UK Shorts 4

Total: 84 mins 43 secs
No online showings scheduled
Thursday 2nd October 4:20pm - Light Cinema Screen 2 Saturday 4th October 11:00am - Light Cinema Screen 2

Poppy Day

Justin Edgar
United Kingdom, 2024
13:51 mins
UK Premiere
Fifteen-year-old Jamie lives with his peace activist Mum in a barracks town in England, where they suffer prejudice due to their anti-war activism. He is attacked for his beliefs at school and on the street where he helps his mum run a peace stall selling white poppies to members of the public. As t...

Sleep Over

Tommy Edwards
United Kingdom, 2025
12:21 mins
World Premiere
Nine year old Marla is having her first sleepover with her best friend Lola. And even better - despite her Nans reservations, she is having it at her fun loving Dad's house. But amidst the freedom and play, she finds something that changes the course of this innocent Sleepover and the dynamics of he...

Undeletable

Benjamin Blaine,
Christopher Blaine
United Kingdom, 2024
6:31 mins
European Premiere
Emma has to inform her Dad's recently confessed lover that he has died but the painful mistakes she makes whilst recording this answerphone message confronts her with a brutal truth about the remorseless forward nature of time.

Spitfire

Fabia Martin
United Kingdom, 2025
12:06 mins
World Premiere
Life goes from bad to worse in what might be the worst day of Aaron's life

Very Important Call

Emma Parkinson
United Kingdom, 2025
3:54 mins
UK Premiere
A woman has back to back calls

Dark Skin Bruises Differently

Susan Wokoma
United Kingdom, 2025
10:53 mins
Children lie. But when one lie threatens Ms Lawson’s integrity as a teacher, can she keep on defending a student as peculiar as Maria Obasi?

Clout

Jordan Murphy Doidge
United Kingdom, 2025
16:51 mins
A lonely teenage boy risks everything to prove himself in a bid for online fame.

The Stork

Stephen Gallacher
United Kingdom, 2024
8:16 mins
Well intentioned, but clueless, parents of a queer woman wanting to start a family via artificial insemination using semen ordered online. How far would a parent go to secure their child’s happiness?