NFF2019 SHORTS: THIS YEAR’S OFFICIAL SELECTION

Sunday, August 18th, 2019

The 2019 Norwich Film Festival is proud to announce its diverse and engaging line-up of 111 short films in competition for its 9th edition. The selection represents some of the most exciting narrative, documentary and animated filmmaking around.

This year’s shorts programme includes an outstanding selection of regional, national and international films, curated from a record 812 submissions, with female filmmakers directing 44% of the selection.

The Official Selection continues to celebrate and embrace international storytelling, with 31% of its films representing 18 countries including Australia, Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Czech Republic,  Estonia, Egypt, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Japan, Nepal, Portugal, Sweden, and the United States.

Still from STORM, by Will Kendrick.

The short films will be presented over 7 days and 15 screenings. These events will include Women In Filmmaking Shorts, Comedy Shorts, Experimental Shorts, Global Issues Shorts, World Cinema Shorts, LGBT Shorts, Animated Shorts, Documentary Shorts, Emerging Filmmakers, the East Anglian Collection, and 4 Mix Tapes (which will screen a variety of live action and animated films). Tickets for these events will be available from the 16th September 2019.

Craig Higgins, consultant at the festival noted that, “The Norwich Film Festival has continued to attract some of the best short films on the festival circuit and we are beyond excited to screen these shorts to our wonderful audiences in Norwich this November. As a team, we work incredibly hard each year to select the highest standard of shorts which feature stories around humanity, community, relationships, friendships and identity. There will also be a good selection of comedy films to make our audiences chuckle”. 

This year’s Official Selection features notable actors also from the world of Film & TV including Timothy Spall, Anna Friel, Russell Tovey, Whoopi Goldberg, James Cosmo, Paul Kaye, Mark Benton, Olivia Colman, and Lorraine Ashbourne.

Still from THIS TIME AWAY, by Magali Barbe.

The Norwich Film Festival hosts 5 competitive categories including; Narrative Short, Animated Short, Documentary Short, Student Short and East Anglian Short. There is also a One Minute Film category.  For the full list of this year’s selection please visit here.

ANIMATED SHORTS:

• Blieschow (Dir. Christoph Sarow)
• Carlotta’s Face (Dir. Valentin Riedl & Frédéric Schuld)
• Daughter (Dir. Daria Kashcheeva)
• Fuse (Dir. Shadi Adib)
• Grandad Was A Romantic (Dir. Maryam Mohajer)
• Guaxuma (Dir. Nara Normande)
• It Starts With (Dir. Laura Nasir-Tamara)
• My Mother’s Eyes (Dir Jenny Wright)
• Obon (Dir. Andre Hörmann & Anna Samo)
• Robot Will Protect You (Dir. Nicola Piovesan)
• That Makes Two of Us (Dir. Tim Hawkins)
• The Bird & the Whale (Dir. Carol Freeman)
• The Gap (Dir. Patrick Vandebroeck)
• The Most Magnificent Thing (Dir. Arna Selznic)

Still from THE BIRD & THE WHALE, by Carol Freeman.

Student Films:

• A Son Like Others (Dir. Antonio Sequeira)
• Almost There (Dir. Nelly Michenaud)
• Dios Nunca Muere (God Never Dies) (Dir. Barbara Cigarroa)
• Eyeshadow (Dir. Manuel Morales)
• Listen To Me Sing (Dir. Isabel Garrett)
• New Devonia (Dir. Kelly Mann & Skye Tati)
• Nine Coo Five (Dir. Anye Chen)
• Now or Never (Dir. Matt Senior)
• One Liner (Dir. Matthew Lee)
• Paul is Dead (Dir. George Moore)
• Roadkill (Dir. Leszek Mozga)
• Solar Plexus (Dir. David McShane)
• Stitch (Dir. Siobhán Smith)
• The Apricot Tree (Dir. Gideon van Eeden)
• Things That Happen in the Bathroom (Dir. Edward Hancox)

Still from PAUL IS DEAD, by George Moore.

