Aevolum Cinema Presents: Love…Love? Its Complicated

Aevolum Cinema Presents is a touring programme of award-winning short films — chosen from the international festival circuit, and almost impossible to find anywhere else. One evening, 73 minutes, four films that speak to each other long after the lights come up. Think festival night, local edition: a glass of prosecco in hand, a buzz in the foyer, and a room full of people who came for the same reason — to be moved. Real rooms. Real people. The audience these films were made for.

Love… Love? It’s Complicated — four films about love: given, outsourced, found and remembered. Tender, absurd, borrowed, unfinished. Come for a night at the movies; leave a little braver about your own heart.

Every film here began as one person’s stubborn idea. Tonight, you decide which one wins the room: the evening ends with your vote for your favourite — and it counts. It tells a filmmaker somewhere in the world that their work found its people. When we back emerging voices, the world gets a little more honest, a little more tender. So bring your friends, raise a glass to the people who made these films, and stay for the vote. Your presence matters. Your vote matters.

 

Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites

Chhean

gkea · Cambodia/France/USA · 19 min – Sundance 2025 Jury Award winner — love that outlives everything

During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Après l’incendie

Hristo Todorov · Bulgaria/France · 20 min – Drama / Comedy / Romance — one last Parisian dream

Disappointed of her life in Paris, Emma is ready to go back to her home country. But the morning before the flight she wants to fulfil her last Parisian dream — to make a photo shoot in front of Notre-Dame. And here something unexpected will happen…

 

 

 

 

 

The Aquarium

Gianluca Zonta · Italy · 14 min – Comedy / Romance — can you outsmart the heart?

Is it possible to find a way not to make errors in love? Maybe AI is the answer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Brushstroke

 

Stéphane Martinet · France · 20 min – Drama / Fantasy — love, remembered

Pierre, an internationally renowned painter suffering from writer’s block, hasn’t painted in his preferred genre since his wife’s funeral. On the advice of his best friend and agent, he paints a nude. It’s a masterpiece. A woman is lying on his sofa. She tells him she is the woman in his painting…

 

 

 

 

 

Adult: £10.00 | Concession: £8.00 | Under 16’s: £8.00

Please note: A restoration fund of £1.50 per ticket will be charged in addition to the ticket price, to assist with the cost of ongoing maintenance.

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