Sharp Shorts 2020 Awardees
A90
Writer/Director: Olivia Middleton; Producer: Carys Evans
Olivia Middleton Carys Evans
A discontented waitress develops an intimate relationship with an unavailable woman in a netherworldly roadside café.
Status: Complete
BAHAR بهار (Spring)
Writer/Director: Maryam Hamidi; Producer: Alysia Maciejowska
Maryam Hamidi Alysia Maciejowska
10 years after her daughter died, a lonely widow’s home is infested by a mouldy manifestation of her daughter’s spirit, but when her son returns from university and realises the severity of her emotional entombment she is forced to confront her festering guilt and choose between the living and the dead.
Status: Complete
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Folding
Director: Paul Sng; Writer: Maisie Chan; Producer: Jo Blair
Paul Sng Maisie Chan Jo Blair
Li, a vulnerable young East Asian woman alone and on the run in a foreign city, finds refuge and friendship in the home of lonely widower Errol.
Status: Complete
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Go Home
Writer/Director: Razan Madhoon; Producers: David Jack and Paul Welsh
Razan Madhoon David Jack Paul Welsh
When a young Palestinian woman tries to claim asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of Home Office bureaucracy and the disillusionment of an older Polish asylum officer on the verge of leaving the country for good.
Status: Complete
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Groom
Writer/Director: Leyla Coll-O’Reilly; Producer: Laura McBride
Leyla Coll-O’Reilly Laura McBride
Hannah, a withdrawn school leaver, must impress on a trial shift at a beauty salon while navigating a hyper-sexual environment, body mutilation and a coercive relationship with salon owner Skye.
Status: Complete
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A Birthday Party
Writer/Director: Victoria Thomas; Producer: Marii Stoltsen
Victoria Thomas Marii Stoltsen
A woman traumatised by a brutal cultural tradition risks everything to save her niece from suffering the same fate.
Status: Complete
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A.V. Van
Writer/Director: Morayo Akandé; Co-producers: Moyo Akandé and Helen Gladders
Morayo Akandé Moyo Akandé Helen Gladders
Two film fanatic sisters try to reconnect with their estranged deceased father by selling his vintage porn collection.
Status: Post-production
The Möbius Trip
Writer/Director: Simone Smith, Co-producers: David Neilson and Lewis Wardrop
Simone Smith David Neilson Lewis Wardrop
A road trip pushes a dysfunctional family to the brink after their journey descends into a claustrophobic hallucinatory nightmare.
Status: Post-production
Too Rough
Writer/Director: Sean Lìonadh; Co-producers: Alfredo Covelli and Ross McKenzie
Sean Lìonadh Alfredo Covelli Ross McKenzie
After a night of intoxication, a hungover and hysterical Nick wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie and must conceal him from his own homophobic and dysfunctional family.
Status: Complete