Short & Mid-length

Deborah S. Philips' touching analogue collage is a tribute to her deceased mother.

Daily life from a filmmaker's family home in Manila tenderly oscillates between personal and political.

Two young boys follow their curiosity as they skip Sunday school.

A film that captivatingly explores childhood curiosities and adult desires through analogue animation.

Lou hurls images of herself against torrents of loading files, digital code and media imagery.

Disillusioned by previous experiences, Pandora is reluctant to be courted by her admirer Roy.

A loving and playful look into mortality and what one ultimately leaves behind.

A trio of balding bothers visit Istanbul for a hair transplant in this comedic stop-motion.

A barrage of images of Kurdish women activists, journalists and fighters, scored to electronic music.

Satellite images of spectacular solar phenomena, with artefacts intact, evoke the mysteries of the universe.

Mauricette Bonnarien tries to free herself from the colonial name imposed onto her ancestors.

Thought-provoking cinematic vignettes constitute a present-day picture of the social turmoil in Hong Kong.

Hidden love is revealed in this surprisingly tender story about an Uzbek father and son.

Tender remembrance of the filmmaker’s dog Caballito on the last day of his life.

A gathering of people who find themselves wakeful in the night, dreams set to music.

The filmmaker considers the war in Ukraine and the ongoing US occupation of his ancestral lands.

Penetrating black and white archival imagery paints a haunting picture of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia.

Erasure of identity markers with razorblades; erasure of self within the cut of the frame.

A possibility for reclamation as London's rapidly changing skyline is abstracted and freefalling on 16mm.

A fictional ode to the friendship between The Jazz Baroness Nica and Thelonious Monk.

A dense, shape-shifting scrapbook of ideas exploring the mechanisms of knowledge production.

A sobering, chilling mash-up of frantic Chicago Police audio messages with sinister Google Maps imagery.

An elderly woman holds an unshakeable faith in the return of her deceased father.

An experience that overwhelms the senses, exploring the constructions of reality from a dystopian perspective.

Funny, moving and cinematic, Duarte Coimbra captures the healing power of art with graceful fantasy.

A visual poem about changing states, we move along from liquid to ice, to gas.

Sardonic reflections on the state of the world occasioned by a frozen news broadcast.

Céline Dion sings praise of God’s implacable wrath in this mischievous media remix.

Waking up in a coastal town hospital, Vicheka has to navigate his dreams and memories.

An emotive portrait of a multispecies matriarchal family composed using found footage from communist Poland.

The home destabilised by outside forces of capital is accompanied by a relentless percussive rhythm.

In a psychedelic journey among deities, heroes and titans, the film reads old mythology anew.

Reflections on migration and broken promises told using remarkably intricate quilting and tiles.

A triptych portrait of the filmmaker's father done in his ineffable style.

A flamboyant clan of supernatural beings assemble in the Rio de Janeiro of the future.

A surrealist sci-fi animation about a burn victim in an imagined future of healthcare.

When hair begins to sprout all over a man's body, his only choice is resistance.

A suburb in Southern California comes together to create a community and heal from loss.

A film teacher begins her class with a fun camera exercise involving all the students.

Black churches in West Philadelphia and South East London offer a harbour for marginalised communities.

A meticulous study of how climate change is reshaping the Norwegian island of Svalbard.

A young filmmaker crosses the pond to hunt down film financing in the Big Apple.

Cheerful locals play witnesses in this humorous faux report about UFO sightings in backwoods America.

Two young women in a desolate village discuss the recent, mysterious vanishing of Leela.

A hummingbird in flight rendered beautifully on 16mm film using hand colouring and processing.

Intriguing portrait of summer fireworks, in which delayed and separated sounds create a unique rhythm.

A displaced protagonist explores his fragmented sense of self in the digital realm.

An erotic thriller interpretation of the Kennedy rape trial of the early 1990s.

In Lose Voice Tool Kit wordless children invent new forms of communication and play.

A heartrending portrait of a consciousness losing its connections to the past and the world.

Mockumentary exploring the subject of magical rituals in the post-Soviet cultural space.

Mamántula is a humorous and provocative gem that explores cinematic queerness at its most compelling.

A tender and enduring glimpse into Lloyd's life on the margins of society.

Analogue film intervenes on digital time-lapse footage of the desiccation of the Sea of Aral.

The intersection of architecture and landscape; the intersection of structures and sculptures; the intersections themselves.

Molecular Delusions is a tale of illusion and an exploration of new, possible worlds.

A deeply affecting rumination on grief, memory and what no longer feels like home.

The filmmaker's mother tells the story of her own relationship with her fiercely independent mother.

An exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate.

Elena Duque eulogises the magic of film with architecture and the unique texture of 8mm.

In suburban Tasmania, Imogen and Audrey reflect on isolation and explore new forms of intoxication.

Destroyed books and reconstituted state documents produce new knowledge in this densely associative political essay.

Veteran experimental filmmaker manages his Parkinson's diagnosis by filming his physical decline.

The strange nature of storytelling is uncannily explored in this highly original South Korean short.

Frame by frame, abstract, hand-painted images tussle with scraps of photographic representation. Which will win?

This feminist play on the word pistoleras is a courageous confrontation with self-image.

An endearing animated portrait of two bizarre and battered beings.

Is everything recorded on film destined to become digital data, or does life still resist?

Found 8mm footage muses chimerically on a friendship on the beaches of 1940s South Africa.

Archives and histories come to life in this imagining of a radical anti-colonial play.

Schlafsand uses pictorial beauty to address the political and social blindness surrounding climate change.

An exploration into the impact of the mining industry on the identity of Minas Gerais.

Meticulous animation about a search through the Ardennes, drawn on a single piece of paper.

Sorin stands by as Titi pushes his mother's love and patience to its extremes.

This associative collage depicts the lived experience of displacement with a whiff of irony.

A woman struggling with feelings of powerlessness ventures into the night for a transformative experience.

A defiant loner embodies the spirit of Bruce Lee to overcome his adversaries.

In this remarkable and slightly daft film, we watch a storyboard enriched with casual commentary.

A lyrical, impressionistic portrait of Manhattan in Kinemacolor, presented through strobing red and green filters.

A time-travelling fetish film that brings queer kink to the Colombian jungle.

To the spirits in the room, will we meet again someday?

A visual poem inspired by Tōru Takemitsu's composition ‘Corona for Pianist(s)’.

A series of artistic interventions interrogating the mechanisms of television production and spectatorship.

Employing archival footage, UNDR constructs an eerie narrative of calculated incursion.

Diaristic images of USA and USSR are inventively juxtaposed to stress not differences but similarities.

Images of women doing office work are mixed with redacted FBI notations. Does freedom exist?

Only words on screen: Asselberghs bridges political, avant-garde cinema and the ubiquitous telephone text message.

Evocative and mellow, Water Hazard explores queer identity with a delicate and empathetic eye.

A lone activist's struggle against the local oil refinery plunges a village community into doubt.

On the threshold of adulthood, Shreedhar stumbles on a family secret hidden in his surroundings.

A masterful ethnographic essay on the influence of the wool industry in spreading invasive plants.

Photos and screenshots tell the story of how two transmasculine artists fall madly in love.

Ali faces a difficult decision at the sudden onset of an uprising in 1976 Madagascar.

Combining time lapse and zoom lens, this silent, 8mm film offers a vision of light.