2024 Short Film Competition

Sunday 17 March | Picture House| Doors 5:50 PM | Session 6:20 PM | End 9:00 PM

Eleven short films, including one WORLD PREMIERE, followed by Q&A with filmmakers and festival awards ceremony

Congratulations to the 2024 prize winners

Private View - the Vocation prize (Jury award) for Best Short Film

Seeking Thomas - the Fox and Goose prize (Jury award) for 2nd Best Short Film

How to Build a Life - the Audience award for Best Short Film

MUNA

After her grandfather dies, teenager Muna spends the intense mourning period trying to persuade her parents to let her go on a school trip

Dir: Warda Mohamed | 2023 | UK | 19 mins | 12

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?

A visual artist shares the challenges of losing her sight and her experience of ‘coming out’to everyone after years of hiding it.

Dir: Liberty Smith | 2022 | UK | 14 mins | PG | Documentary

THE MUMMY

The demands and joys of motherhood
trigger surreal transformations during a trip
to the park.

Dir: Nicki McCubbing | 2023 | UK | 5 mins | PG

15 YEARS

Diagnosed with Parkinson’s at age 39, a
professional wildlife photographer’s passion
for nature pushes him to keep going.

Dir: Katie Mayhew | 2022 | UK | 5 mins | 12A | Documentary

SEEKING THOMAS

A visceral dance film about a young man struggling with mental health.

Dir: Julia Lisa Zlotnick | 2023 |
UK | 3 mins | 15 |

I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE ON THE MOON

A young non-binary person wants to escape – literally to the moon

THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE

Nina agrees to have an experimental
device attached to her to regain her
capacity to feel.

Dir: Dawn Jones Redstone | 2024 | USA | 12 mins | PG

WORLD PREMIERE

CALL OF THE CRANES

People walking in the forest in Finland hear the call of the cranes and dance a response.

Dir: Vilma Tihilä | 2023 | Finland | 4 mins | U

HOW TO BUILD A LIFE

Louis, a young man with Asperger’s, talks with his older brother about the decade of bullying that nearly ended his life.

Dir: Matthew Reese | 2023 | UK | 10 mins | 12 | Documentary

YELLOW

In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Laili
goes to buy her first full-body veil and
face a new future

Dir: Elham Ehsas | 2023 | Afghanistan/UK
13 mins | 12

THE OUTING

The 1970s – divorcee Nellie meets widower Frank, but as they talk she realises she can never escape a monstrous family secret

Dir: Joanne Mitchell | 2022 | UK | 15 mins | 15