
Shadowash
Director Eve McConnachie
Choreographed by Andrea Azzari, Shadowash explores the experience of someone whose mind has been compromised. A film by Scottish Ballet.

Close-Up Cinema · Includes Q&A
Friday 25 September 2026 · 12:00–1:30pm
Confronted by illness, ageing, disrupted relationships and unexpected crises, these films follow people whose lives suddenly veer off course. Moving between dark humour and emotional reflection, the programme explores what it takes to let go, adapt and begin again.

Director Eve McConnachie
Choreographed by Andrea Azzari, Shadowash explores the experience of someone whose mind has been compromised. A film by Scottish Ballet.

Director Henry Stone
A man desperate to capture a traffic accident on his new dashcam accidentally unleashes a car-crash day in his personal life.

Director Paul Testar
A cantankerous widower teaches his son’s struggling actress girlfriend to drive, and through stalls and false starts, they form an unlikely friendship that may end just as it begins.

Director Jai Sarvesh
The complex dynamics of a family whose lives are uprooted by a debilitating truth.

Director Sara Sálamo
A young man arrives unconscious at a hospital with a “Do Not Resuscitate” tattoo. With no documents and no time, a medical team must decide whether to save his life—or respect his will.

Directors Sheridan Seraphin and Helen Mead
An emotionally repressed woman diagnosed with a terminal illness creates a list of all the people who have wronged her, with the aim of confronting each and every one of them.

Director Rachel Fielding
Stopped follows Rachel and a recently retired ballet dancer as they rediscover movement, vulnerability and the courage to let go and begin again.
Close-Up Cinema · Shoreditch
Friday 25 September 2026
12:00–1:30pm · Includes filmmaker Q&A
Close-Up Cinema
97 Sclater Street
London E1 6HR
Doors open before the advertised start time. Please arrive early to take your seat.