Wimbledon Shorts is excited to announce the Wimbledon International Short Film Festival 2019 Official Selection. Made up of 13 films this year, the selection covers fiction, documentary and animation.
The films will screen on Sunday 6th October in conjunction with Wimbledon Bookfest in the Baillie Gifford Big Tent on Wimbledon Common. Following the screening we will announce the winners of the Best Film, Best London Filmmaker, Best International Film, Best Animated Film, Best Documentary and our new award for this year – Best Young Filmmaker.
Thank you to our sponsors Wimbledon Film Club, Marcus Beale Architects, and Curzon Cinemas.
Tickets for the event can be purchased here
Borderlands
Directed & Produced by Simon Lane & Victor Frankowski
Documentary
UK / Norway
The film traverses through the European Arctic, on the Norwegian and Russian border towns of Kirkenes (Norway) and Nikel (Russia). They are separated by 25 miles of vast, white sparseness and offer two very different perspectives on life in the artic, which due to global warming, share the same rapidly changing landscape.
In the ice cold seas and through the bleak soviet-era apartments, Borderlands explores the relationship between urbanity, industry, nature and the people that live there showing the vast difference in arctic settlements, their architecture, culture, and identity whilst portraying the normality of life in the Arctic frontier often eluded from the media.
Nominated for Best Documentary and Best London Filmmaker
Counting
Written & Directed by Rahil Bustani
Produced by Ali Hosseini
Live Action Fiction
Iran
History of humanity is the tale of suffering masses in hands of a few.
Nominated for Best International Film
Elephantbird
Written & Directed by Amir Masoud Soheili
Produced by Amir Masoud Soheili & Sayed Jalal Rohani
Live Action Fiction
Afghanistan / Iran
A mini-bus is on a journey across the mountains to Kabul. Each person on the bus has a reason to take this journey. An old man is traveling to give a turkey to his grandchild, as his last wish before dying. However, the main road is blocked by insurgents. They decide to use an alternative road, which is not very secure, and there is still the possibility of getting caught by insurgents.
Nominated for Best International Film
Every Six Hours
Directed by Thomas E. Murphy
Written by Edward Hanlon
Produced by Amy Gillies & Peter Bruteig Henriksen
Live Action Fiction
UK
Running for freedom is never as easy as it seems. Two refugees form an unlikely friendship while fighting for their lives hiding in a lone container.
Set in a time where the modern world is on the brink of collapse, Every Six Hours is the story of Katiya and Sakura. Two Refugees from Russia and Japan respectively, both trying to make it to a better world. On the run and trying to find shelter for the night, Katiya enters a shipping container stacked to the brim with boxes and is finally allowed her moments rest. When she wakes up, she realises two things. That she is not alone, and that her shelter for the night has been moved onto a container ship.
Nominated for Best London Filmmaker and Best Young Filmmaker
The World Championship in the Square (Il Mondiale in piazza)
Directed by Vito Palmieri
Written by Michele Santeramo & Vito Palmieri
Produced by Ivan Olgiati
Live Action Fiction
Italy
November 2017: the Italian national football team does not qualify for the 2018 world championship. There are people who can’t live without having their national team to support; they hang around in the squares, feeling useless and purposeless. However a group of football fans decide to set up a parallel world championship to be played right in their hometown square. Italy will compete against other national teams made by immigrants. But some of them were born and raised in Italy and they feel 100% Italian. Which team should they play for?
Nominated for Best International Film
In My Blood
Directed & Produced by Samuel Hicks
Documentary
UK
Kyle Gray is a Formula One Brisca Stock Car racing driver, one of the youngest ever drivers to compete. At just 16 years old, he is beating drivers twice his age and has recently been awarded Novice of the Year by Brisca.
Nominated for Best Documentary and Best London Filmmaker
In Your Place
Directed by Giuseppe Carleo
Written by Riccardo Cannella & Giuseppe Carleo
Produced by Rita Vinci & Nicoletta Cataldo
Live Action Fiction
Italy
Annachiara lives in the suburbs of Palermo with her family. She wants to win back her ex-boyfriend. Her grandma suggests that she uses an ancient rite that could save the destiny of her lost love.
