Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey makes her debut as a director among Bafta’s choice of film-makers addressing subjects as varied as love and knife crime
The Bafta nominees up for best short film at this Sunday’s award ceremony – five live-action and three animation – make up another very enjoyable collection.
The scene-stealer is a film that I suspect is insufficiently solemn to win a prize, and it’s Maryam Mohajer’s animation Grandad Was a Romantic, narrated by a child telling the story of her grandad and the lovely way he fell in love with her grandma. It ends with a colossal cheeky twist that made me laugh out loud, yet without undermining the genuine sweetness and idealism of what had gone before.