Index of all films
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Sebastia Disagreement
سبسطية تعترض
yiru qian
United Kingdom, 2023
In 1974 Gush Emunim, an Israeli settler organisation, occupied Masudiya station, leading to the Sebastia agreement. A reexamination of the historical events surrounding the occupation through the lens of national archives and community oral history.
Arabic, English 14 min 49 secs
Short Circuit clipreel
1 min 9 secs
Shrooms
Jorge Jácome
Portugal, 2023
Dan, a young Venezuelan man currently living in Lisbon, collects magic mushrooms in the forest and distributes them in the city using pigeons as carriers.
Portuguese 18 min 0 secs
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Sinalela
Dan Taulapapa McMullin
Samoa, 2001
“My name is Sinalela and this is my movie.” A fa‘afafine retelling of Cinderella.
English 3 min 25 secs
Skinned
Joachim Hérissé
France, 2022
In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, Siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister’s flesh covering her own body…
French English 14 min 58 secs
SLIDE: Short Circuit Roundtable 1
Small World
Bill Douglas
United Kingdom, 1968
A rare “talkie” displaying Bill’s gift for dialogue, Small World is a comedy of manners about two married couples who meet by chance at an outdoor café and think they have met before.
English 6 min 27 secs
Stand-by Office
Randa Maroufi
France, The Netherlands, Lebanon, 2017
A group of people are presented within an office environment. Everyday work gestures are observed throughout the building. As the camera leads us through the rooms our perception of this space gradually changes. What does this office mean to this group of people?
English 13 min 20 secs
Steakhouse
Spela Cadez
Slovenia, 2021
The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc’s stomach is rumbling. But Liza’s co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?
Slovenian 9 min 30 secs
Stigma
Lawrence Gordon Clark
United Kingdom, 1977
A young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
English 31 min 52 secs
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Still Life
Bill Douglas
United Kingdom, 1968
An elderly woman is admitted to an asylum and all her possessions are removed by the council. The idea came from Peter Jewell, who was working as a social worker at the time, but is reminiscent of Bill’s own family history.
None 11 min 38 secs
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Stones
Joseph Brett
United Kingdom, 2021
A brother and sister’s reunion picnic at a stone circle in the English countryside is disrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest.
English 7 min 32 secs
Suddenly TV
Roopa Gogineni
Sudan, Qatar, 2022
At a besieged protest in Khartoum, a group of young Sudanese create an imaginary television station to meet fellow revolutionaries. What begins as play becomes an urgent conjuring of a new Sudan.
Arabic 18 min 40 secs
Sunflower
Tournesol
Natalia Chernysheva
France, Russia, 2023
A sunflower like no other chooses to take a new look at his environment. He will discover a totally different universe…
None 4 min 20 secs
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Sweet Like Lemons
Jenny Jokela
United Kingdom, Finland, 2023
A reflection on moving on from a harmful relationship. “When life gives you lemons make lemonade” – in this case there is no lemonade to be made, but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.
None 5 min 30 secs
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Terra Mater
Kantarama Gahigiri
Rwanda, 2023
For our land and bones. At the end of the world. Technology and waste, in our lands, our systems, our bones. Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, where is the space for healing?
English, Swahili 10 min 7 secs
The Bitch
La Perra
Carla Melo Gampert
France, Colombia, 2023
In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog, to go and explore her sexuality.
None 14 min 5 secs
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The Body Dissolver
Dominik Ritszel
Poland, 2023
Professional boxers recall the moment they were knocked out, revealing recurring fantasies about the abandonment of the body and visions of ecstasy, exploited in various spiritual discourses and pop-culture alike.
English 11 min 0 secs
The despair of monkeys
La desesperación de los monos
Julian Garcia Long
France, 2022
In Patagonia, the thousand-year-old Araucaria trees have almost been replaced by pine forests. Near my new home in Brussels, Araucarias adorn front yards. How have they become a petty bourgeois fad here?
Spanish, French 16 min 46 secs
The Film Might Be White
Filmen Känns För Vit
Sebastian Johansson Micci
Sweden, 2023
An art school has commissioned a promotional film. The final feedback meeting stalls when someone suddenly wonders whether the film is too white.
Swedish 13 min 37 secs
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The Great Safae
Randa Maroufi
Morocco, France, 2014
The Great Safae was a transexual who spent part of their life working as a domestic servant for the artist’s family, and disappeared in the 1980s.
