Aevolum Cinema Presents The Choices That Shape Us

Aevolum Cinema Presents is a touring programme of award-winning short films — selected from BAFTA-qualifying festivals and screened on three continents, but hidden gems that most audiences will never have the chance to see anywhere else. Each evening is a curated 60-minute programme built around a single theme, bringing together four films that speak to each other in ways that linger long after the lights come up. These are honest, uncompromising films — made by independent voices, recognised by the world’s most rigorous festivals.

On 30 June, Leatherhead Theatre hosts The Choices That Shape Us — four films about the decisions people make, the lives those decisions create, and what we carry when there is no going back. An evening that stays with you.

Yakka

Jack Shepherd  ·  Australia  ·  15 min

Moral thriller — who do you become?

Two brothers raised by a violent father. One becomes him. One resists. A searing portrait of what we inherit — and whether we can refuse it.

A Great Love 

Aisha Schliessler  ·  UK  ·  14 min

Quiet devotion — a life given to beauty

A sculptor’s twenty-year love affair with horses in bronze. No drama, no conflict — just a man and the thing he chose to dedicate his life to.

When You Left Me

Jevan Chowdhury  ·  UK  ·  7 min

Drama — love at breaking point

A father and his young son on the tube. The boy won’t cooperate. The father reaches his limit and makes a choice he immediately regrets. He runs back.

A Memory Owed 

Martin Hemingway-Moseley  ·  UK  ·  29 min

War drama — a debt carried for 80 years

A WWII veteran returns to the airfield where he made the hardest choice of his life. With him, the young carer who helped him get there. A quiet reckoning with the past.

Q&A

Jevan is an interdisciplinary storyteller. A native Londoner responsible for engaging over 50 million people through his dance-docu-series Moving Cities, examining the identity of cities through dance. He is a passionate editor and documentarian with an established international artist career. Working with brands including the United Nations, Barnardo’s and KPMG, his projects include a 220-metre life-size photograph for Hong Kong Ballet permanently installed in MTR Wan Chai, Hong Kong. In recent years Jevan has been developing a slate of short drama in different languages. Running time: 7 mins 30 secs.

Ticket Prices

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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