International Short Film Competition
Brimming with creativity and pushing the boundaries of the form, these shorts present some of the most exciting voices in documentary.This Award is Academy Award, BAFTA and BIFA accredited.
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3 Lost In Towers
Uncle 3’s soul lingers in the unfinished buildings of our hometown, telling the story of his life and memories of “home.”
  • Jingyuan Liang, Shizhao Ye
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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all that appears solid is built on blood
Footage documenting the making of a mass grave in Khan Younis, Gaza is slowed frame by frame, re-shot on film and soaked in human blood.
  • Izdihar Afyouni, Gelare Khoshgozaran
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Anatomy of a Portrait
A rural Colombian woman plans to donate her body to science and commissions her own posthumous portrait, in a tender, inventive meditation on life, death and the human body.
  • Juan Felipe Leon
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Do You Know That I'm With You
A forgotten goddess of carpet weaving is summoned back to life as a filmmaker pieces together lost memories across the Uyghur diaspora.
  • Darya Andijan
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Maybe Tomorrow
When activist Wafa Mustafa's father disappears under Assad's regime, her search for answers becomes a story of memory, identity and resilience.
  • Waad Al-Kateab, Wafa Mustafa
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Pelo Lindo
A 90-year-old Guatemalan mother reflects on four decades of waiting for her forcibly disappeared son, and the chapel she built in his name.
  • Josue Garcia Prado
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Red Elephant
LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Belgium face an impossible ask: prove their identity by reliving the worst things that have happened to them.
  • Iqran Rasheed
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Relic
High above Belfast, an 85-year-old man holds a holy relic linked to Padre Pio. Every 13th night, devoted locals journey up the mountain seeking a sacred cure.
  • Sam Howard
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Stalin Boys
Four middle school boys in a tiny Texas border town channel an unlikely obsession with Joseph Stalin into a history fair play about tyranny.
  • Bianca Giaever, Ora DeKornfeld
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Wild East
A Romanian environmentalist risks everything to expose IKEA's destruction of ancient forest, in an urgent, gripping portrait of one person's fight against powerful corporate interests
  • Maia Wikler
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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