Content Warnings: Death and dying

12A

Horizons

World Premiere

Horizons

Fiona visits her childhood home for her mum’s birthday where absent family members and her mum’s strange indifference force her to consider whether clinging to tradition is the best way forward. - Paul Ridd...

World Premiere

Rachel Maclean

2025

13 mins

15+

Saint Anthony

World Premiere

Saint Anthony

A troubled young man debates whether to enter church on the day of his devoutly catholic mother's funeral in this darkly comic portrait of grief, regret and redemption, complete with fourth wall breaks, introspection and even a miracle....

World Premiere

Declan Dineen

2026

12 mins

12A

My Little Blue Heart

World Premiere

My Little Blue Heart

In a nightmarish Britain of the near future, Mustafa and his deaf sister are pursued by vigilantes. Attacked in their rural hiding place, the pair become separated in this breathlessly paced and powerful thriller with much on its mind. -...

World Premiere

Iqbal Mohammed

2026

11 mins

15+

As I Lay Dying

UK Premiere

As I Lay Dying

We were many. When it was all over, we went our separate ways....

UK Premiere

Mohammadreza Farzad, Pegah Ahangarani

2025

15 mins

12A

Objet d’énigme

UK Premiere

Objet d’énigme

Keys, doors, masks, rooms—objects spinning endlessly, fragments of a dream or clues to an unsolvable mystery. Their repetition hints at a hidden logic, yet the clearer the images become, the deeper the mystery grows. Behind each door lies emptiness; forms...

UK Premiere

Chiara Caterina

2026

18 mins

12A

Kontrewers

UK Premiere

Kontrewers

Kontrewers follows an imagined encounter between the ghost of a possessed girl, bound to a folktale and trapped within a stone, and the filmmaker’s 102-year-old grandmother, confined to her living room and nearing death. Drawn to the pious older woman,...

UK Premiere

Zuza Banasinska

2026

21 mins

15+

The Flesh Dress

UK Premiere

The Flesh Dress

An absorbing, intricately designed and emotionally complex work following a grieving man who becomes obsessed with the mysterious, resurrective powers of a peculiar dress. -Jake Cunningham...

UK Premiere

Joachim Hérissé

2026

15 mins

18+

KIND

World Premiere

KIND

A 16-minute dark comedy critiquing virtue culture, in which a privileged man presents himself as a champion of the marginalised, until his moral posturing is put to the test. Passed over for promotion by a Black colleague, his veneer of...

World Premiere

Jenny Carson

2026

16 mins

15+

Charlie is Not a Boy

UK Premiere

Charlie is Not a Boy

Set within an allegorical America, in a crumbling household ruled by a perverted butcher of a father, a hushed soul clings to the magic of his eccentric grandmother, until his safe haven unravels, forcing him to choose between the masks...

UK Premiere

Pol Kurucz

2026

14 mins

18+

Abandoned

World Premiere

Abandoned

In an effort to recover their failing channel and friendship, two urban explorers delve deep into the forests of northern England following a tip-off from a new subscriber. After crashing their drone on top of an abandoned facility, they are...

World Premiere

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2026

81 mins

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