The Peterborough Festival - 2007

THE SPACE4 SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL

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Thursday 5 July 2007
7.30pm at The Key Theatre
 

 

TITLE DIRECTOR COUNTRY INFORMATION  
Mildbunch   UK Three men, unknown to each other try to rob the same bank at the same time.  
Tea Party Allison Beda Canada A deliciously vicious comedy about friendship, trust and watching your back.  
Family Ties Joanna Quinn  UK When Beryl gets a new digital video camera, she becomes obsessed with the filmmaking process, using it to articulate her dreams and desires in a video diary  
The End of the Party   UK Francis, an eleven-year-old boy, has a terrible fear of the dark. Every year he is invited to a children's party and they always play hide-and-seek in the dark. Terrified, Francis will do anything to get out of it.  
My Cousin Paco   Spain Summertime in the early seventies. On a beach in Southern Spain Paco uses his seven year-old nephew to approach the girls he fancies.

 
Imagine This John Callaghan Ireland An audio mash-up of George W Bush singing the Lennon track Imagine, a humorous and poignant commentary of the Iraq War.  
Tell Tale Heart   USA Bela Lugosi narrates this animated version of  a short story by Edgar A Poe.  

Razan Aslihan Unaldi USA / Turkey After strapping on a belt of explosives, a passionate young woman and would-be suicide bomber sets out for her final mission in the New York City subway.  
As You Want Dong-Youn Kang Korea A man desperately searches for a woman in a deserted forest. The woman tries to hang herself and asks him to kill her. He suggests a game as a last resort. If he wins, he'll decide. If she wins, she'll decide.  
The Trainee Craig Rosenthal Singapore Meet "The Trainee": she works the late shift in a convenience store along Keong Saik Road in Singapore - a street better known for the special customer service received in brothels.  
Life of a Dog John Harden France Paris, 1962. A scientist formulates a serum which transforms him into a dog. It's only when he changes back to a human that his troubles begin.  

Available Men David Dean Bottrell USA A harried Hollywood agent trying to court a hot new writer he's never met hooks up with a sensitive gay man (with same first name as the writer) who's on a blind date in this comedy of mistaken identity.  

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