A stray puppy gets rescued by a sweet, little girl, finally finding a family he can live with. But Destiny has something else in store for the dog, who ends up on the street once again.



7 Mins

Drama/Animation

Directed by Fabrizio Gammardella

United Kingdom

In a last-minute dash across town, Alfons just barely manages to catch the bus for his class trip to the Baltic Sea. In his luggage: lots of adventures, funny pranks and … disaster - his mother's clothes?! Alfons can’t believe he accidentally mixed up the suitcases, just when he was planning on showing his new classmate Leonie how cool he is.

In a desperate bid to impress her - and to the astonishment of his best friends Benni and Emilia - Alfons comes up with a bright idea: he will run for class president. Unfortunately, his arch-enemy Nico immediately realizes that Alfons is only doing it to impress Leonie and challenges him to a stupid bet. So, the fun continues and Alfons' fate as an eternal jinx takes its usual course! To make matters worse, his teacher Herr Flickendorf is just waiting for something to go wrong so he can pounce and send Alfons home.

Flying macaroni with tomato sauce, exciting nights around the campfire and a dangerous climbing tour turn the class trip into one that Alfons and his friends will never forget.

90 Mins

Family

Directed by Mark Schlichter

Germany

A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot, a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove to himself that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing speed on the competition highway...

18 mins

Drama

Directed by Zoel Aeschbacher

France

Over the past decade, Southern Africa has seen an increase in the number of orphaned and displaced elephant calves. The reasons are primarily increased poaching of elephants and other large game, together with human encroachment and destruction of traditional elephant habitat.

It is this that led to the creation of an orphanage for baby elephants that would also provide an adoptive family structure, so
important, for physical and emotional well-being of orphaned elephants.

105 mins

Documentary

Directed by HERMIEN ROELVERT-VAN GILS

South Africa

Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he’s lost forever.

13 Mins

Drama/Animation

Directed by Joseph Pierce

United Kingdom

Dr

After the death of their villainous boss, low-level Hench people Beatrix, Cain, and Harold are left destitute living in an abandoned grocery store. Not content with the situation they find themselves in, Beatrix is determined for them to strike out on their own and take over the world by any means necessary.

101 mins

Comedy/Action/Sci-fi

Directed by Jeremy Warner

United States

At a Halloween carnival, a young father steals a magician's rabbit to impress his ten year old son. The thrill of the petty theft quickly dissolves into reality when the young boy is tasked with getting himself, his father, and his new pet home safe.

18 mins

Drama

Directed by Rachel Walden

United States

When Kal meets Molly it feels like love at first sight. Until he suspects it's not love that binds them, it's grief. Acclaimed artist Sukhminder Kaur hires Kal to write the catalogue copy for her new exhibition. She likes his cynicism and admires his meticulous and dispassionate style. She's photographing herself in tableaux recreating the Tarot's darkest cards. Death. The Hanged Man. The Devil. The Tower. As Kal is sucked into Molly's plight, he unravels and starts to believe someone or something may be scripting his life.

100 Mins

Romance

Directed by Fenella Greenfield

United Kingdom

When a middle-aged actor gains too much pandemic weight to pull off his survival gig as a George Clooney impersonator, he finds himself trying to justify to his nine-year-old daughter— and to himself— why he’s still chasing his dream.

17 mins

Drama

Directed by Jamie Effros

United States

During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks, and after the fallout those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they are all experiencing radiation poisoning. A young girl named Mayday tries to make contact on a series of ham radios with her father who is in space on a shuttle mission. Instead of making contact she receives a intergalactic distress call from space that leads her on a journey to Spacerock, the land where Area 51 once was. She is exposed to severe levels of radiation and within days all of her organs start to fail. Knowing that medical treatment won't help her mother Wendy brings her back to Spacerock to give her to the aliens in hopes that they may be able to save her.

110 Mins

Science Fiction

Directed by Richard Bakewell

United States

A young man is forced to confront his limitations, face the ghosts of the past and rise above establishment constraints to unite a fractured community and realise his life-long dream of leading his town’s Christmas Choir Band (Kerskoor) to its former glory.
However, he is to pay the price for the path his father chose twenty years ago, which split the fabulous Old Righteous Blues Kerskoor in two and fractured the community. For the next twenty years, pitched street battles raged, loyalties were tested, families were divided, and the two rival bands marched defiantly under their own banner, each claiming ownership of the town’s Kerskoor, with devastating and violent consequences for the community.

