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21st Century Woman
East Anglian
Influenced by the 1960’s documentary ‘Women of the World’, Dick S.R. Summen revisits the world of women today to share his insights with those less informed.
Kubrick By Candlelight
In 1973 Stanley Kubrick came to Ireland and brought the whole goddamn British Army. A light hearted romantic comedy set behind the scenes of the filming of Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. Narrated by Brian Cox.
A Doll Distorted
Jane suffers from haphephobia (the pathological fear of touch), tormented by years of loneliness and isolation she orders a synthetic love doll online to nightmarish consequences.
A Journey to From Love
Ashiq’s surreal adventure into his inner being from the loss of his love and his journey to acceptance.
A Little Beetle
Animation1 Minute Movie
A Little Beetle deliberately puts all its efforts to escape from the endless space…
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, whilst obsessively re-drafting the perfect suicide note.
All The World’s A Stage
All The World’s A Stage is about an actor who loses his sense of identity and feels he can no longer perform
Being Keegan
Growing up in Liverpool Football Club’s 1970’s heyday, 10-year-old Jay and his best friend Sean spend their days playing football in the backstreets of marginalised Liverpool, gripped by the rise of celebrity footballer Kevin Keegan. When tragedy strikes, it changes their lives forever.
Bleach
Student
Set in a downbeat UK coastal town, Jay sets out in search of Shane, his estranged father and boxing gym owner, but not is all it seems for both Jay and Shane alike.
Blood Shed
Jack loves a bargain. And he loves sheds. When he buys suspiciously cheap second-hand parts to build his very own dream shed, he and long-suffering wife Helen get more than they bargained for: a killer shed with an appetite for blood.
Born Again
When five bumbling Satanists have their summoning ceremony go horribly right, they’re left to deal with the decidedly holy shit consequences.
Brink
East Anglian
In the aftermath of a violent break in, a young woman held captive desperately fights for her freedom, her captors motives unknown.
Burn Bridge
Student
Closeted teenager Harry has fallen for Jamie, his closest friend in his friendship group. When Lucy arrives on the scene, Harry must contend for Jamie’s attention, bringing his true feelings closer to light.
Cabin Pressure
Animation
A safety and regulations obsessive is forced to revaluate things when a routine flight runs into difficulties.
Calamity
France meets her son’s girlfriend for the first time. She loses control…
Catch of the Day
This is a story of timeless love, with an extraordinary twist at the end.
Cloaked Rider
Animation
A mysterious cloaked rider gallops across the west in pursuit of a bounty in the town ‘El Eduardo’.
Cousins of clouds
Animation1 Minute Movie
In Asia, in every rural village, elephants are considered to be the cousins of clouds…
Cubeman
An elderly man is unable to accept that he is made to retire and his life takes a dramatic turn, when he realises that he cannot finish the work of his life.
Dad
Documentary
A mid life crisis captured on film as a filmmaker struggles to come to terms with becoming a father for the first time..
Debbie Boon – Fine Artist
East Anglian
Debbie Boon is a contemporary artist whose work is characterized by an energy and vivacity which reflects the joie de vivre she feels when faced with a subject that captures her imagination.
Earthy Encounters
15-year-old Kyle believes he can save his dying older brother with a plant he’s found in the garden centre he works at – problem is, there’s a shadowy government agency out to destroy it first.
Edek
Documentary
An 85 year old Holocaust survivor named Janine and a young American rapper named Kapoo collaborate to deliver a Hip Hop message to the youth of the world. A poignant and uniquely challenging fusion of prose, music and rap. For the first time, one of the world’s darkest stories is told in an entirely new way.
F*ck
A young couple try to navigate their sex life after the birth of their baby.
Fell
FELL tells the tale of a quirky couple’s star gazing date that takes a sudden and dramatic turn when something unexpected falls to earth.
Five Star Fouad
What if you robbed a bank and booked an uber as the getaway car?
Futures
A tense moral thriller about fast money and predatory behaviour.
Gereza
Documentary
Two recyclers work tirelessly collecting and selling recyclables to provide for themselves and their families. Navigating Johannesburg’s streets, they struggle against weather, traffic, and desperate living conditions showing tremendous determination.
Goodnight, Gracie
After mom gets hacked to pieces by her latest lover, a devout child fights to escape the same fate.
Growing Alice
Student
A girl’s changing relationship with her mother is observed from the point of view of her bedroom mirror.
Hope Dies Last
Based on the story of Józef Paczyński, a Polish political prisoner at Auschwitz who became the personal barber to camp commander Rudolf Höss.
