About this Event
Under Pressure brings together seven films about people forced to decide who they are when the stakes are high. An amateur football manager's plans fall apart when his star player vanishes before a crucial match. An impulsive Chinese American teenager and her boyfriend try to buy the morning after pill in post Roe America. In Azemmour, Morocco, 17 year old Fatine is torn between her mother's artistic tradition as a chikha and a safer life with a boyfriend who scorns her heritage. In a remote trailer park, Dax must choose between his paranoid mother's bunker and a life of his own. Cosmo turns his back on his privileged upbringing, only to land in the sights of local gangsters. A woman provoked on a London night bus sets off on a bloody journey of self discovery. And a mysterious stranger with a deck of cards performs a trick far darker than anyone could imagine.
Agenda
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:05 PM
INTRO
Info: Introduction by a member of the PRIFF team.
🕑: 02:05 PM - 02:15 PM
Gaffer (Short Film) dir. by Will Dennies
Info: An amateur football manager’s pre-game preparations are thrown into disarray when his star player disappears in the run up to a crucial match.
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:28 PM
The Truck (Short Film) dir. by Elizabeth Rao
Info: An impulsive Chinese American teen and her boyfriend try to buy the morning after pill in post-Roe America.
🕑: 02:28 PM - 02:48 PM
Chikha - QUEEN. (Short Film) dir. by Ayoub Layoussifi, Zahoua Raji
Info: FATINE, a young girl of 17, lives with her mother, NADIA – who is a chikha(1)¬ - in Azemmour, Morrocco. She has just passed her baccalaureate exams and she’s torn between two opposing paths: either committing to the family’s artistic tradition, or a more risk-averse life with her boyfriend, who scorn her heritage.
🕑: 02:48 PM - 03:03 PM
Nothing but the End (Short Film) dir. by Tanguy Pichon
Info: As the end of the world seems to loom, Dax, a young man living in a remote trailer park, must choose between staying with his paranoid mother, who wants to turn their trailer into a bunker, or finally living his own life.
🕑: 03:03 PM - 03:22 PM
Spiff (Short Film) dir. by Oscar Flohr
Info: Cosmo, a boy from a wealthy family, intent on becoming his own man, tries to abandon his privileged upbringing in the pursuit of something more “real”, only to wind up in the drug-fuelled crosshairs of the local gangsters.
🕑: 03:22 PM - 03:36 PM
What Goes Round (Or Things That Go Bump In The Night) dir. by Edie Deffebach
Info: A woman wakes up on a London night bus and is provoked by a series of passengers; setting her on a bloody journey of self-discovery.
🕑: 03:36 PM - 03:41 PM
The Trick (Short Film) dir. by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker
Info: A mysterious stranger. A deck of cards. And a trick that’s far more sinister than anyone could imagine. THE TRICK is a dark, suspenseful short that will leave you questioning what’s real… and what’s magick.
🕑: 03:41 PM - 03:51 PM
Q&A
Info: Q&A TBC
Event venue & nearby stays
Lumiere Cinema, Romford, United Kingdom
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