100 mins

Drama

Directed by Muneera Sallies

South Africa

Tragedy strikes and a young boy discovers that a mouse has moved in on the same day. Father and son have very different ideas about what to do next as they navigate issues of life, death, love and grief in this heartwarming tale that will bring out the kid in all of us.

20 mins

Drama

Directed by Max Fisher

United Kingdom

When a right-wing opinion radio host chooses to discriminately accuse a Muslim man of a murder he didn’t commit, her words come back to haunt her. But will she pay for the consequence of her actions.

23 mins

Drama

Directed by Kammy Darweish

United Kingdom

A reclusive hoarder finds her solitary existence upset when a kind-hearted social worker shows up at her door, and leaves her questioning if she can open herself up to the possibility of learning to live again.

17 mins

Drama

Directed by Daniel Ellerby

United Kingdom

Bitterness threatens to destroy a small farming community until a stranger arrives with a curious proposition.

21 Mins

Drama

Directed by Andy Kastelic

United States

A new York City motorbike delivery driver has a terrible night which leads to potentially desperate measures.

16 Mins

Drama

Directed by David Lee Choi

Canada

Reluctant-dater Jas played by Tamzin Outhwaite (Eastenders) hadn't meant to kiss Adam played by Gary Beadle (Guy Ritchie's: The Gentlemen, Rye Lane & Star Wars: Andor). But she couldn't help herself.

Freaking out, she bursts into her twelfth -floor flat and slams the door in his lipstick smeared face, leaving divorcee Adam alone on the doorstep, feeling the pain of rejection all over again.

11 Mins

Drama

Directed by Oz Arshad

United Kingdom

A dyslexic con on his first day in Strangeways receives a letter that could save his life. Who should read it?

16 mins

Drama

Directed by Dan Horrigan

United Kingdom

New Paragraph

We follow an unlikely pair of pool sharks on a dangerous path of self-destruction in a world of their own design. Both men struggle to maintain a career that revolves around a green felt table with six pockets and sixteen balls.

Imagine a comedy version of ‘The Color of Money’ but set in a small British town in the style of a modern-day spaghetti western, where pistols are swapped for pool cues.

85 Mins

Comedy

Directed by Leif Johnson

United Kingdom

Bruised, hungry and only halfway through her late shift, a lonely and disillusioned police officer forms an unlikely connection with an appreciative and thankful criminal.



A true-story police drama starring Steph Parry ("Malpractice"), Ed White ("Tár") and TV-star Nicola Walker ("Unforgotten", "The Split") with a unique sound design by Joe Beal (BAFTA-winner "Chernobyl"). This slow-burn film explores appreciation and unlikely connections, whether we consider “the person underneath”.

15 Mins

Drama

Directed by Linda Ludwig & James Curle

United Kingdom

New Paragraph

For two decades, New York City cinephiles had access to a treasure trove of rare and esoteric films through Kim's Video. Originally run by the enigmatic Yongman Kim out of his dry-cleaning business, his franchise eventually amassed 55,000 rental titles. In 2008, facing a changing industry, Mr. Kim offered to give away his collection provided that it stay intact and be available to Kim's Video members. In a bid to revitalize tourism, the small Italian village of Salemi, Sicily became home to the archive. But after the initial publicity faded, so too did any sign of the collection. Enter filmmaker David Redmon, who credits Kim's Video for his film education. With the ghosts of cinema past leading his way, Redmon embarks on a seemingly quixotic quest to track down what happened to the legendary collection and to free it from purgatory.

David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's playful documentary embraces various filmic forms, from cine-essay and investigative nonfiction to experimental cinema and even heist movies, to fashion an ode to the love of cinema and the enduring power its stories hold.

84 mins

Documentary

Directed by Ashley Sabin, David Redmon

United States

Cassie is recently homeless and is about to spend her evening at a night shelter for the first time. The shelter offers her food, people to make her feel safe and a bed for the night. For the first time since living on the streets, she feels less on edge and then...the lights go out. The darkness envelops the building, strange noises are heard from the rooms, Cassie can't sleep and wanders down the hall to investigate. What she finds is the true face of evil, power and corruption, feasting on her fellow guests and with no escape forthcoming she is left with a choice. To give up all that makes her human or be the next meal on evils dinner list?

