Join us in Liverpool and Sheffield for Northern Exposure, a touring film programme showcasing the best short films from the North of England. This programme has been selected by our Young Film Programmers, a group of emerging Northern film curators who have scoured the region to discover the stories that matter to them and the local filmmakers to get excited about. Expect a bold mix of fact and fiction, animation and live action - and anything else in-between.
Tour schedule
FACT Liverpool
Tuesday 20 August, 18:30
Sheffield Film Festival, Showroom Cinema
Saturday 24 August, 18:00
Final screening TBC
Northern Exposure is delivered by Film Hub North as part of BFI Film Academy.
BFI Film Academy offers opportunities for ambitious 16-25 year olds, anywhere in the UK, to get to know more about film and how to forge a career in the screen industries.
This event is supported by BFI Film Academy, awarding National Lottery funding.
Film line-up
Bound (15)
Dir. Abigail Porter Feavers / 2024 / Drama
Certificate 15: Contains themes of grief with some sex references
17-year-old Mara struggles to retain autonomy within a turbulent relationship. Throughout the night, at the pub and beside the road Mara’s bitter night unfolds an unsettling similarity between vulnerability and humiliation.
Food For Thought
Dir. Farone Kahuya / 2024 / Animation
An animated short film about the intrinsic relationship between food and nostalgia. Following the stories of two individuals, this documentary presents their point of view on what food brings to their very own table of thoughts.
Copy of the Nature
Dir. Rob Reed / 2024 / Documentary
A short documentary film about the life and work of Manchester based Ikebana tutor Junko Popham.
Early Spring
Dir. Columbina Luna Abarca / 2023 / Animation
A strange creature comes to life following a girl through the streets of Manchester. While unveiling the mysteries of growing up, she struggles to navigate herself into the adult realm. From videos captured with a mobile phone camera merged with analogue processes, Early Spring takes the inner world to the surface of the cityscape, revealing a landscape as if it had always been there.
Bird Man
Dir. Tom Harmer / 2024 / Documentary
Barry Roots ‘Bird Man’ feeds hundreds of birds every day around Bradford city centre, in the north of England. Loved by many, in this short film Barry reminisces about his journey to Bradford from Jamaica, how his record shop in the 70s was a hub of community life and why he visits the town centre to feed the birds come rain or shine.
Road Trip
Dir. Natalie A. Evans / 2022 / Drama, Comedy
A mother and daughter go on their last ever road trip together.
The Cerebral Perimeter
Dir. Mo Bayliss, Steph Leigh / 2024 / Comedy, Sci-Fi
Rita takes part in a most peculiar assessment.
Safe
Dir. Debbie Howard / 2023 / Drama
Anne, an office cleaner, finishes work late one evening to be pursued and harassed by a man at the bus stop.
Wave of Change
Dir. Zahra Omrani / 2024 / Documentary
A Wave of Change is a student documentary film highlighting the importance of the Edwardian bath in Withington and how it's been a hub for the community's people.
