Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2009: Programme 8

A cold looking guitar player, plays the guitar with wet feet and no shirt on.

Made as part of Long Road Media course work.

Together will we save the world OR consign it to a black hole dustbin and make a new one?

The fate of planet Earth rests in the hands of four plucky contestants on stage. Using 100% recyclable materials they make the show before our very eyes – buildings, casts of millions, contemporary world events all created with old newspaper and toilet rolls.

An English goes to a French restaurant and finds out that not all French people love the legs of frogs.

Sam is on a quest in a world where enemies are everywhere. His fantasy mission collides with harsh reality when his mother finds herself in danger.

German Hip Hop that just wont stop.

Flight 623 from Berlin is 15 minutes late. Enough time for a young businessman, on the plane, to throw a part of his life into question. At the airport, Joseph Conrad, a tramp with a troubled past, seems obsessed by this mysterious flight. These two men, worlds apart, have nevertheless one thing in common: the final drop that makes the vase overflow.

In a Victorian theatre of grotesque, buxom kebab-guzzling ladies peer through opera glasses at the bizarre spectacle unfolding on stage. A chorous line of can can dancers behind a choreographed group of horse heads twirling cocktail umbrellas. Above them a tight rope walker teeters precariously as the audience awaits the main act – an incontinent cat.

This short film, titeld LE(F)T , would like to make us think about partnerships, or about ourselves. What would you do in a disaffected relationship? How do you act in a problematic situation? You attack? Or you freezed? You brave or shy? Are you able to admit at all?

A child’s connection to the World.