Mile End Shorts
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Description
Join Mile End Shorts and a judging panel featuring director Berty Cadilhac, Simon Pitts and BAFTA winner Emily Young in awarding prizes to a selection of new short films from a diverse collection of up and coming film-makers.
Featured films
Wager Street: A articulate look at the lives of the inhabitants of Wager Street in East London.
Scaffolding: When scaffolding is erected outside a block of flats, two neighbours have nothing to do but to create their own world.
1941: A homage to Citizen Kane; a exceptional visual piece, where the visuals become the narration.
The Music Lovers: As two romantics perform on the silent screen, the accompanying musicians take it on themselves to steal the show.
This Leak: A trance like film that depicts a singular man losing himself in and amongst the city-scape, with music as his vessel.
Am I My Brother's Keeper: A film that tackles the notion of brother-hood, depicting two men who are connected by more than blood.
Touched: A young woman loses her lover, and the only way to experience him again is by existing in the areas of their romantic memories.
Woodhouse: A young girl seeks out the lost Beast that wanders through her nature reserve.
Listen Hard: A single man drowns out the binding cacophany of the city with the harmonious sounds of nature, until the habit drags him away from reality.
Hungry Courpse, The: The ghost of Admiral Nelson exists between reality & the ethereal, holding communion with the birds and desperately trying to sketch Nelson's Column.
Trajectoires: Three people conspire to steal from a country Inn; yet the locals slowly enact their own insidious agenda.
Waste Africa: The young prince Samsung must revive his beloved land that is drowned in Waste.
Je Montrerais Mes Seins: A young woman seeks the solidarity of her Grandmother as she faces the illness they both suffer from.
Dust & Waltz: Two lovers reflect over everything that has happened to them; and everything that was and can be
Brother & Sister: A Sister pressures and belittles her Brother, assaulting his perception of masculinity, until he can't accept anymore.