Combining flights of fantasy and eerie, often sorrowful insights into the fragile nature of the mind, this selection treads the fine line between reality and imagination. A space travel adventure, a bereaved man struggling with his loss, a haunted cottage by the sea, a drunken puppeteer, a mysterious guest house and an ingenious reinvention of Little Red Riding Hood: some of the ingredients of a programme which will challenge your beliefs and subvert your expectations.

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After Tomorrow

• Emma Sullivan /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 16 mins

Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of his guest house refuses to let him leave.

Director: Emma Sullivan
Producer: Annalise Davis
Exec Producer: Sam Burton
Scriptwriter: Emma Sullivan
Editor: Agnieszka Liggett
DoP: Eduard Grau
Production Designer: John Dempsey
Music: Christian Henson

Believe

• Paul Wright /
• UK /
• 2009 /
• 20 mins

Overwhelmed by grief and desperation, a man struggles to come to terms with the recent death of his wife.

Director: Paul Wright
Producer: Rhianna Andrews
Scriptwriter: Paul Wright
Editor: Maya Maffioli
DoP: Benjamin Kra?un
Production Designer: Natalie Astridge
Sound Production: Gunnar Óskarsson

Keel

• Ian Cottage /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 20 mins

A man is on holiday in a run-down cottage by the sea with his daughter when strange, spooky events begin to take place.

Director: Ian Cottage
Producer: Steve Bowden
Scriptwriter: Ian Cottage
Editor: Ian Cottage
DoP: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Alex Bender
Sound Production: Sound recordist John Charles McGovern, Dubbing mixer Peter Groom
Music: Vallatar fran Gammelboning by Sven Ahlback, performed by Susanne Rosenberg, Ulrika Boden, Eva Astrom, Rune, Karin Holdar

The Stars Don't Twinkle In Outer Space

• Peter Thwaites /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 10 mins

Two children, 'Starman' and 'the Princess' crash land their spaceship on a strange planet. As fantasy slowly gives way to reality, the true

Director: Peter Thwaites
Producers: Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Piers Jackson, Paul Rothwell, Anna Wulff
Exec Producers: Chris Palmer, Frank Budgen
Scriptwriter: Hank Isaac
Editor: Neil Smith
DoP: Stuart Graham
Production Designer: Robin Brown
Sound Production: Seb Juviler
Music: Paul Clark

Curtains

• Julian Barratt, Dan Jemmett /
• UK /
• 2009 /
• 15 mins

After 50 years as a puppeteer in a British seaside town, it’s time for a final curtain call for a heavy-drinking, worn-out Punch and Judy man.

Directors: Julian Barratt, Dan Jemmett
Producers: Diarmid Scrimshaw, Michael Knowles
Scriptwriters: Julian Barratt, Dan Jemmett
Editor: Mark Everson
DoP: Erik Wilson
Production Designer: Simon Rogers

Alice

• Marianne Elliott /
• UK /
• 2010 /
• 15 mins

Director: Marianne Elliott
Producers: Faye Ward, Hannah Farrell
Scriptwriter: Abi Morgan
Editor: Chris Wyatt
DoP: Balazs Bolygo
Production Designer: Alice Normington
Sound Production: Paul Davis
Music: Joby Talbot

The Cull

• Jonathan Harris /
• UK /
• 2010 /
• 17 mins

Director: Jonathan Harris
Producers: Christopher Leonard, Gary Paton
Scriptwriter: Andrew Walker
Editor: David Dubois
DoP: Phil Wood
Production Designer: Joe Withers
Music: Ryan Alex Farmery

Dust

• Ben Lavington Martin /
• UK /
• 2010 /
• 10 mins

Director: Ben Lavington Martin
Producer: Hank Starrs
Exec Producer: Christopher Riley
Scriptwriters: Jon Spira, Ben Lavington Martin
Editor: Ben Lavington Martin
Sound Production: Samuel Castleton
Music: Mark Rutherford

In the Meadow

• Dave Alexander Smith /
• UK /
• 2010 /
• 13 mins

Director: Dave Alexander Smith
Producer: Nicola Clayton
Scriptwriter: Dave Alexander Smith
Editor: Lucas Roche
DoP: Jonathan Harvey
Production Designer: Blair Barnette
Sound Production: Grant Bridgeman

Just Before Dawn

• Loren Slater /
• UK /
• 2010 /
• 10 mins

Director: Loren Slater
Producer: Jessica Levick
Scriptwriters: Matt Palmer, Loren Slater
Editor: Edd Maggs
DoP: Suzie Lavelle
Production Designer: Pippa Needs
Sound Production: Matt Palmer

Little Red Hoodie

• Joern Utkilen /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 15 mins

Little Red Riding Hood re-imagined for the modern age.

Director: Joern Utkilen
Producer: Carolynne Sinclair Kidd
Scriptwriter: Joern Utkilen
Editor: Colin Monie
DoP: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Production Designer: Ruth Paxton
Sound Production: Tom Griffiths
Music: John Nairn, Aruid Sletta, Lene Alexandra