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FUTURE SHORTS Spring Festival
Spring is closing in even in San Francisco. With it comes more exciting things to do and places to visit. The untamed and extraordinary FUTURE SHORTS edition in San Francisco presents its Spring Season for your enjoyment. This time it's a matinee screening, for the first time giving the opportunity to have it all attend the screening of the best shorts in the town and catch up with other fun things in town afterwards. Tonayense food truck
will be serving snacks before and during the show outside the venue.
This spring, the palette of Future Shorts programme is filled with fantasy, quirky, loneliness, fear, but most of all appreciation for the cinematic art. The Future Shorts globe will bring you to UK, Canada, Bulgaria, Germany and Ireland. Seven inspiring and one-of-the-kind international short films will surely make your afternoon delightful. As always, you may be sure you will receive the top quality of the 'short cinema'.
Future Shorts Festival is the world's largest pop-up film festival involving 300 cities in 90 countries and is ever growing. It is powered by a global movie lover community. Remember that supporting this festival you become a part of something magnificent and universal. More about the festival: www.futureshorts.com
The door opens at 2.30 PM and the screening starts at 3PM. Please arrive earlier to grab a drink at the Firehouse 8 bar. The venue is located in the city center, so public transportation is highly recommended. Tickets at the door will cost $12. Sorry, no refunds.
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PROGRAMME
1. MI NINA MI VIDA
Dir: Yan Giroux | Canada 2013 | 19min. | Drama
A man and his giant stuffed bear move through the bustling crowds and noisy rides at an amusement park. In the face of this strange world he can no longer relate to, Jack searches for a reason to smile The camera follows him as he navigates this unwelcoming space, rendering a striking choreographed cinematic experience.
2. MYNARSKI DEATH PLUMMET
Dir: Matthew Rankin | Canada 2014 | 8min. |Animation/Visual
The story of Winnipeg WWII hero Andrew Mynarski is related stunningly in this explosive, expressionistic and psychedelic envisioning of his final moments, paying homage to our collective past while transforming fact into brilliant celluloid fantasia.
3. EXCHANGE AND MART
Dir: Cara Connolly & Martin Clark | UK 2013 | 15min. |
Drama/Romance
A remote Scottish boarding school is home to Reg, a lonely and yearning teenage girl. The handsome chainsaw-wielding tree surgeon, and the sinister and unorthodox self-defence instructor, are the only men in this world. When Reg is required to fight in the woods, she knows what she must do.
4. TWO FILMS ABOUT LONELINESS
Dir: Christopher Eales | UK 2014 | 6min. | Animation/Comedy
Two Films About Loneliness is a split-screen stop-motion animated film. The split screen divides the worlds of Jonathan Smallman who is recording his dating profile, and Philip Button, the Internet chef. But will the irritating sound from the real world stand in the way of their search for companionship and acceptance?
5. PRIDE
Dir: Pavel G. Vesnakov | Bulgaria, Germany 2013 |30min.|Drama
Manol, a retired grandfather, is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs which he has always upheld in his household. But on this day he learns that the boy he's raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default.
6. BRODINSKI FT SD 'CAN'T HELP MYSELF'
Dir: Megaforce | UK 2014 | 4min. | Music Video/Cinematic
Techno-rap group Brondinski present their video, directed by Megaforce, which juxtaposes the reckless abandon of a drug-fueled life with a man's journey back through time in a dystopian cinescape.
7. THE MISSING SCARF
Dir: Eoin Duffy | Ireland 2013 | 6min. | Animation/Comedy
A black comedy exploring some of life's common fears: fear of the unknown, of failure, rejection and finally the fear of death. Narrated by George Takei.
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LocationFirehouse 8 (View)
1648 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 16 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
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