Short of the Week – Mariner
https://vimeo.com/219933301 Based on writer, director and producer Thyrone Tommy's own experiences, Mariner tells the mesmerising tale of Nate, a young navigation cadet taking his final college exams. A...
Short of the Week – Over
https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...
Short of the Week – Strawberries Will Save The World
https://vimeo.com/216918144 The world is a bloody scary place sometimes, and even our beloved Short of the Week section can’t escape that fact. Too often recently, our shorts have dealt with heavy...
Short of the Week – Good Crazy
https://vimeo.com/216850224 What does it mean to be crazy? And what does it cost to be good? Writer/director/star Rosa Salazar's charming comedy takes a sideways look at those questions, as well as...
Short of the Week – The Afghan Bruce Lee
https://vimeo.com/196163571 December 2014. That’s when Abbas Alizada had his 15 seconds of fame. From simply glancing at him, you can see why. Aged 21, the martial artist from Afghanistan was the...
Short of the Week – Face Lift
https://vimeo.com/214617676 In 2017 body image issues among young adults are a very real problem, with unrealistic beauty standards for women and men plastered across billboards and the media in...
Short of the Week – Futur Sauvage
https://vimeo.com/189522268 Dystopias are a hot property right now; thankfully the genre deals in possibility (albeit the terrifying ones) and thus is hard to exhaust. In Futur Sauvage, the future is...
Short of the Week – At the End of the Cul-de-Sac
http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/211551365 It’s not often that we see an entire film captured as one continuous shot, let alone by a drone. But it's likely that it's something we're going to be...
Short of the Week – The Wolf and the Wayfarer
https://vimeo.com/mkamal/wolfscreener Set within the breathtaking Sequoia National Park, a vast unblemished paradise of trees, hills and glades, The Wolf and the Wayfarer is a stunning piece. As beautiful...
Short of the Week – Mend and Make Do
https://vimeo.com/209115026 When looking backwards in time it is easy to wryly smile at the use of the phrase 'Back in my day' or 'When I was younger...'. These clichés, denote something humorous about...
Short of the Week – A Mighty Nice Man
https://vimeo.com/209597030 Based on Patricia Highsmith’s book of the same name, HBO-backed A Mighty Nice Man tells the eerie story of a little girl’s loss of innocence. When Charlotte and her...
Short of the Week – Night Fishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRlqPQ7dAw&t=267s Made with his brother Chan-kyong, Park Chan-wook's cacophonous avant-garde short journeys into the spirit world to explore notions of embodiment and...
Short of the Week – Sweet Maddie Stone
https://vimeo.com/154873241 Brady Hood’s realist NFTS short film, Sweet Maddie Stone, proves the electrifying force of the realist genre. The story is simple, but its protagonist is not; Jessica...
Short of the Week – Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrWuMzK7Mo An average British family are getting ready for a trip. Mum and Dad are rounding up their two young children, checking their route online and loading a...
Short of the Week – The Bigger Picture
https://vimeo.com/203126235 The Bigger Picture, a National Film and Television School production, reached far more than the course markers – it won the 2014 Annecy Cristal for a Graduation Film, the...