19 mins

Horror

Directed by Joe Duncombe

United Kingdom

A contemporary tale of rural hedonism.

It's Christmas Eve and a group of friends prepare to attend a village rave. However, dynamics are challenged when substances and feelings collide.

80 Mins

Drama

Directed by David Campion

United Kingdom

Boy meets girl in a house on the mountains. Out of the blue, he wakes up in his Turin flat in 2046, when technology has gained the upper hand over human relationships.

15 mins

Sci-fi

Directed by Daniele Nicolosi

Italy

In human adversities, there are 'topoi' that recur like variations of the same melody. Growth, pain, sacrifice, choices and, above all, love, are present in everyone's existence in a thousand forms, similar and yet unique. With the fragments of many lives, it would be possible to compose a single one in which to find the echo of all the others. In the chapters of 'Sleeping close', a woman experiences the stages of her own evolution through the changing features of fourteen female protagonists. She dies a symbolic death, only to be resurrected at the end with all those women who have gone before.

110 mins

Drama

Directed by Giulio Pereno

Italy

When a mother’s AI-generated memories clash with reality, she must confront her past for the sake of her future.

7 mins

Sci-Fi

Directed by Karl Stelter

United States

A tragic accident, a fractured mind, a body healed by an experimental technology. A young woman becomes supernaturally linked to the horrors of her past. Haunted, hunted, harrowed, she must uncover the truth in order to be free.

The story revolves around Grace, a young woman whose life has been turned upside down by tragedy. When Grace returns home to the family farm to rebuild her shattered life, her world begins to unravel as a series of strange events haunt her, pushing Grace to the edge of madness. A mysterious figure lurks in the shadows and a ghostly woman appears in the darkness of night. Is Grace imagining these apparitions, or are they a warning of a nightmare still to come?

112 Mins

Horror

Directed by Mike Horan

Australia

The story reflects the dark realities of the 21st century sex industry, as well as the hope which is always to be found in human nature.

Walter, a lonely and tech-illiterate retiree, with a shady past in the adult film industry, has regrets about his past life choices, and is acutely lonely. He is naively enticed into ordering a sex doll from the internet, when a couchsurfing guest deliberately leaves his laptop unattended. When the order is delivered in a crate to his home, Walter finds inside a living human girl, 'Doll#195', tattooed on her wrist. As Walter and 'Doll' adapt to their new situation and learn more about each other's lives, they enter a kind of father-daughter relationship. As the story develops, two lives undergo a profound transformation and we learn about the dark and dysfunctional events which have led both to this point. The story ends with a question mark, inviting the audience, as members of a jury, to come to their own conclusions.

40 mins

Thriller

Directed by Martin Lloyd, Anja Ramaroson, Richard Tomes

United Kingdom

Docufiction looking at the life and films of Remi Milligan - a little-known amateur filmmaker of trashy b-movies who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 2006.



71 mins

Mockumentary

Directed by Samuel Lodato

United Kingdom

Dina, an aging CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) stage actor haunted by a past humiliation, tries to jump-start her failing on-camera career by rebranding. Outside a Chicago coffeehouse Dina begrudgingly solicits passersby for first impressions, then weathers the resulting IRL likes, comments, and plain indifference of strangers and her industry alike. But when her past and present collide, Dina’s authorial CODA “voice” awakens.

10 Mins

Drama

Directed by Tiffany Bedwell, John Mossman

United States

#RevolutionAnyone draws out information/inspiration from those on the frontline of fomenting change in the UK; draws on comparisons with Robert Tressell's seminal Socialist text 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' (120 years later, inequality and the Ruling Class still reign) and draws conclusions leading to our MANIFESTO FOR A MODERN REVOLUTION.

Esteemed interviewees: MPs JEREMY CORBYN, JOHN McDONNELL, RICHARD BURGON, MHAIRI BLACK; comedian JO BRAND; journalist/sociologist GARY YOUNGE; social cinema guru KEN LOACH; economists PATRICIA PINO & CHRISTIAN REILLY; political marketing expert DR MAGGIE SCAMMELL; Amazon USA union organiser CHRIS SMALLS; and more.

84 Mins

Documentary

Directed By Archie Lauchlan, Jodie Lauchlan

United Kingdom