SHORT BLOCK 6

29th OF FEBRUARY

Categories: Short, Drama

Tomás wants to celebrate his ninetieth birthday but he has no one to invite . . . except his staunchest enemy. A sad comedy, a hopeful drama about the situation of many of our elders.

Rating: GA

Producer: Maria Vallejo Ilarduya

Director: Diego Fandos

Cast: Ramon Barea, Zorion Equileor

Runtime: 23 minutes

Language: Spanish

Country: Spain

AN OLD FRIEND

Categories: Short, Family

An imaginary friend (Jason Faunt) finds out his sole purpose is to bring happiness to his child, only to discover his child is a 90-year-old man (Tom Skerritt) on his death bed.

Rating: F

Producer: Kris Flink

Director: Nuk Suwanchote

Cast: Jason Funt, Tom Skeritt

Runtime: 14 minutes

Language: English

Country: USA

The Filmmaker will be in attendance

AREN'T WE HAVIN' A GOOD TIME

Categories: Short, Drama

Peter, a popular singer/stand-up entertainer of the seventies and eighties, resides in a care home in Nottingham as a result of Alzheimer’s dementia. Kezz, his naturally-gifted event host of a grandson, assumed he was all but lost to the condition, until, during a routine visit, he's suddenly shocked and astonished to learn that due to the remarkable effects of music on the minds of those living with dementia—Peter still has the ability to perform his past songs.

Rating: GA

Producer: Chloe Elizabeth Martin

Director: Derry Shillitto

Cast: Nicholas Lumley, Kieran Hardcastle

Runtime: 19 minutes

Language: English

Country: United Kingdom

BUT I'M A SHOE

Categories: Short, Animation

This is the story of a woman who wanted to fly comfortably, so she used a new service called “Objectified Travel” just to be reminded that the grass isn't always greener.

Rating: F

Producer: Rachel Jobin, Daniel Beared

Director: Chen Drachman

Cast: Janet Varney, Soledad Bautista, Alexander Ferguson

Runtime: 12 minutes

Language: English

Country: USA

The Filmmaker will be in attendance

DÉRIVE

Categories: Short

Guided by posthumous instructions to release her ex-wife's ashes, a reclusive book publisher embarks on a Surrealist odyssey (a dérive) across New York City, experiencing a series of spontaneous connections along the way that inspire her to engage the world anew.

Rating: M

Producer: Ellie Jackson

Director: Lianne Sonia Walden

Cast: Heather Raffo, Fancis Benhamou

Runtime: 19 minutes

Language: English

Country: USA

The Filmmaker will be in attendance

GOODNIGHT DARLING

Categories: Short

GOODNIGHT DARLING captures a year in the life of a sunset couple's marriage, set against La France Profonde. An honest portrait of how love can be found whenever you care enough to look, and that you don't stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.

Rating: F

Producer: Samuel Jean Butler

Director: Samuel Jean Butler

Cast: Marie Lauqué, Albert Crabos

Runtime: 17 minutes

Language: French

Country: France