Life / Drawing

Fantasies of a Rescue Dummy

• Director-screenwriter

  Adrian Maganza

• UK 2025. 7min

Everyone forgets the rescue dummy that’s left at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Dance of the Spirits

• Director

  Andreea-Lorena Florea

• Screenwriter

  Alfie Kelly

• UK 2026. 6min

A young shepherd boy, living in rural Romania, finds more comfort among his sheep than with his dad.

Content warning

Contains scenes of domestic violence or abuse and harm towards children.

Film Film

Filmiņu Filma

• Director

  Arturs Voblikovs

• Screenwriters

  Arturs Voblikovs, Jack Burgess

• UK-Latvia 2025. 12min

A print-shop owner with seasonal depression becomes obsessed with copying the life of his new customer.

Content warning

Contains flashing images.

Daughters of the Late Colonel

• Director-screenwriter

  Elizabeth Hobbs

• UK-Germany 2026. 9min

After the death of their ill-tempered and controlling father, two middle-aged sisters find themselves at a loss.

Babyface

• Director-screenwriter

  Sacha Beeley

• UK 2026. 6min

Spoon finds a coupon!

Eyeliner

• Director

  Aisha Boudjillouli

• Screenwriters

  Tommy Hurst, Aisha Boudjillouli

• UK 2026. 8min

When two friends receive different receptions to wearing eyeliner, Nina discovers that her journey as a trans girl might not be so easy.

Content warning

Contains transphobic attitudes and language.

The Bird’s Placebo

• Director-screenwriter

  Rami Jarboui

• Tunisia 2025. 20min

Told through rotoscope and 3D animation, a young man from a marginalised neighborhood in Tunisia’s capital dreams of crossing the Mediterranean.

I Was Kidnapped!

• Director

  Dhananjay Barangule

• Screenwriters

  Dhananjay Barangule, Tommy Hurst

• UK 2026. 7min

Dhananjay enjoys recounting stories from his childhood when it slowly starts to dawn on him how they may have affected his mum.

PLEASE

• Director-screenwriter

  Anna Mantzaris

• Sweden-France-Czechia-Norway-Finland 2026. 8min

In a big city, several characters looking for affection are plunged into situations that are absurd, comical and moving.

The Clouds of Odessa

• Director-screenwriter

  Luca Arcangeli

• Italy 2026. 13min

A Ukrainian director thinks about the film, a love story, that she would have liked to make but that she may never be able to.