INTERNATIONAL: Generation Gap
18:30 Tue 15 Jan 2019
In Sweden, a single thirty-something woman awkwardly regales her son of her taste for younger men, whilst across the globe a nervous tourist seeks to impress his fun-loving Filipino father by adopting a hard-drinking, chain-smoking teen. These short films zoom in on the tempestuous and at times misguided relationship between generations, the differences between the carefree and the conservative, and the problems caused when the boundaries become blurred. 82’
Regent Street Cinema
W1B 2UW
Access
Please find all access information here, or drop a line to Helen MacKenzie at access@shortfilms.org.uk for more information or special requests.
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TANGLES AND KNOTS
Renee Marie Petropoulos 16 mins (AU, 2017)
A intimate bond between mother and daughter becomes threatened when the mother helps her teenage daughter throw a house party to impress new, more popular friends. -
STAY UPS
Joanna Rytel 11 mins (Sweden, 2017)
As a “cougar” awaits a nightly visitor, she tries to convince her child to stay hidden behind the sofa. -
DRESSED FOR PLEASURE
Marie de Maricourt 17 mins (Switzerland, 2017)
Sarah, a disabled girl who lives with her parents, is increasingly subject to many fantasies and sees her sexuality taking up more and more of her attention. -
ON THE WAY HOME
Mizuki Kiyama 2 mins (Japan, 2018)
The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father. -
BESIDA
Chuko Esiri 12 mins (Nigeria, 2018)
Mudiaga returns to his village from the city to find his sister, Besida, embroiled with a bad crowd. -
DIA
Hamza Bangash 24 mins (Pakistan, 2018)
Mariam is determined to escape her conservative Pakistani family by pursuing an online romance in secret, but when her mother begins arranging Mariam's marriage to her cousin, she refuses and her romance takes a dark twist, revealing the extremes that Mariam is willing to go to keep her relationship alive.