Shorts

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.

We Do What We Can is a film that looks at one of the miracles in the journey of diaspora Africans.

A comedy-drama animation about two best friends growing up in the same world but experiencing it completely differently.

Best friends Emeka and Joseph find ten thousand pounds inside a bag in a local playground.

Iggy London's short film designed to decode the intimacy between men of colour.

A young recluse suffering from PTSD encounters a late-night commercial that promises him an unexpected and somewhat magical cure.

Compelling story of a complex relationship between an ​imperious​ ​father and his son.

Three African American fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community.

A conceptual film following musical artist Jords’ quest to serendipity. The Tree of Life’ is the cornerstone of the film as he battles to triumph through grief.

Samona Olanipekun explores the concepts of home, identity and belonging, from the starting point of the theme of globalisation.

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life.

After her world is shattered before her eyes, sixteen year old Maeve finds herself unable to escape the violence of her life.

When a world-weary wife decides to disappear on a spiritual retreat in India, her whole relationship with her husband is called into question, with comic and tragic results.

A city banker turned social worker has to starkly face his own anger, frustration and feelings of violence when he’s provoked by an aggressive and manipulative teenager.

After Martin Stevens is killed in a car accident he finds himself in a waiting room, pending judgement.

A carefree retiree clashes with his authoritarian, health-and-safety obsessed carer in this charming short comedy.

After a traumatic burglary, a mother and grown-up daughter find reconciliation and understanding through shared memories of the now departed ‘man of the house’.

Eddie and Johnny have to face up to their actions after an unfortunate run-in with intimidating neighbour Mr Smalls.

A short documentary exploring the challenges of being young and chronically ill in a carefully curated online culture. When you’re too ill for IRL, where do you turn?

A drama set in the near future where virtual reality allows a person to see life through the eyes of someone very different, which questions whether experiences become shared or commodified.

Short film about the evolution of identity and online exploration of sexuality in the early 00s, constructed from the director’s own teenage video diaries.

In this drama about a cutting-edge gig-work app, Lena embarks on her new job as a “Roger”. Unnerved by her new role, she strives to build a relationship with her employer through unexpected means.

A short docudrama exploring the history of sex in the homosexual community from the 1970s to the present day, and how the internet has changed the way gay men meet forever.

In search of an identity, Candy wanders through the digital landscape, leaving fragments of herself behind in this experimental short drama.

A young woman descends into a digital wormhole via her obsession with a BDSM account run by an unknown user.

A documentary on one of Scotland’s most isolated and breathtaking islands, where all 35 residents prepare for the remarkable roll-out of fibre-optic broadband.

A Chinese-American restaurant worker falls in love with an 18th century Qing dynasty god, who visits him at night and leads him on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery.

China in the early 1990s. By day, Chen Shi is a man employed in a textile workshop. At night, she is a woman in a red dress. One evening, she falls in love with a man she meets at a dance hall.

Beautifully crafted animation reflecting on love as it takes on different shapes and identities.

Ya-Ting wants to change her name because she considers it too feminine. She seeks help from her best friend Jia-Hao, but interrupts his one-night stand with a guy he met online.