BFI Future Film Festival 2022

Savoury snack addict Dave must resort to extreme measures in order to satisfy his salty cravings.

Forced into a period of reflection, anonymous voices detail how the UK's first lockdown confronted them with their inner demons and desires.

A happy-go-lucky postman happens to come across a person he never thought he would.

Where do stolen items go?

A budding young actress starts to doubt her abilities and becomes more than a little unhinged.

Developing relationships of family members during the first Covid lockdown.

Syd attends a doctor's appointment while coping with PTSD symptoms following a recent incident of sexual assault.

In this EDM musical, Frank does everything he can to avoid another horrible break up. He does not do a good job.

At 17, all Mia wants is to live life in the fast lane, but learning to drive with Gail is so much more than a driving lesson.

An exploration into the mental and emotional impact of racial micro-aggressions.

He's going away for a long time...

A young man tells us the story of his first kiss with another boy, while grappling with the loss of his father.

Hope And Her Two Daughters is an experimental short film that reflects on the revelations and racial atrocities of 2020.

A widowed single father begins to suspect that his emotionally volatile teenage son is planning an act of extremism.

Developing relationships of family members during the first Covid lockdown.

A young Colombian man receives a voice message from home while grappling with cultural differences at a London dinner party with his new English girlfriend.

An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past.

On a beach at twilight's dawn, a little girl meticulously builds up an ecosystem but soon, the tide is coming in.

A woman cursed with foresight tries to change the course of fate.

Under great pressure, humans undergo similar steps of metamorphism.

A Refugee comes in from the cold.

Suburb is a glimpse into what mischief these enigmatic creatures wreak on their man-made surroundings.

It’s hard to serve coffee when you see everything in pink and when butterflies are coming out your mouth.

In this EDM musical, Frank does everything he can to avoid another horrible break up. He does not do a good job.

Boy meets Girl but with no dialogue or contraception

In this storybook satire, a Butterfly seeks a flower as a wife, although, as pickiness gets the best of him he ends up paying the ultimate price.

A weather-tormented man who wants to dry his underwear is forced to use the local laundromat each evening.

A happy-go-lucky postman happens to come across a person he never thought he would.

Carry Me In tracks the filmmaker’s connection with insects from their childhood fascination to their development of late-stage Lyme Disease as a young adult.

A young child tells their mother, "I'm not a girl", for the first time

A young figure diverges from rigid gender binaries to explore where their identity lies.

The discovery of a grey hair triggers a woman's spiral into a panic. The sanctuary of her bathroom takes a turn for the sinister – and the hair becomes her tormentor.

Three young Black women discuss the public perception of their Blackness in its relation to their personal journeys in cultivating a strong sense of self.

When Lorenzo wants to play with the older kids his little brother Diego finds an unexpected new friend.

COCOABEAN is a poetic, visual-narrative short embracing the nature of what it means to be of Black, Asian & minority ethnic origin, whilst questioning the umbrella term: BAME.

An exploration into the mental and emotional impact of racial micro-aggressions.

Sometime, somewhere these photos were taken.

A supermarket employee's mundane routine life is interrupted by an annoying child.

An antiquarian bookseller in Tokyo is about to close after 35 years in business under the pandemic.

Two bozos dissecting the concept of currency and trade with the vocabulary of seagulls.

Savoury snack addict Dave must resort to extreme measures in order to satisfy his salty cravings.

A stick figure realises that "perfection" is more than what it seems.

At 17, all Mia wants is to live life in the fast lane, but learning to drive with Gail is so much more than a driving lesson.

A female Peking opera actress impulsively kills her husband during an argument.

This is the real reason why girls go for a wee together.

A budding young actress starts to doubt her abilities and becomes more than a little unhinged.

Two scientists are researching the discovered civilization of French fries.

An experimental short about our love-hate relationship with Instagram and our photo-editing mania.

Real life led to real tweets. Those tweets led to this film. This is #BeingBlack.

Forced into a period of reflection, anonymous voices detail how the UK's first lockdown confronted them with their inner demons and desires.

Life’s Meeting Room is a stop motion animated documentary exploring the question, ‘What is the meaning of life?' This film is based around interviews with people during lockdown.

Alone in a foreign country, a young woman meets virtually with friends and family who are in different parts of the world.

A desktop documentary about a filmmaker struggling to make a desktop documentary.

Dante receives a life-changing call from his mother.

A girl struggles to come home with a backpack that only gets heavier each step of the way.

Nestor lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.

Where do stolen items go?

An experimental short about a man trapped in his own mind who is forced to confront his most disturbing fantasies.

After a loved one's funeral, all Ryan wants to do is play pool, but his money-motivated friend has a few lifts to do first.

Syd attends a doctor's appointment while coping with PTSD symptoms following a recent incident of sexual assault.