SHORTS

On a typically boring Sunday, a small boy goes to church with his parents before being taken to a relative's house for a family lunch.

Morris Lessmore, a young writer, wanders into a mysterious library after a storm devastates his city. The library is home to magical flying books that literally come to life.

A fable of a young boy coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. It's the first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. Will he be able to find his own way?

When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we are left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.

Calgary, 1909. An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

A man with road rage confronts an elderly driver. Then all hell breaks loose.

In the dangerous world of the Amazon Rainforest, finding a meal proves to be an impossible task for a little treefrog named Bounce. His luck changes when he meets Biggy, a blue-bellied treefrog who takes him under his guidance and shows him the ways of the jungle in this animated journey set to Beethoven's Symphony No.8.

A cautionary mockumentary set against the foreboding backdrop of the Antarctic.

Two abstract characters - Plus and Minus come from opposite poles and when their predicament forces them to unite, they create a new, startling, energy form - The Hybrid Union.

Ireland 1977. Eleven-year-old Damian Lynch (Scott Graham) is called in at the last moment to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish. Following his last appearance as an altar boy when he knocked Father O'Toole off the altar, Damien is serving a 3 month ban from his only passion in life...football. To make matters worse, Damian's team, Liverpool FC, are playing in their first European cup final in two weeks time. Damien's father (Michael McElhatton) offers him a reprieve and crucially a chance to see the European cup final if he serves the mass correctly. Damien now faces a choice: either conform to the status quo or never watch his beloved Liverpool play again...

Everybody will die one day, but 70-year-old Oskar will die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a long-ago disagreement. Will he reach his brother, whom he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it is too late?

A young boy tries to get his parents to divorce so he can get twice as many presents.

An only son tries to woo the girl of his dreams with the unwanted help of his deceased father.

Can you let in love if you lock away your past? SAFE tells the tale of Mia, who is 31 and eternally single. Mia can never get past the second date because she is too scared to answer any questions about her past. Then she discovers the Secrets Safe. The Secrets Safe 'listens' to Mia's secrets and then encases them in a cement block, to be kept silent forever. Will the Safe free Mia from her secrets? Or shut her further in? A story about trust, love and letting go of your past.

James is a man with of string of past lovers. He asks his current photographer girlfriend Chloe to take his family's annual portrait, but will she fit into the picture?

A destitute man on city streets liberates a device allowing him to control the world around him.

2018. The world is changing. Social networking sprawls far beyond beyond desktop computers and iphones. "Welcome to Statlink." Live connected 24/7 though microchips inserted directly into your scull and veins. Ultimate connection is yours. It is only a thought away. New years eve sees Statlink change. The voices in your head are beginning to blur. Are they your thoughts? Are they mine? The system is failing. Or is it your desire that it should evolve? A cloudy hunger within you grows stronger and stronger. We march as one towards a single identity. Duality emerges. Users stand glowing in the sun while the old world screams caution from the dark. Jason beholds a world in flux and sees his girlfriend leaving our shores. He fights to save her as the streets erupt into chaos and fire. Welcome to a new world. Welcome to connection as you have never known. Welcome to the evolution of social networking.

Fifteen year-old James has everything before him. The catch? He has to choose between the two things he wants the most: love or mates.

Mick is a 17-year-old who gets a job at the local meatworks. The place is challenging and his fellow workers don't exactly welcome new blood. It soon becomes clear that his first day won't be about just trying to fit in--his biggest concern will be getting out alive.

In 1970s Australia, when 'care' equalled repression, three girls escape from their institution for one brief moment of liberty.

Anthony Fox is a very paranoid man. Fleeing a coach crash, he wanders the streets; he's bloodied and desperate, trusting no-one, switching food orders and behaving erratically. Anthony finally walks into a suburban Police Station and approaches the world weary Desk Sergeant. In a cracked voice he tells him that people are trying to kill him... by accident. When the disbelieving Policeman sighs and asks him their motive, he cryptically replies 'Art'...

Two very different people in the London borough of Lambeth - a drag queen (Michael Twaits) and a woman in a burka. Only in a lift would they ever cross each another s path. But these two have more in common than they first thought.

A pickpocket (Jason) blackmails a Somalian immigrant, Asad, on a London night bus.

A young woman is followed home by a stranger.