A selection of shorts reflecting the diverse array of emerging talents supported by the British Film Institute. Kill the Day is a stark portrait of a junkie wrestling with addiction and haunting memory, distinguished by the raw, elliptical realism and psychologically charged sensibility of Lynne Ramsay, director of the upcoming Ratcatcher. In the playfully Borgesian Dead London, two investigators hung up on chaos theory trace the hidden patterns underlying a series of accidental deaths. Under the Skin director Carine Adler's Fever is an earlier study of compulsive sexuality and the exorcising of mother-daughter tensions, featuring Katrin Cartlidge. The impressionistic, poetically heightened Spindrift depicts a day in the life of two homeless London youths, a rent boy and a skateboarder. Influential critic Geoff Andrew describes Flames of Passion, from Richard Kwietniowski, the director of Love and Death on Long Island, as "a beguiling and imaginative gay fantasy which reworks Brief Encounter to engagingly mysterious and droll effect." Floating is a bizarre, increasingly apocalyptic comic portrait of a dysfunctional family living in a housing project, whose deranged patriarch enacts a Noah's Ark delusion.-Gavin Smith