North East International Film Festival presents
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Fri 29 September 2023 // 18:00
/ Cinema
Tickets: £5
Eight magnificent short films in one block
PATH TO ECSTACY - A lost teen is abandoned by his alcoholic stepfather, and spurred on a desperate search for connection within the same group he also wishes to escape from.
DYING TO MEET YOU - A hotel lobby in Depression America is the crucible where a brilliant, ruined drunk battles his demons one last time. This true story reveals what happens on the day Bill Wilson turns down a drink and creates Alcoholics Anonymous.
INTERNAL ABYSS - As Mia battles the effects of both her broken home and her toxic relationship, her loneliness grows, and hope is fading. Will she find hope and a route to follow, or will life always be this Internal Abyss?
SEASALTER ROAD - Following the sudden death of their mother a pair of estranged siblings must revisit their family home and fractured relationship.
TERRARIUM - Created using stop-motion techniques in CG 3D, Terrarium is a short film of a little ecosystem where we peer into a slice of its life and death cycle.
THE DAWDLER - The Dawdler is about the moments before a town is destroyed by an air raid. Ordinary life occurring - unaware it will be decimated, any second now.
OFFICE ROYALE - How far would you go to climb the corporate ladder?
ILL FARES THE LAND - Mermaids. Migrants. And the Far Right. A young boy finds a mermaid washed up on the shores of his seaside home while his older brother is swept up in the rising tide of far-right nationalism.