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The Kindness of Strangers

Two girlfriends pick up a traumatized woman near the scene of an accident. But something isn't right about their passenger and soon the good Samaritans are trapped in a nightmare ride they'll never forget.

The Last Snow

Dirty Fred, the Captain

After getting injured in a fight, the steward of the luxury steamer Honolulu Star encourages Smiling Jimmy to take over the job of the beaten stoker and waiter, in exchange for both of their wages. On the ship, he meets Mr. Irving, who is incognito, playing the role of the Archduke St. Antonio, as he wants to get to know the "underworld" from the inside. They teach each other how to avoid being exposed during their few-day adventure, and eventually, they switch roles. But the real adventure is only just beginning.

Alone Together

Nassdja is locked down during a raging pandemic with her brutish boyfriend Luke. With the hope of healing their fractured relationship, they flee to Luke's remote family cabin, but soon find they are not alone.

Iris

Iris, a young aspiring model, agrees to a private photo shoot at the mansion of an elderly millionaire photographer, unaware of what awaits her.

Five Minutes to Five Steps

This is the story of one man's schizophrenic journey into the creation of power as he hunts the homeless to create his own personal army of soldiers.

Little Dinosaurs

A five-year-old Scottish boy discusses the best way for a group of small dinosaurs to stop a big dinosaur from picking on them. The boy's short discussion with his father is brought to life using a mix of 2D and 3D computer-generated animation.

Space Travel According to John

In this soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorises on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in store.

Styx

A man is shot, only to find he has bigger things to worry about crossing the river to death.

The Radical

This beautiful short, commissioned by UCLan’s Creative Innovation Zone, is an intricate hand-drawn journey through the life of a local activist, George Dewhurst. An ordinary working man from Blackburn, George was charged with High Treason, shortly after The Peterloo Massacre in August 1819, for speaking at a gathering of workers in Burnley. Narrated by one of George's descendants, 8-year-old Monty Speed, this beautiful animated montage depicts events in George's life in the year 1819, following a quest by descendants to uncover his grave and raise awareness of his story.

The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea

Desperate to escape his past, a troubled telegraph operator must face his memories of a helpless sailor as they come knocking back to haunt him.

Cats

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

Un Ogre

An ogre, it is me it is you : the insatiable hunger devouring the child within us. That request, in some drawings, very simply, what we, the people of ogres, we will do.

Birthday Night

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.

Inferno

When a family man tears down the remains of his burned-out childhood home in an attempt to bury his tragic past, he finds himself tormented by a sinister discovery uncovered in the demolition.

Onion

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

El Cuerpo Táctil

The encounter of a wound, a body and a city results in the alteration of the whole.

Die Erfindung des Kabeljaus

Animated short film

The Vanished World of Gloves

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

The Final Apostle

A band is promised fame if they can play their songs for a set amount of time without stopping, but they soon discover that quitting has fatal consequences.