Lemn Sissay presents a selection of short films from a new generation of artists who are inspired by poetry and the spoken word. Dying to Live; Notes on Being a Lady; Other Voices; Raised by Queenz; Terra Firma; The Siren's Song; Alice_Alice; My Grandad; The Fall; When Will It Stop?; Backwards; Covering Scars with Summer Jumpers; Is Anybody Out There?
Jonathan is poised to marry the daughter of a wealthy tycoon. The couple appears picture perfect, un...
Two men connect more than just sexually, when a Scruff hook-up has them meeting in a park in the mid...
When a boy is too confused to speak with his non-communicative family, words eventually lose their m...
Silent short (with music and inter-titles) telling an old Indonesian folk tale of a princess who end...
After her mother comes back from an extended hospital stay, a young girl begins to envision an omino...
Maryam, a rebel leader in an archaic world governed by ruthless religion, is set to prove that the g...
Claudia Recher is a young woman who has lived a horrible situation. Her sense of reality becomes an ...
Realizing he won't be able to pay his mortgage, Pierre faces a heartbreaking decision: to evict Mich...
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall int...
In this animated short, a terrible curse deprives Balthasar's kingdom of its stories. Taking the uni...
A white-collar South Korean man discovers a severed human finger and keeps it.
A bad expression, an insult, a cry, a shove, a beating - and nothing matters, it's just the day-to-d...
A male escort has an odd encounter with a mysterious John that he picks up.
Will is shocked when he's told that his colleague Emma has died while on holiday. He's even more sur...
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a g...
A children’s game of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ transforms into a reality through the vivid imagination of l...
A 15-year-old Nune creates a fantasy world to escape from the pain of social rejection and bullying....
A black comedy about a man struggling to make a living by helping people kill themselves.
Millo and Delia, an elderly Puerto Rican couple, navigate a new reality of Millo's progressing illne...