COMPETITION: Blue Monday (at Rich Mix)
14:30 Sat 12 Jan 2019
Bad day? That’s nothing in comparison to this lot. Whether finding themselves lured into the jaws of loan sharks or lost for purpose in the industrial relics of Scotland, these characters must pool their inner strength to overcome life’s myriad obstacles. 87’
LSFF UK Competition: Blue Monday also screens at Curzon Soho, 6.30pm, 14th Jan
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Rich Mix
E1 6LA
Access
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BLUE CHRISTMAS
Charlotte Wells 15 mins (UK, 2017)
On Christmas Eve 1968 in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home. -
MOTHERING
Lucy Bridger 14 mins (UK, 2018)
When Mia's first period unexpectedly appears in the early hours, help comes in the form of her foster parent's elderly mother, Pauline. -
HOLD
Christopher O'Donnell 13 mins (UK, 2017)
After years of working in poor conditions and poor pay two South American cleaners decide to take a stand against the large corporation that employs them and fight for a living wage. -
RED HILL
Laura Carreira 13 mins (UK, 2018)
Jim, an isolated ex-miner who works as a night-shift security guard faces his last day at work before retirement. -
JERK
Raine Allen Miller 9 mins (UK, 2018)
A Jamaican man of the community battles depression and disillusionment. -
FACING IT
Sam Gainsborough 8 mins (UK, 2018)
As a man anxiously awaits a meeting in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own difficult memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him changed forever. -
LANDSHARKS
Aaron Dunleavy 15 mins (UK, 2018)
A young teenage boy is lured into the jaws of an underground loan shark.