Content Warnings: Animal cruelty or death

18+

Competition Shorts

World Premiere

Competition Shorts

A selection of the finest new short films from across the world, ranging from biting realism to surreal satire. Board games, Thanksgiving dinners and a dictator’s dog all play a part in this year’s short film competition, which explores the...

World Premiere
Various
2025
2hr 25 mins
18+

Crushed

World Premiere

Crushed

Further cementing his place as one of the UK’s boldest and most distinctive independent filmmakers, Simon Rumley’s latest is an unflinching meditation on faith, grief, and vengeance. When their daughter disappears in suburban Bangkok, a pastor and his wife are...

World Premiere
Simon Rumley
2025
1hr 45 mins
15+

Deaf (Sorda)

UK Premiere

Deaf (Sorda)

An intimate and emotional drama about the challenges of starting a family. Miriam Garlo stars as Ángela, a deaf pottery artist, who has to find her own way through the difficulties of pregnancy and raising a daughter in a world...

UK Premiere
Eva Libertad
2025
2hr 0 mins
18+

Dragonfly

UK Premiere

Dragonfly

Building on an impressive body of work exploring the darker side of British life, filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton, Bull) returns with this complex and thoroughly engaging thriller in which two troubled women form an uneasy relationship against...

UK Premiere
Paul Andrew Williams
2025
1hr 40 mins
18+

Out of Competition Shorts

UK Premiere

Out of Competition Shorts

A powerhouse shorts programme showcasing some of the most extraordinary storytelling from across the globe, from Scotland and America to Sweden and Brazil. Reckonings with the past connect this year’s selection of astonishing short films, including meditative documentaries and heartbreaking...

UK Premiere
Various
2024, 2025
2hr 15 mins

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Growing Down (Minden Rendben)

A gripping and taut drama exploring moral conflict and family loyalty from Hungarian writer-director Bálint Dániel Sós, shot in striking black and white. When...

Bálint Dániel Sós
2025
1hr 25 mins

Thunderball (1965)

Screening as part of Sacred Bonds. Join us every morning of the Festival as we celebrate the remarkable original six James Bond films starring...

Terence Young
1965
2hr 10 mins

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Ken Loach’s 2006 Palme D’Or winning film is a heartfelt and stirring epic exploring the rift that emerges between two brothers who find themselves...

Ken Loach
2006
2hr 13 mins