This event is covered by the Short Film Pass and the Flatpass. You cannot buy an individual ticket for this event.
This programme contains just four films, yet each of them pack in an incredible amount of humanity and complexity. At the International Butler Academy, candidates learn to serve the “elite” with rituals from another time (The Ballet of Service). Not far from there, in Germany, a social worker and a conspiracy theorist watch Youtube videos in an unsettling film that completely blurs the boundary between fiction and reality (Adrenochrom). In the US, a young Black man struggles with his identity (Not Black Enough). And from all over the world, birds gather to discuss freedom of speech, in the most original Zoom conversation you'll attend this year (International Dawn Chorus Day). Four films like four snapshots of the strange world we live in.
Total running time: 63 mins
CAST YOUR VOTE! These films are eligible for the audience award, as well as the Best Short and WTF awards, given out by our jury.
Winners will be revealed at the Flatpack Awards do on 30 May (free event, booking essential).
BONUS FEATURES:
On International Dawn Chorus Day (May 3, 2020), birds from six continents join an online video call. They gossip about storms and cats and wires and dates. They share speculations about Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash, known for his satirical anti-dictator music videos, who died the day before in Cairo’s notorious Tora prison. They talk about Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi, famously incarcerated for flying a rainbow flag at a Cairo concert, now living as a political refugee in Toronto.
This film is only available to viewers in the UK and Northern Ireland.
- Year2021
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish with English subtitles
- CountryCanada
- Rating15
- NoteContent warning: discrimination, violence
- DirectorJohn Greyson
This event is covered by the Short Film Pass and the Flatpass. You cannot buy an individual ticket for this event.
This programme contains just four films, yet each of them pack in an incredible amount of humanity and complexity. At the International Butler Academy, candidates learn to serve the “elite” with rituals from another time (The Ballet of Service). Not far from there, in Germany, a social worker and a conspiracy theorist watch Youtube videos in an unsettling film that completely blurs the boundary between fiction and reality (Adrenochrom). In the US, a young Black man struggles with his identity (Not Black Enough). And from all over the world, birds gather to discuss freedom of speech, in the most original Zoom conversation you'll attend this year (International Dawn Chorus Day). Four films like four snapshots of the strange world we live in.
Total running time: 63 mins
CAST YOUR VOTE! These films are eligible for the audience award, as well as the Best Short and WTF awards, given out by our jury.
Winners will be revealed at the Flatpack Awards do on 30 May (free event, booking essential).
BONUS FEATURES:
On International Dawn Chorus Day (May 3, 2020), birds from six continents join an online video call. They gossip about storms and cats and wires and dates. They share speculations about Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash, known for his satirical anti-dictator music videos, who died the day before in Cairo’s notorious Tora prison. They talk about Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi, famously incarcerated for flying a rainbow flag at a Cairo concert, now living as a political refugee in Toronto.
This film is only available to viewers in the UK and Northern Ireland.
- Year2021
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish with English subtitles
- CountryCanada
- Rating15
- NoteContent warning: discrimination, violence
- DirectorJohn Greyson