Sunday April 7th 2024
Award Guide:
U - Eligible for Best UK Film Award
​Int - Eligible for Best International Film Award
S - Eligible for Best Student Award
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All film screenings are at Fabrica
10am - 12pm
Animation workshop
Come and learn erasure charcoal animation with artist and animation Leo Crane, director of Figuration. Everything will be provided, you just need to bring your smart phone!
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This workshop is at The Queery
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Tickets
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biaf-presents-erasure-animation-workshop-tickets-850012037887
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12.30pm
Artist Film and Q+A
The joy of animation is it’s diversity of the medium both in form and ideation. This collection of films explore more experimental and non linear approaches to animation including erasure animation, direct filmmaking through to CG from countries including Hong Kong, Mexico through to UK.
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Pulse at the centre of being
Dir. Tsz-wing Ho 4’ (Hong Kong) INT
Porous
Dir. cecilia reeve 4' (UK) S
Hungry Ghost
Dir. Guido Devadder/ Kaitlin McSweeney 7' (Belgium) INT
Intersextion
Dir. Richard Roger Reeves 4' (Canada) INT
Bits
Dir. Rosa Sawyers 3' (UK) S
Stephen Mallinder: Shock to the Body
Dir. Cheryl Gelover/Tom Murray 5' (USA) INT
Monk SEISHIN
Dir. Ryotaro Miyajima 3' (Japan) INT
O/S
Dir. Max Hattler 5' (Germany) INT
Ú˜Ù† (Woman)
Dir. Gilnaz Arpeyma 3' (Canada) INT
[S]
Dir. Mario Radev 12' (UK) U
Goodbye
Dir. Cally Trench 1’ (UK) U
Awake
Dir. Meara Withe 4' (UK) U
Beneath
Dir. Beth Walker 4' (UK) S
Para Todo Mal
Dir. Dominica Harrison 1' (Mexico) INT
Pripyat Horse
Dir. Sally Patricia Pearce 2' (UK) U
Do I follow the wall (UK) U
Dir. Ben Walden 4’
Private View
Dir. Stuart Pound 4' (UK) U
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70’
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Tickets
2.30pm
Puppet Stories and Q+A
Puppet based stop frame animation was pioneered in the early twentieth century in the former eastern bloc countries including former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. We can still see the influence of these pioneers today in this selection of narrative based figurative films from countries including Iran, Netherlands through to UK. Expect beautiful craft in both tactile and digital puppet making.
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From The Top
Dir. Rich Farris 8' (UK) S
Balcony Cacophony
Dir. Quentin Haberham 5' (Netherlands) INT
Hairy Houdini
Dir. Trevor Hardy 1' (UK) U
Deadline
Dir. Idan Gilboa 13' (Israel) INT
Mum's Spaghetti
Dir. Lisa Kenney 11' (UK) S
Gayle FMK (with blackbear)
Dir. Chris Ullens 4’ (UK) U
Piece of Solitude
Elaheh Ghomeishi 9’ (Iran)
The Last Biscuit
Dir. Amy Fitzpatrick 10' (UK) S
The Smile
Dir. Erik van Schaaik 15' (Netherlands) INT
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72’
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Tickets
4.30pm
Animal Farm
70th anniversary of the timeless feature length classic Animal Farm, produced by British Animation greats Halas and Batchelor and based on George Orwell’s 1945 novel.
This shows traditional cel animation at it’s best, both the message and the methodology still stand the test of time today. The first animated entertainment feature film to come out of the UK it quickly became a staple in classrooms across the country, the United States and other English-speaking countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand into the 2000s.
Come down to The Story of Halas and Batchelor the presentation by Vivien Halas on the Saturday and learn more about the studio behind this classic film.
72'
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Tickets
6.15pm
Queer as F++k and Q+A
Special curated out of competition programme of Queer Animation that explores an array of contemporary queer culture from lesbian plumbers and gender f**kery to the drag queens of 1940’s Paris.Expect narrative shorts, documentary and experimental from Countries including Denmark and France through to UK.
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CW - some films contain sexual imagery
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Aikane
Dir. Daniel Sousa, Dean 15' (USA)
Falling For Greta
Dir. Gustavo Arteaga 11' UK
Layered Identities: Intersectionality and LGBT+ rights
Dir. Isolde Godfrey 6' UK
Carol
Dir. Krissy Mahan 6' (USA)
CW: contains the hottest lesbian sex scene you'll ever see
Maurices Bar
Dir. Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery
15’ (France)
Strokes
Dir. David Colin William 4' (UK)
TFG - SWALLOW SPERM
Dir. KHLOARIS 4' (USA)
I Would Like to Live on the Moon
Dir. Emily Burke 2' UK
1st DAY & NEXT MINUTE
Dir. Sara Koppel 3’ (Denmark)
Outside the Lines
Dir. Stan Oversteegen 5' (Netherlands)
71’
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Tickets
8.15pm
Long shorts/Closing Night Gala
Long Shorts programme followed by awards ceremony. Who will win the Best UK Film, Best International Film, Best Student Film and Best AR? Find out who the judges have chosen in the closing night. Followed by drinks, mingling and great chat
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Mr. Rabbit
Dir. Bryan Lee
22' (USA)
Witchfairy
Dir. Cedric Igodt
15' (Belgium)
A Bear Named Wojtek
Dir. Iain Gardner
28' (UK)
65’
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