Nominated for Best International Film
Not An Excuse
Directed & Produced by Hector Bell
Documentary
UK
This film is a portrait about a Percussionist at music school who suffers with ADHD. He tells us how it can affect him on a day to day basis but also how it can be a blessing in disguise. We see how his passion for music works as a coping mechanism for him. The subject’s character and condition are reflected in the filmmaking so the viewer can get a feel what life is like for someone with ADHD.
Nominated for Best Documentary, Best Young Filmmaker and Best London Filmmaker
Rebellious Willows
Directed by Babak Daghighi
Live Action Fiction
Iran
An actor tries his very best to perform the scene in the way the director wants. He just can’t seem to satisfy what’s needed…
Nominated for Best International Film
Secret
Directed & Written by Ysabel Congying Li
Animation
USA
A 2-D animated comment on voyeurism in contemporary society. Who’s watching who and what’s the price?
Nominated for Best Animated Film & Best International Film
Tangle
Directed by Malihe Ghloamzadeh
Animation
Iran
The threads of memory and connection with the past, fragmented by war, are woven together in this powerful animated metaphor of a girl’s experience of conflict.
Nominated for Best Animated Film & Best International Film
TMI
Written & Directed by Ita Fitzgerald
Produced by Fiona Wright
Live Action Fiction
UK
When a mother reads her teenage son’s texts it triggers an awkward conversation which is way too much information. A humorous and touching comedy about miscommunication.
Nominated for Best London Filmmaker
What Happened to Evie
Directed by Kate Cheeseman
Written by Carol Younghusband
Produced by Georgina French
Live Action Fiction
UK
What happened to Evie is a tale of culpability and horror that asks the audience to constantly connect the dots through a girl’s fractured and distorted memories of a sexual assault.
Nominated for Best London Filmmaker
Wimbledon Shorts is excited to announce the Wimbledon International Short Film Festival 2019 Official Selection. Made up of 13 films this year, the selection covers fiction, documentary and animation.
The films will screen on Sunday 6th October in conjunction with Wimbledon Bookfest in the Baillie Gifford Big Tent on Wimbledon Common. Following the screening we will announce the winners of the Best Film, Best London Filmmaker, Best International Film, Best Animated Film, Best Documentary and our new award for this year – Best Young Filmmaker.
Thank you to our sponsors Wimbledon Film Club, Marcus Beale Architects, and Curzon Cinemas.
Tickets for the event can be purchased here
Borderlands
Directed & Produced by Simon Lane & Victor Frankowski
Documentary
UK / Norway
The film traverses through the European Arctic, on the Norwegian and Russian border towns of Kirkenes (Norway) and Nikel (Russia). They are separated by 25 miles of vast, white sparseness and offer two very different perspectives on life in the artic, which due to global warming, share the same rapidly changing landscape.
In the ice cold seas and through the bleak soviet-era apartments, Borderlands explores the relationship between urbanity, industry, nature and the people that live there showing the vast difference in arctic settlements, their architecture, culture, and identity whilst portraying the normality of life in the Arctic frontier often eluded from the media.
Nominated for Best Documentary and Best London Filmmaker
Counting
Written & Directed by Rahil Bustani
Produced by Ali Hosseini
Live Action Fiction
Iran
History of humanity is the tale of suffering masses in hands of a few.
Nominated for Best International Film
Elephantbird
Written & Directed by Amir Masoud Soheili
Produced by Amir Masoud Soheili & Sayed Jalal Rohani
Live Action Fiction
Afghanistan / Iran
A mini-bus is on a journey across the mountains to Kabul. Each person on the bus has a reason to take this journey. An old man is traveling to give a turkey to his grandchild, as his last wish before dying. However, the main road is blocked by insurgents. They decide to use an alternative road, which is not very secure, and there is still the possibility of getting caught by insurgents.
