British Council Logo UK Films Database
Project Detail

Upstairs

Synopsis

A short story about how much we know - or want to know - about the lives of our next door neighbours in urban flats. An inexplicable sound from the flat above leaves Jeff sleepless and anxious to find out the truth about what's really going on upstairs.
Visit Film Website

Details

Year
2013
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
3 mins 4 secs
Format
Digital
Director
Matthias Hoegg
Producer
Dan O' Rourke, Not To Scale
Co-Producer
Lupus Films
Executive Producer
Chris Shepherd
Editor
Matthias Hoegg
Screenwriter
Matthias Hoegg
Director of Photography
Matthias Hoegg
Production Designer
Matthias Hoegg
Sound
David Kamp
Composer
David Kamp
Principal cast
Steve Furst

Categories

Animation

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Not To Scale,

Sales Company

Matthias Hoegg

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

Thursday Thursday

Director: Matthias Hoegg

Year: 2010

An everyday love story set in the not so distant future sees blackbirds battling with technology, automatic palm readers and power cuts.

A crooked angle close up of an animated character looking angrily into the distance. Lola has black messy hair and grubby pale skin. She has large green eyes and wears broken dungarees. Meat

Director: Gemma Rigg

Year: 2026

A feral child befriends a stray dog in a lonely post-apocalyptic world, but at what cost? A stop motion animation set in a post-apocalyptic abandoned village where survivors forage for food through rubble and ruins. Amongst them is Lola, a lonely feral orphan. Her life is changed forever when she detangles a starving stray dog from a plastic bag. Her new friend fills her world with fleeting warmth and she shares what little food she has. But it’s not for a dog, even a starved one. His his tummy rumbles as he sleeps by her side. The dog is gone by morning, leaving a broken-hearted Lola to search all day for her new friend. She finally discovers the disloyal lurcher munching eagerly on a rival survivor's fresh meaty finds. Lola's sweet revenge is served warm, on a silver platter, to the grateful mutt. But what is the true price of this loyalty?

Climate / Environment Comedy Horror Romance Woman Director
Two girls underwater: one blows bubble rings while the other reaches out to pass through them Deep End

Director: Puzhen Zhang

Year: 2026

One summer in early 2000s China, a shy preteen girl confronts her fear of water — and human connection — when she forms an unexpected, magical bond in the deep end of the pool.

Asian Drama LGBTQIA+ Woman Director