International Short Competition
Brimming with creativity and pushing the boundaries of the form, our Shorts Programme presents some of the most exciting voices in documentary.
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Aunt, a Tricycle
Through an intimate journey involving the filmmaker and her aunt, we see what remains and what is transformed with the passing of time.
  • Siru Wen
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Calling Cabral
Shaped by mysticism, resistance, and the voice of revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral, we take a personal and poetic journey through the anti-colonial past and present of Guinea-Bissau.
  • Welket Bungué
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Fawley
With a multitude of voices, both human and non-human, this sensorial gem explores the environs of the soon-to-be demolished Fawley Power Station.
  • Chu-Li Shewring, Adam Gutch
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Happiness is £4 Million
An idealistic, young journalist is tasked with profiling China’s biggest real estate speculator. But how can she write a profile about a man whose money-obsessed worldview she despises?
  • Weixi Chen, Kai Wei
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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How to See the Night
When a mysterious creature stalks the night, a group of rangers employ camera traps and radio frequencies to enter this animal’s secret world.
  • Maria Casas Castillo
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Leaves of K.
In 2018, the Nicaraguan police brutally repressed anti-government protests organised by high school students. K., a 17-year-old girl who was arrested, recounts the horrors of her time in jail.
  • Gloria Carrión
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Mirrors
A cathartic celluloid journey through six unprecedented years in England – from Brexit and the Grenfell fire to Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19.
  • Paul Daly
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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The Family Statement
Using messages drawn from a family WhatsApp group, this film constructs a conversation between the billionaire Sackler family and those afflicted by America's opioid crisis.
  • Grace Harper, Kate Stonehill
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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The Joys and Sorrows of Young Yuguo
16-year-old Yuguo, who has a passion for Eastern European romantic poetry, makes a pilgrimage from his home in China to the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.
  • Ilinca Calugareanu
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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The Rightful
For decades the landless workers of Guapiaçu, Brazil have been fighting for their right to farm the land. Now they must fight a dam project that threatens to flood their entire community.
  • Ana Galizia
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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