Arabic, French English 15 min 56 secs
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The House of Culture
Dom Kultúry
Becky Miková, Becky Miková
Slovakia, United Kingdom, 2023
The House of Culture was once the centre of community in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. After years of neglect, it is now in decay and ruin. The filmmaker traces the building’s history through her family’s memories.
Slovak, English 14 min 9 secs
The Last Paradise
Les Derniers paradis
Sido Lansari
Morocco, France, 2019
This is the almost-true story of Sami. In Casablanca, he dreams about dancing and Egyptian divas in the hairdressing salon where he works. One day he meets Daniel, who helps him discover Paris in the midst of a gay revolution.
French 14 min
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The Letter
Jack Guariento
United Kingdom, 2023
James, and his daughter Lucy, search through his recently-deceased mother’s house, looking for a mysterious letter that he remembers from his childhood.
English 15 min 33 secs
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The Lost Voices of Partition
Stacy Bias
United Kingdom, 2023
An animation showcasing the stories of South Asian women during the Partition of India and Pakistan, touching on the themes of mass migration, dislocation, trauma, silence, loss, love and hope.
English 2 min 15 secs
The Lovers
Carolina Sandvik
Sweden, 2023
A couple enjoy a candlelit dinner at a restaurant. All of a sudden the man’s appearance begins to change. A stop motion relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.
Swedish 12 min 58 secs
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The Medallion
Ruth Hunduma
United Kingdom, 2023
A single piece of jewellery can hold the story of generations. Ruth was barely a teenager when her mother passed down a medallion. Together, they travel to Ethiopia to explore her mother’s story as a survivor of the Red Terror genocide.
English, Amharic 19 min 5 secs
The Motorist
Ciaran Lyons
United Kingdom, 2019
When a man refuses to get out of his car after running someone over, justice takes a very strange form.
English 10 min 21 secs
The Park
Randa Maroufi
France, Morocco, 2015
A slow meandering camera in an abandoned amusement park in the heart of Casablanca. The film draws a portrait of the youth who frequent this place and exposes snapshots of their life, meticulously reframed and often inspired by images found on social networks.
Arabic, French English 14 min
The Passing
Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan
United States, 2023
A Texas house call veterinarian must help his neighbor Cindy through the hardest day of her life.
English 17 min 34 secs
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The Return of Osiris
عودة أوزيريس
Essa Grayeb
Palestine, 2019
On June 9 1967, the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser appeared on television to inform Egyptian citizens of their country’s defeat in the war, and to announce his resignation. This moment encapsulates the loss and disillusionment of his pan-Arab vision.
Arabic 13 min 45 secs
The Ridge Grave Girls
Junko Karo
United Kingdom, 2023
Ther Estridge, Angelwood’s Prom Queen-in-waiting, must break free from her small town’s ominous legacy of Prom Queens that die after their crowning.
English 12 min 12 secs
The Role
Paolo Chianta
United Kingdom, 2023
A brother and sister approach a diner cook to play their father in an upcoming movie about his life. Their father was very, very famous. The diner cook is not famous. He must try harder…
English 5 min 27 secs
The Sermon
Dean Puckett
United Kingdom, 2018
In an isolated church community in the English countryside, a powerful hate preacher prepares to deliver a sermon to his flock, but his daughter has a secret that could destroy them all.
English 12 min
The Singer
Cora Bissett
United Kingdom, 2023
Joe is a young deaf man who dreams of become a singer. Only when he stumbles across struggling street musician Andy, who himself is losing his hearing, do they discover how much they can help each other to become a symbiotic performing team.
British Sign Language, English English 19 min 59 secs
The Smortlybacks come back!
Ted Sieger
Switzerland, 2022
In a barren world TamLin travels with his herd of smortlybacks in search of greener pastures. They find themselves stranded at the shore. With help from TamSin and her disrespectful smortlysharks they cross the ocean.
None 8 min 15 secs
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The Sound of the Wind
Maria Pankova
United Kingdom, 2023
Yulia has become a refugee in Scotland due to the war in Ukraine. She is fighting for the future of her children while trying to maintain her relationship with her husband, who is on the frontline.
English, Ukrainian 17 min 2 secs
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The Tearaway
Eleanor Stewart
United Kingdom, 2016
A group of woodland friends try to solve the mystery of who is cutting down all the trees in the forest.
None 4 min
The Tornado Outside
Maria Tomazou
United Kingdom, 2023
Anna lives in a perfect house at the edge of a tornado. When she needs to go outside, she is forced to face the chaos of life from which she usually hides away.
None 8 min 15 secs
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The Veiled City
Natalie Cubides-Brady
United Kingdom, 2023
A speculative city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952, merging reality with fiction to consider the smog in the context of the present-day climate crisis.
