The 7th Kinemastik International Short Film Festival programme will feature two screens of short film, set over two nights, in the spectacular setting of the Herbert Ganado Gardens in Floriana on the 30th and 31st of July.

Highlights of the programme include Kenneth Scicluna's Daqqet Ix-Xita (Plangent Rain), and a selection of films to be premiered, specially commissioned by Scottish filmmakers Cara Connolly and Martin Clark. Seven independent filmmakers were asked to make a short film at the Savoy Complex in Glasgow; several of them will also be attending the festival.

Bare Bones artists and writers have put together a show reel of independent shorts that will be showing on the Neck of the woods select screen. Works from Chris Bianchi, Harry Malt, Alex Sebley, Alex Turvey, Bill Bragg, Daniel McKernan, Dave Prosser, Focus Creeps, Guy Verge Wallace, Hayley Morris, James Wignal and Matt Lambert will be shown.

Phil Adams, veteran deejay with Rough Trade, and deejay Capitol K, will be playing at the festival party, which will be taking place on the Saturday night.

Tickets cost 7 euro for one night or 12 for 2 nights. Tickets are available from St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta.

Ticket hotline: 99242815

For more information and the full programme go to: www.kinemastik.org