The Future Shorts Festival is the biggest pop up festival of its kind, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. It breaks boundaries, borders and conventions to connect a global audience to the world’s best short films. The creators of the acclaimed Secret Cinema, Future Shorts have redefined the way we experience film. The festival is a true celebration of cinema as a communicator and community.

Shorts to be screened:
A Morning Stroll
Guest
Notes on Biology
We’ll Become Oil
Street Vendor Cinema
Tumult
Fireworks

A Morning Stroll
Director: Grant Orchard
United Kingdom 2012.
7mins
Created by Studio AKA, the multi-BAFTA winning company behind Future Shorts favourite Jojo in the Stars, Grant Orchard’s A Morning Stroll is the story of an encounter between a New Yorker and a chicken. Told over three acts spanning over 100 years, this incredibly successful animated short has already won a BAFTA and a Jury Award at Sundance and was nominated for a Short Animated Film Oscar.

Guest
Director: Ga Eun-Yoon
South Korea 2011
20mins
A teenager angry at her father’s affair barges into his mistress’ house to find her two little kids. Winner of the 2012 International Grand Prix at Clermont -Ferrand, Guest is a beautifully acted coming-of-age portrayal of emotions from Korean National University of Arts’ film program.

Notes on Biology
Director: Will Madden
United States 2011
6mins
A stop motion animation, Notes on Biology was the winner of Best Short at SXSW. This very clever short film brought to us by Ornana Films follows a student’s imagination during a Biology class.

We’ll Become Oil
Director: Mihai Grecu
Romania 2011
6mins
A winner at Tampere Film Festival, this experimental documentary inspired by the Golf of Mexico oil spill describes the effect of conflict in geographical spaces.

Street Vendor Cinema
Director: Clarissa Knoll
Brazil 2011
15mins
A short film producer sells filmmaking on demand in the busiest shopping street of Brazil. The outcome is an extraordinary mix of genres, from a samurai epic to a family melodrama, all born out of popular fantasy shaped amid the market's chaos.

Tumult
Director: John Barrington
United Kingdom 2011
13mins
A tribe of Norse warriors traipses across a barren land after battle. Their dying chief is about to hand over power to his son when an army of a completely different kind descends upon them.

Fireworks
Director: Hugo Duran
United States 2011
11mins
Growing up in Los Angeles, the fourth of July was always about fireworks. Against the holiday backdrop in South L.A., Fireworks is a coming-of-age story of two adolescent boys on a quest to impress a group of girls.

Partner: Electric Shadows