From no-budget mini-masterpieces to BAFTA winners, these are the home-grown films that have been clocking up awards and thrilling audiences around the globe.
Films
Dog Years
Richard Penfold and Sam Hearn | 2004 | 4 mins
Ben, 39, castrated mongrel, needs love. GSOH essential.
London Fields Are Blue
Brendan Grant | 2004 | 14 mins
A mugger and his victim have a strangely companionable afternoon.
Who Do You Love?
Jim McRoberts | 2004 | 10 mins
Heather’s mother tests her 10-year-old daughter’s love to the limit – shoplifting and car theft are only the start of it.
Knitting a Love Song
Annie Watson | 2004 | 14 mins
Pearl, 15, loves Jack, 18, but he doesn’t know she exists. So she decides to knit her passion for him into a scarf and hides it in his locker.
The Curse of Jeff
James Harris | 2004 | 4 mins
Jeff, a practicing wiccan, explains how he has brought the art of cursing into the 21st century.
77 Beds
Alnoor Dewshi | 2003 | 10 mins
One sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban nomad, starts counting back through all the beds he has ever slept in.
Jo Jo in the Stars
Marc Craste | 2003 | 12 mins
The heart-wrenching animated tale of two unlikely lovers: Jo Jo, a silver-plated trapeze artist, and the nameless hero who worships her.
Northern Soul
Shane Meadows | 2004 | 26 mins
Mike Sherbert is a lonely young man who dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. There’s only one problem: he weighs nine stone and has the pain threshold of a two-year-old child. From the director of Once Upon a Time in the Midlands and Dead Man’s Shoes.