Short Film Competition: Home Sweet Home

Our surroundings shape us. No one gets that more than the characters in these shorts.

Whether it’s about a place changing you, changing around you, or not loving you back, where we’re from leaves an indelible mark on us all.

This can be as profound as the climate crisis affecting the fruit your region based its identity on (Common Pear), or as seemingly trivial as a new bus route (Route 310).

While the shorts in this programme reflect changing places in different ways, they all agree on one thing: it's not where you’re from, it’s where you’re going.

Films

**Blue Heart **
(Dir: Samuel Suffren, UK/Haiti, 15 mins)

**In Retrospect **
(Dir: Mila Zhluktenko, Germany, 14 mins)

**Route 310 **
(Dir: Julia Mervis, UK, 8 mins)

Common Pear
(Dir: Gregor Božič, Slovenia, 15 mins)

Curfew
(Dir: Faye Ameera Saffron Craig, UK, 5 mins)

Murewa
(Dir: Ché Scott-Heron Newton, UK, 14 mins)