Fringe Flicks: Hotel Kalura (2021) & Short Films

Fringe Flicks returns this October with a programme of surreal, absurd, and experimental shorts from across the world, curated by People Versus TV CIC, a Liverpool-based community cinema collective.

The lineup brings together twelve distinctive films:

• Alone by Negah Sohrabi & Abofazel Amir (Iran) — a poetic visual reflection on post-war loneliness.
• Call of Nature by Donal O’Dea (Ireland) — a fisherman’s urgent search for a toilet becomes absurdist comedy.
• Hand Painted Wooden Reptiles by Jim & Joseph Dethick (UK) — a Lynchian late-night detective tale.
• Hello Again and Lost in Galactic Translation by Rasmus Lindkvist (Sweden) — inventive micro-thrillers and melancholic sci-fi.
• Keijo on the Go by Katrina Oll & Alex Toodu (Estonia) — a reality-TV-obsessed reporter meets an Estonian myth.
• Les Bêtes by Michael Granberry (USA) — a lavish stop-motion fantasy from an animator whose credits include Severance and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
• Must Ash by John Akre (USA) — a hand-painted flicker film about birds, moustaches, and dread.
• No Trespassing in Transylvania by Michael, Maxwell & Emmett Dorfman (USA) — mummies trespass on vampire land in a riotous monster comedy.
• Stopclock by Maxwell Hicks (UK) — a leaking tap turns domestic space into uncanny horror.
• The Rime by Paris James (Liverpool, UK) — a slow-burning drama by the docks.
• The Ultimate Weapon by Romain Revert (France) — lo-fi monster cinema at full volume.
• To Dinner by Robert Rabanal (Spain) — children sit down to a dinner that isn’t what it seems.
• Typing… by Pablo Olewski Díaz (Spain) — a satirical look at workplace dynamics in the digital age.

Presented on a Pay What You Can basis at DoES Liverpool, Fringe Flicks creates a welcoming space to encounter independent cinema in all its absurd and inventive forms. Refreshments will be available, and audiences are encouraged to stay on for conversation after the screenings.