PARALLEL SECTION
ORIGINAL VERSION SUBTITLED IN SPANISH.
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Miércoles 2 de octubre. 17,00 horas.
Salón de actos. Casa de la Cultura. Ponferrada.
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The British Council, as a cultural partner of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), once again presents the BAFTA SHORT FILM 2019, a program dedicated to the promotion of the best British short films. The United Kingdom has a long tradition in the production of short films and both the British Council and BAFTA are aware of the importance of seeking new audiences to support the diversity and talent of British filmmakers.
The 2019 BAFTA Shorts Program includes eight short films, three of them animated with a total duration of approximately 110 minutes. The shorts are not suitable for children under 16 years.
Dirección/Director: Alex Lockwood
Producción/Production: Lockwood Film
Intérpretes/Cast:
15’ (United Kingdom)
“A farmer struggles with his conscience every time he takes his cows to the slaughterhouse and therefore begins to do something extraordinary”
Dirección/Director: Elizabeth Hobbs
Producción/Production: Coproducción Reino Unido-Canadá; Animate Projects Limited and National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Intérpretes/Cast:
6’ (United Kingdom and Canadá)
“After the end of a love affair, the expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists as a soldier during World War I. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions while doctors transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Inspired by the life and art of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). “
Dirección/Director: Angela Clarke
Producción/Production: Angela Clarke
Intérpretes/Cast:
16’ (United Kingdom)
“A lasting love story from the time of a man in London in the early 1960s. When he came of age as a young homosexual in a society where male gay sex was illegal and prejudices were profound, Bryan Robert Bale discovered the illicit ways in which gay men still sought to love freely. “
Dirección/Director: Greg McLeod
Producción/Production: The Brothers McLeod
Intérpretes/Cast:
8’ (United Kingdom )
“A city on the Texas border. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, monsters and food trucks. And then there is the giant lemon. “
Dirección/Director: Paul Taylor
Producción/Production: 13th Door
Intérpretes/Cast: Janie Booth, Annie McGrath and Gemma Whelan.
9’ (United Kingdom)
“A home care nurse realizes that the elderly woman who is caring is not what it seems.”
Dirección/Director: Sandhya Suri
Producción/Production: Co-production Francia-India; Lionfish Films and L'Homme du Train
Intérpretes/Cast: Mia Maelzer
19’ (United Kingdom)
“A humble farm worker leads a double life in the last cornfield left in her village. But the harvest is coming.”
Dirección/Director: Jonathan Hodgson
Producción/Production: Co-production France-United Kingdom
Intérpretes/Cast:
16’ (United Kingdom)
“A fiction with biographical dyes that takes us back to the eighties, when a group of friends move to Liverpool to start a new life. Friendship, fascination, freedom, nightlife and punk spirit dominate this thrilling film alien to any kind of nostalgia”.
Dirección/Director: Barnaby Blackburn
Producción/Production: Dark Glass Films
Intérpretes/Cast: Jamie Silves, Roger Nsengiyumva, Clare Perkins, Sura Dohnke, Raphel Famotibe, Jim Caesar, Marcus Coombs, Richard W. H. Bray and Mark Prince
20’ (United Kingdom)
“A young 18-year-old criminal tries to find his life by opening his own mechanical workshop. The task is not as simple as he originally thought, especially because he was a black teenager with a criminal past.”
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