Short Films
Brimming with creativity and pushing the boundaries of the form, our short film programmes present some of the most exciting voices in documentary.
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In rural Serbia, disembodied voices fight for the future of the land while an unblinking camera bears witness to a spiralling eco-culture war.
  • Mona Jelic
  • 2024
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A Colour I Named Blue
Two Japanese indigo dyers embark on an inner journey: one finding his own shade of blue, the other discovering new meaning through his colour blindness.
  • Sybilla Patrizia
  • 2025
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A History of Sadness
Exploring a complex mother-daughter bond, this film traces three generations of Iranian women: a grandmother, mother and daughter.
  • Layla Tosifi
  • 2024
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A Story Left Behind
A researcher discovers the fragmented stories of the first Somali woman in Sheffield. Resurrecting her memory, the film questions whose stories get told and who gets to tell them.
  • Asma Kabadeh
  • 2025
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AKI
As the years go by, it gets harder for dancer and theatre director Aki to live an artistic life. But against the odds, she perseveres.
  • David Buitrón Fernández
  • 2025
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Alboroque
To protect their villages and restore biodiversity to the landscape of Galicia, a unique collective unites to fight invasive plants and municipal neglect.
  • Sabrina Fernández Casas
  • 2025
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Alice
Under the Brazilian sun and awash with the sounds of the sea, surfer Alice arises from waves of bigotry to live a joyful life as a trans woman.
  • Gabriel Novis
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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Animal Eye
Scientists and philosophers confront the limits of their own vision through the eyes of animals.
  • Carlo Nasisse
  • 2024
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Antigona
In rural North Macedonia, a determined woman begins a quiet revolution. Inheriting her father’s job as a van driver, she opens new possibilities for the women around her.
  • Iber Deari, Mirsad Abazi
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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Beyond Eden
In the 1970s, lesbians across the US moved to untamed landscapes to build a world without men. Beyond Eden follows some of the original Land Dykes.
  • Al Johnstone
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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Bird, Bat or Butterfly
In a quiet Yucatán village, a boy seeks the truth in a shaman’s tale, entering a cave where myth, childhood and cosmic wonder entwine.
  • Filippo Filliger
  • 2024
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Bloodline
A bison, prevented from returning to its native herd by a wall on the Polish-Belarusian border, witnesses dramatic events.
  • Wojciech Węglarz
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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Cat Rong Po
Liu Liu is living in a strange new land. While his mother looks after the shop, he goes exploring. Encountering a ghost monster, a fierce battle begins.
  • Wang Shaojun, Sebastian Molina Ruiz
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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Caught in the Net
A stunning, poetic dive to the depths of the ocean floor, guided by the humans who both adore and destroy it.
  • Nuno Alves de Lima
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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Faith
According to an ancient Neapolitan proverb, ‘More things happen in a day than in an entire century’. For the city of Naples, that day is today.
  • Antonio Napoli
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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Fear Nothing
A night ride into the fears and anxieties of Johannesburg’s wealthy inhabitants, seen through the work of the private security guards hired to protect them.
  • Tuva Björk
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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From the Mountain We See the Mountain
In the mist of the Patagonian Andes, an indigenous forest is recovering from a fire, with animals and humans emerging from a landscape scarred by colonisation.
  • Julian Garcia Long
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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How Now, House?
The boundaries between past, present and future blur as a shared house becomes the focal point of a hypnotic meditation on the passing of time.
  • Tess Martin
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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In a Whisper
A breath caught on ice … This film traces the commitment and quiet resilience behind the graceful façade, as figure skater Nina Pinzarrone prepares to perform.
  • Catarina Gonçalves
  • 2025
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In the Wake of Remembering
Three women reflect on their memories of supporting the Burnsall Strike, a 1992 workers' resistance movement in Birmingham that was led by Punjabi women.
  • Sara Saini
  • 2025
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Just Jools
Twelve-year-old Jools dreams of dancing with self-confidence. With the help of a choreographer, she learns to shake off the gaze of others and dance freely.
  • Ezra Verbist
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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Marseille, July 14th
Marseille erupts in joy as Algeria wins the Africa Cup of Nations. Celebrations, urban tensions and colonial echoes shape a night of pride.
  • El Mahdi Lyoubi
  • 2025
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My Name is Oil
On a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
  • Igor Smola
  • 2025
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No Mean City
Three workmen drive through the city at night, replacing old sodium streetlights with LEDs. Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change.
  • Ross McClean
  • 2025
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Orbits
Through a constellation of analogue images and soothing sounds, Orbits journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine, a woman who has lost her sight.
  • Sarah Seené
  • 2025
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