Kitty meets Hedgehog outside a psychiatric hospital: he's a patient and an artist, and she's an outsider. Their relationship quickly develops, and soon the patients, along with doctors and nurses, are helping the couple get married. Kitty and Hedgehog begin their family life, but their new reality proves a serious challenge.

Slow film about waiting and loving, and the ways they intersect.

"Beyond the Autumn" «Persian: پس از خزان» is a poetic meditation on the collapse that humanity calls "the end." Here, autumn is not a season of falling leaves, but a threshold where existence sheds its veil within the shadows. Beyond this descent, perhaps only a light of serenity remains. It whispers that following the world's silence, a subtler form of consciousness may emerge. "At the farthest edge of the soil, eyes open that no longer belong to the ground."

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

A Grande Dependência

Where are we headed? This is the question asked, not by an ancient Greek philosopher, but by a dysfunctional, nihilistic GPS navigator. Woe betide those who turn it on! A bizarre experimental film that attempts to follow a road that continually changes scale… and ends up in the scenery.

Another step, as careful as it is careless.

GOLD-BOY : Deux pour le prix d'un

Three Parts

L’Art du Bigidi is a short documentary exploring the world of Gwoka — a Guadeloupean tradition of dance, music, and resistance, rooted in the island’s colonial history and natural upheavals. At the heart of the film is dancer Lena Blou’s philosophy of the bigidi, a Creole term evoking unstable balance; the precarious state of slipping without falling. It’s a way of moving in a place where the ground literally and figuratively shifts - a metaphor for life in Guadeloupe, shaped by slavery, colonisation, earthquakes, tornadoes, and droughts. Two dancers - Lena Blou and Ovide Carindo - embody this principle. Their bodies tremble, almost fall, then recover, improvising in response to the surroundings. Sonny Troupé, a contemporary Gwoka musician, composes to their movements, echoing the traditional drum-dancer dialogue in which the dancer dictates the musical score. Together they weave the mesmerising vision of a radical philosophy from a land that knows how to dance with uncertainty.

No More Kokomo

Somewhere in England brave souls line up to take on this year's fiery chilli crop.

An experimental documentary in which the narrator evokes his childhood memories of Cyprus, and his connection to an indelible friendship defined by separation. Through vivid recollections of their lost bond, he explores themes of longing, belonging, and the enduring pull of his homeland that shaped them both. Waves Won’t Stop is an intimate look on a long journey of return.

Liz Zagone's first full stand up comedy special, filmed in Los Angeles with her family in the audience. Witty, vulnerable, and lacking decorum, Liz covers dating, family, and the horrors of the service industry.

Presented by Mountain Designs, the Women’s Adventure Film Tour® (WAFT) returns for its 9th year, celebrating extraordinary women and their thrilling adventures. This year’s line-up features an inspiring collection of short films that highlight stories of courage, connection, and pushing beyond personal limits. From mountain peaks to ocean waves, and from the everyday to the extreme, these films showcase women from all walks of life pursuing their definition of adventure.

A poetic short by filmmaker, George Ammerlaan, filmed completely on iPhone

A young woman is kidnapped by a masked man.

A brother and sister reunite to scatter their dad's ashes. They follow his guidance but find themselves repeating the past.