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The Perpetrators and Solo
A Border Between Us
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Riad Arfin)
Bridging The Gap
When a Bangladeshi man moves across the world to be with his partner in the UK, they discover the unforeseen costs of following your heart.
Fitting
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Caitlin McMullan)
Bridging The Gap
Explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a prosthetic leg.
A Float
(Country: Denmark, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Isabel Barfod; Writer: Isabel Barfod)
Animation Short Films
Explores subtle modes of refusal through the lens of a Black queer swimmer in a hostile environment.
Friends On The Outside
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Annabel Moodie)
Bridging The Gap
An experimental short documentary that tells the story of Jamie, exploring how foraging for weeds and caring for birds has helped him recover from mental illness and the chronic stress of incarceration.
Fuar: A Counter-Memory
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Ezgi Özbakkaloğlu; Writer: Ezgi Özbakkaloğlu)
Animation Short Films
An animation series that draws attention to the collective amnesia of the 1922 Great Fire of Smyrna/Izmir by examining the urban park, Fuar, built on top of its ruins.
Living With It
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Holly Summerson; Writer: Holly Summerson)
Animation Short Films
Perfectionist Lee must adapt to the imperfect reality of living with an illness – brought to life as a chaotic supernatural flatmate: Bug.
Never Mind Walnut Street
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Marta Dyczkowska)
Bridging The Gap
The Polish director's homage to her adopted city of Belfast.
The Perpetrators
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Richard Squires; Writer: Richard Squires; Stars: Art Erikson, Eric Geynes, Anthony Powell)
Suburban London, the 1980s. A stranger in the family becomes a ghost child and awakens the monsters and desires of a queer childhood.
Animation Short Films
Pink Moon (Pembe Ay)
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Meray Diner)
Bridging The Gap
As a family from the politically and physically divided island of Cyprus, Meray and her father developed extremely opposite views to each other. She travels from Scotland back to her childhood home and explores their relationship.
Shackle
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Ainslie Henderson)
Animation Short Films
Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.
She’s My Best Friend (and I Hate Her)
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Candy Guard)
Animation Short Films
Old friends Milly and June wait impatiently for each other outside a coffee shop. The longer they wait, the more annoyed they get, causing past hurts and old resentments to play on their minds.
Solo
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Sophie Dupuis; Writer: Sophie Dupuis; Stars: Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud, Vlad Alexis)
The story of Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
The Wool Aliens and Other Films
The Sound Of The Wind
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Maria Pankova)
Bridging The Gap
On 24 February 2022, chef Yulia loses her former life and becomes a refugee, along with her two adopted daughters, fleeing the war in Ukraine. She now works as a butcher in Scotland and her husband is in one of the most dangerous spots on the frontlines.
Sweet Like Lemons
(Country: UK, Finland; Year: 2023; Director: Jenny Jokela)
Animation Short Films
A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on.
A Taste For Music
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan)
Animation Short Films
Living with a sick loved one can have benefits and problems, a self-reflective documentary inspired by the memories and the record collection of the director's father.
Tell Me About The Burryman
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Julia Parks)
The Wool Aliens and Other Films
A collaborative film portrait of Burnfoot Community Garden, and its dedicated team of staff and volunteers, in Hawick.
Waldeinsamkeit
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Silvana Roth)
Animation Short Films
An old lady feels alienated from modern city life, but when she embarks on a magical dreamlike journey she finds wonder and a newfound appreciation for the place she lives in.
The Wolf of Custer
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Tanya J Scott)
Animation Short Films
A town loves telling tales about a legendary wolf. One hunter, however, proclaims it’s just an ordinary wolf. He sets out to pursue it but while on the hunt, he begins to witness and understand the power of stories.
The Wool Aliens
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Julia Parks)
The Wool Aliens and Other Films
A journey into the historical and tactile entanglements between sheep’s wool, migrant plant seeds and the River Tweed.
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