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The Cost of Hugging, dir. Louis Bhose
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Swooning maidens and stolen kisses - are you ready for some classic love stories? Don’t be.
Six new shorts tear up the script and find love hiding in the dusty corners where nobody wants to look. Hidden love, love signed and stamped for bureaucracy, love as pain and loneliness, romance swelling in the aether, love as an energy that flows with body and soul as conduit, love for your cat, love for your roomba, love for dancing together. Dive into the tragic and the everyday and remember that everything really is romantic.
looking she said I forget, dir. Naomi Pacifique, Netherlands 2014, 25 mins
Death & Cats, dir. Jack Wake-Walker, UK 2024, 11 mins
As If Mother Cried That Night, dir. Hoda Taheri, Germany 2023, 19 mins
Tennis, Oranges, dir. Sean Pecknold, USA 2023, 11 mins
The Cost of Hugging, dir. Louis Bhose, UK 2024, 9 mins
Six new shorts tear up the script and find love hiding in the dusty corners where nobody wants to look. Hidden love, love signed and stamped for bureaucracy, love as pain and loneliness, romance swelling in the aether, love as an energy that flows with body and soul as conduit, love for your cat, love for your roomba, love for dancing together. Dive into the tragic and the everyday and remember that everything really is romantic.
looking she said I forget, dir. Naomi Pacifique, Netherlands 2014, 25 mins
Death & Cats, dir. Jack Wake-Walker, UK 2024, 11 mins
As If Mother Cried That Night, dir. Hoda Taheri, Germany 2023, 19 mins
Tennis, Oranges, dir. Sean Pecknold, USA 2023, 11 mins
The Cost of Hugging, dir. Louis Bhose, UK 2024, 9 mins
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09:00 pm
Sat, 25 Jan 2025
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
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