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Content Warnings: Mental illness

PG

End of Times

European Premiere

End of Times

The members of a film workshop at a psychosocial rehabilitation center for people with schizophrenia come together to create a movie about the end of the world....
European Premiere
Ismael Morales, Mao Osorio
2026
19 mins
12A

Out There

World Premiere

Out There

Still grieving the disappearance of her scientist father, amateur teenaged astronomer Maz (Stocks) is convinced she has spotted something suspicious hovering above her sleepy Welsh hometown. Recruiting the support of her best mate Little Elis (Moya), UFO-obsessed conspiracy theorist Bryn...
World Premiere
Simon Ryninks
2026
80 mins
12A

Amaretti

World Premiere

Amaretti

Acclaimed actor Stacy Martin directs this thematically rich, thorny and moving short about an elderly woman who forms a surprising connection with a psychiatrist after the discovery that her adult son may have deceived her for years about a medical...
World Premiere
Stacy Martin
2026
14 mins
12A

IDYLL

UK Premiere

IDYLL

An unhappy young woman becomes obsessed with a VR platform which allows her to vicariously experience a life of wealth and decadence in this stylish and unnerving vision of our shared digital future....
UK Premiere
Austin Cauldwell
2025
18 mins
15+

Meeting Your Maker

European Premiere

Meeting Your Maker

A depressed puppet questions everything in this hilarious and very adult short about fame, failure and what makes life worth living. Superbly crafted and full of pathos, this is a beautiful and hilarious short. The perfect midnight movie. -Paul Ridd...
European Premiere
Gregory JM Kasunich
2026
18 mins
15+

Skerry & May

World Premiere

Skerry & May

On a remote island, a woman reunites with the man she once loved and lost, leading to a final conversation that challenges them both to confront the nature of memory and identity, and of loving and letting go....
World Premiere
Edinburgh Napier University’s Screen Academy Scotland
2025
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+

A Woman of Good Abilities

World Premiere

A Woman of Good Abilities

RACHEL works the nightshift, out of sync with daily life. When she is suspected of stealing from a delivery driver, it creates a fracture in the fragile social support structure she has created. Filled with dread, Rachel risks exposing the...
World Premiere
Mark Chapman
2026
16 mins
18+

Trainspotting

No Premiere

Trainspotting

Choose life. Choose to celebrate the most iconic Scottish film of all time back on the big screen and lovingly restored for its 30th anniversary. The film has quite simply never looked or sounded better....
No Premiere
Danny Boyle
1996
94 mins
15+

BRUVVAS

World Premiere

BRUVVAS

SHE’s in a hole. Being with HE again is the only thing that can pull her out. As she re-enters the playground of their last morning together, she must accept that some endings can’t be changed, baked beans or not....
World Premiere
Katie McGuinness
2026
15 mins

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