Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Bradford >> 2011 >> Shorts
Many of the shorts below are shown preceding features, as indicated. In addition, Bradford City of Film commissioned five more short films, each made on a budget of £1,000, that reflect different aspects of Bradford's culture, heritage and community, to be shown in showcase Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011. A second showcase, New European Shorts, celebrates the best of films from European neighbours.
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Wood Of Value and The Pizza Miracle
Ashes
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Sonia Castang; Stars: Pushpinder Chani, Meryl Fernandes, Shobna Gulati)
Screening with Essential Killing
A modern day noir love story about two lovers who con rich and lonely housewives out of their money.
Bad Night For The Blues
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Chris Shepherd; Writer: Chris Shepherd; Stars: Kieran Lynn, Jean Boht, Amanda Walker, Ann Beach, Lloyd McGuire, Marlene Sidaway, Kay Noone, Deddie Davies, Tom Hillenbrand, Doreen Kaye), Official Site
Screening with Congo In Four Acts
If it was your turn to take your Aunty to her local Conservative Club would you do it?
The Bedlamites
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Shyla Lee)
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
A documentary about fell running (at night) in the Yorkshire Dales.
Endeavour
(Country: Austria; Year: 2010; Director: Johann Lurf)
New European Shorts
Avant garde look at a space journey.
The End Of The World (Kres ?wiata)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2010; Director: Mateusz Skalski)
New European Shorts
Portrait of a desolate village.
A History of Mutual Respect
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2010; Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Writer: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Stars: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Alcina Abrantes, Joana Nascimento)
New European Shorts
When two boys make a journey they find their worlds separate forever.
I Spy
(Year: 2011; Director: Lucy Ray; Stars: Jodie McEnery, Rachel Melissa Henshaw, Frank Ryan)
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
A drama about a missing girl and a Bradford reporter which begs the question: who’s watching whom?
I Was Crying Out For Life. Or For It. (Je criais contre la vie ou pour elle)
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Vergine Keaton; Writer: Vergine Keaton)
New European Shorts
Based on a 19th century engraving, this animation sees a herd of deer turn on the hunting dogs that have been chasing them.
Kiyumi's Poetry and Sayuru's Embroidery
(Country: Japan; Year: 2006; Director: Satoru Sugita; Stars: Momoko Maruyama, Ryoka Shinada)
Screening with Greenwashers
A theft threatens to split two inseparable friends.
Lastrain
(Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Tony Lopez, David Sanz; Writer: Raul Alvarez; Stars: Raul Alvarez, Flora Martínez, Montse Muñoz, Bernat Saumell, Lucas Valetín)
Screening with Honey
A man who enters a club will do anything to attract the attention of a woman he sees there.
Los 4 McNifikos
(Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Tucker Davila Wood; Writer: Tucker Davila Wood; Stars: Jokin García, Alvaro Barañano, David Abada Canal), Official Site
Screening with Fanny, Annie & Danny
Comedy short about a quartet of ageing B boys.
Mam
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Hugo Speer; Writer: Vivienne Harvey; Stars: Josie Lawrence, Paul Barber, Ronan Carter, Tisha Merry, James Varley, Dwayne Scantlebury, Charlie Street, Karen Winchester, Elly May Taylor, Jodie McEnery, Katy Gannon, Patrick Downes, Sylvie Caswell), Official Site
Screening with Rebels Without A Clue
When Mam won't get out of bed, twelve year-old Danny must fend for his brothers and sisters - while trying to protect a secret that threatens to break up the family forever. |
Mike The Midwife
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Jonas Grimas; Stars: TC Jefferson)
Screening with The Red Machine
Midwife mockumentary.
Misconnect
(Year: 2011; Director: John Thirlwell; Stars: Rhona Cameron, Alison Carroll)
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
Dark drama about a troubled young woman and her cries for help.
My Lad
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Sami Khan; Writer: Sami Khan; Stars: Ace Bhatti, Rory Girvan, Tariq Jordan, Stewart Scudamore)
Screening with The Last Report On Anna
A man hides in a launderette, unable to face the world outside.