House Finch
Student
A day in the life of a mother and her son, coping, living with and embracing disability.
In Wonderland
It begins and ends in the same moment – on a beach where Alice has come to say goodbye to Michael. It’s both the story of that one moment and the tale of their whole relationship, seen through the shifting sands of Alice’s memory.
Invaders
Animation
On Christmas Eve, KOTTO, a small adolescent UFO pursues his two mischievous friends GILER and SHUSETT down to earth in the attempt to gain their acceptance as an equal.
Jas
JAS is the story of a British-Iranian teen, trapped in a dilapidated English seaside town, caught somewhere between a desire to escape and a desire to connect.
Knock at the Door
On an autumn afternoon, an elderly Mrs Harris gets ready for a relaxing evening at home when she is interrupted by a stranger at her doorstep. Convinced by the stranger’s charm, Mrs Harris let’s him in to her home.
Late Afternoon
Animation
Emily finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She drifts back through her memories to relive different moments from her life. Emily must look to her past so that she may fully connect with the present.
Leash
For a girl-gang in the valleys of South Wales, the line between patriotism and nationalism becomes blurred. But treating humans like animals has consequences…
Lifespan
Documentary
Lifespan explores the concept of the future of ageing, increasing life expectancy and life extension.
Little Shit
Paul has an attitude. He’s the kid you cross the road to avoid. But there’s more to Paul than meets the eye or the ear.
London Tomorrow
10-year-old YUSUF has fled war in Syria and made it to the promised land of Europe, where he fends for himself in the refugee camps of Calais.
Lotte that Silhouette Girl
DocumentaryAnimation
Before Walt Disney, there was a trailblazing woman at the vanguard of animation. Influenced by folktales and legends, Lotte Reiniger was a tour de force of creativity and innovation. Now is your chance to find out more about this amazing woman.
Love Hotel
Student
A husband and wife in a dwindling marriage spend the night together in a LOVE HOTEL.
Metroland
When Ben’s mum passes away he finds out it’s not too late for them to take one last trip. The only problem is, Ben’s older sister Sam isn’t in on the plan.
Night Call
Student
When on a routine patrol, a Black female cop living in and patrolling Inglewood gets called to a disturbance she is forced to make an unprecedented life altering decision.
Not the End of the World
Animation
An ambiguous love letter introduces Joe Connoly to a life full of possibilities, and complications.
One Breath: A Life Without Gravity
Documentary
An immersive insight into the life of Free Divers Eusebio and Christina Saenz De Santamaria as they attempt to set a new world record.
Passion Gap
Elani survived her brutal childhood by carefully watching people. Now she plans to use her relationship with Mikey to get out of Cape Town for good. All she has to do is manage his ego for one more night, but the seeds of violence were planted in her early on.
People You May Know
Eleven years after their break up, a woman tracks down her first love through Facebook. But what begins as a friendly meeting turns into something much more sinister.
Pommel
Pommel is a coming-of-age drama about the tumultuous relationship between two young east Asian brothers as they compete for recognition and approval in an up coming gymnastics competition
Robert Mims – The Texan bull rider
Documentary
This film is a portrait of Robert Mims, who after forty three years riding bulls is approaching retirement. Robert, one of the few competing black Texan riders, has become legendary in this tight knit community.
Rocco
Carlos’ crisis seems to get worse when he gets home and finds out that his dog, Rocco, bit the neighbors’ son
Salt & Sauce
Student
Stuck in a post high-school limbo, Tammy works long days in the family chip shop
Schoolyard Blues
Student
It’s John’s first day at school. Unexpectedly his eleven-year-old big brother Mika shows up to follow him to assembly. But Mika has plans other than just taking John to school.
Scotch Broth
Stovies, pints and hallucinogenic oil. A psychedelic multimedia short set in a lovely wee pub in Aberdeen.
Snow
11-year-old Sam leaves an injured girl in barren farmland and returns home to care for his grieving family. After a snowstorm he sets back out to find her before it’s too late.
Sonder
Animation
For years, Finn and Natalie walked the same path. But when their time together comes to an end, Finn finds himself lost in a mysterious forest. Paralyzed by the fear of moving on, Finn is at risk of losing himself. Through self-discovery, Finn must gather the strength to forge a new path.
Spinosaurus
A young girl cares for her younger brother at home, while she awaits her mother’s return.
Spiral
East Anglian
A father and his daughter are trapped in the middle of a violent gang dispute in a Spiral car park, 600ft underground.
Stasis
1 Minute Movie
A mourning adolescent weighs his sister’s toy ambulance, as he reflects on their last moments spent together.
