International Shorts 1 programme 6:00pm- 8:00pm

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	Oedipus (06:00) By Rong UK No film called Oedipus will ever have a happy ending. We watch as a man, a poem, and a family are destroyed. It is a tale of love, lust, incest and death. History has never taught us so much! (NOTE: Not suitable for anyone who has, or has ever had, a mother or father)
	Too Tired To Tango (05:10) By Simon Jones UK IP Relationships are unique in that when you least expect it everything can go wrong. It's Valentine's Day and Mr. Rabbit is eagerly awaiting a romantic evening with Trunk. He has everything perfectly planned as he does every year for their perfect evening. Trunk on the other hand is trying to work out why she isn't as interested as usual.
	Site Specific_ROMA 04 (12:30) By Olivo Barbieri IT OS IP The world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures and infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself. "Site Specific_ROMA 04" is an artistic project, a work in progress, the second stop of a voyage which involves Las Vegas and Shanghai
	20/20 (09:54) By Mr Sasha Yevtushenko UK This short film chronicles the adventures of two young Japanese tourists on a summer's day in London . When Taro fails to pay her the attention she demands, Keiko decides to experience her own, unique, sight-seeing tour of the capital.
	The Mamtsotsi Bird (12:00) By Jo Horn ZAF WP The Mamtsotsi Bird is an African mythological creature called down from the thunder by witches to carry out missions of malevolence. Sipho arranges that the bird be summoned to kill his estranged wife Musa. On a stormy Sunday night the beastly monstrosity swoops down from the hill and launches a ferocious attack on her. On his return Sipho is greeted by a brutal reality.
	Awaiting Premonition (03:54) By Adam Lieber The film explores the concept that physical space may have a memory or a sense of memory that exists through sound. Sound is used to create an ambiguity as to whether it is driving the camera movements or merely exists within the lethargic state of the protagonists, and whether they are aware of this sound emanating from the space.
	Between Two Men (08:00) By Toby Tatum UK An old man is unsettled by the re-emergence of an obscure figure from the past whose unwelcome appearance triggers memories of espionage and sudden violence. It explores the relationship of father and son through the complicated layers of fiction and accumulated mysteries.
	SAAH "breath" (09:15) By Simran K S Lamba IND This video film is an evocation of the finality of the moment before death. It captures the multitude of experiences lived by an old lady nearing death.
	Toz (10:00) By H. Fatih Kizilgok TR Official Selection "Toz/Dust" presents for us vignettes from an extraordinary but imperfect life that a couple created for themselves. An unwanted violent event, incomprehensibility, and acceptance are among the micro-stories that the film presents. For a few small moments we come as guests to the couple's dusted home and inevitably let ourselves into the indecisiveness and anonymity of their life(story) as a couple.
	New Game: The War (01:28) By Anna Maliszewska POL This is a story about dissolving boundaries between real world and virtual reality. It examines the idea of children, who are addicted to cruel computer games seeing fiction as a real world.
	Burka Boogie Woogie (05:00) By Sietske Tjallingii HOL A sensual & and graphic dance takes place under a burka. As a result the burka begins to have a life of its own, metamorphosing into a variety of shapes and playing with our fear and mystery of Islam.