BFI Future Film Festival presents: Northern Perspectives + Q&A 15

BFI Future Film Festival presents: Northern Perspectives (Film Screening)

A showcase of fresh voices from the Future Film Festival programme highlighting the festival's Northern talent. This session will feature an extended Q&A from some of the filmmakers in the programme along with filmmaker networking in the bar area after the screening.

Interested in other Future Film Festival events? Check out our production workshop with Cat Marshall in Sheffield on the 1st March between 2PM - 4PM. Sign up by clicking here.

This event is supported by the BFI Film Academy awarding National Lottery funding.

Film programme

The Golden Postbox

Director: Julia Mervis

An ode to a postbox painted gold, and the mood that birthed it. The Golden Postbox is a wry, and possibly moving, micro-documentary investigating the changing attitudes of Sheffield's city centre towards a postbox. The film was shot in 1 day, on a 2012 camcorder, as a commission for the 2024 Filmmaker Challenge at Sheffield Doc Fest.

A Few More Minutes Please

Director: Dylan Scott

A quiet nineteen-year-old struggles to order at a restaurant while grappling with the building pressure to choose a purpose in life when he can't even choose what to order.

ESC

Director: Pamela Simoes Gomez, Olivia Timms

An office-worker rabbit lives every day trapped in his monotonous, repetitive work cycle. One day on a smoke break, he encounters a wild rabbit, and this event shifts his life forever, haunting him with visions, long after.

The Journey Home

Director: Noah Lei Underwood

A creature considers its current bindings and finds them wanting. Winner of Film Hub North’s DIY Filmmaking Challenge.

Last Night in IRL

Director: Ola Adediji

Insecure Ann is abandoned by her friend at a virtual reality house party. Giving in to the social pressure, Annu tries out the beauty filters. In between her selections, an unfiltered, mysterious man catches a glimpse of her natural face. Sparking a passionate fascination between the two.

Rebirth

Director: Joel Claudio

After tragedy strikes a bustling London neighbourhood it is sent into disarray, along with our Hero who becomes lost to their pain. Soon after a cherub-like figure appears, embodying the change the community craves, and bringing winds of hope and growth as he bears witness to the revival of the fractured neighbourhood and leads our protagonist out of darkness.

Over There

Director: Shuqi Li

The protagonist of the film is a jobless woman from an ordinary family who is forced by financial pressure. She had to sell her body and then transform her consciousness to the digital world. She owns a small house in the digital world and seems to be living a good life, but she realises that something is not right.

Big Deal

Director: Isabella Thompson

Big Deal is a coming of age stoner comedy that follows two best friends, Casey and Sarah, on their quest to smoke weed before parting ways for university. In the spirit of making things up as they go along, the pair traverse the treacherous, middle class streets of North West London to rendezvous with a peculiar dealer.

Zizz

Director: Manyu Zhao

A girl trying to fall asleep, but city noises, her too active brain and uncomfortable bed are stopping her to get into her dream.

Everything Looks Simple from a Distance

Director: Conor Toner

It's 1969. The American's have not yet landed on the moon and in the North of Ireland, political tensions are mounting. Noah has a plan to convince politicians, money men, religious figureheads and paramilitaries that a Northern Irish trip to the moon, might be the best route to peace.

Red Thumb

Director: Kolya Kishinsky, Geneva Huffman

A gardener tries to control his environment as he discovers a pulsing red plant. As it physically grows so does their connection, becoming his prized blooming obsession.