The 2018 Programme 5/8
The Atrium Building, First Floor - Saturday October 20th
.png)
Say My Name - Wales (Slot L 11.30am - 1pm)
Welsh Feature Film - Director, Jay Stern
Friday, October 19, 2018
When a one-night stand gets interrupted by a robbery, two complete strangers are forced to navigate the seedy underbelly of a sleepy Welsh isle in order to get back their stolen property. Along the way, their opposite personalities and differing outlooks on life bring them to a boiling point. This indie romantic comedy written by British comedienne Deborah Frances-White, invites viewers along on the duo's night of unwanted self-discovery, that will have the couple either hating or loving each other by the morning.
GOLDEN FIVE - The Former Yugolsav Republic of Macedonia (Slot M 1.30pm - 3pm)
Foreign Language Feature - Director, Goran Trenchovski
Friday, October 19, 2018
Maki, Kata and Jiji are loyal friends who believe in their youthful ideals. However, when Maki and Kata announce their engagement, Jiji becomes jealous. In the period of communist liquidations, there is an unsolved murder of five students, one of them being Maki. 65 years later, Alavantie, as a witness and a researcher, returns to his homeland with the "Golden Five" dossier. His secrets and knowledge bring additional tension in Kata's and Jiji's married life.
Sayang - Wales (Slot M 1.30pm - 3pm)
Short Film - Leysha Al-yahya
Friday, October 19, 2018
What is home? Is it the borders our governments put up or is it a sense of comfort we can return to? Sayang discusses this question through Ana, a young Malaysian woman. Ana collects potted plants of all kinds of sizes that she keeps in the apartment she shares with Mindy, her British girlfriend. Ana is someone stuck in between. In between here and there, Malaysia and Cardiff, reality and daydreams but when she decides to ignore the one thing close to Mindy in their apartment, it forces them to come to terms with their one sided relationship.
The Iris Echo UK (Slot M 1.30pm - 3pm)
Short Film - Directors, Edward Wilkes, Tristram Giff
Friday, October 19, 2018
NEW SLAVOSKI, a secretive and ruthless totalitarian state ruled under the iron fist of the beloved 'Dear Leader'.
Hermes, a low ranking state 'Reader' is invisible like most of the working class. Growing increasingly frustrated with the hardship of her existence, she begins to question the truthfulness of her broadcasts to the nation. Roaming the airwaves in search of answers, Hermes is lead down a dangerous path... sealing her fate and sowing the seeds of revolution.
WHITE - UK (Slot M 1.30pm - 3pm)
Short Film - Director, David Moya
Friday, October 19, 2018
​White Man arrives at the Transition Centre Plus after dying of food poisoning in a cruise. There he is informed that he cannot be white in his next life. This triggers a ridiculous but insightful conversation about what it is to be white and its undeserved privileges.