Animation is a strong thread through this years selection of films, with 5 films nominated for Best Animated Film at WISFF 2017!
Light Sight
Writer / Director SEYED M. TABATBAEI, Producer SIMIN FARROKH AHMADI
M.E., the imprisoned character in a room is attracted to a hanging light and tries to catch it. But the room itself becomes an obstacle on his way.
(Also nominated for Best Student Film)
London Festival Premier!
Xamarim
Director BALINT RAFAEL KELEN
This is a short non-dialogue experimental animation about the great Xamarim in two parts.
UK Festival Premier!
Perched
Director LIAM HARRIS, Writers NATHANIEL PRICE & EOIN DORAN, Producer ELINA LITVINOVA
Hamish Fint a crotchety old man used to a life of seclusion in his submarine balanced precariously atop a mountain, struggles to maintain equilibrium when a visiting seagull rocks his world.
(Also nominated Best Student Film & Best London Filmmaker)
A Little Grey
Directors SIMON HEWITT & STEVE SMITH, Writer STUART ROYALL
Is there any cure for being ‘a little grey’? One man’s search takes him through bars, churches, doctor’s surgeries, tattoo parlours and beyond, but will he find what he’s looking for? A colourful story about losing your spark and finding redemption.
(Also nominated for Best London Filmmaker)
The Full Story
Writer / Director DAISY JACOBS, Co- Director CHRIS WILDER, Producers ELLIOT TAGG & GEOFF MORGAN
When the dad next-door walks out, five-year-old Toby discovers that parents leave. As the shock hits, the entire room catapults skywards, morphs in mid-air and lands as a different space. The rooms keep pace with Toby’s volatile emotions as home life spirals out of control in the divorce boom of the 1970s and 80s. Forty years on, kaleidoscopic scraps of memory still cling to the walls; and Toby clings to these fragments, trying to piece together the full story.
(Also nominated for Best London Filmmaker)
