What a fab day
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Had a lovely Bolton chat ❤️

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Our Bolton roundtable and screening are supported by BFI NETWORK with #NationalLottery funding.

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Psychic Seamus
by Ella Baulcomb

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Fantasma
by Mikey Slavich

Set in the fleeting twilight before its day. Inviting both legend and future generation. Within the silent desert...

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Bleat!
by Ananth Subramaniam

Torn between faith and the expectations of their community, an elderly Malaysian-Tamil couple struggle to decide whether to slaughter their male goat or face the wrath of the gods.

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Rainy Day
by Jack Hartley

Small-time crook Victor Varnavas thinks he’s struck gold when kindly Beryl Cooke invites him into her home, until he discovers he can’t have his cake and eat it too.

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Eye Jam
by Julia Jolliffe

Trapped in a self-destructive cycle on a far away planet, a lonely creature offers up pieces of itself in a desperate plea for acceptance.

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Binderella
by Edie Barnabas

While we worry about the cost of living, a community prays to their Goddess of the Bins, Binderella, for food sovereignty and a fully intact trifle.

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Agnes
by Leah Vlemmiks

Under pressure from her adult daughter to move and become a live-in babysitter, Agnes finds agency in an unexpected place.

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Muses
by Simon Vermeulen

A dancer struggles to break free from the hold of his choreographer now attracted to another.

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Occupied
by Mike Cochran

A young man is forced to confront his greatest fear while trying to support his family after his grandfather's funeral.

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Vote Gavin Lyle
by Aneil Karia

Told through a series of intimate, observational vignettes, it follows Gavin over the course of a single day, exploring nationalism, masculinity and the quiet absurdities of modern British life.

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Geronto
by Mark Pluck

Over the course of one night in London, an unexpected encounter between two men from different generations unfolds into something intimate, fragile and uncertain.

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Gaffer
by Will Dennies

An amateur football manager’s pre-game preparations are thrown into disarray when his star player disappears in the run up to a crucial match.

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Superposition
by Adora Wang

The concept of superposition - where particles exist in multiple states until observed - is transformed into the language of interactive fashion and wearable technology.

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Small Hours
by Oscar Wyndham Lewis

Struggling with alcohol addiction and mental illness, a once-proud artist (Robert Bathurst) reaches out to an old friend.

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Eye of the Game
by Ramas McRae

Born profoundly Deaf, an Australian Rules footballer defies expectations by playing in an all hearing team, striving to break out of the reserves and claim a position in the seniors.

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The Flesh Dress
by Joachim Hérissé

John, an old nostalgic taylor, makes his wife work on dresses out of fashion. A macabre event inspires the designer a new dress gorgeous but freaky…

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