Short Films

Filmmaker Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown in Iran. Inspired by the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, she starts her own revolution at home.

Reanimating a Baron and the Black Princess, this speculative film summons figures from the past through bodies of the present, in a visceral call for reconciliation.

Audio Caña is the self-described greatest storyteller in Calabozo, Venezuela. His latest tale is about the 19ft alligator living in his pond. But could it be true?

Stories of kidnappings and bank heists intersect with the director’s own thrilling family tale, as this electrifying film reveals the true origins of Stockholm Syndrome.

An unconventional choir attempt to communicate with those who have lost their connection to conventional language, in this beautiful and humane black-and-white study.

A piercingly intimate glimpse into the complex dynamics in a family where obedience is obligatory and emotions are as unpredictable as the sea.

In a culture continually threatened with erasure, dancing the dabke, the traditional folk dance of Palestine, becomes an essential form of resistance for young Palestinians.

Bringing his cinematic alchemy to the archives of the Italian Labour and Democratic Movement, director Stefano P. Testa transmutes the past with an inimitable presence.

What is repressed and unspoken returns as dreams and nightmares in this cinematic essay about the shaping of the unconscious in times of war.

Afraid he won't be around to see his children grow up, Nasar decides to be cryonically frozen, in the hope of returning in the future.

Heinz's job has taught him to befriend death - to treat the deceased like the living. Doing his work, he sees the world very differently.

A poetic-sonic expression from Sheffield-based artist Otis Mensah and performer Jamal Sterrett that explores diasporic-bonding, friendship and our many delicate states of home.

An Amazon ethnocide is justified by a war in Ukraine. It's streamed online by the filmmaker, while in the garden his three-year-old son marvels at the flowers.

In the Georgian town where Josef Stalin was born, two women become embroiled in an inter-generational struggle over their conflicting interpretations of a contested history.

Habibullah Zandi has been singing for decades, but as a local mullah tries to silence his song, he proves that music and poetry can also be sacred.

Trapped in the never-ending horror of prolonged solitary confinement, three prisoners seek comfort and escape in the boundless vistas of their own imaginations.

A group of women, patients in a psychiatric hospital, send letters to one of the institution's former residents, Vincent van Gogh.

In 1622, a group of monks built a fortress around a forest, closing it off to women. Yet when night reigns, the spirit world knows no walls.

When the ageing, conservative townsfolk of Bethel, Vermont, and the young queer newcomers begin sharing the same watering hole, a delicate allegiance flourishes.

On a Portuguese mountain, saintly apparitions and alien encounters interweave with the story of a pregnant cat, in a series of paranormal encounters.

Through language lessons with her mother, a daughter learns more about her Indonesian roots, her mother’s painful journey, and her longing for a place to call home.

An intimate exploration of four decades of desire, community, love and loss through the eyes of regulars at The Backstreet, an iconic London gay leather club.

Dreaming of becoming a successful entrepreneur, a cave-dwelling hermit attempts to package his lifestyle as a unique experience to sell to tourists.

Cinema and spirits intertwine in the Colombian Amazon. The arrival of a jaguar signals an opportunity to rebirth the legacy of an ancestor.

A young reclusive man moves from his small town in Sweden to Osaka, in search of connection and an escape from the mundanity of life.