As Sundance celebrates its 40th edition of the festival in 2024, this shorts programme highlights some of the best UK shorts to play at Sundance over the last 40 years.
This screening will include an intro and Q&A with writer-director Emerald Fennell (Careful How You Go).
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (2011)
(Directors: Becky Sloan & Jospeh Pelling)
Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck learn about creativity from a new friend. Join the gang for a lesson in creativity as we replay the first ever YouTube episode of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.
Robots of Brixton
(Dir. Kibwe Tavares)
Robots of Brixton follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment.
Street of Crocodiles
(Director: Quay Brothers)
A museum keeper spits into the eyepiece of an ancient peep-show and sets the musty machine going. Inside, the puppets partake of a series of bizarre rituals amongst the dirt and the grime.
Careful How You Go
(Director: Emerald Fennell)
A darkly comic three-part short film about malevolent women.
Daytimer
(Director: Riz Ahmed)
London, 1999, a young boy gives school and home the slip to attend his first daytime rave.
Scrubber
(Director: Romola Garai)
A young mother who is both obsessed and attracted to the notions of perfection and dirt, and explores these seemingly conflicting opposites through the desperate pursuit of anonymous sex.
Latecomers may not be admitted.
