Synopsis of films for NM screening.

Synopsis of films

Screening program will vary but will be drawn from the following films:

Cinema of Horror
(UK) Peter M. Kershaw, Producer/Director & Writer – Comedy/fantasy.
Three students drift through the genres of their favourite Asian flicks. Their arguments take them into an array of comic fantasy scenarios, from Bollywood song-and-dance spectaculars through to blood-soaked bullet-fests and creepy night-time terrors in this entertaining comment on the perils of modern European and North American filmmaking.
Rating: Mild language and comic violence.

The Palace
(Netherlands) Ruud Satijn, Writer/Director - drama
Two teenage girls experience their first night club adventure. A pace and atmospheric film.

High Voltage
(Hungary) Daniel Erdelyi, Writer/Director - drama
Christmas. In a world of energy ownership a young couple from beyond the fence scavenge for metal with dangerous consequences in this cinematic film.

Cyphers
(USA, NM) Debrianna Mansini & Lori Romero, Producers/Writers – web drama
Eco drama about the power of corporations who control our most fundamental needs, food and water. Web drama offers a new outlet & possible future for short films.

411-z
(Hungary) Daniel Erdelyi, Writer/Director - drama
A large barge drifts like its captain down the Danube with disastrous outcome.

Dancing Worm
(Lithuania) Ignas Jonynas, Writer/Director – drama
When the understudy for the opera clown is called upon to stand in, his personal problems lead him on a different dance in an evocative colorful theatrical world.
Rating Some violence and shows drug taking.

Wilfred
(UK) Peter M. Kershaw, Producer/Director & Writer - drama
Inspired by the poetry of World War One poet Wilfred Owen, the film combines live-action and animation to tell a stylistic story about artists’ reaction to war. Winner of Royal Television Society Awards.

The Astronomer’s Sun
(UK) Peter M. Kershaw, Producer - Animation
Henry, accompanied by his mysterious mechanical bear, visits an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and follow his father on a journey into the unknown. A magical journey about relationships and what it is to be human. Winner of 13 Best Film & Audience Awards.