Content Warnings: Violence

18+

Hope

UK Premiere

Hope

A rural Korean village is under attack from a mysterious creature laying waste to buildings, vehicles and anyone unfortunate to cross its path. Now it is down to a band of hunters, hapless police and terrified locals to identify the...

UK Premiere

Na Hong-jin

2026

165 mins

15+

No One Believes In Me

World Premiere

No One Believes In Me

A disillusioned Bigfoot impersonator has an increasingly bad day in Anabelle Lemieux’s (Fowl Play, EIFF 2025) darkly comedic, visually striking and highly original short about loneliness, frustration and disenfranchisement. -Emma Boa...

World Premiere

Anabelle LeMieux

2025

11 mins

15+

Homing

UK Premiere

Homing

One morning a family living on the south coast of England is shocked to find a man in their back garden, a refugee who has washed up on the shoreline. A very contemporary and propulsive story of the refugee crisis...

UK Premiere

Hansel Rodrigues, Lizzie Atherton

2026

17 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

18+

Skinned

World Premiere

Skinned

When a young woman discovers a shocking betrayal by her lover she arranges an elaborate and bloody revenge in this compelling, stylish and provocative horror short about sex, trust and the skins we wear. - Paul Ridd...

World Premiere

Alexandra Ruggieri

2025

5 mins

15+

Hungry

World Premiere

Hungry

When a group of tourists ventures off the beaten track in the vast swamplands of the Louisiana Bayou, they find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic open locale by a very large, very active, very food-centred hippo. As the group fights...

World Premiere

James Nunn

2026

92 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

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

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

Vimar

World Premiere

Vimar

A brief, troubling and aesthetically surprising tale about a man and his violent, haunting dream about a swan. -Jake Cunningham...

World Premiere

Jenna Caravello

2026

2 mins

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