Mansfield Town Film Festival Presents...'The Best Of MTFF23'
Get ready for a cinematic celebration! Join us for an exclusive event showcasing some of our award-winning films from a variety of genres, just a few short weeks from our next festival.
From gripping dramas to captivating documentaries, these films have captured hearts and earned accolades. As our second festival approaches, immerse yourself in the magic of cinema and get a taste of what's to come. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the best of the best and get hyped for our upcoming festival!
The evening will consist of a 1.5 hour screening of amazing films, talks with filmmakers and a post screening Q&A session.
This event is suitable for an 18+ audience rating. All films are flagged for content warnings before each film starts.
Door open at 17:30 to give you time to grab a drink, films start at 6pm.
Here is the event run through:
You’re Absolutely Right - Directed By: Theo Gee, Ian Bousher - 14:00
Trigger Warnings - Horror Scenes (stabbing, death), Strong Language
A paranoid hoarder is seduced into doing the unthinkable by a hotline that only tells its customers that they're right.
Whale Heart - Directed By: Phillip Edge - 11:50
A young man spends his life searching for something he lost as a child.
Margin - Directed By: Daniel Rands - 11:32
Trigger Warnings - Strong Language
In an after-school, last-chance, catch-up class, 16 year-old student Ria’s struggle to better herself clashes with her teacher Emily’s battle to get through an English lesson evoking racial tensions and societal issues that they soon find to be all too relevant.
Stone Giant - Directed By: Chris Miggells 7:00
In a fitting tribute to his local roots and family history, Mansfield pianist and composer Chris Miggells records his ground-breaking piano composition ’Stone Giant’ in the iconic monument, Clipstone Headstocks. The sound was recorded live on set inside the derelict coal mines’ 50-foot-high power house, which adds its distinctive, haunting, cathedral-like reverberations to the track.
The Red Ball - Directed By: George Morgan - 6:59
Trigger Warning - Themes of Bereavement (Death of a Child)
Clinging onto his red ball, Bamike leaves the big city of London for a small town where his family can get a fresh start after a family tragedy.
Demon Box - Directed By: Sean Wainsteim - 14:00
Trigger Warnings - Themes of Bereavement (attempted suicide, death), Horror Scenes (shooting, demons)
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life. Ten years in the making.
REDt’BLUE - Directed By: Jay Martin - 23:00
REDt'BLUE is a documentary short, focusing on how, and why, the ex-mining town constituency of Mansfield swung from the Labour party, which had held it for a consecutive 94-years, to the Conservative party in the 2017 snap-election.