FIRST LEAGUE
6., 11., 12. and 13.6. 2018
The best short films from film festivals! Come and check out the cream of the past year's festivals.
Glucose (USA)
SUNDANCE - Short Film Jury Award
Director: Jeron Braxton |
Year: 2017 | Length: 14 min | Animation |
A dream within an unconscious boxer in a video game who's subconscious is a surreal reflection of our modern world.
As I Love You (Spain)
CLERMONT-FERRAND - Audience Award
Director: Fernando García-Ruiz Rubio | Producer: Alvaro Olalquiaga Aranguren |
Star: Jordi Aguilar, Silvia Alonso, Carlos Areces |
Year: 2016 | Length: 22 min | Live Action |
Dani is a petty criminal who falls for the police to stop after landing a trade.
Poles Apart (UK)
BAFTA - Best British Short Animation in 2018
Director: Paloma Baeza | Producer: Ser En Low |
Star: Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph May |
Year: 2017 | Length: 12 min | Animation |
In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her friend.
Lost Face (Australia/Canada)
PALM SPRINGS - ShortFest Online Audience
Director: Sean Meehan | Producers: Sam McGarry, Matt Gillespie |
Star: Gerald Auger, Daryl Benson, Morris Birdyellowhead |
Year: 2017 | Length: 14 min | Live Action |
Subienkow is in mortal danger. The fort he and his fellow fur thieves have erected in the snow is in flames - attacked by the very tribe they enslaved to build it - now only he and Big Ivan...
This Far Up (UK)
BAFTA Cymru - Best Short Film 2017
Director: Ewan Jones-Morris | Producer: Miranda Ballesteros |
Star: Nicolas Booth, Daniel Connolly, Dainis Dauska |
Year: 2016 | Length: 11 min | Animation |
Outside a remote farm house a man attempts to fix a Landrover. In the distance a stranger approaches. THIS FAR UP blends animation and landscape in a surreal exploration of life, death, and...
Cowboy Dave (UK)
BAFTA - Best British Short Film 2018
Director: Colin O'Toole | Producers: Mathias Gilay, Jonas Mortensen |
Star: Gerald Auger, Daryl Benson, Morris Birdyellowhead |
Year: 2017 | Length: 25 min | Live Action |
The story of how a young boy's life is changed by a chance encounter with an out of luck musician. With moments of emotional and physical intensity and elements of humour scattered throughout, a film about how inspiration can come from the strangest of places.
Rupture (Jordan/Canada)
SLAMDANCE - Narrative Shorts Grand Jury Prize 2018
Director: Yassmina Karajah | Producers: David Findlay, Leen Issa and Virginie Nolin |
Star: Assad al Arid, Salam al Marzouqi, Hussein al Ahmad |
Year: 2017 | Length: 18 min | Live Action |
Rupture follows the journey of four Arab teens on their quest to find a public pool in their new city on a hot summer day.
To Build a Fire (France/UK)
RHODE ISLAND - Grand Prize Best Animation
Director: Fx Goby | Producers: Charlotte Bavasso, Christel Delahaye, Chris O'Reilly |
Star: Tony Fish |
Year: 2016 | Length: 13 min | Animation |
To celebrate Jack London's 100th death anniversary, director Fx Goby adapted his famous novel, "To Build a Fire", tragic tale of a trapper and his dog in the freezing Yukon, into an animated short film.
Total length of the screening 129 min. In Czech and Slovak language with English subtitles.
