From new talent to lauded veterans, the best short films curated by our Head of Programming.
HARD TO SWALLOW
3 Couples and a cat share Sunday Lubnch... and certainly don't end up drinking too much, swearing at each other or fighting.
2007 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English
Director: Mat Kirkby
Cast: Daisy Haggard, Katherine Parkinson, Kerry Godliman, Nick Burns
ROACH
A man and a cockroach. And how one killed the other.
2004 / Comedy / United Kingdom
Director: Sven Hughes
Cast: Thom Fell
SHORTSTV EDITOR'S PICK
CALL REGISTER
DIRECTED BY ED ROE
CAST: MARTIN FREEMAN, JAMES LANCE, NEVE MCINTOSH
When Kevin borrows his best friend’s phone to ask Amanda out, he's shocked to find it already recognizes her number…
2004 / Comedy / United Kingdom
Director: Ed Roe
Cast: James Lance, Martin Freeman
CHOCOLATE SPERM
In a French café, two young students are chatting about nothing, but slowly the conversation turns to sex.
2001 / Comedy / France / French
Director: Bosiljka Simonovic
Cast: Gab Colette, Pauline Bereau
CONCRETE
When a reserved botanist tries to teach a little girl about the world of plants, he finds that she is, in fact teaching him about the world of people.
2001 / Drama / United States / English
Director: Andy Watts
HOME
The story of a young homeless man.
2005 / Drama / United Kingdom
Director: Giles Borg
Cast: Kieran O'Brien
I WAS CATHERINE THE GREAT'S STABLE BOY
The stable-boy who engineered Catherine The Great's notorious rendez-vous with a horse looks back and reflects on the incident that changed his life forever.
1995 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English
Director: Stephen Leslie
JETPACK WILLY
LETTERS OF SERVICE
A rest home nurse pieces together the haunted past of a 100 year-old psychiatric patient, about whom nothing is known but his date of birth and his name.
2004 / Drama / United Kingdom / English
Director: Duncan Wellaway
Cast: Morris Perry, Chloe Bale
NEXT ON: 11/03/2010 - 13:1212/03/2010 - 10:12
LITTLE TERRORIST
A twelve year old Pakistani Muslim boy mistakenly crosses the minefield strewn border into India and finds an unusual ally - Bhola, a Hindu school teacher who must find a way of hiding him from Indian soldiers looking for the 'terrorist' who cro
2004 / Drama / United Kingdom
Director: Ashvin Kumar
Cast: Salim Ali, Megnaa Mehtta, Sushil Sharma
NEXT ON: 11/03/2010 - 20:0012/03/2010 - 17:00
LONESOME JOE
A lonely tow truck driver finds solace in his new found friend - a dog. But the relationship is not what it seems.
2002 / Comedy / Canada / English
Director: Mark Sawers
LUCKY
LUCKY is a South African AIDS orphan who learns about life through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian woman.
2005 / Drama / United Kingdom
Director: Avie Luthra
Cast: Joy Mwandla, Muthal Naidoo
MOSQUITO
MUG
A dark disturbing tale of a mugger on the streets of London with a exclusive score by the band The The / Matt Johnson.
2004 / Drama / United Kingdom / English
Director: Gerard Johnson
Cast: Lorenzo Camorese, Lucy Flack, Peter Ferdinando
ONE DAY
Owen has the same mundane routine every day. When his boss and secretary push his patience he escapes to Blackpool with Cherie, the girl from the video shop. He shouldn't but he's off on one
2006 / Comedy / United Kingdom / English
Director: James Barriscale
Cast: Tanya Franks, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens
NEXT ON: 11/03/2010 - 10:0012/03/2010 - 07:00
OUT OF MILK
Two wigs. A TV repairman. A fridge full of milk and the boy next door. How do you remember the summer when you were eight? A touching and funny interpretation of the adult world through the eyes of a child.
2006 / Drama / United Kingdom / English
Director: Nicola Morris
Cast: Jamie Foskin, Jonathan Barnham, Liberty Burnett, Mark Down, Sarah Guyler
SYLVESTER
A car crash leads circus folk into a bizarre paternity suit.
2001 / Drama / United Kingdom / English
Director: Kevin Molony
Cast: George Yiasoumi, Kari Väänänen
