0-9
15:29 (5 mins)
dir: Giovanni Busnach
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
Lea, thrown into a white and endless room, is forced to study. She tries to focus, but her ADHD and a malfunctioning clock stop her from doing so. She starts a hysterical battle between the ticks of her pen and the clicks of the table clock.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
A-D
A Day Like A Week (90 mins)
dir: Kader AYD
BLOCK U - Friday, 24th November, 6:00pm
A DAY LIKE A WEEK follows the interrogation of Stan Truman (Armand Assante). He tells an interrogator, police chief officer Thomas Pressman (Richard Sammel), a convoluted story about events that led him and his family to experience a mysterious and terrifying night.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST FEATURE FILM, BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS, The Audience Award
A Good Little Girl (6 mins)
dir: Nisaro Karim
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
Be careful out there when you go on a date.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Adam Zindani - What About Love (5 mins)
dir: Ross Syner, Ben Lowe
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
Official music video Adam Zindani's (of The Stereophonics) debut single 'What About Love'
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Aero Orange (11 mins)
dir: Marcus Benny Feher
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
Captain H’Orange leads a reconnaissance mission over hostile coordinates with his fruit aeronauts when suddenly he and his team come under fire and their newest member; Airman Apple is taken hostage by the evil General Onion.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
All Roads Lead To Home (103 mins)
dir: Darren Scott
BLOCK E - Saturday, 18th November, 6:00pm
When personal tragedies bring songwriters Amy and Matt together, they embark on a journey of healing, soul-searching and friendship, but where will it lead them? A musical odyssey featuring several original songs and a pulsating music score. A love letter to 80s and 90s music.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, BEST FEATURE FILM, The Audience Award
Angel Fleet (25 mins)
dir: Tristan Loraine
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
Following the loss of their father in a gliding accident, daughters Molly (Darcy Jacobs), Romina (Millie Lewis) and their mum (Jessica Hilliard) struggle in different ways to come to terms with the tragedy.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG FEMALE ACTOR (Darcy Jacobs) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
Anita, Lost in the News (17 mins)
dir: Behzad Nalbandi
BLOCK Z - Saturday, 25th November, 4;00pm
An inflatable boat leaves the coast of Dunkirk, France, to take 19 illegal immigrants to England, however, it is capsized after a few minutes. Seven migrants drowned in the English Channel, five belonged to a Kurdish-Iranian family (Rasoul 35, Shiva 35, Anita 9, Armin 6 and Artin just 15 months) who had gone on this difficult journey dreaming of a better life. This is an anima-documentary based on a true story.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
Arm in Arm (6 mins)
dir: Victoria Buse
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
The big morning has arrived, but a sudden surge of uncertainly from the bride means the only thing being thrown is bread, not confetti...
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Aware (5 mins)
dir: Ilirian Bushi
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
Charlie is anxious and his mental health is deteriorating due to family issues and worries at school; is anyone aware?
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Bad day for Contemplation (33 mins)
dir: Jon Pegg
BLOCK P - Tuesday, 21st November, 8:00pm
During a prison riot, a Heroic prison officer and a prisoner segregated on the protection wing for her own good. Thrown together they find them selves hiding away from the bloodthirsty mob together.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Bad Market (4 mins)
dir: Toyosi Ige
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST STUDENT FILM, The Audience Award
Barricade (11 mins)
dir: Alice Johannessen
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
After experiencing a traumatic event on her school bus, Aleena bottles up her anger until a chance connection triggers a small act of rebellion.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
Beach (6 mins)
dir: James Alexander Allen
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
A parody of 'Dune: Part One', made for the DAFTAs 2022 challenge.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST FAN FILM, The Audience Award
Beans On Toast (4 mins)
dir: PATRICK WOODCOCK
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
Gentleman tries place an order at a Wayside Cafe
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Bitter Taste (18 mins)
dir: Ethan Tomás Race
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
A successful Scottish Chef in New York City harbors a dark secret: He has an eating disorder.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT FILM, BEST EDITING, The Audience Award
Blackout (11 mins)
dir: Nadine O'Mahony
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
Tilly and JJ have hit 30 and are still navigating the disappointing modern world of dating. Tilly feels left behind from the rest of her peers, whilst JJ enjoys the freedom of being alone. The film explores how the girls cope with dating as Millenials, possible fertility issues, and their exquisite ability to both get completely blackout drunk. Perhaps a coping mechanism or perhaps an escape from reality the girls are forever plagued with hangiexty from the night before.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Bloom (2 mins)
dir: Abby McCarthy, Jake Holder
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
A film about growing up and finding your identity.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Blue Nation - Every Single Time (3 mins)
dir: Dwane Perks
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
Narrative Music Video: Every Single Tiem"
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Bot Girl Gone (7 mins)
dir: Keisha Grant, Finbar Somers, Finbar Somers
BLOCK O - Tuesday, 21st November, 6:00pm
'Bot Girl Gone' is a compelling dance film that unwraps the dehumanisation caused by trolling and cyberbullying. Focussing through an emotional lens, the portrayal explores our response to technological worlds, reality, illusions and money.
