Congratulations to the seven LFS graduate whose films screened at the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin last week.
LEIDI by Simon Mesa Soto is a film about Leidi, who lives with her mom and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn't shown up in days. That sunny morning, after she bathed her baby, Leidi was sent to buy plantains. Outiside, a guy tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl. Leidi won’t return home until she finds the father of her child.
LASHES by Christine Sherwood is about a teenage girl who realizes that the world she was trying to fit into isn’t everything she had hoped it would be. Adapted from Andrew Lloyd-Jones' 'Feathers and Cigarettes,' we follow 16 year old Ashley on a really bad day in her life where everything in the world that she was trying to fit into falls apart.
TAMARA by Sofia Safonova centres around a single mother, who works as a bus conductor in a city in southern Siberia, as she prepares to introduce her young son Max to her beau and colleague, the bus driver Sanya. As the lights of the city bounce and play on the surface of the Yenisei river, so do tensions between the three and finds herself suspended between Max and Sanya.
THE INTERPRETER by Kyla Simone follows Bruce Ramzim, an interpreter working in a London immigration court. When he unwittingly gets involved with a client, he realises his job comes with a heavy responsibility. Faced with a moral dilemma, he must make a decision that might cost him his livelihood
NO STRINGS by Eoin Maher tells the story of a cold night in London when Bryn invites a man he doesn't know, Sean, over for a hook up. He only wants Sean for sex but after Sean is stranded he has to let him stay the night. Now it's no longer about sex Bryn and Sean negotiate towards being genuinely open with each other. Sharing vulnerabilities they seek real intimacy. Is this the start of something or just another one night stand?
SEBASTIAN AND THEM by Benjamin Bee is a short based on true events: Sebastian has to leave his childhood friends behind. The only problem is they don't want to leave him.
WATERBABIES by Nora Ballard is documentary which explores the world of synchronized swimmers by following a teenage team as they train and compete.