Comedy
Total: 84 mins 26 secsSit back and unwind with a large shot of serotonin from the Bolton Film Festival laughing therapy session. In this ‘Comedy’ block we observe a robbery shootout with a difference, a chromakey technician dreams to be seen, a couple of gardeners unearth the root of their problems, and a date with death makes life well worth living again.
Saturday 21st October
Available for 48 hrs from 4:00pm
Saturday 7th October
8:10pm - Light Cinema Screen 2
Sunday 8th October
12:50pm - Light Cinema Screen 2
Sucking Diesel
Sam McGrath
Ireland, 2021
11:13 mins
After a bungled robbery, a caustic petrol station owner must decide whether to protect her idiot employee or turn him over to the most dangerous man in Ballybeg.
London Film School
London Film School
Henry the Fishmonger
Matt Roberts
United Kingdom, 2023
4:44 mins
Minutes before signing the biggest merger deal of his career Tony get's an unwanted call from his useless assassin Henry.
When Doves Try
Thalia de Jong
Netherlands, 2023
2:32 mins
A male pigeon courts a female pigeon in this awkwardly familiar dance of attraction, seduction and... disappointment.
The Chromakey Man
William Samaha
Belgium, 2022
13:43 mins
Dan always wanted to be an actor, but instead of achieving his dreams, he ends up a chromakey technician on movie sets. Covered in a bright green suit from head to toe, he is stuck in a rut until he gets offered an audition.
Dead Heads
Grant Taylor
United Kingdom, 2022
8:38 mins
Odd couple of London gardeners, Dex and Jimmy, pay a visit to their terminally ill client James. But is he really dying? Or putting one over on them. Dexter and Jimmy disagree about this. Dex is a people loving optimist. Jimmy is a miserablest who sees the worst in people. Which is right?
Fighting Talk
David Dearlove
United Kingdom, 2023
1:52 mins
On an East London street, two men engage in a literal war of words.
Tin Foil Flat
Ruari Barratt
United Kingdom, 2023
1:00 mins
A conspiracy theorist subjects his home to a drastic transformation.
Ginny Reaper
Niamh McKeown
United Kingdom, 2022
15:08 mins
Ginny, a grim reaper, embarks on her first holiday in one hundred years only to be haunted by the actual ghosts from her past.
Small Change
Max Fisher
United Kingdom, 2022
6:28 mins
A lonely crook accidentally bites off more than he can chew and makes a surprising new friend.
Super, thanks. You?
Simon Allen,
Liam Wilson
Liam Wilson
United Kingdom, 2022
1:33 mins
It’s a normal Monday morning, and HR manager Brian is making coffee in the office kitchen, alone in his own thoughts. Until, Katie, an enthusiastic and slightly irritating girl from the marketing team, engages Brian in small talk, asking the classically British “How was your weekend?”.
Dead Cat Film
Josie Charles,
Nathan Miller
Nathan Miller
United Kingdom, 2022
4:38 mins
A young woman becomes increasingly attached to the taxidermied corpse of her housemate’s cat.
Sighscape
Duncan Cowles
United Kingdom, 2022
1:09 mins
Fatigue expressed in an endless sea of content.
Date with Death
Harry Sherriff
United Kingdom, 2023
11:48 mins
Depressed and recently widowed, Liv agrees to go on a blind date, but when she turns up she’s greeted by Death himself. Surely, she won’t go home with him?
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National Film and Television School