Stine
Set in the near future, an end-of-life-care robot called STINE tends to his patient Lizzie in the last few days of her life.
Sump
When Sally’s husband is trapped in an underground cave during a diving accident she finds herself trapped in the company of a talkative constable and an unwelcome guest.
Survive This
A middle-aged man battling a strange and devastating disease must convince his partner to help him end his own life.
Sylvia
East Anglian
A loving family set off in their car on what seems like a carefree family outing, only to reveal much more around the story of Sylvia.
The Firefox Guardian
Documentary
The Firefox Guardian takes you on a mesmerizing journey through dense bamboo jungles in Nepal while exploring a special bond between the unique ‘Firefoxes’ and Menuka, a simple village girl.
The Gurney
Student
Tells the story of the relationship between death row warden, Albert Gilmore, and Aleisha Edwards, a young black woman on death row, convicted for the fatal shooting of an officer who killed her husband.
The Life of Esteban
Student
Esteban, a future Olympic swimmer, has grown up with a single mother and doesn’t know who his father is. As he searches for his identity in this poetic short film, he determines swimming is a metaphor for life itself.
The Messenger
Student
An awkward schoolboy enlists the help of Frank to help him break up with his girlfriend.
The Mind of an Artist
Animation1 Minute Movie
A short animation express Don McCullin’s nightmare of the war and want to escape from the terrible memories.
The Other Side With Valerie Hope
Washed-up celebrity psychic Valerie is kidnapped by Kim. As they spend the evening in an abandoned B&B, it becomes clear that both women have something to hide.
The Overcoat
A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death. Starring the fabulous Jason Watkins.
The Rabbi
Student
Michael is a charismatic and much-admired Rabbi at a Jerusalem Yeshiva. When his favourite student, Gadi, shares with him his innermost secrets, the Rabbi’s familiar, secure world is shaken to the core.
The Right Choice
With the help of The Adviser, a husband and wife must answer three seemingly harmless questions to create their perfect designer baby.
The Sermon
A young woman’s secret rocks an isolated church community in this disturbing folk horror tale.
The Silent Child
The Silent Child film centres around a profoundly deaf four year old girl named Libby who is born into a middle class family and lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her the gift of communication.
The United States
Documentary
THE UNITED STATES is a mediation on the rise of an authoritarian regime, seen through the eyes of 93-year-old Auschwitz survivor Renee Firestone and her daughter Klara. The film tells a piece of a largely unknown story of Nazi sympathizers in a time and place we never expected.
The Vest
A story of regret. An anonymous man in rush hour of a city. Unbeknownst to anyone he is wearing a suicide vest.
Their War
East Anglian
Two soldiers on opposite sides of World War One must do all they can to survive and get back to the families they left behind.
This is Bate Bola
Documentary
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro during its world famous Carnival, far from the beach and the touristic clichés, there is a contest between neighbourhoods. This old form of carnival features teams of futuristic gladiators that are a surreal mixture of play and menace.
To Wendy Who Kicked Me When I Said I Love you
A strange romance about two lost souls; Wendy (one good eye) & Sidd (short for Siddartha) try to connect in a mid-range airport hotel.
Tom
Sophie and Henry are trying to locate their grown up son Tom, having lost contact with him for the umpteenth time during his struggles with drug addiction.
Tormented
1 Minute Movie
A one minute short film about a woman reliving memories while dealing with a recent trauma.
True North
Animation
On the long journey home, a fisherman comes upon the wreckage of a ship and rescues a small boy that he finds asleep in a barrel. As a mysterious storm descends he senses the arrival of a sinister presence.
Two Balloons
Animation
Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
Unspoken
Documentary
“Unspoken” is about spoken word poet Farah Chamma who, at the age of 17, became an online sensation after her poems went viral. The film shows her conflict as she struggles with self-censorship and keeping her poetry authentic and real.
Via
Animation
Via tells of the journey of life through epic, beautiful environments and meaningful character animation.
Wale
An 18 year old youth offender is trying to start his own business as a mobile mechanic. But enterprise isn’t so easy when you’re a young, black male with a criminal past.
Wash Club
The true story of how an aspiring journalist accidentally became the ringleader of a death cult.
When The Sea Gulls
East Anglian
Two friends have arranged to meet. Luke, the older man, waits with an urn in his hands. James, the younger of the two, arrives injured, hobbling upon crutches. The plan is simple: spread the ashes of a mutual acquaintance
You Should Know Better
Student
A comedy-drama about modern romance, pseudo-feminist men and an unplanned pregnancy.