A rescue dummy gets forgotten at the bottom of a swimming pool. Behind his fixed smile, a whirlwind of emotions floods his plastic carcass as he fantasises about being picked up and brought to the surface in the strong and reassuring arms of a swimmer.
A young man reminisces on his past, returning to the village where he once grew up in. Reliving long forgotten memories, both good and bad, while his past stalks him.
Life-long friends: Santiago, Kiara, and Meleri are on the brink of adulthood. Raised in the tranquil town of Gaiman, these Welsh Patagonians in their final year of high school prepare to perform one last time at the ‘Eisteddfod’ – a Welsh tradition they’ve upheld since they were five years old. But are they ready to say goodbye? As they face the impending changes of university life and new beginnings, their final performance becomes a poignant celebration of their shared past and an emotional farewell to their childhood.
Shot on 35mm film and hand-developed on negative stock, this abstract experimental animation immerses the viewer in the psychological atmosphere of life inside a bunker. Through distorted visuals and fragmented rhythms, it explores the blurred line between physical confinement and mental unraveling. As the shelter becomes a pressure chamber of the soul, hallucinations and inner fears begin to seep through the cracks. The film is less a narrative than a sensory experience — a descent into the emotional and perceptual dissonance of isolation.
Artist Joe Boyd unveils beauty in life’s forgotten fragments, alchemizing the mundane into moments of wonder. In the embrace of the imperfect, and incomplete, he discovers that art’s true power lies not in permanence, but in the delicate, fleeting dance of creation and release.
After moving into her late mother’s home by the beach, a musician is confronted by another kind of loss as mysterious mementos and phantom noises blur reality and memory.
A young college student craving a delicious dessert, accidentally summons two spirits who haunt her. How will she ever make it out… alive and unharmed ??
When Lyla - a lost and lonely 17 year old girl - meets Marion - a wise and elderly woman with a fountain of wisdom - in a cemetery early one Sunday morning, the two share an unexpected but life changing conversation. Made in association with Screen Cornwall and the BFI Network.
In a forgotten corner of medieval England, Adalira, haunted by the spirit of a unicorn, embarks on a perilous quest with her sister Edith into Acre Hollow - only to be ensnared by ancient folk magic and a descent into something more monstrous than myth.
Heavy rain is expected tonight. In the bustling Xiaobei Road in Guangzhou, people run into each other only for a moment. A beauty salon worker who’s just been left by her husband, a dancer who wants to become a woman, and a migrant boy trying to change his life. The socially outcast strangers are brought together by a fireworks show.
When will you get a boyfriend? Why won’t you eat meat? Why is it like this every year? Why are you always being interrogated about your private life and your weight? A young woman grows tired of the relentless questioning from her relatives. Thankfully, she’s not entirely alone — a loyal and supportive companion is always by her side. Just when she meets a potential partner and appears to be inching toward fulfilling her family’s expectations, a fateful twist shatters her reality.
A hot summer day in Tbilisi. The market is still closed, and the only living presence is the local dogs. With the break of day, truckloads of watermelons arrive, people begin to bustle, farmers haggle. Soon, a new shopping centre will take over this place — a building set to erase the life that still lingers here. As we follow people setting off into their day, through the shifting landscape and the call of mythical sirens, our gaze settles on a single fruit vendor who finds himself in a confrontation between life and death. One life equals one village — or perhaps, the entire country?
Men on the streets get chased by stares. Someone’s walking a chihuahua, someone’s out jogging, but everyone’s uneasy glances are fixed at Petro and Andriy — recruitment officers inspecting military documents, holiday or not. When the officers encounter the freelance IT guy, Sashko, the young man has two requests before he’s taken away: that they stop by the store so he can buy food for his cat, and that he is allowed to bless his Easter bread.