Whirled Docs: The BAFTA shorts 2017

A feature-length selection of short live action and animated films from the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). The nominated films, which were chosen by a jury of leading industry figures, represent the best of British short filmmaking, and showcase innovative and exciting British talent. 

The Party

Dir: Andrea Harkin | UK | 2016 | 15 mins

Belfast, 1972. Laurence welcomes his cousin and man-on-the-run Mickey to a night of drinking, dancing and young love. But in the morning, reality catches up with them.

A Love Story

Dir: Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara | UK | 2016 | 7 mins

Two creatures fall in love, weaving a colourful world together. But when darkness threatens to consume one of them, the other must fight to stay together or risk being torn apart.

Mouth of Hell

Dir: Samir Mehanovic | UK | 2016 | 15 mins

A child labourer in the burning coalfields of Jharia, India has to make a choice. Should he do what is right, or save his dying mother?

Standby

Dir: Charlotte Regan | UK | 2016 | 6 mins

Gary and Jenny share the same cramped 'office space' as all beat cops: the front seat of a police car.

Tough

Dir: Jennifer Zheng | UK | 2016 | 5 mins

Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.

Consumed

Dir: Richard John Seymour | UK | 2016 | 19 mins

A cinematic voyage through the mines, landscapes, factories and ports of Chinese production.

The Alan Dimension

Dir: Jac Clinch | UK | 2016 | 9 mins

Alan Brown uses divine powers of recognition to foresee the fate of mankind... and breakfast. Meanwhile, Wendy has had enough of being married to 'the next step in cognitive evolution'.

Home

Dir: Daniel Mulloy | UK | 2016 | 20 mins

Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday.