A series of 3 genre shorts… Perhaps these three shorts will give you a taste for bloody flicks?

Featuring:

SCATTERBRAINS
LA NUEVA (THE NEWCOMER)
ECHO’S VOICE BOX

Showcase Runtime: 18 minutes 32 seconds

Weird and wonderful, subtle to laugh-out-loud humour unites these three entertaining and very different shorts.

Featuring:

ITCHING
A BLOODY GRAVEYARD STORY
BINGO

Showcase Runtime: 17 minutes 48 seconds

Nature is the very basis for hope and fear in these three dark and thought-provoking shorts.

Featuring:

THE WILD ROOTS
MIRAGE
MAUVAISE GRAINE (BAD SEED)

Showcase Runtime: 34 minutes 31 seconds

Three short films exploring attraction and relationships, expressed poetically in a mix of dance and narrative.

Featuring:

TO ALL THAT WE ARE
PATTERNS
MOTH

Showcase Runtime: 15 minutes 57 seconds

An exploration of various dramatic consequences of thinking in boxes.

Featuring:

LE NOUVEAU MOI (THE NEW ME)
FORGIVE OR CANCEL
LEAVE TO REMAIN

Showcase Runtime: 29 minutes 15 seconds

There’s no future after the apocalypse, or is there? Three films imagine the end and thereafter.

Featuring:

MEMORIES FROM THE BOMB
HOPE
NIQUE LE PRIVE! (FUCK PRIVATE PROPERTY!)

Showcase Runtime: 34 minutes 45 seconds

And now for something completely different…! This showcase offers six short films of different genres with distinctive styles of animation.

Featuring:

SUMMER TURNS TO FALL
JAM IT
A BLOODY GRAVEYARD STORY
WARMTH
WAITING FOR THE BLIEP
THE LAST STRAW

Showcase Runtime: 25 minutes 7 seconds

Three short documentaries are focused on the lives of very different people, but all reflect on the past and look ahead to the future.

Featuring:

THE LAST POTTER
THE DIVER’S SON
KUBRA

Showcase Runtime: 32 minutes 42 seconds

Three short films with insights into how different people attempt to cope mentally with shock, trauma and loss.

Featuring:

SAMUEL
UNDER THE BRIDGE
MUG

Showcase Runtime: 30 minutes 53 seconds

The peaceful waterways of the English countryside are plagued by legends of ‘RÀN’; a water spirit who feeds on the souls of sinful people along the river. After a disturbing incident left Lily emotionally scarred and estranged from her family she decides to begin her life again. Now a socially aware writer on female empowerment, she decides to tour the country with Zara, whose journey of self-identity has led her to fully explore life. Lily met Zara through her blog, they decide to become travel companions. They see a chance to travel on a barge on the English canals the ‘Lady-Jane’. Accepting an offer of a free passage up the British canals, Lily and Zara find themselves isolated with Willard, a religiously obsessed man whose past is murkier than the canal waters.

The threesome’s journey upriver becomes increasingly more bizarre and dangerous as Willard’s fascination with canal ghosts surfaces, and the spirit known as ‘RÀN’ torments them on their journey.

Kemal Yildirim, was named ‘one of the world’s most innovative and talented contemporary filmmakers’ after winning the Van Gogh award for Cinematic Vision at the Amsterdam Film Festival for his feature film ‘Rose’. Having over twenty years experience both a writer/director and actor, his films always make an impact and engage audiences.

YEAR: 2022
RUNTIME: 01:37:37
LANGUAGE: Afrikaans, English, Turkish
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
DIRECTOR: Kemal Yildirim

Family can be murder.

Clifford doesn’t want to go to school. He hates it, especially that poo poo head, David Tompkinson. The problem is he’s not seven years old anymore. He’s a fully grown man experiencing an episode of regression brought on by past trauma. Only one person can help Clifford remember who he truly is and embrace his dark tendencies. His father and prolific serial killer, Percy.

The Hounds of Darkness is an anthology movie, weaving tales of horror, comedy and the supernatural.

Peter Mckeirnon is an award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author, known for critically acclaimed web series, ‘Dead Town’, short films ‘The Dog Walker’, ‘The Widower’, ‘The Lover’ and ‘The Quacky Slasher’.Peter Harper is a freelance illustrator, artist, writer and filmmaker from Liverpool. He has contributed numerous artwork for books, novels, magazines, film posters and exhibited at many film festivals and events across the UK. He is the writer / director for short film, ‘Paper Sun’ and concept artist for the feature film, R’esire’.

RUNTIME: 01:22:00
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
DIRECTOR: Peter Mckeirnon

Zach, a rideshare driver and family man, picks up a woman named Angelina, who says she’s only visiting a friend. When Zach discovers that Angelina and her daughter are trapped in a terrible situation, he feels compelled to help.

Glenn Garrabrant is an American writer, filmmaker, actor, and also the founder of Logan Avenue Productions. He is the writer, director, and producer of this feature film ‘Visiting Friends’. He’s also known for ‘Cal & Amy’ (short, 2020), ‘The Keyhole’ (short, 2019), ‘Eventual Blindness’ (short, 2018), and ‘A Day in the Death’ (short, 2015).

Glenn has worked in the arts since 2004, starting out in music and then moving on to theatre and film.

YEAR: 2022
RUNTIME: 01:13:00
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY: United States
DIRECTOR: Glenn Garrabrant
SCREENWRITER: Glenn Garrabrant

Follow the deeply-emotional journey of ten athletes with neuromuscular disorders and amputations competing at the CrossFit Games. Through a global pandemic, indefinite closures, the fight for social justice, and changes of leadership, the CrossFit community was not exempt from a single challenge the world faced in 2020.

CrossFit, in both the sport and the fitness regimen, employing an estimated hundreds of thousands of coaches, athletes, entrepreneurs, and employees in associated businesses, and 15,000-plus gyms across the world, would be forever defined by the actions it took as it picked itself up, dusted itself off, and returned to the bar for another rep. It was this very work ethic, as a philosophy, ingrained in the community from the early days of the brand, which would nurture something neglected, foster something beautiful, and change the public perception of what CrossFit is, who belongs within the doors of a gym, and what CrossFit means for the next generation. ADAPT.

Ben Garves is a digital product manager and entrepreneur-turned-documentarian. His first film, “ADAPT”, combines his passion for activism with his love of competitive fitness. While ADAPT is his first feature-length documentary, Ben has dabbled in digital media, founding WODDITY in 2017 and hosting multiple webseries featuring health and fitness content.

He first attended the CrossFit Games as an independent media member for WODDITY in 2019. In 2020, he joined BarBend’s virtual coverage of the Games, then returned in-person in 2021. His latest foray was with the intent to document CrossFit’s first-ever inclusion of adaptive athletes (those with neuromuscular, upper-extremity, and lower-extremity impairments), a project which evolved into the feature-length ADAPT documentary.

YEAR: 2022
RUNTIME: 01:37:23
LANGUAGE: English, Spanish
COUNTRY: United States
DIRECTOR: Ben Garves