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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3 Lost In Towers
After a real estate collapse in a small Chinese city, a man who took his own life lingers as a ghostly presence among the unfinished buildings.
  • Jingyuan Liang, Shizhao Ye
  • 2026
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Air Horse One
One of the most valuable horses in show jumping is flown between competitions across the globe in the business class of equine air travel.
  • Lasse Linder
  • 2025
  • 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 Afoyuni, Gelare Khoshgozaran
  • 2026
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Allies in Exile
For fourteen years, Syrian filmmakers Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi have documented war, revolution and each other. Now, confined to a UK asylum hotel, they turn their cameras inward.
  • Hasan Kattan, Fadi Al Halabi
  • 2026
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an open field
An Open Field is an exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving meditation on grief, memory, and collective healing.
  • Teboho Edkins
  • 2025
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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 León
  • 2026
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Blind, into the eye
Two Iranian filmmakers in exile piece together the story of a brutal and deliberate act: the systematic targeting of protesters' eyes during Iran's 2022 protests.
  • Mehrad Sepahnia, Atefeh Kheirabadi
  • 2025
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The Boys and the Bees
On an idyllic Georgia farm, young Black parents share their love of beekeeping, nature and life itself with their sons as they rebuild their family's connection to the land.
  • Arielle Knight
  • 2026
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Children & Animals
A twelve year old farmer brings his favourite goat to compete at a country fair in Maine, where a conversation about death changes everything.
  • Walker Kalan
  • 2026
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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
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Holy Defiance
Once a month, hundreds of men kneel on Croatian squares to pray for patriarchy. One woman keeps showing up to defy them.
  • Karla Jelić
  • 2026
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A House in One Night
In rural Pembrokeshire, a cottage said to have been built in a single night holds the story of two women beloved by an entire village.
  • Lily Tiger T Wells, Nina Maria Allmoslechner
  • 2026
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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
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Part Fish
Diagnosed autistic at 31, a Cumbrian filmmaker turns the camera on herself to explore burnout, stimming and the path to self-acceptance.
  • Sophie Broadgate
  • 2026
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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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RAP BABY
A south London rapper navigates the music industry while confronting what it means to be visible, gay and Black in a world still catching up.
  • Daisy Ifama
  • 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
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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
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The Right to Forget
A filmmaker traces her Swiss grandfather's ties to mining in former Zaire, only to find that the family archives have been deliberately destroyed.
  • Lisa Mazenauer
  • 2026
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Shop Dada - The Cornershop That Built Us
A filmmaker revisits his grandfather’s corner shop to uncover migration, racism and sacrifice behind a British South Asian stereotype.
  • Darshan Gajjar
  • 2026
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