This Winter Season 2014 features a selection of 9 short films from Canada, Ireland, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA.

There will be a selection of snacks including retro sweets and free popcorn.

For your diary: Tickets £3 available on our website from the 20th January, Screening on Saturday 21st February @7:30pm in the studio. This event follows the success of the last Secret Cinema event and Robin Williams tribute screening of Dead Poets Society – organised by Gemma and raising over £285.00 for Mind. Tickets sell fast. Read about it here.

The films to be featured are:

1. STAFF RIDING

Dir: Marco Casino | South Africa 2013 | 5min | Documentary

Staff riding, the local slang for train surfing, is a widespread phenomenon in South Africa. Katlehong is one of the largest townships in South Africa and has played a key role in the history of the struggle against apartheid. In a context where violence, rampant poverty, abuse of alcohol/drugs and infant birth/AIDS are the masters, the train surfing is configured as the search for a social redemption that will never come for the characters of this story.

2. IN AUGUST

Dir: Jenna Hasse | Switzerland 2014 | 9min. | Drama

Margaux, six years old, wakes up early in this August morning. She sees her father storing boxes in the car while her mother is still asleep. This morning is special to the girl who is about to experience a significant moment in her life.

Participated in Cannes International Film Festival 2014, London Film Festival 2014, New York Film Festival 2014.

3. RAINFALL – MY PANDA SHALL FLY

Dir: Yoshihide Sodeoka | USA/Japan 2013 | 4min. | Music Video / Animation

Rainfall – the collaboration between Japanese-born, New York-based visual and sound artist Yoshihide Sodeoka and My Panda Shall Fly aka Suren Seneviratne, which turned into a colourful, psychedelic and playful music video.

4. THE LAST DAYS OF PETER BERGMANN

Dir: Ciaran Cassidy | Ireland 2013 | 19min. | Documentary

In the summer of 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann arrived in Sligo Town. Over his final three days, he would go to great lengths to ensure no one would ever discover who he was or where he came from.

Irish Film and Television award; participated in Cork International Film Festival 2013, Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2014, Sundance Film Festival 2014.

5. TIMBER TIMBRE – BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY

Dir: Chad Vangaalen | Canada 2014 | 4min. | Music Video / Animation

Timber Timbre – music video, animated by Chad Vangallen

6. SUBCONSCIOUS PASSWORD 

Dir: Chris Landreth | Canada 2013 | 11min. | Animation

Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe – forgetting somebody’s name – as the starting point for a romp through the unconscious. Stealing generously the classic TV game show Password, the film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests, who desperately try to prompt Charles to remember his friend’s name.

Participated in Chicago International Film Festival 2013, San Francisco International Film Festival 2014, Sundance Film Festival 2014.

7. I THINK THIS IS THE CLOSEST TO HOW THE FOOTAGE LOOKED 

Dir: Yuval Hamieri | Israel 2013 | 10min | Documentary

A man recreates, with poor means, a lost memory – memory of the last day with his Mom. Objects come to life, in a desperate struggle, to produce one moment that was gone.

Short Film Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, IBAFF Award at Ibn Arabi Film Festival, participated in San Sebastian Film Festival.

8. LIGHT MOTIF 

Dir: Frédéric Bonpapa | UK 2014 | 5min. | Animation / Fantasy / Music

Light Motif is an experimental computer graphics short film. It is conceived as a synaesthetic experience based on a visual transposition of music for 18 musicians – section II, by the American composer Steve Reich. The ambition of the film is to cinematically capture the extraordinary life force that animates this essential work of contemporary music by offering a truly hypnotic experience where music can be “seen”.

Participated in Encounters Short Film Festival, Giffoni International Film Festival.

9. INSTEAD OF ABRACADABRA

Dir: Patrik Eklund | Sweden 2008 | 22min. | Comedy

A young man with big dreams begins a very curious and unique path to stardom, in Instead of Abracadabra, Swedish director Patrick Eklund’s Oscar nominated comedy short. Tomas prides himself on his act as an amateur stage magician – with unsuccessful tricks which include sawing a woman in half.

Nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards.

With a blend of Animation, Music Videos, Comedy. Drama and Documentary what more could you ask from Future Shorts?

The doors open at 7pm with the screening taking place in the Studio at 730pm – finishing at app. 945pm.

TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE VIA OUR NEW BOX OFFICE ON MATTHEWSYARD.COM FROM 20TH JANUARY

If you require further information please see the website for further information –  http://www.futureshorts.com/programme.html