25-28 April 2024
CAF 2024 SHORTS 7:
MIDNIGHT FEAST
Do you enjoy being put outside of your comfort zone? Perhaps you’re that one person who isn’t afraid to try new things?
This program presents 9 films that are guaranteed to take you down a darker and more abstract route at the festival.
Get ready to dive into the mad and macabre with shorts about late night paranoia, ghosts and gruesome makeovers, to even sacrificial lambs.
Prepare for an evening of films you’ll never forget, and bring all your most devilish snacks, as eating after midnight is highly encouraged here.
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Ydych chi'n mwynhau cael eich rhoi y tu allan i'ch parth cysur? Efallai mai chi yw'r person hwnnw sydd ddim yn ofni rhoi cynnig ar bethau newydd?
Mae’r rhaglen hon yn cyflwyno 9 ffilm sy’n sicr o fynd â chi i lawr llwybr tywyllach a mwy haniaethol yn yr ŵyl. Paratowch i blymio i wallgofrwydd a'r macâbr gyda ffilmiau byr am baranoia hwyr y nos, ysbrydion a gweddnewidiadau erchyll, hyd yn oed ŵyn aberthol.
Paratowch ar gyfer noson o ffilmiau na fyddwch byth yn eu hanghofio, a dewch â’ch holl fyrbrydau mwyaf cythreulig, gan fod bwyta ar ôl hanner nos yn cael ei annog yn fawr yma.
75mins, adv18+
(S) - Student film
(W) - Welsh Premiere
(UK) - UK Premiere
Content Warnings:
Flashing imagery, pregnancy, violence, nudity, death, animal death, bloody imagery, sex.
NIGHTPAY
Dir. Rachel Fitzgerald | Ireland | 03:50
A petrol station employee grapples with his own paranoia while working the night shift.
MAKING IT UP
Dir. Alice May Guymer | UK | 05:46 (S)
A girl trades her face to be beautiful.
A KIND OF TESTAMENT
Dir. Stephen Vuillemin | France | 16:24 (W)
A young woman comes across animations on the Internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. An unknown female with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death is quicker than the answer to the question: “Why?”
BEWARE OF TRAINS
Dir. Emma Calder | UK | 12:47 (W)
“A train of thought thriller” about a woman with extreme anxiety living in a world dominated by fear and uncertainty. She has four major preoccupations – the man she met by chance on a train, her dying father, her daughter’s safety and the murder she dreams she has committed.
INTROSPECT
Dir. Heather Elizabeth Finden | UK | 03:52 (S)
The physical journey of the mind. A spirit travels into the forest to deliver a candle. They encounter surreal adversaries who will try to keep them in the dark and steal their light. Returning back to the house they started in.
CHEF GUSTAV
Dir. Luke Frangeskou | UK | 02:56 (S) (W)
A proud chef is cooking a fancy meal and is forced to fight a mischievous cat who will stop at nothing to steal the food he is cooking.
VIA DOLOROSA
Dir. Rachel Gutgarts | France | 12:00 (UK)
Between drug addiction, first discoveries of sexuality and a permanent state of war, the filmmaker searches for her lost youth by wandering the streets of Jerusalem.
OFFERLAMM
Dir. Tova Persson | UK | 05:44 (S)
A sheep writes a letter to his sister whilst being prepared for a ritual.
WANDER TO WONDER
Dir. Nina Gantz | Belgium | 13:20 (UK)
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.