Samba Infinito

Leonardo Martinelli

Brazil, France, 2025

During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligations. Amid the celebrations, he finds a lost child and sets out to help him.

 Portuguese
 15 min 0 secs

Second Skin

Jack-Murray Birrell

United Kingdom, 2025

After being sexually assaulted on a walk home from a night out, a young woman falls out of touch with reality as her body becomes infected with black mold.

 English
 12 min 27 secs

The Ship Repairer

Chris Leslie

United Kingdom, 2025

Ship repairer Thomas Breslin painstakingly strengthens the hull of a Tall Ship, replacing thousands of rivets using traditional techniques. As modern Clyde shipbuilding focuses on military contracts, Breslin preserves the city’s maritime legacy.

 English
 3 min 6 secs

Sleazy Tiger

James Ley

United Kingdom, 2024

Alan's date is going well but when Blair gives him a jar of kimchi, he gets a boner and ends up in Horny Hell.

 English
 14 min 10 secs

Solar Orders

Kent Chan

Spain, The Netherlands, 2024

An imagined future based on real-world observations of the tropics expanding as a result of the climate crisis. Storytelling, myths and music reflect the anxiety that climate forecasts might come to be seen as prophecy.

 English, Spanish, Moroccan Arabic (dialect)
 18 min 23 secs

Something Greater than You

Gordon LePage

United States, 2025

Two feuding raccoons, having found shelter from a winter storm, receive an unexpected guest.

 English
 9 min 5 secs

Sounding the Clyde

Chris Leslie

United Kingdom, 2025

Archaeologist Lizzie Robertson wades into the Timber Ponds, capturing the sounds of life in the Clyde through a hydrophone. She hopes to extend her research upstream, but questions accessibility and safety. 

 English
 3 min 31 secs

Stallion and a Crystal Ball

Stallion y la Bola de Cristal

Christian Avilés

Spain, 2026

In his dark silent room, a secluded teenager sick with a burning desire casts a spell.

 Spanish
 19 min 24 secs

Static

Miranda Stern

United Kingdom, 2025

Caught in a spiralling cycle of addiction, crime and co-dependency, Lexi and Badger's once unbreakable bond begins to fray, forcing them to confront the limits of their relationship while searching for a way to heal.

 English
 15 min 0 secs

Stepney Western

Harry Lawson

United Kingdom, 2025

An experimental documentary made in collaboration with young inner city horse riders from Stepney Bank Stables in Byker, Newcastle. 

 English
 39 min 59 secs

Stray

Morven Christie

United Kingdom, 2025

From nightclub to wilderness, a young girl seeks shelter from a world that feels hostile.

 English
 15 min 0 secs

Sucker

Fae Al-Kalamchi

United Kingdom, 2025

Juni, a cannibal, lures men and women to her home with the promise of a good time without them realising they're her next meal. But what happens when she encounters one of her own?

 British Sign Language
 11 min 57 secs

Tatarang!

Manri KIM

South Korea, 2024

Tatarang the dog walks around and meets friends.

 No dialogue
 5 min 48 secs

technically_breathing

Markéta Müllerová

Germany, 2023

3D-animated avatars embody the question: Do digital entities, such as Artificial Intelligence, truly breathe or do they just create an illusion?

 English
 5 min 43 secs

The Third Child

Serna Amini

Iran, 2025

Mehdi, the only hearing child in a completely deaf family, has struggled with pronunciation and speech since childhood. Now, he is striving to become a professional voice actor and dubbing artist. 

 Persian (Farsi)
 25 min 12 secs

This Place is a Sh*thole

Will Wightman

United Kingdom, 2025

The claustrophobia, chaos and grime of communal living spiral into something both horrifying and relatable.

 English
 3 min 53 secs

The Time That Separates Us

Parastoo Anoushahpour

Canada, 2022

Ancient salt-rock formations become a gateway through which to face the Jordan River Valley and the stigmatised realms of desire, sexuality, and gender encoded within this highly mediated political landscape.

 English, Arabic
 35 min 30 secs

To Keep the Mountain at Bay

Gelare Khoshgozaran

United States, Georgia, 2023

Poetry readings in Sausalito, California, explore exile as a space of collective difference and transnational solidarity in an homage to Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan.

 English
 9 min 20 secs

The Tragic Movement of the Spheres

Le Mouvement Tragique des Sphères

Simon Rieth

France, 2025

From a class photo to a satellite shot, a mother and son face the tragic secrets passed on from one generation to the next.

 French
 English
 12 min 50 secs

Vibrations from Gaza

Rehab Nazzal

Canada, Palestine, 2023

A glimpse into the lives of deaf children in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip. 

 Arabic
 16 min 0 secs

Wa'anak Witu Watu

Natasha Tontey

Indonesia, 2021

In North Sulawesi, Indonesia, the Manahasa practice an indigenous form of cosmology. This work explores how their ancient spiritual beliefs have evolved with the arrival of Western Christian colonialists from the West and their capitalist ideas.

 Tontemboan, English, Melayu Minahasa
 24 min 37 secs

Water Sports

Whammy Alcazaren

Philippines, 2024

Jelson and Ipe, students deep in love, undergo trials of the mind and body as they prepare themselves to survive a world devastated by climate change.

 Tagalog
 19 min 35 secs

We Walk At Night

Agnes Athley

United Kingdom, 2025

Women and members of the queer community recount their experiences of walking home at night.

 English
 5 min 17 secs

We Were Here

Pranav Bhasin

India, 2025

Convinced that machines are replacing them, three retired men take over the jobs of household appliances. But when one of their children lands a job at an AI company, it rattles their crusade.

 English, Hindi
 10 min 36 secs

We Were The Scenery

Christopher Radcliff

Canada, United States, 2025

The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, in 1975, after fleeing the Vietnam War by boat and docking in the Philippines, were utilised as background extras in the filming of Apocalypse Now.

 Vietnamese
 14 min 57 secs

What If They Bomb Here Tonight ?

وبركي قصفوا ھون اللیلة؟

Samir Syriani

Lebanon, 2025

A Lebanese couple spends a sleepless night, fearing an Israeli airstrike could shatter their glass walls. With children nearby, they face the impossible choice to stay or flee their life.

 Arabic
 16 min 45 secs

When The Blues Goes Marching In

Pengais Mimpi

Beny Kristia

Indonesia, 2025

A young man narrates his dream to his father about the celebration of demonstration, anger and graduation.

 Bahasa Indonesia
 12 min 40 secs

When The Tide Comes

Fêt-Nat Bailly

United Kingdom, 2025

Sandy, a sand creature, lives peacefully in the dunes. Suddenly saddled with a baby sea turtle named Bo, Sandy must reluctantly return Bo to the ocean.

 No dialogue
 10 min 31 secs

Xena's Body: A Menstrual Auto-Investigation Using an iPhone

Occitane Lacurie

France, 2024

A scene from Xena: Warrior Princess inspires this 'doomscroll documentary' about our compulsive attraction to our devices, all told within the screen of an iPhone.

 French
 11 min

You Don't Know What You Don't Know, Do You?

Adam Lewis Jacob

United Kingdom, 2025

A collection of VHS tapes, photographs, flyers and music tell the vital story of Bradford Resource Centre where, from 1979 onwards, a wide range of anti-racist, LGBTQ+, disability rights and trade union movements mobilised.

 English
 37 min 47 secs