English 12 min 54 secs
The Water Cress File
Bill Douglas
United Kingdom, 1966
Playing with the tropes of the spy genre, The Water Cress File charts the progress of a mysterious briefcase, passed between several characters on the streets of Soho and, in a metaphysical flourish, into a film showing in the Pavilion cinema.
None 5 min 48 secs
The Witches
Elizabeth Hobbs
United Kingdom, 2002
1590. King James VI of Scotland tackles the blight of witchcraft. Three fishwives in North Berwick set about devising a plan to save themselves from the King’s fearful witch-dooking apparatus.
English None 6 min 21 secs
Their Accounts
Hannah Hunter, Hannah Kate Cameron Hunter
United Kingdom, 2023
The collective voice of the youth of the Scottish highlands often goes unnoticed and unheard. Young people living in Ardnamurchan, the most westerly point on the British mainland, share their thoughts on the past, present and future of their home and culture.
English 5 min 48 secs
Tierra de Leche
Milton Guillen, Fiona Hall
Nicaragua, United States, 2023
On New England dairy farms, daily life orbits around the milking parlor. Here, machinery and cows come together as an exploitation mechanism of migrant workers from Central America, consuming their every waking hour and even infiltrating their dreams.
Spanish 12 min
Tippy Toes
Louis Paxton
United Kingdom, 2023
Sam is a nice guy. But is he too nice?
English 14 min 4 secs
Tito
Kervens Jimenez
Haiti, 2023
Kervens ‘Tito’ Jimenez was imprisoned in his native Haiti at the age of 17 for a crime he did not commit and was never tried for. These images were captured via a camera he smuggled into the prison.
Haitian 14 min 33 secs
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Vices in the Kitchen
Vicios en la cocina, las papas silban
Beatriz Mira
Mexico, 1978
A portrait of the housework carried out by women at the end of a decade marked by numerous political and social movements, including feminist groups that disputed the fact that women had been banished from the public sphere, and thus confined to the household.
Spanish 24 min
Voice of the Land
Fala da Terra
Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca
Brazil, 2022
Amazonian activists of an agrarian reform movement create a theatre piece as a tool for educating its younger members about the forces of oppression they fight on behalf of all of us during this climate emergency.
Portuguese English 19 min 11 secs
Wander to Wonder
Nina Gantz
The Netherlands, 2023
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature actors who perform in a 1980s kids’ TV series. When the creator of the series dies, they are left alone in the studio to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
English 13 min 50 secs
What’s Up with the Sky?
Què li passa al cel?
Irène Iborra
Spain, 2022
The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame.
None 10 min
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
Jyoti Mistry
South Africa, Austria, 2017
The black man is always running, he is always chased, he is always running…Running to save his lifeA black man runs towards freedom.
English 11 min 20 secs
When We Encounter The World
Leonardo Pirondi, Zazie Ray-Trapido
Portugal, United States, 2023
In 1934 an experiment by an amateur-scientist couple began. The Automeris Project placed a group of young children in an enclosed forest, leaving them to fend for themselves. On return visits, the couple presented self-made films depicting the outside world.
English 11 min 7 secs
Woman
ژن
Arash Akhgari, Gilnaz Arzpeyma
Canada, 2023
The first part of a trilogy that engages with the Iranian feminist revolution from the vantage point of diaspora. Through documentary media showcasing civil disobedience and performances of protesters, it explores the emerging narrative for woman, life and freedom.
Persian (Farsi) 3 min 20 secs
Woman in the Park
Bill Douglas
United Kingdom, 1967
A Hitchcockian psychodrama about an introverted man who pursues a woman with whom he becomes obsessed, demonstrating Bill’s improving grasp of advanced film language.
None 12 min 29 secs
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Yalaltecas
Sonia Fritz
Mexico, 1984
A depiction of the struggle of the Yalatecas Women’s Union, in a remote Zapotec indigenous community in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Spanish English 45 min
You Land
Debora Maité
United Kingdom, 2023
In the remote Scottish countryside, a downtrodden woman finds herself drawn into influencer culture whilst in search of respite from the humdrum of rural living and the weight of her care-giving duties.
English English 15 min 39 secs
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your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba
ابوكي خلق عمره ١٠٠ سنة، زي النكبة
Razan AlSalah
Palestine, 2017
Oum Amin, a Palestinian grandmother, returns to her hometown Haifa through the use of Google Maps Streetview. Today, this is the only way she can see Palestine.
Arabic 7 min 0 secs