Making Mountains

Sammi Duong

United Kingdom, 2023

An overthought monologue about overthinking.

 English 3 min

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Many Moons

Ross Sneddon

United Kingdom, 2023

John Peake, a scientist living on Europa, battles a sense of deep loneliness and the impending demise of humans efforts to make the Jupiter moon habitable.

 English 13 min 45 secs

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Marea

Giulia Martinelli

Switzerland, 2022

A special family living on a tiny island deals with the ups and downs of their everyday life and of the tide.

 None 4 min 30 secs

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Mast-del

Maryam Tafakory

United Kingdom, Iran, 2023

Two women lie together in bed. As the wind bashes against the window, one recalls a past date to the cinema. A love song that would never pass the censors, about forbidden desires, both inside and outside post-revolution Iranian cinema.

 Persian (Farsi) 17 min 0 secs

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Matta and Matto

Matta und Matto

Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp

Switzerland, 2023

In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind-bending rooms, deepest desires are fulfilled, but at what price?

 None 10 min 16 secs

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Memory of the Land

Samira Badran

Spain, 2017

Palestine. A body is trapped at a checkpoint; an essential mechanism of the Israeli occupation. The body is pierced by structural and physical violence. A reflection on the human condition under different forms of violence, on collective memory and identity as forms of resilience.

 Arabic English 12 min 50 secs

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Menarca

Lillah Halla

Brazil, 2020

In a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves against a seemingly inescapable violence. When a mysterious body appears tangled in a fisherman’s net, the two girls realise this might be their ultimate protection.

 Portuguese English 21 min 53 secs

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Milkgum

Marcelle Nuke

United Kingdom, 2023

Sel, an isolated escort and young mother, undergoes an unnerving transformation after learning thatan Oedipal creature, the Milkgum, has been ensnaring the men in her life.

 English 15 min 0 secs

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Miss Temperance

Jeremy McClain

United Kingdom, 2023

In Glasgow’s alt-queer party scene, a drag artist navigates the night of their return to the stage after being one year sober.

 English 12 min 37 secs

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Moon That Cracks Over The Darkness Of My Loneliness

Luna Que Se Quiebra Sobre La Tiniebla De Mi Soledad

Lucila Mariani

Argentina, 2022

A woman’s daily life is disturbed when a vampire hacks her computer. He starts to visit her and takes her for a stroll through the dark night of Buenos Aires.

 Spanish English 12 min

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Mothers & Monsters

Edith Jorisch

Canada, 2023

A host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect children for a special banquet. The gathering is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this perfect ideal world? 

 None 15 min 45 secs

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Mouth

Guy Woods

United Kingdom, 2023

A boy dies and is permitted do one last thing before he moves on. He tries to cry.

 English 11 min 10 secs

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My Conversation With Elle

Nicholas Afchain

United Kingdom, 2023

Kay, a disenchanted zilennial, seeks the meaning of a recurring dream through its retelling to best friend Elle.

 British Sign Language, English 6 min 12 secs

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Neo Nahda

May Ziade

United Kingdom, 2023

Mona, a young woman in London, finds archive photographs of Arab women cross-dressing in the 1920s. Somewhere between her fantasies and reality, she starts a feverish journey of uncovering lost histories and her own identity.

 English 12 min 0 secs

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Next in Line

Seyma Dag

United Kingdom, 2023

A refugee doctor faces a difficult decision at her job centre meeting: either she works as a cleaner or gets sanctioned.

 English, Shona 8 min 44 secs

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Not A Robot

George Summers

United Kingdom, 2022

A robot attempts a robbery.

 None EN DS 1 min

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Nothing But Shadows

Sombras Nada Más

Kathy Mitrani

Colombia, United States, 2023

On the anniversary of Marisol’s husband’s death, her neighbour’s construction work uncovers human remains. The coincidence of this discovery terrorises Marisol, a superstitious visionary, forcing her to face her own mortality.

 Spanish 18 min 15 secs

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O’ Glory!

Joe Williams, Charlie Edwards-Moss

United Kingdom, 2022

In the late 1970s, a psychiatric doctor and his assistant are called to an isolated country house to examine Deborah, whose brother believes she is losing her mind.

 English 15 min

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Pacific Club

Valentin Noujaïm

France, Qatar, 2023

In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense – the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. 

 French 16 min 35 secs

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Papergee and the Spider

Douglas Irvine

United Kingdom, 2019

A heartwarming tale of a little paper girl who comes to life from a newspaper and goes on an adventure with a friendly spider.

  13 min 57 secs

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Patient

Lori Felker

United States, 2023

Fiction, reality, the private and the performed overlap on a routine but emotional day at a medical centre.

 English 19 min 43 secs

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Pigeon Holding

Liv Dugdale, Josh Curtis

United Kingdom, 2023

Hand drawn animation and photographic collage are combined to explore the relationship between people and birds, grounded in the community of pigeon keepers in Glasgow.

 English 1 min 41 secs

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Pink Moon

Meray Diner

United Kingdom, 2023

Meray left north Cyprus due to domestic and political barriers created by the conflict. She returns home from Scotland to heal her difficult relationship with her Turkish Cypriot father Mustafa.

 Turkish English 14 min 23 secs

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Pobl Bachyn

Kiri Pritchard-McLean

United Kingdom, 2023

Love-lorn Adam visits his friends Ed and Kath during Pobl Bachyn, a long-standing tradition in the town of Twll. If a guest is found in the house when midnight strikes, the folkloric hookmen will arrive and all hell will break loose. But it’s just a fun tradition, isn’t it?

 English, Welsh 11 min 15 secs

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Poultry in Motion

Alistair Kerr

United Kingdom, 2019

Two hens are wooed by a new resident to the chicken coup.

 English 3 min 19 secs

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Power Signal

Oscar Boyson

United States, 2023

While trying to navigate a city that won’t provide him with a bathroom, a delivery worker discovers an unearthly presence infecting women all over New York.

 English 20 min 16 secs

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Ruaridh

Will Clark

United Kingdom, 2023

A portrait of Ruaridh Lever-Hogg, a Deaf artist from the Scottish Highlands.

 British Sign Language 9 min 28 secs

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Runelight

Matt O’Donnell

United Kingdom, 2022

A vulnerable forest creature coping with loss reluctantly leaves the dark cave of depression to follow the glowing lights leading her onwards. 

 English 4 min 50 secs

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