We're excited to be screening this illuminating programme of short docs, as part of this year's Bloomsbury Festival (16-25 Oct).

The shorts will take you round the world to explore a series of different perspectives.

About the Shorts

WHO CARES? A film by Heart n Soul at The Hub | Dirs. Catherine Long and Felipe Pagani | 9 mins

Relationships between support workers and learning disabled and autistic people are shown through a selection of moving portraits and extracts from conversations.

ACROSS STILL WATER | Dir. Ruth Grimberg | 12 mins

John is 32. Diagnosed with a devastating eye condition he is gradually losing his sight.

Urged by those around him to make difficult decisions and guided by his young friend Ben he seeks solace in his love of night fishing  in a journey requiring real patience and fortitude.

BALUJI | Dir. Marie-Cécile Embleton | 21 mins

Award-winning blind sitarist Baluji Shrivastav OBE reflects on how he overcame social stigma and transformed his relationship to music, forging his path to love and success. 

Baluji is a beautiful insight into his life, his blindness and his spectacular career as a musician. 

OSERAKE AND THE RIVER THAT WALKS | Dir. Robert Robertson | 22 mins

Made by Robert Robertson of Ocatllio Arts, this film combines his experiences of synesthesia with the act of seeing.

Robert filmed this mighty river freeze and watched the vast ice flows interact with whirling geometrical shapes.

EVERYMAN | Dir. Everyman Collective (Laurence Avis, Richie Benson, Naresh Kaushal)

During the summer of 2020, against the backdrop of Covid-19 Everyman Collective set out to portray the lives of those who identify as men and who live, work or play in Bloomsbury.

Starting from the premise that masculinity is under scrutiny and the behaviours actions and identities associated with it are being called into question, the film explores the new climate that is emerging from.