The world’s biggest pop-up short film festival comes to Gloucester

We're really excited to announce that we're bringing Future Shorts Festival to Gloucester for the first time with a screening on Saturday 11th August.

Future Shorts Festival is the first ever global pop up festival, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world, where filmmakers, audiences and festival partners come together to create the next generation of film festival. Future Shorts Festival is accessible to anyone, anywhere, the beauty of it being that screenings can be held in any location and on any scale, from concert halls to back gardens, and the ever expanding festival now features in 60 countries and 160 cities worldwide, with over 350 screenings and more than 35,000 audience attendees across six continents.

The Summer Season programme is an innovative collection of seven award-winning short films from around the world – from Brazil to Romania to South Korea and beyond – featuring documentaries, stop motion animation and fiction in all shapes and sizes, all of which are well worth seeing. Globally lauded for their film choices, if you haven’t dabbled in short films before, Future Shorts Festival is definitely the place to start. Highlights of the programme include:

A Morning Stroll (2012) – Grant Orchard UK, 7 min
Created by the multi-BAFTA winning Studio AKA, Grant Orchard’s A Morning Stroll is the story of an encounter between a New Yorker and a chicken. Told over three acts spanning over 100 years, this incredibly successful animated short has already won a BAFTA and a Jury Award at Sundance and was nominated for a Short Animated Film Oscar.

Guest (2011) - Ga Eun-YoonSouth Korea, 20 min
A teenager angry at her father’s affair barges into his mistress’ house to find her two little kids. Winner of the 2012 International Grand Prix at Clermont -Ferrand, Guest is a beautifully acted coming-of-age portrayal of emotions from Korean National University of Arts’ film program.

Notes on Biology (2011) – Will MaddenUSA, 6 min
A stop motion animation, Notes on Biology was the winner of Best Short at SXSW. This very clever short film brought to us by Ornana Films follows a student’s imagination during a Biology class.

Date: Saturday 11th August
Time: 7.45pm
Tickets: £5.50 adults / £4.50 concessions