Experimental Shorts

15+
124 mins

Content Warning

Blood, Death and dying, Suicide, Use of flashing lights/strobe lighting, Violence, No content warnings required

Run Time

124 minutes

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Overview

From haunted objects to living landscapes, these films trace porous boundaries between bodies, matter, memory and space. Traversing archives, protests, ruins and dreams, they invite us into ways of sensing the unstable world we inhabit. – Massimo Iannetti

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
U

How to Listen to Fountains

UK Premiere

How to Listen to Fountains

This film is about public space. This film is about the destruction of culture. This film is about fountains that have had enough. What would happen if fountains could speak?...
UK Premiere
Eva Sajanová
2025
10 mins
U

I am a River

UK Premiere

I am a River

Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions—a collection of lyrical, unanswerable poems that playfully interrogate nature, life, and the cosmos—the film weaves poetic inquiry with visual abstraction through the rarely used mordançage technique. Its veil-like formations evoke the fluid, fragile,...
UK Premiere
Heidi Piiroinen
2026
6 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
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
U

Singing of the Evening Stars

UK Premiere

Singing of the Evening Stars

One night in downtown Los Angeles, a man hears the call of a cuckoo from his childhood. Seeking the source of the elusive sound, he slips into a dream where the songs of vanished birds uncover what has long been...
UK Premiere
Iris Sang
2026
22 mins
PG

Unidentifizierte Unflugobjekte (UUO)

UK Premiere

Unidentifizierte Unflugobjekte (UUO)

However permanent and stable any order may seem, it may eventually crumble when reality outside of the system creeps in, growing like organic matter through the boundaries that the order has imposed....
UK Premiere
Sasha Svirsky
2026
12 mins

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Kontrewers

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Zuza Banasinska
2026
21 mins

Unidentifizierte Unflugobjekte (UUO)

However permanent and stable any order may seem, it may eventually crumble when reality outside of the system creeps in, growing like organic matter...
Sasha Svirsky
2026
12 mins

As I Lay Dying

We were many. When it was all over, we went our separate ways....
Mohammadreza Farzad, Pegah Ahangarani
2025
15 mins

I am a River

Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions—a collection of lyrical, unanswerable poems that playfully interrogate nature, life, and the cosmos—the film weaves poetic inquiry...
Heidi Piiroinen
2026
6 mins

How to Listen to Fountains

This film is about public space. This film is about the destruction of culture. This film is about fountains that have had enough. What...
Eva Sajanová
2025
10 mins

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...
Chiara Caterina
2026
18 mins

Singing of the Evening Stars

One night in downtown Los Angeles, a man hears the call of a cuckoo from his childhood. Seeking the source of the elusive sound,...
Iris Sang
2026
22 mins

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