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• Transylvanie (2023)

  Review preview for Transylvanie

  Varvat’s performance is intense and sincere.

  A bullied ten-year-old on a French housing estate endeavours to fulfil her destiny as a vampire.
• Treevenge (2008)

  Review preview for Treevenge

  Short, sweet and wonderfully unhinged.

  Sometimes Christmas is worth crying over.
• Tree Fellers (2004)

  Review preview for Tree Fellers

  This little known story will fascinate people with an interest in wartime history.

  The story of the 900 Belizean lumberjacks who in 1941 and 1942 left the tropical rain-forests of British Honduras to help Britain fight fascism by felling trees in Scotland.
• Tulips (2025)

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  Straightforward in drama terms, Tulips blossoms emotionally thanks to the touching performance from Shaw Parker.

  Student filmmaker Sophie accompanies her parents to document her grandfather’s last day in his home before being relocated due to dementia.
• Tumshie McFadgen's Bid For Ultimate Bliss (2004)

  Review preview for Tumshie McFadgen's Bid For Ultimate Bliss

  Has a feelgood factor that's hard to beat

  One man's hunt for happiness.
• Tumult (2011)

  Review preview for Tumult

  The central performances are great - the warriors speak in the old tongue, subtitled.

  The chief of a band of battle-weary Norse warriors is about to hand over power to his son when they are confronted by something entirely unexpected.
• Tungrus (2018)

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  It attracts and deserves warm laughter, far less awkward in its soaring than the feathered flight of its antagonist.

  In a cramped Mumbai apartment, a family considers eating their hell-raising pet rooster, in order to reclaim their lives.
• Turned (2020)

  Review preview for Turned

  A slight narrative leaves room for a lot of emotional work in this muscular short.

  A talented young race car driver struggles to cope with his father's behaviour.
• Two Balloons (2017)

  Review preview for Two Balloons

  This film makes it clear that lemur versus nature is the future.

  Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
• Two Bob Mermaid (1996)

  Review preview for Two Bob Mermaid

  There are subtleties here, not least in the ending. Details are small but well scattered, each adding to the tale.

  An Aboriginal girl gains access to the local swimming pool where Aboriginal people are legally denied access because she "passes" as white - and finds herself faced with a choice.
• Two Distant Strangers (2020)

  Review preview for Two Distant Strangers

  It's not a subtle idea but subtlety may not be what the wider context calls for.

  A cartoonist's repeated attempts to get home to his dog are thwarted by a recurring deadly encounter that forces him to re-live the same day over and over again.
• Two People Exchanging Saliva (2024)

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  It’s rare to see this level of world building in a short.

  In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, an unhappy woman shops compulsively in an exclusive boutique. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl.
• Tyger (2006)

  Review preview for Tyger

  Marcondes' artistic mix of puppetry, traditional and computer-generated animation is a feast for the eyes.

  A tyger brings the jungle to town.
• The Tyranny Of Petty Things (2021)

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  This is a story that is at once deeply personal and indicative of changing attitudes.

  James Bushe's journey has been a turbulent one. Here we accompany James on a flight through personal and cultural memory.
• T Blockers (2023)

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  A deceptively smart, layered piece of work.

  Ancient parasites rise from a small town, taking the most fearful and susceptible hosts. A young filmmaker finds herself as the only one who can sense the possessed resistance before the horror escapes and spreads.
• Étude (2016)

  Review preview for Étude

  The idea and the shapes are simple - a cube, a circle, textured backgrounds - but the overall effect is quite meditative.

  A conversation between an animator and a composer.
• Tuesday (2008)

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  Something of an oddity.

  A man dances for video cameras.
• Tuesday (2015)

  Review preview for Tuesday

  This is something still and small and sad, a short that does what the best shorts do, use every moment of the space that it's afforded to create something on screen that convinces and transports.

  Every Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Allie stays with her dad and is insistent that this week will be no exception, but when she arrives at his flat after school she must face that a world has been irretrievably lost.
• Turning (2010)

  Review preview for Turning

  The opening is strong, the end fair, there is mystery and wonderment - it becomes hard to single out anything because it's all good; brilliant, even.

  An unlikely tea party takes place to celebrate a birthday.
• Tussilago (2010)

  Review preview for Tussilago

  This is an eye-opening film.

  In 1977 West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was arrested for having planned to kidnap the Swedish politician Anna-Greta Leijon. Among the people arrested during the following raids was Kröcher’s former girlfriend ‘A’. This is her story.