28 Aug 2018
My Dad Works the Night Shift
Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.
Not Without My Handbag
A bizarre, anarchic animation, in which a young girl sees her aunt dragged to hell for missing a payment on the washing machine, only for the undead relative to return from the netherworld to collect her handbag.
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Robert Booth The Newsreader
Geraldine McEwan The Aunt
Alain Debray The Devil/The Handbag
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