London Filmmakers’ Showcase
10 January 2018 - The Book Club, Shoreditch
Pawns
Tyrees A. Lamptey
A game of chess in 1973 reignites the two players' vivid memories of their fateful meeting during the visceral Great War of 1914. A thrilling period drama about how friendship can come from the most unlikely places.
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OBC Number 1
Amin Haghshenas
Part One of the OBC Comedy Animation Series.
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Mankurt
Ermina Takenova
Based on a Turkic legend. Mankurt is a term used to describe a mindless slave, who had their memory erased completely, as a result of a horrible torture.
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Flying While Fat
Stacy Bias
This animation presents the voices of fat passengers as they explain the challenges of fitting into spaces that exclude them both socially and materially.
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The Chop
Lewis Rose
Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and therefore decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers.
Full list of films we screened at this event
Pawns - Tyrees A. Lamptey
OBC Number 1 - Amin Haghshenas
Mankurt - Ermina Takenova
Day of Reckoning - Gideon Van Eeden
Flying While Fat - Stacy Bias
Dreamer - Valentina Gordeeva
The Chop - Lewis Rose