AIN’T NO FISH Miki Cash / Tom Gasek (Independent)UK / USA, 2013, 3m 32sThis is a short stop-motion animated film with an environmental message, featuring singing seals in the Arctic. The music is performed by Hoagy Carmichael.01

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THE ISLAND DWELLERS Christina F. Moliterno (Independent)USA, 2014, 9m 4sA musical tribe lives on an island peacefully without the Sun for centuries. But one day the Sun comes to hear their beautiful music, and changes their lives forever.

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SAPLING Kat Seale (Arts University Bournemouth)UK, 2013, 3m 48sA young little griffin attempts to grow a tree in order to prove himself, but his inexperience causes one mishap after another. Will things finally go right for him?

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WHEN THE TREE GROWS Birute Sodeikaite (Arts University Bournemouth)UK, 2013, 7m 14sA little boy with a weak heart befriends a tree. In return, the tree wants to heal the boy’s heart but the only way is by blowing the seeds of a dandelion growing far in the distance.

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LITTLE TAIL Eren Kocabasi (Independent)USA, 2013, 2m 42sAn animation about a depressed pencil suffering from mild amnesia, which gradually reveals his story about his past and how he came to become what he is today.

THE GALLANT CAPTAIN Katrina Mathers / Graeme Base (The Lampshade Collective)Australia, 2013, 8m 8sA boy and his cat journey into unknown waters with a little bottle, a boat and a vivid imagination. Faced with peril, young Will must learn to become the Gallant Captain.02

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING BEAR Jessica Austin (Arts University Bournemouth)UK, 2013, 3m 5sA grumpy Grizzly Bear stumbles upon an excitable young girl who is busy catching fireflies in the forest, where their unlikely friendship begins.

ASFF at York Residents’ FestivalProgramme of Films: Family Friendly (SUITABLE FOR AGE 4+)Date: 31 January 2015Time: 11:30 - 12:15

LE GOUFFRE Carl Beauchemin, David Forest, Thomas Chrétien (Lightning Boy Studio)Canada, 2014, 10m 36sTwo travellers undertake the construction of a gigantic bridge in order to cross a gulf blocking their way, inspiring with their courage and determination a rural community living nearby.01

ROBOT LUV David Nguyen (Independent)UK, 2013, 3mA lonely inventor tests the functions of his robot woman, while he is searching for his own happiness, she comes alive in different ways.02

MT.WOLF: MIDNIGHT SHALLOWS Thom Humphreys, Jean-Philippe Blunt, Rina Yang (in/out)UK, 2013, 4m 10sThe birth of the photograph was a revolution in our perceptionof time and motion. Inspired by the work of Etienne-JulesMarey, we continue this dialogue between motion and capture.03

SHADOW DANCER James Copeman (RSA Films)Israel, 2014, 6m 49sNoya, navigating her way through her teenage years gets inevitably lost in the wrong crowd. One day, by accident, she meets Nadiv who represents everything her friends aren’t…04

RIVER ISLAND X JOSEPH TURVEY (FEAT. JUSTANORM) Alex Turvey (White Lodge)UK, 2013, 2m 28sInspired by Joseph Turvey’s streetwear aesthetic and documentary photographer Jamel Shabazz, Alex Turvey’s short film centres around the model collective Justanorm.05

HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall (Creative England)UK, 2014, 11m 49sA thirteen year old misfit magician attempts to escape a cruel adolescence by perfecting the ultimate on stage disappearing trick.

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ASFF at York Residents’ FestivalProgramme of Films: Family FriendlyDate: 31 January 2015Time: 13:30 - 14:15

DENTURES Anderson West (Sour Films)UK, 2013, 4m 3sTwo guys having a rap battle are about to face an unexpected challenger in a film that shows how we need to speak the right ‘language’ to communicate between generations.01

THE LIBRARY OF BURNED BOOKS Alasdair Beckett-King (The London Film School)UK, 2013, 8m 57sA firelit ritual in the school. Children stand in line before a great furnace. They are burning books. The old headmaster is too weary to resist.