Permille
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2010; Director: Marteinn Thorsson; Writer: Marteinn Thorsson; Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir, Melkorka Óskarsdóttir, Hilmir Jensson, Agustin Navarro Cortés, Ólafur Jónasson), Official Site
New European Shorts
An ageing drunk faces a crossroads when he meets people he doesn't remember.
Petrified
(Year: 2011; Director: Nicky Whitfield)
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
Animation about a gargoyle on the roof of Saltaire United Reformed Church.
Pipe Dreams
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Ben Green; Writer: Ben Green; Stars: Tom Patrick Stephens, Meredith Napolitano, Deborah Harry, Christopher V. Edwards, Steve Elmore, William F. Feuerbach Jr., Grace Statwick, Renato Cristiano, Paul Bonacquisti, George Lansbury, Bill Feuerbach, Lois Kessler, Melissa Kessler, George Squires, Emilia Mendieta), Official Site
Screening with Viva Riva!
A relationship forms between a man with a high functioning mental condition and an undocumented worker from Ecuador.
The Pizza Miracle
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Tony Grisoni; Writer: Tony Grisoni; Stars: Matt Berry, Stanley Townsent, Josef Altin, Olive Supple-Still, Anamaria Marinca, Ray Cooper)
A son returns to say farewell to his dead father.
Screening with Vespa
Quarters
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Drew Mylrea; Writer: Drew Mylrea; Stars: Danielle Druz, Sean Jones, Grant Harrison, Ross Turner, Jim Cathcart), Official Site
Screening with When We Leave
When Evan realises that he may lose his best friend Chris to a girl, he devises a plot in order to save Chris from his doomed future and regain their life-long friendship.
The Secret Friend
(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2010; Director: Flavio Alves; Writer: Flavio Alves, João Silvério Trevisan; Stars: Siobhan Fallon, Viola Harris, Beau Hauser, Jerry Jaffe, Richard Scott, Melvin Shrebnick), Official Site
Screening with La Quattro Volte
A bond forms between a widow and silent caller who phones daily.
Self Help
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: James Page; Writer: Kurt Brookes, James Page; Stars: Peter Glover, Chloe Mander, Amelia Tyler, Andrea Cobham, Daniel James Lucas)
Screening with Sailor
A lonely man attends a seminar by a motivational speaker in a bid to change his life.
Silent Things
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Rob Brown; Writer: Rob Brown, Edward Jackson; Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Georgia Groome, Andrew Scott), Official Site
Screening with Point Blank
An autistic man and woman undergo a test of character and friendship when an impulsive teenage girl appears and comes between them.
Stay
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Lewis Hackett, Luke Hardist)
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
Live action and animated music video, featuring music by local band La La and the Boo Ya using archive footage of Bradford.
Swing
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2010; Director: Yen-Ting Kuo; Writer: Yen-Ting Kuo; Stars: Alina Lessing, Justin Miller)
Screening with Seesaw
While enjoying a swing on the roof of the hospital, an elderly patient is reminded of the value of his life.
We Are What We Drink
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Marc Hardman; Writer: Marc Hardman; Stars: Irena Aggrey, Kenneth Collard, Alexander Devrient, Sarah Hoare, Lydia Hourihan, Kirsty Neilson, Kirsty Osmon, Marcus Smith, Carole Symonds, Jerry Turner, Luca Zizzari)
Screening with Curling
Comedy looks at the challenge faced by a man as he tries to buy a cup of coffee.
When Life Gives You Lemons
(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Lee Chambers; Writer: Lee Chambers, Christina Sharpe; Stars: Quayson Akaadom, Tony Gallo, Kierra Gionet, Basil Hoffman, Tia Lunn, Dave Steen), Official Site
Screening with Matching Jack
Washed-up actor, Calvin Adams, enters into a lemonade stand street battle with the neighbourhood kids.
Wood Of Value
(Country: Norway, UK; Year: 2010; Director: Bjorn Bratberg)
A documentary following a special Christmas tree on its journey across the North Sea from Norway to London.
Screening with Dance To The Spirits
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