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I Need I Want I Will
UK shorts programme
These shorts offer a thrilling miscellany of experience and imagination.
The Language
UK Ballroom legend Jay Jay Revlon talks passion, creativity and truth with Spain’s Gorgeous Jayce Gucci.
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Director
Steph Tari Odu
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UK-Spain 2022 9min
Fish
Ella can’t hide her disappointment when her blind date isn’t exactly the Kristen Stewart lookalike she’d been promised.
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Director-Producer
Jay Mansell
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UK 2022 10min
Repair
A neurodivergent man is faced with a choice after an embarrassing encounter at the supermarket.
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Director-Screenwriter
Bertil Nilsson
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UK 2023 11min
gaze
You know that thing when you see your ex at a party and you know you messed up the relationship? Yeah, that.
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Director
Ola Adediji
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Producers
Savannah Kityo, Shaznay Martin
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Screenwriter
Shaznay Martin
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UK 2022 10min
You Like That
Lost in a hypersexual digital world, Joshua dreams of the kind of love he’s only read about in classic literature.
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Director-Screenwriter
Jeremy McClain
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Producers
Jeremy McClain, Nicholas Elliott, Matt Williams
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UK 2022 11min
A Different Place
Away from her family, fortysomething Evelyn spends a life-altering night with a younger woman.
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Director
Sophie Black
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Producers
Katie Smith, Charlie Clarke
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Screenwriters
Tommy Draper, Z. Igbe
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UK 2022 13min
Gaia
Shooting an organic dog food advert, on the side of a hill, in the rain, with your partner. How hard can it be?
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Directors
Dorothy Allen-Pickard, Billy Barrett
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Producers
Ellie Claughton, Rosa Harris Edmonds
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Screenwriters
Ellice Stevens, Billy Barrett
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UK 2022 9min
Tow Truck
With no money and the wolf at the door, a non-binary single parent finds a novel way to raise some cash.
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Director-Screenwriter
Kieran Stringfellow
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Producer
Tasha Williams
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UK 2022 14min
Just Johnny
Johnny knows exactly what he wants to wear for his first Holy Communion. But will his parents say yes to the dress?
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Director
Terry Loane
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Producer
Shauna Shivers McAtamney
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Screenwriter
Gerard Mc Carthy
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Ireland 2021 19min
Total running time 106min
Jay Bernard and Michael Blyth
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