How to live if you were born with Donald Trump's face? How can masculinity be tested at the badminton tournament? How to behave if you want to avoid hurting everyone's feelings? How to fit into the team of millennials if you've never had coffee before? Answers to these and other questions will be found in this year's selection of comedy shorts that are connected by the light satire of Western society.
Curated by Olga Gusiatynska
Death, Blood
MARVIN’S NEVER HAD COFFEE BEFORE
Andrew Carter
USA | 2020, 8 min
Marvin Wexler tries coffee for the first time and desperately wants to talk to someone about it.
SHUTTLECOCK
Tommy Gillard
UK | 2020, 13 min
Carl is forced to question what it means to be a man when a new, mysterious member of the badminton club joins in with the charity tournament.
SWIMMER
Jonatan Etzler
Sweden | 2020, 13 min
There’s a man floating around in an indoor swimming pool. The police order him to get out, to be arrested, but the man refuses. Swimmer is a humorous short film about a dramatic arrest that turns into an anticlimax.
MISS FORTUNATE
Ella Jones
UK | 2020, 15 min
Scarlet’s mum has died, leaving her with two cats, a huge tax bill and a crush on a boy she can’t talk to. A comedy-drama about grief, in which a young woman loses her mother, and finds herself.
THE AFFECTED
Rikke Gregersen
Norway | 2020, 13 min
Minutes before takeoff, a situation occurs, preventing an airplane from departing. In an attempt to prevent the deportation of one passenger, another refuses to sit down forcing the pilot to take a political stand.
BOUND
Joe Carter
UK | 2020, 14 min
When a single mum from Leith and a middle-class Scottish geek wake up handcuffed together, the differences in their lifestyles are put to one side as they attempt to break free in this farcical dark comedy.
GRAB THEM
Morgane Dziurla-Petit
Sweden | 2020, 13 min
Sixty-year-old Sally longs for love and happiness. Lately, her search has been complicated by the fact that she resembles the current American president. One man's crazy assault on the world is a lonely woman's burden.