Father and Daughter

BELGIUM - 2000

A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father.

Written and Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit

Left Turn

ENGLAND - 2001
Horror is a genre that has been parodied to pieces and just about everybody has copied Alfred Hitchcock and John Carpenter, until there's nothing new under the bed.
Sean Ellis's 15 minutes of fright is beautifully choreographed and exceptionally well acted. The tension builds slowly. The storyline is innovative, the thrills unexpected. A sense of unease runs through the opening sequences and you don't know why. This is pure athmospheric cinema, nothing to do with shock tactics.
When the wife of an architect picks up an old woman in a yellow mac during a rain storm, there is something not right about her inability to communicate. She carries a big bag, which suggests woodshed nastiness.
Nightmares are made of this.
CAST
Lucy Russell
Andrew Tiernan
Una Brandon-Jones
Howard Ward

Directed by Sean Ellis

Bus 44

CHINA - 2001
On the outskirts of a small town, a bus driver and her
passengers encounter highway robbers. "Bus 44" carries a
universal theme that travels across all boundaries and societies,
trespassing the dark side and bright side of human behavior.
CAST
Gong Beibi
WU Chao
LI Yixiang
ZHOU Kui
Directed by Dayyan Eng

I'll Wait for the Next One

FRANCE -2002

A man enters a subway train and starts to speak: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry to bother you. Don’t worry, I’m not here to beg for money... Let me introduce myself. My name is Antoine, I’m 29... I recently read in a magazine that there are about 5 million single women in France... Where are they ? I’m looking for a lady aged between 18 and 55 who‘s also had trouble meeting someone in a conventional way and who wouldn’t mind giving a honest relationship with someone a shot..." "J’attendrai le suivant..." was nominated for the Oscar in 2003 and won the European Short Film Prize in 2004.

I'll Wait for the Next One sets itself up as a cute little comedy skit, and it delivers on that premise but also surprises you with an incredibly moving finale. Four minute comedies are not supposed to be as moving as this film is, it's funny, charming, and heartbreaking all at the same time, showing you your emotions in a combination that they are not generally found. I can't recommend this movie enough. By the end of the diminutive film you feel like you have known the characters for years, especially the lead man and the woman looking for love, probably because they so perfectly represent. The look on the man's face and the woman's face at the end of the film are brief moments of sheer performing brilliance rarely seen, especially in a short film, which itself is rarely seen. Seek this one out, you will laugh and you will cry, and most of all you will be moved.

CAST

Sophie Forte

Thomas Gaudin

Pascal Casanova

Directed by Philippe Orreindy

On Edge

USA - 1999

CAST
Doug Bradley

Charley Boorman

Beth Murray

Directed by Frazer Lee

This film is guaranteed to set your teeth On Edge. Based on the story by
renowned horror writer CHRISTOPHER FOWLER (Roofworld, Spanky, Soho Black)
On Edge tells the story of stroppy businessman, Thurlow, who goes to a dentists
without an appointment and is forced to wait. Fed up of waiting, Thurlow
wanders off, only to meet the enigmatic Doctor Matthews. Thurlow gets more
than he bargained for in the dental surgery, to the horror and surprise of
the receptionist, and the audience!

This story deals with one of the things that the human kind dislike the most : going to the dentist’s.The plot is mainly based on the actor skills of Doug Bradley whose performance is absolutely fantastic with contradictory emotions switches and
is both convincing by his attitude and the look in his eyes, but also both in
his charming and his threatening sides of his character.The camerawork is great too. Indeed, the camera is mainly fixed on Doctor Mathews so that we are put into the place of this poor Mr Thurlow.
This way of shooting also allows not to see what is happening until the director
chooses to show you, allowing the viewer to set his mind free and imagine
what happens… be patient… you’ll get to see that in time!Moreover, the characteristic noises at the dentist’s, that we all know about,
confirms the horror of the image that we all can imagine in our mind. All the
movie long, you suffer as much as that poor patient! Simple but successful!Horror also lays in the monologue established by Doctor Mathews, the patient
founding himself in the impossibility to answer. Here also, Doug Bradley is
absolutely marvellous and shows his great acting skills, outside of his
Pinhead part in the “HELLRAISER” series for which he’s very popular. The
scenario and the script are very well written and lead us, from a moment to
another, though dark humour or fear. All is well until the last scene I won’t
tell you about except that the make-up made by Bob Keen, another “HELLRAISER”
veteran, is outstanding and is worth being seen!!! The horror of the whole
short movie is at last visualized in this great scene! One thing’s for sure : after watching that, you’ll look at your dentist
differently!Finally, both industrial and metal music fans will enjoy the music both in
the prologue and the epilogue!

The Insane

ENGLAND -2006

John Vincent is a cop on a quest for vengeance. After finding his wife and unborn child murdered in his own home, he decides to dispense his own justice on the murderers creatures who have destroyed his life, which are now running amok in the city. Armed with only a crowbar and his wits, John takes to the city streets and takes out the insane hideous beings. By the end you will wonder who is the more insane, John or the creatures that made him?

CAST

Harry Evans

James Spofforth

John Altman

Jenny Scully

Directed by Mark Cripps & David J Ellison.

Night Shift

ITALY - 1987

Extracted from a popular tv series,this short deals with a lady taxi driver's trouble with a passenger .
CAST
Lamberto Bava
Asia Argento
Directed by Lamberto Bava

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