When Washington legalizes human composting, entrepreneur Micah bets everything on a new vision of deathcare. With funeral directors Brie and Katey, he builds the first large-scale terramation facility, reshaping how we grieve and return to the Earth.

Booted takes the form of a parent's message to their child, narrated while remembering the course of their life via the medium of their footwear. Produced by Tiverton-based Sword and Fiddle Productions, it was filmed in 2024 across various locations in South West England, and rooted further in the region with contributions from BOVTS graduate actor Olivia Edwards; Exeter singer-songwriters Sound of the Sirens; and Devon-based voice-over artist and actor Simon Alison

From freedom of speech to fake news and AI. In a largely unregulated digital world, a 33-year-old Danish woman is appointed tech ambassador with a global mandate.

Iva works in a clothing factory in rural Bulgaria battling a persistent, yet mysterious illness. When it is revealed that she is the first case of COVID in her small town, the news spirals into an endless j’accuse— first from the factory owners eager to shift responsibility, then from her fellow co-workers, her son, and eventually her entire community, even though Iva hasn’t left her small town in years. With Iva’s public demonization escalating as the first victims of the virus emerge, she is quickly turned into a social outcast.

Seeking closure after a devastating breakup, Chloe contacts an agency who send doppelgängers to the heartbroken to issue plastic apologies, however the interaction with her “ex” takes an unexpected turn.

A Dad has a disagreement with his son and reminisce of better times.

Ways To School

Vi som solgte landet

A grieving girl discovers an antique zoetrope that may allow her to communicate with her dead father.

Queer Palestinians in London and Paris navigate the intersections between their national identity and sexuality.

The life of Florinda Meza, from her difficult childhood to her romance with Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito" and the mourning of his death.

Abatumado

Maono Mzimi is a 30-minute 16mm and digital hybrid performance in which loss is explored through space and motion.

Altmark is located in the northern part of the German region of Saxony-Anhalt. This area of the country is sparsely populated and rural, and is mostly defined by agriculture and a rather frugal architecture reminiscent of that of the Hanseatic cities. It's here that an extensive military site was built in the 1930s. It is used as a training area for the German army and also includes a garrison town, in which parts of the military corps reside. The site covers a surface area of 323 square kilometres. It is the third-biggest military area in Germany and the most modern in Europe.

Samaan, a young Christian man, works as a security guard in a residential building in downtown Cairo. Quiet and introspective, he spends his nights writing stories and chasing his dream of publishing his first novel. Beneath his calm surface, Samaan carries deep wounds—the lasting effects of chronic PTSD, rooted in the traumatic loss of his father, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Libya during Samaan’s childhood. One day, amid the noise and routine of the city, Samaan crosses paths with Fatima, a young Muslim woman. What begins as a simple encounter soon blossoms into an extraordinary friendship—one that slowly begins to break down the walls Samaan has built around his trauma.

The Basketball Dream - Marco Belinelli

Stepbrothers Zhenya and Tyoma do not like each other, despite playing on the same hockey team and living under the same roof. Professor Maksim Muromtsev, also Tyoma's father, is working on a time machine. Finding themselves in his laboratory, the guys are accidentally transported to 1999, where they meet 12-year-old Vadim Shipachyov - a future star hockey player and Zhenya's main idol. Now the guys must have time to help Vadim believe in himself and follow his dream before they can return to the present to lead their team to victory.

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