Final Cuts Festival 2021 programme

We're kicking off with a selection of the very best films from a range of media courses, followed by Q&As and special guests.

Birch

Director: Tony Fifield
Actors: Matthew Moore, Becky Chan-Lok
Synopsis: Will spends one last day with his friend before moving away
Time: Two minutes

Run For Your Life

Director: Mihaela Zubcu
Actors: Alexandru Ojog
Synopsis: A documentary about a female runner's lockdown experience.
Time: Five minutes

Structures

Director: Jacob Bone
Actors: Jacob Bone
Synopsis: Music video
Time: Three minutes

A Greater Fire

Director: Miguel Bensadón Oliart
Actors: Félix Arias, Paty Magee Seseña
Synopsis: A documentary film about the xenophobic riots in Madrid triggered by a fire in a Chinese shop.
Time: Eleven minutes

The Pill

Director: Angelica Artusi
Actors: Angelica Artusi, Ilaria Iannarilli, Luna Perri
Synopsis: An animated documentary about the experience of using female birth control.
Time: Seven minutes

Chickens, Romans, Countrymen!

Director: Matt Prestage
Actors: Matt Prestage
Synopsis: A historical documentary parody setting out to prove the existence of the very first Roman branch of Nando's in London
Time: Fifteen minutes

COVID 999

Director: Isaac Buyondo
Featuring: Isaac Buyondo, Chelsea Quansah
Synopsis: A documentary about NHS workers during the pandemic
Time: Nine minutes

Join us for films and Q&As from final year students of our dynamic, production-focused Film and Broadcast Production BA (Hons) course.

The Process

Director: Angus Findlay
Actors: Angus Findlay, Thomas Mathewman
Synopsis: A boy left in bereavement at his grandad's passing is suddenly uplifted when he finds a message left by his grandad.
Time: 12 minutes

You Belong to Me

Director: Angelica Jacobs-Grant
Actors: Nena Roberston, Parvinder Shergill, Ermar Alexander
Synopsis: Peggy is a simple lady. If you're a male, she will kill you. If you're a female, she'll keep you.
Time: 11 minutes

My Path

Director: Sylvester Huczko
Actors: Andrzej Waiss
Synopsis: There are no boundaries for Adrian. The biggest downfall in the mind of a lost man looking to reverse his break up.
Time: 14 minutes

Dance of Life (Il Balo de la Vita)

Director: Ekaterina Kozlova
Actors: George Bloomfield, Christian Collado
Synopsis: A series of snappy animations which look at topics such as morality, sex, study, inwardness, work, plague, love, family and death
Time: 12 minutes

Bubbles

Director: Natasha Drakakis
Actors: Zack, Mina, Kale, Kanar, Sofia, Anna, Nishad
Synopsis: A documentary about a school's bubbles and their impact on the children.
Time: Nine minutes

Inertia

Director: Jordan Duff, Samuel Harrop
Actors: Elliot Todd, Lewis Harkin, Sam Harrop
Synopsis: Tucci begins his day like normal. However, when his menacing friends show up with a proposition that he is forced to accept, things flip on their heads.
Time: 11 minutes

Ephemeral

Director: Juliet Igbokwe
Synopsis: A highly personal documentary film which explores the loss of a loved one to a rare condition called PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Disorder).
Time: Ten minutes

Can I Have a Threesome?

Director: Elliot Banks, Ananya Gupta
Actors: Cat Cherry, Jamal Anansi
Synopsis: On the night of their anniversary a man asks his girlfriend if they could have a threesome. But the girlfriend is enraged by who he wants it with.
Time: Nine minutes

Invisible Mind

Director: Kyri Xeno
Featuring: Karen, Tom, Jessica, Al, Michelle, Sam, Caroline
Synopsis: Feeling stressed and anxious at work can be daunting and is an issue that needs to be taken seriously by the employers.
Time: 11 minutes

Right of Passage

Director: Julia Jarzyna
Actors: Antonios Vitalis
Synopsis: The curator of the Blue Whale Challenge finds himself in a time loop.
Time: 17 minutes