North East International Film Festival
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Sat 20 November 2021 // 10:30
/ Cinema
Tickets: £4
TAKE THE CHOCOLATE - It’s a story of two year old girl who likes a boy and wants to make him her friend.
TRANSMISSION - UFOs? Alien abduction? A boy finds the key to extraterrestrial connection but loses his brother in the process. Can he re-connect to get him back?
WHEN WINTER COMES - Animated Music video by Geoff Dunbar featuring Paul McCartney performing Winter Bird / When Winter Comes.
WAITING GAMES - An anxious single Mum and her young daughter connect whilst waiting for their son and brother, but it’s someone else who they’re really hoping for.
THE WRITING BOX - In the late 1930s, a boarding school bully schemes and dreams her way from the gloom of England to the promises of colonial India.
JUMP - Abandoned by his parents, a boy takes care of his younger brother Mattie as they fend for themselves in a council house in Sheffield. When the authorities come to take Mattie away, a desperation to retain control forces the boy to take Mattie and go on the run. Written entirely in rhyming verse.
FLY HOME - A lonely man working on a deep space transmission station is pestered by a fly that has appeared onboard.
EVERYONE HAS MY JACKET - Short animation about fashion, gender dysphoria and acceptance; as we follow a singular protagonist narrating an internal struggle when a brown corduroy jacket makes its way into his closet.
2020 - 2020 is the year in which everything seems to have stopped. However, Life always has different plans.