Across animation, dance, and narrative, these works explore moving forward while carrying the past, tracing change, resilience, and balance.About this Event
THE SPACE BETWEEN
Across animation, dance, and intimate narrative, these works reflect on what it means to move forward while carrying fragments of the past. Together, they form a series of encounters with change, resilience, and the quiet search for balance in unfamiliar terrain.
Friday 8 May, Cavendish Hotel, 18:00
Shorts Synopsis
Heaven to Know You
France, UK | 2024 | 38’32” | Drama
Dir. Philip H J Gay
After a traumatic childhood at the hands
of her abusive mother and a difficult start
to adult life, Lara relocates to NYC to
start over, leaving behind a childhood of
imaginary friends but also her dreams of
song and dance.
The Donkey with a baby on her back
UK | 2024 | 12’51” | Drama
Dir. Isabella Chaves Gutierrez
Daniela, a child of divorce, helps her father
move out of her childhood home: an
alcove of memories and secrets. Meanwhile,
she observes her parents wedding
day in 1995, through the eyes of the Donkey
that carried her mother to the altar,
forging a new connection with her mother,
and finding solace in existing as proof
of a fleeting moment of love.
First Time
UK | 2025 | 9’20” | Drama
Dir. Kieran Freemantle
A young man plans to lose his virginity
with an escort so he can fulfil a milestone.
Both parties end up having a more
emotionally draining experience than expected.
Austria | 2025 | 9’28’’ | Experimental
Dir. Editta Braun
A play about showing and concealing,
moving and being moved. A ballet for
isolated limbs, a trio for dancers flowing,
floating, swimming and gliding. Carried
by Thierry Zaboitzeff’s marvellous
sounds and tones, breathtaking through
unprecedented perspectives, the piece
writes a new, purely female story of creation
out of the water.
Part of Me
Armenia, Netherlands | 2025 | 04’49” |
Experimental
Dir. Narek Gukasian
Part of Me explores the inner world of a
woman suspended between inertia and
the urge to act. Moving through symbolic
encounters with earth, air and water,
she seeks reconnection with nature and
herself. The film is a meditative journey
through solitude, transformation and the
fragile boundary between humanity and
the natural world.
IMMIGRANT رجاهم
Iran | 2025 | 1’41” | Drama, Animation
Dir. Nilram Ranjbar
A woman reflects on the love and memories
she leaves behind as she packs to
leave her country.
Event Venue
The Cavendish Hotel, 38 Grand Parade, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
GBP 6.13 to GBP 9.38
