Director/Writer/Producer: Alex John Brown
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Short, Animation
Overview: Snoozlewhoosh: The T-Rex with Toothache is a 5-minute 3D animated short that follows Jude, a young boy struggling with a painful toothache and the disappointment of potentially missing an important school trip. After making a heartfelt wish, Jude is transported into a vibrant dream world by a magical creature named Snoozlewhoosh. There, he encounters a young Tyrannosaurus rex suffering from the same problem. Through empathy, creativity, and courage, Jude helps the dinosaur overcome its pain, leading to a joyful resolution that mirrors his own emotional journey. Blending fantasy, gentle humour, and emotional storytelling, the film explores themes of compassion, resilience, and childhood imagination. Designed for family audiences, it offers a visually engaging and uplifting narrative that highlights the transformative power of helping others.
Director/Producer: Tristan Loraine
Writers: Tristan Loraine, Tegan Grace Muggeridge
Key Cast "Alice": Tegan Grace Muggeridge
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Short, Drama
Overview: In the middle of London's mobile phone theft epidemic; a young woman with the reputation of one of the most gifted phone thieves is challenged by a notorious street gang leader to see just how good she really is, but is it a wise choice?
Director Statement: So many people have told me how they had the phone stolen in London. Consequently, our team decided to play a part in raising awareness of the issue by making this short film. We are grateful to Crimestoppers and a number of police officers who in their private capacities provided technical input to help produce the film.
Director/Writer: Harvey Harrison-Doyle
Producer: Rhianna Turner
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Thriller, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Short
Overview: Now the caretaker for her grandparents' Georgian manor, a young American reluctantly attends the local town support group. Avoiding her past, she hopes the isolation of the English countryside is enough to hide from the presence haunting her.
Director: Zak Reay-Barry
Writers: Zak Reay-Barry, Clive Marcus
Key Cast: Clive Marcus
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Overview: A teacher and his former student sit down for a lovely spot of cheesecake until a bomb enters the equation.
Director Statement: For me this was an exercise in tension and restraint. We set aside a day and with very little material wanted to concentrate everything onto a single performance. I guess this was a kind of necessary experiment for me considering everything I have ever shot has been needlessly complicated. This shoot was, as all shoots are, complicated in its own right but throughout all the noise the through-line of the film shone throughout. I actually had far more footage than I set out to have, which is maybe a characteristic of my insecurities as a filmmaker but this shoot was so much fun, so many laughs were had that I almost needed the extra fat to come round to the deafening realisation that simplicity is the key to everything. The simple and yet incredibly difficult task it was for my ego as a filmmaker to ignore all the different shots and visual trickery to simply let a magnificent performance do the work. I think so much of a director’s job is getting out of their own way, allowing, and equally, defending the direction the film wants to go organically. Clive’s work is extraordinary - his acting relaxed, playful, scary, mercurial and simultaneously touching. He scares us and endears himself to us in equal measure. I was also in the marvellous hands of Louis, my DP with whom I share those rare and wonderful working relationships where very little needs to be said for us to understand each other. Not bad for a day’s shoot and I hope you enjoy watching it as we did making it.
Director/Producer: Alberto Gatto
Writers: Alberto Gatto, Roberto Stranges
Country: Italy
Type: Animation, Short
Overview: Set in a forest consumed by a raging wildfire, birdY tells the story of a small robin who refuses to flee. While all the other animals escape in fear, Birdy chooses to act. Carrying a single drop of water from a nearby pond, he repeatedly flies toward the flames, attempting to extinguish the fire. Despite being mocked and discouraged by other animals, Birdy persists. Its determination eventually inspires a hawk to join, followed by other animals who begin to contribute in their own way. What starts as a solitary, seemingly insignificant gesture becomes a collective act of courage. As unity grows, nature responds: rain begins to fall. A single drop transforms into the birdY logo, symbolizing hope, resilience, and the power of small actions to create meaningful change.
Director Statement: One day my uncle showed me a movie on VHS, it was called: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". It really impressed me. After a few years I began to go to the movies, I was bewitched and so I got more involved into it. Later on, during my high school years, I matured this passion, this artistic streak, my first short film has been made exactly during those years. Since that time I have learned to look at reality in a closer way, I always try to get inspired by it and interpret it my own way.
Director/Writer/Producer: Salman Siddique
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Thriller, Suspense, Short
Overview: After an ordinary evening takes an unsettling turn, a woman’s mistaken phone call pulls her into a world of violence and paranoia. As reality begins to unravel around her, she discovers that one small error can unleash terrifying consequences—and some mistakes cannot be undone.