EAST ANGLIAN

• Bound to Print (Dir. Evelyn Koster)
• E.N.S. (Dir. Ollie Wiggins & Carolyn Goodyear)
• Great Expectations (Dir. Stefan Georgiou)
• Love Have I Known (Dir. Gregory Nice)
• Norwich Love Letter (Dir. Finley Geen)
• Off Fleek (Dir. Steven Dorrington)
• Roadside Oddities (Dir. Matthew Trett)
• Stalker (Dir. Christopher Andrews)
• The Bicycle Thief (Dir. Kerry Skinner & Stewart Alexander)
• The Dead Ones (Dir. Stefan Georgiou)
• The Ferryman (Dir. Naomi Evans)
• Two Tickets, Please? (Dir. Emmaalouise Smith)
• Water Marks (Dir. Tracy Satchwill)

Still from LOVE HAVE I KNOWN, by Gregory Price.

DOCUMENTARY:

• 73 Cows (Dir. Alex Lockwood)
• A Song Can’t Burn (Dir. Roscoe Neil)
• An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Sussex (Dir. Jessica Bishopp)
• Dulce (Dir. Guille Isa & Angello Faccini)
• Framing Agnes (Dir. Chase Joynt & Kristen Schilt)
• Kamali (Dir. Sasha Rainbow)
• L’Eau Est La Vie (Dir. Sam Vinal)
• Little Miss Sumo (Dir. Matt Kay)
• Lowland Kids (Dir. Sandra Winther)
• The Traffic Separating Device (Dir. Johan Palmgren)
• The Vasectomy Doctor (Dir. Paul Webster)
• Tungrus (Dir. Rishi Chandna)
• Wealth Not a Waste – Jib’s Story (Dir. Justin Hunt)

Still from KAMALI, by Sasha Rainbow.

SHORTS:

• 3 Sleeps (Dir. Christopher Holt)
• A Disappearance (Dir. Laura Spini & Laurence Brook)
• A Family Affair (Dir. by Florence Keith-Roach)
• Ashmina (Dir. Dekel Berenson)
• Asparagus Tips (Dir. Sam Bailey)
• Early Birds (Dir. Benjamin Kempf-Siemens & Rainer Binz)
• El Hor (Dir. Dianne Lucille Campbell)
• Forget Me Not (Dir. Nicholas Goulden)
• Gone (Dir. Emma Sullivan)
• Good Luck (Dir. Franz Böhm)
• Grace (Dir. Alexia Oldini & Steven Gray)
• Granbad (Dir. Annabel Vine)
• Grounding (Dir. R.M. Moses)
• Have We Met Before? (Dir. Oliver Mason)
• Holy Cannelloni (Dir. Carolina Giammetta)
• Home Girl (Dir. Poonam Brah)
• Hook Up 2.0 (Dir. Dana Nachman)
• Hymm of Hate (Dir. Matt Kennard)
• If Girlfriend Deluxe (Dir. Steve Moss)
• Let’s Roll (Dir. Chris Thomas)
• Losing It (Dir. Ben Robbins)
• MJ (Dir. Jamie Delaney)
• Moon Rabbit (Dir. Kae Ho)
• Muzzle (Dir. Adam Etheridge)
• My Boy (Dir. Charlotte Regan)
• Nefta Football Club (Dir. Yves Piat)
• Nurtured (Dir. Ben Pearce)
• Pleased to Eat You! (Dir. Adrian Hedgecock)
• Quiet Carriage (Dir. Ben S. Hyland)
• Red Hill (Dir. Laura Carreira)
• Sequins (Dir. Michael Beddoes)
• Seven (Dir. James Morgan)
• Snapshots (Dir. Phoebe Barran & Lliana Bird)
• Special Delivery (Dir. Robert Hackett)
• Storm (Dir. Will Kindrick)
• Swiped (Dir. Steve Whiteley)
• The Beach House (Dir. Richard Naylor)
• The Bind (Dir. Caroline Bartleet)
• The Cunning Man (Dir. Zoë Dobson)
• The Rabbit’s Foot (Dir. Charlie Brafman & Magnus McCullagh)
• The Sea (Dir. Cameron Richards)
• This Perfect Day (Dir. Lydia Rui)
• This Time Away (Dir. Magali Barbe)
• Three Sacks Full of Hats (Dir. Debbie Anzalone)
• Trucker’s Atlas (Dir. Dan Thorburn)
• Turning Ten (Dir. Jaylan Auf)
• Unexpected Item (Dir. Stephen Gallacher)
• Unregistered (Dir. Sophia Banks)
• War Paint (Dir. Joseph Colby Doler & Taylor Bracewell)

Still from SEVEN, by James Morgan.

The 2019 Norwich Film Festival takes place from 6th to the 17th November. Tickets for the shorts screening will be available from the 16th September 2019.

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