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Shorts: The Great Beyond
From cosmic caves to sacred stadiums, these films immerse us in worlds beyond the known, where myth, matter and meaning dissolve, transform and begin anew.
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Shorts: Where We Find Ourselves
Stories matter. Whose stories get told matters. Who tells those stories matters. From Scotland, Sheffield, North Macedonia and Ecuador, these films pay homage to ancestors and the stories they leave behind.
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A Simple Soldier
Award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker and cinematographer Artem Ryzhykov transforms into a hardened professional soldier as he navigates the confusion, chaos, heartache and reality of modern warfare.
  • Artem Ryzhykov, Juan Camilo Cruz
  • 2025
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Soul of the Desert
In Mónica Taboada-Tapia’s striking and heartfelt film a transgender Wayúu woman embarks on a journey across the Colombian desert to reclaim her identity, confront her past and fight for justice.
  • Mónica Taboada-Tapia
  • 2024
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Space to Breathe
Happy Abolition Day! The last prison in the USA has just been closed under the 2036 Reparations and Reconciliation Act. How did we get here?
  • Juicebox P. Burton
  • 2025
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Special Community Preview Screening - By invitation
A pay-as-you-feel community preview screening.
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The Stand
This striking archive-footage film follows Haida Nation members staging a peaceful but resolute blockade against a logging company, sparking a national debate around indigenous land rights in Canada.
  • Christopher Auchter
  • 2024
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A State of Passion
A powerful account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
  • Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi
  • 2024
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Still Pushing Pineapples
A melancholic yet heartfelt story of the former singer of pop band Black Lace and his journey on the road with his aging mother and his partner, as he aims for a comeback.
  • Kim Hopkins
  • 2025
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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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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
The son of The Rocky Horror Picture Show creator Richard O’Brien charts the journey of the sing-along cultural phenomenon.
  • Linus O'Brien
  • 2025
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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror + Conversation
Join us for a special screening of Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and team. Attended by director Linus O'Brien and original contributors Richard Hartley and Patricia Quinn.
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The Stringer
A courageous whistleblower prompts an investigation into the true history behind one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century.
  • Bao Nguyen
  • 2025
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Sudan, Remember Us
This poetic yet urgent chronicle of Sudan’s youth revolution shows how hope was ignited though through music, murals and the unyielding power of words.
  • Hind Meddeb
  • 2024
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Tomorrow's Too Late
A singer's identity – and voice – transform in this raw and musical journey through gender transition, loss and self-discovery.
  • Terry Loane
  • 2025
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Tomorrow's Too Late + Conversation
Join us for a special screening of the film, plus a filmmaker discussion. Dylan Holloway will perform after the screening.
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Trade Secret
A gripping exposé of the polar bear fur trade, revealing how conservation, politics and commercial interests collide in ways the public was never meant to see.
  • Abraham Joffe
  • 2025
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Trade Secret + Conversation
Join us for a special screening of Trade Secret, plus a discussion with the director Abraham Joffe and contributors.
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Under the Flags, the Sun
An archival excavation of Paraguay’s dictatorship, one of modern history’s longest, reveals how authoritarian control was built and how its ghost still haunts the present.
  • Juanjo Pereira
  • 2025
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Unwelcomed
In this powerful film, the Venezuelan migration crisis that led to violent anti-immigration protests in Northern Chile shines a light on dangerous social and cultural fissures within a society.
  • Amilcar Infante, Sebastian Gonzalez Mendez
  • 2025
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A Want in Her
Irish video-artist Myrid Carten's haunting feature debut presents a complex and unflinchingly honest portrait of her relationship with her alcoholic mother.
  • Myrid Carten
  • 2025
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We Were The Scenery
After fleeing the Vietnam war, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, along with 100 other refugees, are enlisted as background extras for Apocalypse Now.
  • Christopher Radcliff
  • 2025
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Welded Together
A young welder confronts her fractured past to protect her sister, forging a future from sacrifice, resilience and the spark of second chances.
  • Anastasiya Miroshnichenko
  • 2025
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who will be remembered here
Challenging the dominant histories of Scotland, this tender work invites us to listen to the landscape – hearing echoes of the marginalised voices we have been made to forget.
  • Michael Sherrington, CJ Mahony, Lewis Hetherington
  • 2025
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Writing Hawa
In this powerful and inspiring film, an Afghan filmmaker documents repression by the Taliban and resistance to it across three generations of females in her family.
  • Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori
  • 2024
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