Block Tales
Director: Jeremie Brivet
Block Tales traces the final days of Trey, a young man caught between his artistic dreams and the brutal pull of the streets. A raw and lyrical short film about youth, violence, and the weight of circumstance.
UK 14 mins

Headbang
Director: Anna Khaja
An American perspective on the hijab and female empowerment that resonates with universal questions of selfhood and freedom. Through the lens of two different young women, Leila, from secular background, and Amara, from a religious one.
USA 14 Mins

Half a Century
Director: Jackie Mahoney
A nanny goes on vacation with her affluent employers and uncovers a dark family secret.
USA 16 mins

 Next Of Kim
Director: Daniel Reid
Kim is having a lonely Christmas, until he isn’t, he has a visitor that is uncannily similar to himself. Off the wall humour.
UK 22 Mins

The Guilted Age
Director: Stine Hole Mankovsky
In 1890, inside a grand Texas mansion, Louisa, a young maid, is visibly unwell. Her brief moment of solitude is interrupted by Lady Annabelle, a sophisticated socialite from New York. Lady Annabelle insists she seeks medical help. When Louisa refuses, the two women get into a heated argument.
UK 14 Mins

The Trophy King
Director: Tighe Boudreaux Kellner
Follows Trip Mahoney, a small-town trophy salesman, during his bungling attempt to pull off a heist. Grappling with the weight of his consistent failures, Trip watches as his brilliantly ignorant ideas snowball into a full-blown dumpster fire.
USA 19 Mins

Friday is Mushroom Soup
Director: Arnold T Rice
To look sincerely at how people try to care for each other, between the imperfections of themselves and of the system, is as much my role as a filmmaker as it is a social worker.
UK 17Mins