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BFI London Film Festival Shorts
Small but perfectly formed. The Short Film Award recognises short-form works with a unique cinematic voice and a confident handling of chosen theme and content.
Essex GirlsEssex Girls
Drama202315 mins
A teenage girl navigates friendship groups, social awkwardness and boys in this sharp coming of age drama.
Area BoyArea Boy
Drama202319 mins
Eli, a young teenager torn between two worlds, tries to balance fitting in with finding his true identity after he moves to a provincial town.
KhaburKhabur
Animation & Artists Moving Image202330 mins
Acknowledging archaeology’s colonial, extractive register, this work imagines artefacts’ experience as they are displaced from Syria to a Berlin museum.
The Archive: Queer NigeriansThe Archive: Queer Nigerians
Documentary202325 mins
This poetic film documents the experiences of queer Nigerians, expanding our contemporary understanding of how queerness is expressed.
The SingerThe Singer
Drama202320 mins
An unlikely creative partnership is formed between a young deaf man and an embittered busker on the streets of Edinburgh.
OnsetOnset
Animation & Artists Moving Image202325 mins
Demonic forces possess human and land bodies alike. Ukraine, Syria and Belarus are infected by Russian imperialism, resources extracted parasitically.
Wells of DespairWells of Despair
Animation & Artists Moving Image202320 mins
Through displaced belongings in ethnographic museums, sata taas collective consider the loss of indigenous culture and knowledge systems in Siberia.
The Goose’s ExcuseThe Goose’s Excuse
Animation & Artists Moving Image202325 mins
Murmurs of the otherworldly pass through an Egyptian village. Fields and dwellings stir with quiet enchantment as inhabitants seek illumination.
Boat PeopleBoat People
Animation & Artists Moving Image202310 mins
Fleeing the war in Vietnam, Thao and her mother find salvation in stories of ants and their resilient communities.
The WalkThe Walk
Drama202312 mins
Pilgrimage or purgatory? Every Wednesday Amar endures a 24-mile round trip on foot to the JobCentre and back to sign on
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Short films exploring what it means to be a young adult in the world today.
