Summer Days Drifting Away
The lazy hazy days of summer means just that; holidays and journeys that lead to lazing on a beach, in the garden, or just soaking up the summer rays and hot heat. And this heat can play with our perception of reality, so we either start dreaming or perhaps we won’t even make the trip in the first place.
Philip Ilson
Exteriors
In the sweltering summer heat, a friendship is threatened when a long-ignored secret is exposed.
- Director Matt Paley
- USA 2014
- 10 mins
In the sweltering summer heat, a friendship is threatened when a long-ignored secret is exposed.
Half Wet
Water, water, everywhere. When we are born we are 75 percent water. No wonder we feel at home in the sea.
- Director Sophie Koko Gate
- UK 2014
- 7 mins
Water, water, everywhere. When we are born we are 75 percent water. No wonder we feel at home in the sea.
Here We’m Be Together
An encounter on the Norfolk Broads, with the eccentricities of folk rituals through the eyes of one indigenous storyteller.
- Director Rob Curry, Tim Plester
- UK 2013
- 13 mins
An encounter on the Norfolk Broads, with the eccentricities of folk rituals through the eyes of one indigenous storyteller.
Leidi
- Director Simón Mesa Soto
- UK-Colombia 2014
- 15 mins
Leidi lives with her mom and her baby, but her boyfriend Alexis hasn’t shown up in days. One sunny morning, she goes on a search.
Marc Jacobs
- Director Sam de Jong
- Netherlands 2014
- 12 mins
Nine-year-old Soufayne is looking forward to his summer holiday to visit family in Morocco, so he prepares for the trip.
Shiteaters
Gównojady
- Director Agata Wojcierowska
- Poland 2014
- 18 mins
A girl goes on holiday with her parents and fantasises about her lost childhood. However, her parents are no less lost in their thoughts.
A Summer
Un été
- Director Clémence Marcadier
- France 2014
- 12 mins
David is home for the summer holidays and is bored to death. But a microwave leads to an unexpected encounter.
Tennis Girl
- Director Daniel Barosa
- Brazil 2014
- 15 mins
Ju is late for her pricey private tennis lessons because she’s consumed in a marathon of family chaos, texting and hormones.
Total running time 107 mins
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