A Night of Shorts: The Public and the Private

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A Night of Shorts is back and presents a curated collection of short films made by women. Responding to the theme of THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE ~ spaces, concepts, bodies, information, relationships, rituals. 

Join us for a celebration of women filmmakers, directors and screenwriters who are working right now. We will be hosting a Q&A with filmmakers afterwards, with DJs and discussions until late! Hope to see you there.

PROGRAM

• A Move, directed by Elahe Esmiali @elaheesmaili__

Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents move to a new place after 40 years. Influenced the Woman-Life-Freedom movement, she’s also hoping for a bigger move, not just a new apartment.

• Devi (Godess), directed by Karishma Dube @k.devdube

Set in New Delhi, a closeted lesbian risks family and social boundaries as she purses her attraction towards her household maid, Devi. 

• The Eating of an Orange, directed by May Kindred-Boothby @mkbanimation

Stark conformity dominates the residents of a large manor house. Identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything changes when one woman gets given an orange by a strange figure. A surreal and sensuous animated short film about convention, transformation and fluidity.

• It’s A Date, directed by Nadia Parfan @whooliganka

This is a story about the capital of the country in which a full-scale war is taking place, but life in all its manifestations does not stop. The film itself looks like a high-speed drive through Kyiv at dawn, shot in one shot. 

• We Did Not Consent, directed by Dorothy Allen-Pickard @dorothyallenpickard

For decades, a secret unit in London’s Metropolitan police infiltrated local activist groups and formed romantic relationships with their targets. Now, three women are revisiting scenes from their lives in order to reclaim the narrative, and make sense of what happened

• Autism Plays Itself, directed by Janet Harbord

A film shot in 1957 in at the Maudsley Hospital, London, captures the movements and behaviour of children under observation for “atypical” behaviour. In the present day, three autistic respondents watch the footage; through speculation and identification, with wit and audacity, the responses forge a new soundtrack from an autistic point of view, becoming a playful homage to the body language of autism.

• Fierce-ish Grace, directed by Amaya Owen Rowlands @amayaowenrowlands

Grace is a hybrid. At work she’s a diluted, no-worries-if-not girly. At home she’s strong, defiant and empowered, particularly when muttering fantasy comebacks into her pillow at 4am. As Grace prepares to confront her boss, she’ll finally unleash a version of herself that only her bathroom mirror has ever seen.

• Hope and Beans, directed by Klara Kaliger @klarsfrommars

On a grey London morning, Zoe offers to buy a stranger a coffee after reading about it in a self-help book…