Blood Cells

Blood Cells 2014

4.80

A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.

2014

Better Things

Better Things 2008

5.00

Gail's agoraphobia keeps her inside where she escapes into romance novels. She shares a house with her Nan, recently back from the hospital. Gradually, they both try to reach out to each other to break their isolation. Rob plunges further into his addiction as a way of numbing his heartbreak over the death of his girlfriend. In his stupor, he dreams of embracing her again. Mr & Mrs Gladwin are going through a shift in their 60 year relationship. Years of resentment and unspoken truths have built a barrier between them that Mrs Gladwin, in her abiding love, tries to erode in little gestures.

2008

Love Me or Leave Me Alone

Love Me or Leave Me Alone 2003

7.00

In a small rural village, a boy and girl have a fight and each storm off their separate ways. The day passes and the boy realises that he shouldn't have a made a big deal out of the argument and tries to get in contact with his girlfriend. He takes his bike and sets out to try and find her before the end of the day.

2003

Jade

Jade 2009

1

Teenager Jade is pregnant. Her relationship with the father is complicated.

2009

Field

Field 2001

1

An elegant, abstracted expression of provincial life in which ordinary everyday details become frozen and magnified as its young protagonists find themselves implicated in a moment of sheer madness.

2001

Compulsion

Compulsion 2011

1

Awakening to the experience of his first romantic connection, Ian’s trust in girlfriend Kelly is thrown into doubt by rumour. As his emotions swing between aggression and tenderness, he feels compelled to react. A study in the vicissitudes and intensity of love in adolescence.

2011

Alex and Her Arse Truck

Alex and Her Arse Truck 2007

3.80

A story about a scooter riding zelophile called Baby Shoes and his nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex.

2007

Twelfth Man

Twelfth Man 2014

1

Twelfth Man belongs to Short Plays, a Daniel Gruener project commemorating the 2014 World Cup.

2014