For Your Consideration.
Won Best Director and Nominee for Best Drama at the Aesthetica Film Festival 2025
Won Best British Film at the Foyle Film Festival 2025
Award Winner at the Young Director Award, Cannes Lions 2025
Best Student Film Nominee at Norwich Film Festival 2025
International New Talent Nominee at the Venice TV Awards 2025 (Honourable Mention)
International Best Student Film Nominee at the International Film Gala 2025 (Honourable Mention)
On her first day on the job, a young maid must survive the sudden collapse of a household in post-Civil War Spain.World Premiered at the Evolution Mallorca Film Festival this October. UK Premiered at the BAFTA & BIFA qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival where it won Best Director. It then screened at Norwich Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Student Film. It’s mainland Spanish Premiere was at the Goya Qualifying Zaragoza Film Festival before it’s Northern Irish premiere at the Oscar Qualifying Foyle Film Festival where it won Best British Short. It’s Central American premiere was at the Ibero-Shorts Qualifying International Short Film Festival of Panama.
Written and Directed by Reiff Gaskell, as proof of concept for a feature in the works.
Electronic Press Kit here.
Interview with the DoP of Cuerpos Ola Mesmer at British Cinematographer | https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/ola-mesmer-cuerpos/
Foyle Film Festival Announces the Winners of the 38th edition. https://foylefilmfestival.org/news/foyle-film-festival-reveals-2025-light-in-motion-competition-award-winners-at-nerve-centre-ceremony
Reiff Gaskell 