Chris Hees

Liverpool, 1995, the dockers are on strike. Nine-year-old Siobhan has only one thing on her mind: to see if Oasis will win the pop duel against Blur. But an argument breaks out with her older brother Rory, leading the little girl to run away at nightfall. As she wanders, the decaying city takes on an unreal allure.

Balanced on a tightrope, Blue must embrace the dance of a stranger to heal the wounds of his past.

An obsessive, genius programmer sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a computer of unprecedented power.

Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older handyman who is obsessed with her.

Ted, 9 year old, is the clumsiest boy in the world. Desperately searching for his vocation, he cannot find anything he is good at. The breakthrough arrives the day his father comes home with an old monstrous piano. Ted has the revelation: he will become the next Mozart. Based on the short story 'Every Good Boy' by David Nicholls.

'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative. The Bigger Picture is quite simply the most innovative animated short you will see this year.