Future Shorts - the biggest short films and cartoons network and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate have the pleasure to present you the October Future Shorts Programme:

October Roots



After the hot summer Future Shorts is back in October.
We start with "Hotel Chevalier " featuring Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman', "Who's Gonna Save My Soul " by Chris Milk, dazed "Grip" by Roel Wouters will crush you with ideas and acrobatic tricks, the story of 50 years marriage from Kaveh Bakhtiari, and even more long and short stories from around the world. Future Shorts begins!

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Grip (dir. Roel Wouters, Netherlands, 2007)
ZZZ’s Grip, is the first video of Roel Wouters a.k.a Xelor. It’s a one take top shot music video with trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects.

I Love Sara Jane (dir. Spencer Susser, Australia, 2007)
Jimbo is thirteen and he has a crush on Sarah Jane, the girl of his dreams. She still doesn't want to hear of him. But Jimbo is persistent. He will make Sarah Jane fall for him, no matter how long it will take. And what does he care if he lives in a post-apocalyptic environment? If the adults are dead? If the place is infested with zombies? Jimbo loves Sarah Jane. That's that.

Hotel Chevalier (dir. Wes Anderson, USA, 2007)


Hotel Chevalier is a short film by Director Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, the film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The
Darjeeling Limited. It is a short about a man who receives an unexpected visit from an ex-girlfriend in a room at the Hotel Chevalier in Paris.

La Valise (dir. Kaveh Bakhtiari, Switzerland, 2007)
Jeanne is about to leave for a three weeks holiday on her own. Michael doesn't like the idea and locks himself into the bathroom. Jeanne and Michael have been married for 50 years…

To Build A Home (dir. Up The Resolution, UK, 2008)
An intimate look at love, life and death during the final hours of a couple’s life together. Their extreme reaction to terminal illness is both defiant and humane, reclaiming a romance and poignancy denied by hospitalisation. Shot to 35mm film on location in the rural hills of Cumbria in the North of England, this 12 minute film features acclaimed actors Julia Ford (Room for Romeo Brass) and Peter Mullan (Cannes Best Actor’98/ My Name Is Joe).

The Life Size Zoetrope (dir. Mark Simon Lewis, UK, 2007)



The Life Size Zoetrope is the morose life story of one man, told via a one-take live action shot of a human zoetrope containing the film.

Who’s Gonna Save My Soul (dir. Chris Milk, USA, 2008)



Who’s Gonna Save My Soul is Director Chris Milk and Gnarls Barkley’s second video collaboration from the album ‘The Odd Couple’. Chris Milk brings some serious heart crooning to life.

The Control Master (dir. Veer & Run Wrak, UK, 2008)



Halftone City is a peaceful metropolis of family values and space-age dreams. Mild-mannered blonde Dorothy Gayne secretly protects its citizens from harm. But dangerous new technologies abound. What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist-turned-villain Doctor Moire?

The Lounge Bar (dir. Harry Sinclair & Don McGlashan, New Zealand, 1989)



The Lounge Bar is a hilarious and disturbing tale of a chance meeting between three people in a New Zealand bar one night. Each character's fate is inextricably linked with that of the person next to them in ways too strange to mention.

Duration: 75 min.
In English, with Bulgarian subtitles.

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17 October (Friday) 2008, 7.30 p.m.
Red hall
Tickets: 6/4 BGN

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