondé, Keren Osei
All around the city there are lives, crossing and intersecting. One day you might find a balloon on the floor, look at it long and hard, and ask: Who did it once belong to? Whose face did it light up? Where did it take flight and when did it land? What joy was it once commemorating, now only to be trodden on and wheeled over between alleyways and curbs?
Home Time
Bhulla Beghal / United Kingdom / 4 Minutes / English Language
Starring: Avian Mahey
Made during the CV19 lockdown and commissioned by Multistory as part of their project, Stories in Isolation, Home Time tells a child’s simple point of view during a congested and manic period. In the midst of a nationwide lockdown, a school-boy is just a boy. Now that school is been taken from him, his realisation of how much he loved his teachers, classmates and the routine arises and he poetically awaits the day he can return.