A showcase of recent animated shorts from the UK, part of Anim18: A celebration of British Animation
Film City Glasgow | 6 October | 12 pm | TICKETS
The Christmas Rabbit by Christophe Lopez-Huici | UK | 2018 | 11 min | On Christmas eve, an old lady finds her beloved cat dead. All day long, she’ll try to find him a fitting final resting place, but will remain unsuccessful until an option she hadn’t considered comes her way.
Tubgate: Cunningham’s Scrab by Fraser Murdoch | UK | 2018 | 16 min | Welcome to the fictional Scottish town of Tubgate: where the competent flee to the cities each day, the fraud investigators are exhausted and the peculiar underworld grabs people in its path.
Battery Remaining by Yige Yang | UK | 2018 | 5 min | Student short film.
Laymun by Catherine Prowse | UK | 2017 | 5 min | The story of a gardener in a Middle Eastern war zone, fighting the destruction around her with life-giving plants.
A War To End No Wars by Ruth Coggins | UK | 2017 | 5 min | A War to End No Wars is an independent stop motion animated short. It tells the brief story in the life of a British Soldier, Tommy Atkins, during his time serving in the First World War. The film offers small glimpses of Tommy͛s life in the trenches, right up to his moment preparing to and then going over the top.
Below by Olga Makarchuk | UK | 2017 | 8 min | Below every surface is another world with its own rules and rulers…
Men Talk About Mother by Bunny Schendler | UK | 2017 | 8 min | Three men remember their mothers in this animated documentary, through interwoven monologues and hand drawn animation, to explore the central relationship of all our lives.
This screening is part of Anim18 and supported by Film Hub Wales & Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network and funded by BFI and Creative Scotland.
