We are thrilled to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the talented filmmakers chosen to showcase their work at our event. Your creativity and dedication have set a remarkable standard, and we can't wait to present your incredible films to our audience.
Directed by: Nathan Velpula Chancellor
Country: United Kingdom
Krish, a rising Indian-British actor is offered the role of a lifetime in an imperialist epic. As he meets with the notorious director, a surreal encounter with his mother forces him to confront what he is willing to sacrifice to be seen.
Directed by: Jassica Magaye
Country: United Kingdom
From zero to hero, we follow the life of Nathen, whose life has been pushed around for too long. He soon encounters his alter ego who transforms into his hero and battles on his behalf in difficult situations. However, Nathen quickly discovers that a hero's journey can lead to complicated consequences.
Directed by: Jacob Melling
Country: United Kingdom
Two Actors. Two Secrets. One Take.
Mars Sams (Eastenders, 260 Days) & Alexandra Rose Wilson (The Yellow Wallpaper, Nurse) were given character backgrounds and scenarios for themselves to live as their characters together: getting used to the space and experience small moments of their characters lives.
Then on the final take for the film the two actors were separately given secrets and then came together on screen to experience them in real time. This final take is our film 'One'.
Director: Alessio Rupalti
Country: United Kingdom
An elderly man, haunted by decades of guilt for failing to save his wife from breast cancer, believes he has finally found a chance at redemption. Thirty-five years later, he arrives at a small café on the outskirts of London where the young waiter he’s about to meet is not a stranger after all.
Director: Grace Edu
Country: United Kingdom
Cassandra’s birthday is tomorrow and her hairstylist has just cancelled.
With no backup plan, undone hair and growing desperation, she heads to Peckham in search of someone who can help. Surrounded by the fast paced energy of Rye Lane, Cassandra finds herself repeatedly approached by African aunties eagerly asking her "Do You Want To Do Your Hair?". Although hesitant at first, she eventually follows one auntie who confidently promises she can do her chosen style.
But beneath the humour and unease lies a story about a recognisable part of Black British life about assumptions, generational disconnect and the quiet expertise of African aunties whose confidence speaks louder than appearances.
Directors: Alex Naghavi, Ezra Li
Country: United States
A painterly existential French animated short, told in living oil paintings.
Director: Jane
Country: United Kingdom
When a lonely widowed farmer finds her farm failing and her memory faulty she begins to worry. She refuses to give up her farm to developers, go to a home and wants to rewild it herself. Dementia sets in and she makes a devastating mistake to which she has enough brain left to realise that there is only one way forward for her.
Director: Vanessa Bailey
Country: United Kingdom
When an introverted cosmology student is reluctantly drawn into conversation by a vivacious late-night cleaner he discovers a universe far bigger than quantum mechanics.
Director: Van An Luong
Country: United Kingdom
After dropping his phone down the shore of the River Thames at the news that his girlfriend is pregnant, a timid office worker must confront his fear of responsibility, and heights, to pick up the call.
Director: Barnabus Walsh
Country: United Kingdom
A couple, affectionately naming each other Love and Bug, test the limits of their love living with each other for fifteen months.
