Best of STUDENT UK DRAMA Shorts Festival
1h 0m
THE ABSENCE OF EVERYTHING, 12min.
Directed by Gabriel Michael Sideras
In the stillness of a confession box, a suicidal young man opens up to a priest. As their conversation unfolds, the lines between faith, guilt, and responsibility begin to blur. The Absence of Everything is an intimate, minimalist short about silence, and the importance of human life.
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THE COLISEUM, 14min.
Directed by Swanoop A Soman
DEADTALK, 5min.
Directed by Florence Winter-Hill
A woman hijacks her Grandma's funeral in order to get people to listen to her TedTalk
RING A BELL, 15min.
Directed by Ravi Ranjan
Jon has devoted his life to battling landfills, reducing carbon footprints, and combating greenhouse gases. He champions healthy lifestyles and re-mobilizes substance abusers, prisoners, and asylum seekers with the help of a German invention known as the Velocipede, or more commonly, the bicycle. Does that ring a bell?
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A RIGHT TO PROTEST, 3min.
Directed by Lee Hanley
An archival footage based documentary about the presence and impact of protests throughout American history.
JACOBS FIGHT, 11min.
Directed by Nico Rowden-Coley
Jacob, a disciplined and determined fighter, steps into a pivotal fight, but the battle extends far beyond the ring. Haunted by personal struggles, he wrestles with connections to his aging and crude father, Arthur, his young and fiery daughter, Zara and his lost love Leah.