The Future Shorts festival rolls into November with a strong and diverse line-up including the BAT FOR LASHES video for hit record WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO?, multi-festival award-winner MILAN from Germany and many more wonderful films from around the world alongside our own Irish shorts.
Doors 8pm Cost £3 with drinks promos at the bar.- For more info hit futureshorts.com
PROGRAMME OF FILMS
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
What’s a girl to do?
Dir: Dougal Wilson / UK / 2007
Giant mascot headed BMXers pedal, hop and twist in sync to the subtle pulsing break beats of this trip hop masterpiece by Bat for Lashes.
Monkeylove
Dir: Royston Tan / Singapore-Japan / 2005
In the winter landscape of Hokkaido, a guy in a monkey suit is searching for lost love. A meditation on life and art, love and longing, "Monkey Love" is lyrical, enigmatic, pensive, whimsical and spare - like a haiku.
t.o.m.
Dirs: Tom Brown and Daniel Gray / UK / 2006
The journey of a young boy.
Oh great, now look what happened
Dirs: Gerbrand Burger and Tijmen Hauer / Netherlands / 2007
A compelling and enigmatic impression of an unexpected and strange event.
Living in the Dark
Dir: Thomas Leung / Australia / 2005
A young man remembers a childhood with a blind father and his own temporary sunglasses.
Milan
Dir: Michaela Kezele / Serbia / 2007
Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO air raids: two brothers are making plans to go and play hide-and-seek in the forest.
Copenhagen Cycles
Dir: Eric Dyer / USA / 2005
A cyclist travels through a fantastical, collaged reconstruction of Denmark’s capital city.