Film
Bristol Film Festival: Short Film Showcase
- Director
- Various
- Certificate
- No Cert
A Bristol Film Festival selection of the best recent locally made shorts. Admission is free and there’s no need to book for these rolling screenings. Just turn up an time the RWA on Thur 9 March (10.30am-5.30pm) and Fri 10 March (10am-2.30pm). Here’s the line-up in full:
Birthright (15 suggested – brief violence)
Dir: Charlie Steeds, 18 mins
In 2026, childbirth is only legal every other year. When Claire and her nine-year-old son are discovered to have broken this law, she must fight to protect her child.
The Downs (PG suggested – mild threat)
Dir: Tom Wheeler, 4 mins
Lily, a local student, abandons a plan to go out with her friends, choosing to separate at the pub and walk home by herself across the ‘notorious’ Downs…
Jungle Life (12A suggested)
Dir: Dave Young, 20 mins
Life in their own words: stories from migrants in the Calais ‘jungle’.
Not the End of the World (12A suggested)
Dir: Jack Bennett, 8 mins
Joe Connoly’s life is turned upside-down one morning by the arrival of a note. It appears that Molly thinks he’s cute. What does this mean? Is it true love? And who is Molly anyway?
I Should Have Run (12A suggested – implied threat)
Dir: Gabriela Staniszewska, 4 mins
One cold dark night, a woman encounters something strange and terrifying on her walk home. When it asks her a question, her sheer terror causes her to lie…with disastrous consequences. This one’s a bit of a corker, conjuring up a real sense of dread.
My Grandmother’s Sitting Room
Dir: Laure Levy, 12 mins
A filmmaker’s journey to document the extraordinary lives of the women in her family, and find the grandmother she never knew who was lost in the Holocaust.
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