Event Type : Fantasy

Screening of a medley of short films with a hot pink red-carpet reception, award announcements and celebrations.

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE VOID  (Ragnar Griffiths | UK)

A visually impaired professional artist specialising in braille shares his unique perspectives on the world, artistry, and how his legacy will impact both realms.

MERLYN’S BEARD! (Almudena Zúñiga | UK)

It is a funny light hearted story filled with magic and wonder, it’s a story about self-acceptance. It follows Merlyn, a transgender wizard who really wants a beard to fit in and match his idols. With his trusty companion, a Main coon Merp, he is trying new and creative ways to make beards. As they go wrong and he startsto lose hope, Merp breaks him out of his spiral and helps him realise he is awesome just the way he is.

HOLY DEATH (Mahdi Hadizadeh | Iran)

Holy Death is a modern adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. When Death appears before a man, he offers him one final chance: answer three profound questions about life, and return to the world of the living. To earn his redemption, the man must journey through the afterlife—facing the Devil in Hell, Death in Purgatory, and the Angel in Heaven. As each realm tests his soul, he is forced to confront the essence of sin, morality, and the true meaning of existence.

LIPSTICK (Éilis O’Neill | Ireland)

‘Lipstick’ explores the lives of three generations of women within one family as they deal with ageing, sickness and interdependence.

MIA, ALEX & DEAN MAKE A MOVIE (Declan Smith | UK)

When three best friends accidentally hijack their own movie, they sprint through shifting genres, fourth wall breaks, and emotional chaos to answer one question: who’s the real main character, and does it even matter?

OUR CIRCLE IN THE STORM (Ray Jacobs | UK)

A group of climate refugees, most of whom have disabilities, have made a home of an abandoned house. They live, cook, laugh, cry, eat, dance and work the land together, feeling like a family while feeling vulnerable to the hostile outside climate. A wild storm arrives and one of the group has to leave.

PORTRAIT  (Farzam Tabibi | France)

In a photography studio, a woman and a photographer struggle to capture an innocent portrait of the woman. As tension rises between them, new photographs reveal ambiguous truths about the woman, blurring the line between reality and perception.

RED THREAD CAST AGAINST THE STONE (Radomir Jordanovic | USA)

A dance film shot at Stoney Point Park, Los Angeles, featuring ballet-inspired choreography set to cinematic electronic music. Viktoria injects a pulse to the landscape using her ballet moves.

SILENCE  (Juan David Yépez | Ecuador)

On Ecuador’s Andean highlands, a quiet boy searches for his missing father. Guided only by listening to the hiss of páramo grass, distant bird calls, the path of water, he lets the landscape lead him. A restrained, sensory tale about kinship and belonging, Silencio explores how paying attention to nature can become a lifeline back home.

SWAN SONGS (David Arthur | UK)

In the ruins of a forgotten park, an estranged father and daughter reunite, but together they must also face the devastating truth that has torn them apart.

THE COUNTRY CALLS YOU (Yosra Abu Kaf | Israel)

A Bedouin father, Abdullah, loses his son fighting in the IDF. But, the Bedouins are Palestinian, and his community shuns his dead son for his choice. Abdullah visits the mosque, pleading with the sheik for the traditional funeral traditions for his son, but is gently refused. Alone by his son’s grave, he finds no comfort. As night falls, Abdullah gazes at the sky, praying for his son’s soul to be allowed to enter heaven.