18. LICHTSPIELKLUB
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
23.-29.01.2025
The Veiled City (Experimental), D.: Natalie Cubides-Brady, 12:54 Min. Merging reality with fiction, this speculative city symphony explores London's Great Smog of 1952 in the context of the present-day climate crisis. |
I Am the Immaculate Conception (Documentary), D.: Frank Eli Martin, 17:30 Min. In 1985, the Irish village of Ballinspittle witnessed a mass visionary experience at the local grotto, where worshippers claimed to see the statue of Mary move. Almost forty years later, only a handful of local followers remain. |
Friends on the Outside (Documentary, Experimental), D.: Annabel Moodie, 09:35 Min. The story of an incarcerated man called Jamie who finds joy and comfort inside by foraging for weeds and caring for birds. |
Pembe Ay (Pink Moon) (Documentary, Experimental), D.: Meray Diner, 14:23 Min. During the Pink Moon season, a daughter revisits her childhood home from Scotland to work through the garden with her father, as it blossoms in the politically and physically divided island of Cyprus. |
Echo (Documentary), D.: Ross McClean, 12:52 Min. An operation 10 years ago left Allister with damaged vocal cords. He finds an unusual solution to his obstacle to communication. |
Made in Thamesmead (Documentary), D.: Mary Martins, 13:16 Min. Experimental documentary that shows the past racial tensions and subsequent developments in Thamesmead, South East London. |
The Hold (Documentary), D.: JD Donnelly, 09:57 Min. A real-time journey into the mind and story of world champion free-diver Alice Hickson. |