The London Film School is delighted to announce that a number of LFS graduation films have been selected to screen at the 28th Le Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers in Angers, France from 22nd to 31st January 2016. The festival aims to discover talented new European filmmakers, highlight the diversity in European cinema, and build new audiences to support writers and directors.
Sofia Safonova's TAMARA follows, 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.
TAMARA has also been short-listed for Best UK Short at the London Short Film Festival this month.
Nathan Deming's DOG DAYS steps into the lives of two brothers: Stephen and Isaac. As kids, their parents bought a farmhouse and renovated it. As teenagers, they couldn't care less - stuck inside playing video games on a hot summer day. Eventually they get bored enough to start to explore the farm - and end up finding the family dog has gone missing.
Emre Kayis' THE TRANSLATOR (CEVIERMEN) follows Yusuf, a 13 year old refugee boy who lives in a Turkish border town with his grandparents. The only things that excite him are the tumbling pigeons and the existence of 15 year old, Amina, who doesn't know he exists. When she comes to him and asks for a favour, he soon realises the moral decision is more serious than he thought.
Divij Roopchand'S MAST QALANDAR will be screening at the Manchester International Film Festival this March. MAST QALANDAR, tells the story of Montek, a Sikh Boy, who is about to turn thirteen. Whist tying his turban in the morning his mother asks him what he wants for his birthday. He doesn’t respond. If he tells her what he wants, she won’t let him have it.