Sharp Shorts 2020 Awardees

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

Hear more about the project from the director on our blog.

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Hannah, a withdrawn school leaver, must impress on a trial shift at a beauty salon while navigating a hyper-sexual environment, body mutilation and a coercive relationship with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