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North East International Film Festival

Shy Bairns Get Nowt - Short Films (NEIFF)

Sociopaths, Gangsters, Hitmen. How far will our protagonists go?

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Fri 19 November 2021 // 13:00 / Cinema

Tickets: £4

TIM - Dark but humorous. Sinister but funny. Tim is the short film that sits somewhere between Reservoir Dogs and Only Fools and Horses.

SPIDER AND FLY - At the scene of a hit and run, Private Investigator I.B. Pillock brings his own twisted logic to solving the case.

INTERRUPTIONS - Jessica bumps into a man with half a million pounds in cash, Paul attempts a FaceTime date in a restaurant, and Mick the gangster debates America’s gun laws.

THE CHOP - About Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and therefore decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers.

HOPPER & GUNDEL - RIVER POLICE -Hopper and Gundel are two River Police who assumed their job would involve more crime fighting and life saving than boat maintenance and ferrying real detectives about. They are the brunt of their land-based peers’ jokes, namely Officer Cook but maybe today is their big chance to prove themselves. Or not.

APOLLO'S LETTERS - Set in 1993, a young sociopathic aristocrat sends letters to newspapers describing his ideological killings, until he meets his late Father’s executor of wills – a young mysterious woman who takes him by surprise.

WHEN THE WEST IS DONE WITH YOU - Trust fund baby Robert gets himself in hot water with a mysterious American who helps you kill people for a price. When The West is Done With You deals with the toxic masculinity that pervades our society and how easily this can be exploited for financial gain.