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THE CORRESPONDENTS: FEAR & DELIGHTNaren Wilks (Independent)UK, 2013, 3m 20sUsing a composited camera (multiple cameras acting as one) this video describes a space in which synchronised multiples exist in a rotationally-symmetric, kaleidoscopic dimension.03

A FILM IS A FILM IS A FILM Eva von Schweinitz (Brainhurricano)USA, 2013, 16m 2s As celluloid film slowly disappears from her workplace, the director, a movie projectionist herself, embarks on an investigation into what makes the material special.04

BON VOYAGEFabio FriedliSwitzerland, 2011, 6mDozens of emigrants climb on to an overcrowded truck. Their goal is Europe. When they arrive after an exhausting journey, confrontation with another brutal reality awaits them.05

VANISHING POINTS Marites Carino (Video Signatures)Canada, 2014, 8m 41sSucked into a choreographic time warp, conceptual hip-hop dancers share fleeting moments of intimate synchronicity as viewers slowly realise things are not always as they seem.06

ASFF at York Residents’ FestivalProgramme of Films: Family FriendlyDate: 31 January 2015Time: 15:30 - 16:20

AIR Emma E. Maclennan (Air the Film Ltd).UK, 2013, 23m 3s.Humanity has survived in the underground facility Securos, where Alex and Nick are working. Alex dreams of a better life as Securos is running out of air to breathe.01

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FOR HIS SAKE Louis Lagayette (Tesa Productions)UK, 2014, 16mJennifer is a teenage mother living in Liverpool with her son Tommy. They struggle to survive, but receive the help a social worker, who realises that Jennifer is hiding something.

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GIRL POWER Benjamin Bee (Attercop Productions)UK, 2014, 20mInto a dizzy world of glamour and false promises comes recent graduate Cass. Innocent Publishing appears perfect – but behind cool Britannia there lurks a much darker place.

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ON LOOP Christine Hooper (Royal College of Art)UK, 2013, 5mFour in the morning, crapped out, yawning. Experience a comic portrayal of the tedious insanity of insomnia. With an aesthetic inspired by David Hockney’s photomontages.

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APPLE JELLY: //CONTROL// Jérémi Durand (Beast).UK, 2013, 3m 30s.Don’t we all have our own way to say “stop”? In this promo for the French electro band, Petru keeps control over his daily life through his own kind of dancing ritual.

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GNOSIS Tamara Hahn (Tamarama Studios)USA, 2013, 4m 46sA baby is stuck in an infinite loop of danger due to a baby-robbing monster. They may continuously fail in their attempts but they are still within close reach with no way to escape.

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MATIN LUNAIRE Clément Oberto (Oversteps Production)France, 2014, 2m 58sMatin Lunaire (moony morning) is a suspended moment, the seeming paradox of a moon that is still visible in the sky during the day time.

ASFF at York Residents’ FestivalProgramme of Films: Picks of the festDate: 31 January 2015Time: 17:30 - 18:50

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING: NIGHT MAILRobert Hackett (Antagonist Films)UK, 2013, 3m 22sShot at night, this promo is characterised by images fromthe original Night Mail GPO Film Unit film featuring WH Auden’s poem, projected onto a disused train station.05

THE RINGER Chris Shepherd (Autour De Minuit / Polkadot / The Bureau). UK / France, 2013, 17mAfter a life time apart a son finally meets his father. The son wants to know about his history, where he came from and how he came to be, but his dad gives him a surprise.04

RIVER ISLAND X JOSEPH TURVEY (FEAT. JUSTANORM) Alex Turvey (White Lodge)UK, 2013, 2m 28sInspired by Joseph Turvey’s streetwear aesthetic and documentary photographer Jamel Shabazz, Alex Turvey’s short film centres around the model collective Justanorm.03

ENTRETIEN D’EMBAUCHE (JOB INTERVIEW) Nicolas Novak (Gengiskhan Production)France, 2014, 14mA recent graduate lands a job interview, which all seems relatively straight forward and conventional. However, things don’t go exactly as planned...02

HERD IN ICELAND Lindsay Blatt (Herd in Iceland, Inc)USA / Iceland, 2013, 28m 41sDuring the summer, Icelandic horses live a remote existence grazing in the highlands. Every September, they are rounded up and directed home across the rugged terrain.01

ASFF at York Residents’ FestivalProgramme of Films: Picks of the festDate: 31 January 2015Time: 19:30 - 20:40