SHORTS 3:
REWIND
Description
70mins & Rating
(S) - Student film
(W) - Welsh Premiere
(UK) - UK Premiere
(World) - World Premiere
MEMORIA COLECTIVA
Dir. Cristina Colmenares, Manuel-Antonio Monteagudo | Colombia, France, Peru | 15:00
In 1983, during the darkest days of Peru’s Armed Conflict with the Shining Path, masked soldiers entered Adelina’s home and took her husband away. She would never see him again. After facing silence and contempt from the Police and Army, Adelina joins forces with the many other women who have lost their husbands and children to soldiers who were supposed to protect them. Together, they will unite to demand justice.
THE SKY WAS CANDY
Dir. Anh Tú Nguyen | Germany | 03:00 (S)
A yellow and blue day in the life of a little child.
POLLIWOG
Dir. Julia Skala | Germany | 09:13 (S)(W)
On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.
ON SAINT NICHOLAS' EVE
Dir. Emy Mirel Ivasca| Romania | 11:00 (W)
After seeing a man lying in the snow, a boy remembers a St. Nicholas night spent with his father years ago. The boy expected his father to give him a toy as a gift, but it didn't go as expected.
MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN
Dir. Ben Tan Kai Xiang, Grace Cheu Li Qing | Singapore | 07:09 (S)(UK)
Two young adults, Charlotte and Valerie, ride a cable car up Mount Faber in search of mountains in the small island of Singapore
IMA WA IMA
Dir. Chun Yam Keung | Hong Kong, UK | 04:43 (S)
Meme, an office worker caught in the monotony of daily life, keeps encountering a caterpillar at work. At first, Meme instinctively remove it, feeling discomfort at its presence. But as the days pass, the caterpillar triggers a distant childhood memory—one of curiosity, companionship, and the fleeting nature of time.
S THE WOLF
Dir. Sameh Alaa | France | 10:24 (W)
A man recounts his capillary peregrinations through his adolescence - from the barber’s trauma to his first love to the loss of his hair and eventually his father. Through this, we see a construction of a masculinity in the making.
AND GRANNY WOULD DANCE
Dir. Maryam Mohajer | UK | 09:48
Marmar listens to the stories told by her grandmother’s friends as they play an illicit game of cards. Based on childhood memories and shared stories, And Granny would dance is a tale of love, grief and resilience. At its heart, it is a tribute to the solidarity of Iranian women.