Nominated for Best International Film
Every Six Hours
Directed by Thomas E. Murphy
Written by Edward Hanlon
Produced by Amy Gillies & Peter Bruteig Henriksen
Live Action Fiction
UK
Running for freedom is never as easy as it seems. Two refugees form an unlikely friendship while fighting for their lives hiding in a lone container.
Set in a time where the modern world is on the brink of collapse, Every Six Hours is the story of Katiya and Sakura. Two Refugees from Russia and Japan respectively, both trying to make it to a better world. On the run and trying to find shelter for the night, Katiya enters a shipping container stacked to the brim with boxes and is finally allowed her moments rest. When she wakes up, she realises two things. That she is not alone, and that her shelter for the night has been moved onto a container ship.
Nominated for Best London Filmmaker and Best Young Filmmaker
The World Championship in the Square (Il Mondiale in piazza)
Directed by Vito Palmieri
Written by Michele Santeramo & Vito Palmieri
Produced by Ivan Olgiati
Live Action Fiction
Italy
November 2017: the Italian national football team does not qualify for the 2018 world championship. There are people who can’t live without having their national team to support; they hang around in the squares, feeling useless and purposeless. However a group of football fans decide to set up a parallel world championship to be played right in their hometown square. Italy will compete against other national teams made by immigrants. But some of them were born and raised in Italy and they feel 100% Italian. Which team should they play for?
Nominated for Best International Film
In My Blood
Directed & Produced by Samuel Hicks
Documentary
UK
Kyle Gray is a Formula One Brisca Stock Car racing driver, one of the youngest ever drivers to compete. At just 16 years old, he is beating drivers twice his age and has recently been awarded Novice of the Year by Brisca.
Nominated for Best Documentary and Best London Filmmaker
In Your Place
Directed by Giuseppe Carleo
Written by Riccardo Cannella & Giuseppe Carleo
Produced by Rita Vinci & Nicoletta Cataldo
Live Action Fiction
Italy
Annachiara lives in the suburbs of Palermo with her family. She wants to win back her ex-boyfriend. Her grandma suggests that she uses an ancient rite that could save the destiny of her lost love.
Nominated for Best International Film
Not An Excuse
Directed & Produced by Hector Bell
Documentary
UK
This film is a portrait about a Percussionist at music school who suffers with ADHD. He tells us how it can affect him on a day to day basis but also how it can be a blessing in disguise. We see how his passion for music works as a coping mechanism for him. The subject’s character and condition are reflected in the filmmaking so the viewer can get a feel what life is like for someone with ADHD.
Nominated for Best Documentary, Best Young Filmmaker and Best London Filmmaker
Rebellious Willows
Directed by Babak Daghighi
Live Action Fiction
Iran
An actor tries his very best to perform the scene in the way the director wants. He just can’t seem to satisfy what’s needed…
Nominated for Best International Film
Secret
Directed & Written by Ysabel Congying Li
Animation
USA
A 2-D animated comment on voyeurism in contemporary society. Who’s watching who and what’s the price?
Nominated for Best Animated Film & Best International Film
Tangle
Directed by Malihe Ghloamzadeh
Animation
Iran
The threads of memory and connection with the past, fragmented by war, are woven together in this powerful animated metaphor of a girl’s experience of conflict.
Nominated for Best Animated Film & Best International Film
TMI
Written & Directed by Ita Fitzgerald
Produced by Fiona Wright
Live Action Fiction
UK
When a mother reads her teenage son’s texts it triggers an awkward conversation which is way too much information. A humorous and touching comedy about miscommunication.
Nominated for Best London Filmmaker
What Happened to Evie
Directed by Kate Cheeseman
Written by Carol Younghusband
Produced by Georgina French
Live Action Fiction
UK
What happened to Evie is a tale of culpability and horror that asks the audience to constantly connect the dots through a girl’s fractured and distorted memories of a sexual assault.
Nominated for Best London Filmmaker
