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A boy dreams up various forms of revenge against the man in the next apartment in this short comedy combining live-action and animation from filmmaker Chris Shepherd. Billy (Conor Morris) is a pre-teen boy with an overactive imagination and a deep-seated dislike of his next-door neighbor Dennis (Andrew Dunford). According to Billy, middle-aged Dennis is a "retard" and a "spastic," and both Billy and his mother (Kate McLoughlin) are driven to distraction by Dennis's constant habit of pounding on the walls. Billy is fascinated by Dennis's reactions to his occasional visitors and dreams of launching an attack on his flat, but reality intrudes when mother calls the police after Dennis's eccentricity goes too far. Silence is Golden won the TCM Prize at the 2006 London Film Festival.