Introduced by Michael Apted Tonight, three short films - a documentary from Cuba, a light comedy from Belgium and a cartoon from the USSR. Long Nails, Short Nails: a manicurist has turned her craft into high art.
Director ANDRES MARROQUIN for the Escuela Internacional De Cine Y Tv, Cuba
Service Compris: it's Saturday night and a bored young woman, waiting for her husband to join her in a restaurant, is looking for distraction.
Director STEPHAN CARPIAUX for the Institut Des Arts De Diffusion, Belgium
Upheavals: an animation. Wherever you are in the world you'd rather be somewhere else.
Director MIKHAIL ALDASHIN for VGK, Moscow. USSR. For the BBC:
Producer JEANNE LA CHARD