Aevolum Presents: Cornered

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.

Cornered — four films about people with nowhere to go. A businessman trapped in a glass lift with a stranger who may be a killer. A girl who discovers that the cruellest person in her life is carrying a wound she never expected. A child spending an afternoon with a father she barely knows — and cannot leave. A man racing across the desert with a secret that is already closing in. No clean exits. Just the moment when there is only one direction left.

Pay Back

Steve Ramsden · UK · 17 min – Thriller — grips from the first frame

Aproperty tycoon arrives to pay his son’s ransom. The lift stops halfway up. The stranger beside him either knows nothing — or knows everything.

Ma Prison

Kitty Harper · UK · 10 min – Grief hidden behind cruelty

A girl grieving her mother is tormented by a cruel French teacher — until she uncovers the hidden truth behind her cruelty.

Five and a Half

Heidi Nyburg · USA · 15 min – Danger with nowhere to go

 A little girl spends an unnerving afternoon with her estranged, recently paroled father — left with only her imagination to stop time and escape impending disaster.

Domino Springs

 Dan Hertzog · USA · 22 min – No escape from what you’ve done

 A troubled mechanic races across the Mojave Desert with his best friend in tow to ditch the body of

a small-town waitress before being caught — the question is, by whom?

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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