2025 Short Film Competition

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 PRIZE WINNERS

The Test - the Ewe Move prize (Jury award) for Best Short Film

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

Kidda - the Audience award for Best Short Film

Sunday 6 April | Picture House| Doors 6:15 PM | Session 6:45 PM | End 9:15 PM

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

HABITUATION

Bed-ridden I-Kiribati Yorkshire nun, Anna Betero, discovers a strange symbiosis with her climate crisis threatened homeland Kiribati.

Dir: Louisa Rose Mackleston | 2024 | UK | 13 mins | 12A

KIDDA

Encounters with agents and aliens stop Jude from doing his geography homework - and shield him from an unwelcome reality.

Dir: Fraser Jordan | 2024 | UK | 15 mins | 12A

THE TEST

I-Ling has to take a Life-in-the-UK test as part of her citizenship application. But what is the test really about?

Dir: Hsieh Meng Han | 2024 | UK | 12 mins | 12A

SANDCASTLES

In this heartfelt animated short, a wistful child re-lives a memory close to their heart.

Dir: Meredith Stewart | 2023 | UK | 6 mins | 12A | Animation

KITTY AND HER ACCORDION

A daughter reflects on her own career in the arts and on her talented mum, stifled by the societal constraints of 1950s England.

Dir: Roz Di Caprio | 2024 | UK | 9 mins | 12A | Documentary

THE LAST BIRD

Three rival birdwatchers clash in a desperate race to photograph a rare bird.

Dir: Robert David Lloyd, Ethan Collins | 2025 | UK | 5 mins | 12A

PREMIERE

ESC

An office-worker rabbit lives every day trapped in a monotonous, repetitive cycle until a wild rabbit turns the world upside down.

Dir: Pamela Simoes Gomez, Olivia Timms | 2024 | UK | 7 mins | 12A | Animation

HEAVY

A trip to the supermarket to buy sanitary products forces an awkward conversation between a teenage girl and her clueless father.

Dir: Eve Grant | 2024 | UK | 6 mins | 12A

CUPPA CHAI

After the death of her Nani Ji, Mira finds she knows very little about the woman who passed away.

Dir: Amit Kaur | 2023 | UK | 10 mins | 12A