SCREENING 2

Venue – Moscow Suite – Oswaldtwistle Mills Business and Conference Centre

Friday 6th May

Time: 10:00 – 11:30

My Queen

A house has been unoccupied for years. For the director it was a trove of memories. Change is coming and he captured its last moments on film. 08:00 | Tim Verhaegen

In The Waves

A tie-dye fabric animation that narrates the beginning of life through a microscope perspective. 05:30 | Ying-Fang Shen

Manic Pixie Dream Grind

A disgruntled manic pixie dream girl tries to change the script of her life when her boring love interest comes knocking at her door. 04:21 | Ariella Yashar

Tale Of A Tinkerer

Instead of living his life, Alan spends his days tinkering in his workshop attempting to change the world. But when Alan finally realises his goals, he does not get the outcome he had hoped for. 12:00 | Ben Hutchinson

The Glove

Someone’s bizzarre loss is another one’s bizarre blessing. 12:15 | Vlad Dorofte

Flip Flops

A young couple are having a fight  in the nature of Hong Kong. Hurt by her boyfriend’s wrongdoing, the proud Anna has trouble forgiving the inexpressive Thomas despite his awkward efforts to make it up to her. Thomas goes for a winter swim in the ocean to clear his mind, while Anna falls asleep on the beach.  Anna wakes up to find that Thomas has disappeared. Has he left her? 16:08 | Haolu Wang

My Name’s Andy and I’m A Stormtrooper 

Discover what goes on behind the masks of Britain’s part-time Superheroes and Evil Villains. ‘My Name’s Andy And I’m A Stormtrooper’ is a warm, funny and revealing short documentary about the lives, loves and special powers of the Cosplay community. 15:42 | Harvey Marcus

You Are Whole

Norman Pugg arrives in a sleepy British seaside town with a mission: to spread the word of The Children of the Mountain of the Star. However it seems that the local residents may have bigger problems than battling their spiritual confusions as Norman discovers a number of his prospective clients dismembered in their own homes. Mistaken for the serial killer and hounded by the police, Norman must persevere in order to bring wellbeing and clarity to a world where everything has stopped making sense. 16:03 | Laura Spini

Friend Request

Set in the near distant future, where people only communicate via a social media which has replaced verbal communication, Samantha must find the courage to make a human connection aside from her grandfather. 17:32 | Gareth Fient

C.R.T.L

A young man’s attempt at a first contact with a love interest is hijacked in a most entertaining way. 03:25 | Marianda Cond

SCREENING 3

Venue – Moscow Suite – Oswaldtwistle Mills Business and Conference Centre

Time: 15:00 – 17:00

A Day At A Time

Kin Yu is 84 years old and lives in solitude. We take a look at Kin Yu’s lonesome world, who has to face the reality of not living with a loved one and bare the burden of loneliness. 03:59 | Andrew Cheng

Awakenings

The line between dreams and reality is blurred when a young woman in charge of two children is haunted by mysterious entities. 13:19 | Bhargav Saikia

Total Awesome Viking Power

When Viking role player Vidar is sidelined to “the land of the dead” he seeks help of the god Odin, who agrees to teach Vidar the ways of the Vikings if he takes him to a mystical Runestone. Together they embark on a journey that will test Vidar’s wits, bravery and his ability to go completely berserk. 14:47 | Morten Forland

River of Recollection

Based on their childhood experiences six witnesses recite the story of two neighboring villages in France, which were divided by a border, as a result of Nazi occupation during World War 2. Witness accounts from the perspective of a child give us a new way to experience the war and occupation. 29:15 | Maxim Ritzi

Cabrón

4:59am, London’s Banking District. A young banker attempting to escape from his sins meets an immigrant cleaner who he believes might provide absolution. But there is more to his new friend than meets the eye. 13:38 | Sam Ainsworth

Si Lunchai

The poor yet smart trickster Si Lunchai triumphs over the cruel king. An adaptation of an Indonesian legend, inspired by the style of the Southeast Asian shadow puppet play “Wayang Kulit. 08:36 |  Hannes Rall

Michael

A homeless man is promised a better life, working for a private contractor. He finds himself trapped on a farm working in horrible conditions and unable to leave. 10:05 | Jonathan Kemp

Writer

A young writer is driven mad by a sequence of infuriating events. 12:25 | Sam Brewster

Nia

‘Nia’ is set somewhere between nightmare and reality. In this short psychological horror, Nia struggles to deal with her guilt after leaving her devoted husband Wilfred. Living within a nightmare she has built for herself, things spiral out of control as she is haunted by a sinister apparition. 06:54 | Clement Soo

SCREENING 4

Venue – Moscow Suite – Oswaldtwistle Mills Business and Conference Centre

Friday 6th May

Time: 17:30 – 19:30

Director’s Cut

An indie filmmaking crew shoots the first snuff movie with a plot. 17:49 | Pol Diggler

Jewish Blind Date

Unhappy in love, Mary Lou decides to reconnect with her religious roots by marrying a practicing Jew. In order to get married, she has to pass the Shidduch test, which will determine whether her life will be a success or failure. 15:56 | Anaelle Morf

The Letter

When an American soldier during WWII is captured by a young German soldier, he is offered a unique chance to escape when the Nazi captor steps on a landmine that will explode if he steps off. 15:36 | Yifan Xiao

Destination: Gaza

Having been brought up in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s, the Film Maker, Garry McGovern, ventured inside the Gaza Strip just after the Gaza-Israeli war of 2014, to see how ordinary families and children coped in a 21st Century conflict. 29:55 | Garry McGovern

The Land of Exodus

Obed, a Mexican street kid with hopes of making it to America, leads a recently kidnapped American teenager to the Mexico-United States border. 10:52 | Skinner Myers

Everyday is like Sundae

Holidaymakers that frequented Morecambe are a distant memory. Even though it is winter Polly opens the ice cream van every day in the hope somebody will buy some ice cream. No-one ever does except Daniel who buys at least once a day. He likes ice cream, but more than he likes ice cream, he likes Polly. 10:31 | Tom Differthall

Gardening At Night

The period between knowing death is near and death’s arrival form an unbearable state of regret, sadness and anticipation for Samantha. She is powerless to help Anne, who on the eve of her death, has not come to terms with her fate and remains angry and afraid. 12:19 | Shayna Connelly