LSFF Competition: Growing Up In Public

One of four programmes celebrating the latest in short filmmaking talent.

  • Total running time 91min

Coming of age is far from easy, as these competition-nominated films demonstrate. Growing pains and harrowing encounters are par for the course as we navigate the twisting road of identity, family and the inner workings of our developing brains. Our young characters attempt to figure themselves and the world out whilst on a psychedelic Scottish road trip, sloping around suburban London, or veering wildly into Japanese cosplay and the surprisingly competitive world of horse vaulting. You can’t self-actualise without a soundtrack, and music plays a vital role across this programme of loud, stroppy, colourful and always surprising shorts.

Sundance Award alumni Makoto Nagahisa returns with another tale of obsessive adolescent romance in Pisko The Crab Child is in Love, and LSFF alumni Harry Plowden returns with a tale of British teenhood in All Gucci My Broski. Fiona O’Shaughnessy (Nina Forever, Utopia) stars as Mum in the aforementioned Highlands holiday from hell, The Möbius Trip.

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Director Flóra Anna Buda, France 2023, 11min

The Möbius Trip
Director Simone Smith, UK 2023, 16min

Exceptional Tales from a Young Female Team: REDS
Director Tom Espinoza, 2022, Argentina, 14min

Highgate 2014
Director Teva Cheema, UK 2023, 19min

All Gucci My Broski
Director Harry Plowden, UK 2023, 13min

Pisko the Crab Child is in Love
Director Makoto Nagahisa, Japan 2023, 18min