Directors/Writers: Louisa Tee, Ashley Pearson
Producer: Louisa Tee
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Comedy, Short
Overview: A mockumentary following Caroline Davies, Musical Director of Warehouse Opera, as she reluctantly takes her company on a national tour of regional car parks. In a desperate attempt to bring high art to the masses and prove that opera is still relevant, Caroline must navigate a non-existent budget, unpaid singers, and a deeply delusional producer.
Director/Writer/Producer: Luke Halliburton
Country: United Kingdom
Project Type: Documentary, Short
Overview: A compelling short documentary about those inspired by the images that made us. Media Made Me features lecturers and students who study media studies, but are constantly reminded of the public perception that they study a useless and irrelevant subject. Each interviewee talk about their experiences studying these courses and what career paths they plan to take. Darren Horne, lecturer, explores where the trust has been broken in the education chain and why children aren’t creative in compulsory education.
Director/Writer/Producer: Tomosuke Sugisaki
Country: Japan
Genre: Feature
Overview: Mari Kosugi, who works at Toto Radio, is assigned by her company to visit the reclusive scriptwriter Kori Yamabuki. Kori lives with Tourette syndrome and struggles deeply with human communication. Though initially uncertain, Mari gradually comes to understand his inner world, and a quiet bond of trust begins to form between them. One day, Kori tells Mari about the Thousand-Year Bathhouse—a mysterious bathhouse said to exist on the boundary between this world and the next.
Director: Michael Soenen
Producers: Michael Soenen, Todd Lieberman, Suzanne Malveaux
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Feature
Overview: Sixty years after the 1965 Watts uprising, the neighborhood America wrote off has shown us what is still possible. After a late-night police ride-along in Watts, an outsider witnesses a version of Watts that never makes the news. Searching for a way to understand what he had seen, he poses a simple question: what would happen if the people living the story told it themselves?
Director Statement: After a police ride-along—where I witnessed a version of Watts that rarely makes the news—I realized how incomplete my understanding was, and how much of it had been shaped from the outside. This project began with a question: What could be learned if authorship shifted to the people living the story? As concept creator, my role was to create the conditions for that question to be explored with trust and honesty—and then to step back. What emerged was not just a documentary, but a process—messy, fragile, and at times deeply uncomfortable—in which people with every reason to distrust one another chose to remain in the room. That is where the meaning of this film lives. It carries the tensions of its making—voices that do not resolve neatly, truths that do not belong to any one person. According to LAPD, for the twelve months following the community-wide screenings, there were zero gang-related homicides — a clear example of how a community working together can save itself.
Writer: Tom Matthews
Project Type: Feature Screenplay
Overview: Former soldier, Dwayne, a father of two young girls, works in security, primarily as a door supervisor in pubs and clubs around London. Bob is a bus driver who does illicit jobs on the side to supplement his income. These two strangers are on separate paths but they collide as their actions lead to deadly consequences beyond their control, impacting the lives of those closest to them.
Writer: Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Project Type: Short Script, Stage Play
Overview: WAITING: UPDATE is a minimalist, glitch-infused stage play set inside an undefined digital environment where time does not pass, but accumulates. Two entities, LOG and TREF, exist in a suspended state known only as “pending.” LOG senses meaning and possibility within the system, while TREF rejects any notion of purpose, insisting that all processes are merely loops without intention. As they wait for an elusive “Update,” their environment begins to fracture. System messages degrade, echoes multiply, and fragmented presences—GLITCH and PING—emerge as unstable reflections of the system’s inner logic. Repetition becomes language. Delay becomes structure. Waiting becomes identity. When the UPDATE finally manifests, it does not resolve the system—it confronts them with a choice: accept change and persist in an altered state, or refuse and remain unchanged within an endless loop. In choosing, they do not escape the system. They redefine it. The play ends not with resolution, but with a return—suggesting that every update is simply the beginning of another waiting cycle.
Writer Statement: WAITING: UPDATE explores the condition of waiting not as a passive state, but as a structural reality. The play is influenced by the traditions of absurdist theatre, particularly the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, but recontextualized within a digital framework. Instead of physical space, the characters exist within a system—undefined, abstract, and self-referential. In this work, technology is not the subject—it is the language. The characters are not people inside a machine; they are processes shaped by it. Their dialogue reflects a system attempting to understand itself, while failing to resolve its own logic. The “Update” is not a narrative resolution. It is a philosophical interruption. It asks whether change is an external event or an internal decision—and whether waiting itself is a form of avoidance. Visually, the piece is conceived as a minimal environment: light as signal, silence as response, repetition as action. The performance relies on rhythm, pauses, and subtle distortions of language rather than traditional dramatic progression. Ultimately, the play suggests that some systems do not crash. They wait.