Filmed Up: Cornerhouse Short Film Festival

Even by its own incredibly high standards, Cornerhouse has been showing some excellent films of late. Fritz Lang’s M and two of Kubrick’s very best – 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr Strangelove – have been screened in only the last few days, for example. Capping off this week is something a little different, but no less interesting. Filmed Up, taking place on Friday, is their quarterly festival of short films by up-and-coming directors. A dozen movies by grassroots guerrilla film-makers and production start-ups from the North West have been selected by a panel of Cornerhouse audience members. Highlights are likely to include Going to Mecca (Dir. Jason Wingard), which tells the story of two half-brothers travelling to Blackpool to find their missing father, and Delicacy (Dir. Helen Curran), set during World War II and showing two British soldiers trying to survive behind enemy lines.

Fri 5 Dec, Screen 2, Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, M1 5NH, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, £4.50 (£3 conc), www.cornerhouse.org