2021 Programme

Shorts: Artist Moving Image

SAT-SUN
The Margate School
A double bill of artist moving image & experimental works. Pop in-and-out throughout the weekend. Part I: Self//Other These works explore the relationship between artist and subject, self and other.
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Shorts: Truth Be Told

30/10/2024
Tom Thumb Theatre
A programme of short documentaries unearthing hidden pasts and untold stories. Elephant Food is for the Strongest Teeth (15min) Michael Kinsella-Perks, Will McBain, UK In Kano City, Northern Nigeria, crowds
★ Documentary
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Taste Of Cement

31/10/2024
Tom Thumb Theatre
Taste Of Cement is a portrait of workers in exile. An empathetic encounter with people who have lost their past and their future, locked in the recurring present. Ziad Kalthoum
★ International ★ Documentary
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Shorts: From This Point

27/10/2024
Union Church
This year’s local short films open the festival, exploring the small and often radical impact we can have on the world and each other. A selection of drama, documentary, comedy
★ Local Films
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Unapologetic (+ Shy Radicals)

30/10/2024
Union Church
Set during the height of the Movement for Black Lives in Chicago, ‘Unapologetic’ captures a community of millennial organizers confronting an administration complicit in state violence against its Black residents.
★ International ★ Documentary
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Jumbo

01/11/2024 to 07/11/2024
ONLINE
A seductive, surreal love story that transcends humankind, taking objectum romance to dizzying new heights.
★ International ★ F-Rated
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Margate Time Warp

01/11/2024 to 07/11/2024
ONLINE
The Margate Time Warp is a major new exhibition from Margate Film Festival that celebrates the town’s vibrant history and diverse communities, using archive footage and local films from 1925
★ Local Film ★ Family
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No Straight Lines

31/10/2024
Tom Thumb Theatre
“Lesbians and Gay Men Put It On Paper!” read the tagline of Gay Comix, first published in 1980. The story of the queer comic begins in a period of censorship
★ LGBTQ+ ★ Documentary
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Philip 21

01/11/2024 to 07/11/2024
online
An interactive, digital, point of view dating experience from halucid_ Theatre Company, that focuses on interracial dynamics regarding relationships, love, and microaggressions.
Interactive Film
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Shorts: Passing Ships

29th October
Union Church
A dark & humorous programme of shorts exploring the transient relationships of strangers.
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