Official Selection Competition – 13 April 2023
Close-Up Cinema, Shoreditch 7:00 – 10:00pm
Tickets Available Here
The shame of it – no video, no budget… and then the penny finally drops.
A solid Who-Dunnit Basketball changing room mystery, keeps you hooked until the very last frame, then punches you in the gut.
During a class, a teacher receives a mystery piece of paper from a student. But which student? And what does it mean?
An overly curious woman climbs into her boyfriend’s head in search of answers.
She will wish she hadn’t.
Agua is an autobiographical short film that shows an intimate, deep and very personal story.
It is a tribute to the legacy of effort and love that our father left in my sister, Carmen’s life.
During his first international tour, Zemi, an up-and-coming Dominican rapper, faces the age-old battle between creative integrity and encompassing ambition and calls upon a powerful spirit to defend his truth.
Two officers of the Napoleonic army duel for a woman. But there is more to this conflict than meets the eye.
The coming-of-age story of a tweenager’s search for the perfect pair of glasses.
“A film in the theatre” narrates the life of Eusebio José Fernández López Reboredo Bergamín, a teenager in the sixties whose dream is to be a film director. But the dictator, General Franco, prohibits all kinds of art in 1964. A chance meeting with another artist named Antonio Mínguez, will change Eusebio’s life.
The true self cannot be held down… So celebrate it!
Zygmunt and Halina live in a tiny council flat in Warsaw. The surrounding poverty, diseases and their old age only emphasise the extraordinary “beauty” of their relationship and the fact that despite constant arguments, they are unable to live without each other.
When a bulb breaks the replacements throw light onto existence and truth.
A lemon-scented dreamscape awaits in “Lemon Light”. But what does it mean?
A former fashion model chooses to seek out a man from her past, to confront him about an uncomfortable experience she had at sixteen.
A short documentary exploring the work of RNLI volunteers in the channel. What motivates them, and how do they deal with their experiences once the boats come to shore?
On his birthday night, Jules is destabilised by the unexpected presence of Achille. The intimacy thus imposed; the touches, the looks, and the unspoken truths forge the language of the evening.
iCare tells the story of a care robot who looks after an elderly woman, played by Sara Wilson-Soppitt.
Gro and Heidi deal with grief differently, and as they are packing away their late father’s belongings, Heidi discovers that her sister has been protecting her from the truth for many years.
London International Student Film Festival 