Best of the Month: February 2020
A fast-paced tonal hybrid, a colourful fashion documentary and an exciting take on the extremely well-trod vampire mythos make up our 'Best of the Month' selection for Febraury.
A fast-paced tonal hybrid, a colourful fashion documentary and an exciting take on the extremely well-trod vampire mythos make up our 'Best of the Month' selection for Febraury.
Shannon cooks dinner whilst speaking to a perverted stranger online. Andrew takes a bath wrapped in seared Christmas lights. What could possibly shock these lost souls from their malaise?
Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to suppress her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters.
When a father disciplines his disobedient child in a grocery store, another customer intervenes and their discussions soon descend into chaos.
In the fever of her first period, a curious teenager is drawn to her small town’s local legend, only to find that the “Boogeywoman” is flesh and blood.
A trailer in the desert—with its dust and strange beauty—became the home for a family of three. They live in a financial state that is becoming increasingly common throughout the US, a level of poverty they call “The Gray Area.”
A long-married couple live in resentful silence, their daily reciprocal malice escalating to extremes. In this pressure cooker of a relationship, something will have to give.
Walid has fled from Syria to the Arctic Circle. As his family is stuck in the Balkans, on the border of the EU, Walid has to help them cross it, over the phone, from the streets of a northern Norwegian fishing village.
Film statistician Stephen Follows crunches 18 years of short film data to look for insights behind the current gender imbalance in the film industry.
A short film based on the true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who hopelessly fell in love with a concrete statue. His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love.