Future Shorts

Future Shorts is proud to bring you a vibrant and eclectic programme of short films and music videos from all over the world. The films have been thematically connected to the Adventures in Conversation series.

Wednesday 2 July
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
Dir: Nagi Noda / Japan / 2003
A beautiful and highly original music video made for Yuki, one of Japan’s biggest pop stars.

RYAN            
Dir: Chris Landreth / Canada / 2004
A work of animation genius exploring the life and talent of Ryan Larkin, a gifted animator of the late 60s and early 70s. A deserved Oscar winner and a real Future Short.

COCK FIGHT
Dir: Sigalit Lipshitz / Israel / 2000
A hot summer day in the desert: an Israeli chicken breeder and his Romanian help on their way to the market get stopped at a checkpoint between Israel and Palestine.

DO IT AGAIN (By The Chemical Brothers)
Dir: Michael Haussman / USA / 2007
The Chemical Brothers fall from the sky into a Moroccan desert.

HEAVY METAL DRUMMER
Dir: Luke Morris and Toby Macdonald / UK / 2005
Bafta-nominated this year. A young Arab teenager reconciles his love of heavy metal rock music.

THIS IS SLOVENIA
Dir: Michael Frank / Slovenia / 2007
Josko Joras is an obstinate man caught between two fires. He lives on the disputed border between Slovenia and Croatia.

I BELIEVE
Dir: Romain Gavras / France 
The uber-cool Romain Gavras' clip for the Simian track.

ON A TRAIN
Dir: Barnabas Toth / France / 2004
Two travelers on a night train feel the urge to communicate. Will they be able to find a common language?

SUBTEXT
Dir: Levni Yilmaz
Musings on life from the ever-witty Lev.
More on www.ingredientx.com.

I WANT MORE
Dir: Dan Gordon / UK /2004
Faithless Music Video inspired by the acclaimed documentary ‘A State of Mind’.

DIE LIEBENDEN (THE LOVERS) 
Dir: Johannes Hammel / Austria / 2004
The Lovers is the second part of a small trilogy, dealing with the extinction of memories. The Lovers transforms an old Super8 porn film into both a tragic love story and a horror movie, and finally into a memory that is being destroyed in the inner world.

LIVE FROM SHIVA'S DANCEFLOOR
Dir: Richard Linklater / US / 2003
The legendary tour guide Timothy 'Speed' Levitch winds through lower Manhattan and suggests how best to truly commemorate 9/11 and what should be done with Ground Zero.

ELEPHANT GUN (Music video for Beirut)
Dir: Alma Har’el / USA / 2007
Mustachioed debauchery set to a ukulele-accordion waltz in the music video for “Elephant Gun” by Beirut.

Friday 4 July
Rope a Dope - Little Minx Exquisite Corpse
Dir: Laurent Briet / USA / 2008
Someone is gonna get their ass kicked.
This film is part of series – view them all at www.littleminx.tv.

YOUTH
Dir: Jane Linfoot / UK / 2007
Youth is comprised of three observational vignettes. Filmed in a naturalistic style, this short focuses on the minutiae of adolescence www.ddfilms.tv.

LEON
Dir: Ian Sciacaluga / UK / 1998
A composed and insightful documentary into the life of Leon, a young boy.

BARE
Dir: Santana Issar / India / 2006
A daughter’s search to find meaning, if any, in her relationship with her alcoholic father.

DIMMER
Dir: Talmage Cooley/ USA / 2005
A peek into the life of Mike, a blind teenager g...rowing up with a gang of punky pals amid the Rust Belt exhaustion of Buffalo, New York. Blind Man's Buff is different w...

LIVING IN THE DARK
Dir: Thomas Leung / Australia / 2005
A young man remembers a childhood with a blind father and his own temporary sunglasses.

TOLYA
Dir: Rodeon Brodsky / Israel / 2007
On international Women’s Day, when all his fellow alien workers call their wives to greet them, Tolya remains speechless as he calls Natasha, his wife. His toothless mouth can’t pronounce anything but a whistling mumble. Tolya is ready to give up on words, but not on his romantic message.

BETWEEN WALLS
Dir: Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu / Germany / 2007
On a building site in Berlin, a situation gets out of control when one of a group of illegal workers needs more money and a dangerous game begins…

LIFT
Dir: Marc Isaac / UK / 2001
Filmmaker Marc Isaac’s sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical community.