Backed by BFI - Shorts

A young woman attracts the attention of a street criminal after she prevents his gang from pick-pocketing.

An impressionistic portrait of Halfax from 1969, focusing on the demolition of factories and the continuing deprivation in the town.

Johnny, a poetic loner, crosses paths with a young runaway woman and together they embark on an all-night, pulp fiction journey through London’s sleepy metropolis.

Ewan Bremner and Dexter Fletcher star as a pair of morbid fortune tellers in this modern tale of dark arts.

A hungry zombie finds love while terrorising teenage campers in this gruesome but fun twist on the zombie movie.

An elderly man takes a hypnotic journey through his memories in the moments before his death.

Dream-like short film starring Samantha Morton, in one of her earliest screen credits, as one half of a couple on the run who hide out in the Fens.

Set in and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends and the local ‘bad man’.

This lively profile of a night out at the Wood Green Jazz Club is one of the key works of Free Cinema, from directors Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson.

Ridley Scott's first film features his younger brother, the late Tony Scott, as a schoolboy playing truant for the day to meander around Hartlepool on his bicycle, lost in his own thoughts.

A Hungarian refugee attempts to navigate 1950s London with no English, little money and only an address on a postcard for guidance.

This drama-documentary about the everyday life of a Welsh caretaker and ex-miner was the first film produced by the BFI, in 1951.

Deliciously dark psychodrama about a Docklands bus driver who turns his family home into a second Noah's ark.

A kaleidoscopic experimentation in colour, in which familiar Brighton locations are distorted and interspersed with imagery from adverts and film clips.

Minty’s hobbies include drinking tea, smoking roll-ups and falling into a coma, while Anton dreams of clinically depressed sheep breaking into the house.

The Bow Gamelan Ensemble stage spectacular avant-garde musical shows.

A twisted short film from Stephen Fingleton, director of The Survivalist. A man obsessed with ‘voyeur pornography’ meets his match in the form of a photographer known only by his online username ANORAK.

For whom does the bell toll? A man discovers a dreadful secret among his late father's belongings.

Ever dreamt of taking revenge on an unfaithful partner? The young woman in this film walks out on her boyfriend in style.

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

Sparse chapters from a mysterious, lonely life are witnessed from a passing train.

Dougray Scott made his film debut in this BFI-funded shaggy dog (and rabbit) story.

Taking the lid off the creative process - of a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

The powerful, multifaceted spirt and energies of the revolutionary 1960s are channelled in dynamic, monochrome microcosm.

Mundane images are flipped, looped, reversed and interpolated to the sound of Monteverdi and other sonic textures.

Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an enjoyable mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob Godfrey.

Divorce 1980s-style is examined by this BFI film in which, tellingly, only the deserted wife is denied a voice.

Peter Greenaway takes us on a mesmerising journey across mysterious fictional terrains.

Coin-operated carnage on a Suffolk beach, in this dreamlike short backed by the BFI.

Gusts of wind on Hampstead Heath give shape to an exploratory film that seeks to present landscape in a different way.

Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Lander’s colourful satire on capitalism.

A young woman embarks on a filmmaking project when some mysterious men give her a camera and tell her to capture her everyday reality.

Women question the 'natural' established order in Lis Rhodes' experimental film.

Like plants, people can either thrive or wither when removed from their native soil, as this short film explores.