Artistic Direction and Performance By Keisha Grant
Film Maker and Post Production By Finbar Somers"
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Braille (24 mins)
dir: Behrad Ezzati
BLOCK Z - Saturday, 25th November, 4;00pm
Saber, a young blind man, is looking for a job for himself, he accidentally notices the power in his hands and decides to...
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
Breakfast in Northport (3 mins)
dir: Zorina Exie Frey
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
A short story about a Black woman's experience in a
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Brushing Out The Curls (11 mins)
dir: Jason Wingard
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
English Defence League member, Tony, is ashamed of his Muslim heritage. His daughter, Tara, is following his route to extremism. Is it too late to save her?
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT FILM, BEST MALE ACTOR (Luke Fuman Dejahang), The Audience Award
Butcher (13 mins)
dir: Tom Colley
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
A failing mid-level marquee company in rural Essex battles with the difficulty of rising inflation and a faltering national economy, leading to drastic measures and butchered solutions. 'Butcher' explores the contemporary struggles of the working class and the forgotten voices of those who live within it.
nominations: The Audience Award
suitable for 12+ audiences
BOOK TICKET
Candlelight (7 mins)
dir: Scott Newton
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
In a dusty attic, a tall dinner candle springs to life. As the playful and curious candle explores, learning to hop, skip and dance, it discovers a second candle. The two play and dance their way through the attic, falling in love.
However, a shocking discovery is made when both candles realise that the heat from their combined flames, whenever they touch, causes them to rapidly melt.
Splitting up, the two must decide whether life without the other can still be magical, or if they want to sacrifice everything for love.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
Chairs (20 mins)
dir: James Hughes
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
A man regales his peculiar obsession with chairs to his new psychiatrist.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SCORE, BEST MALE ACTOR (Akemnji Ndifornyen), BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, The Audience Award
Chances - Who's Lara? $anteria (4 mins)
dir: Philippe Vanasse-Paquet
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
Chances is the first music video of who's lara? and $anteria. The film explores the thought pattern taken by the artists to escape their inner demons ; a visual metaphor of the vicious circle of addiction.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Cheese and Onion (38 mins)
dir: Shaun Stone-Riley
BLOCK D - Saturday, 18th November, 4:00pm
Cheese and Onion" is a compelling police crime drama that delves into the dangerous aftermath of a seemingly minor dispute. Set in present-day rural West Yorkshire, the film follows a police sergeant driven by revenge against her husband's young mistress. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that the misogynistic husband holds a hidden role in the tragedy. Through its exploration of abuse of power, injustice, and the devastating impact on a young woman's aspirations, "Cheese and Onion" offers a thought-provoking narrative that resonates with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. It challenges viewers to confront societal issues and reflect on the complexities of personal agency and accountability.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Choke (8 mins)
dir: Chris Faur
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
After waking up after a night out, two hungover flatmates notice that despite all the clocks in their flat indicate it being midday, it is in fact still dark outside. Their shared paranoia only grows with the subsequent arrival of a series of increasingly bizarre and alarming occurrences that cause them to become trapped in their small flat, and as things spiral further into chaos the two begin to question has the world gone mad or have they.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST STUDENT FILM, The Audience Award
City on Screen (57 mins)
dir: Matthew R. Ford
BLOCK 0̷: Opening Night - Friday, 17th November 6:00pm
Documentary exploring the history and contribution of Birmingham (U.K.) in Film and T.V. Featuring interviews with filmmakers and creatives from the U.K.'s second city.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
Clean Street (31 mins)
dir: Velton John Lishke
BLOCK P - Tuesday, 21st November, 8:00pm
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST TV PILOT, The Audience Award
Clowning Around (2 mins)
dir: Robert Brown
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
A Clown dreams of being a Circus performer, but soon learns that practice makes perfect!
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
Coming Soon... (5 mins)
by Ande Case and Lucy Crewe
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
Everything is better in the future... obviously
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
Common Change (16 mins)
dir: Paige Angela Wade-Grey
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
My short film follows a woman on her creative journey of discovering the issue of Climate Change. Throughout her journey she explores the issue, has fun and advocates for change by raising awareness of the issue in ways that are attainable to her.
suitable for audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
Confines (18 mins)
dir: Richard Bazley
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
A tormented man traverses life's journey burdened by the weight of the voices in his head and a world he struggles to understand. Pushed to the literal edge, he has a plan to silence them once and for all, but fate has other ideas.
nominations: The Audience Award
suitable for 15+ audiences
Conversion (12 mins)
dir: Richard Broomfield
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
Liam tries desperately to hold onto his most important memories of the love of his life as they are slowly erased and his mind is re-programmed.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Courthouse - 50 Shades (5 mins)
dir: Sarah Michelle Durrant
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
This music video for up and coming BBC introducing recommended band courthouse was released on Valentine’s Day 2023 clocking up 78000 youtube views. The themes of noir and femme fatale depict a valentines tale with a twist to add some thriller to the laid back track. Directed and produced by Sarah Michelle Durrant and glam rock films this is her first festival submission as she is still a full time film studies student.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Cradle (5 mins)
dir: Daniel Alexander
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
A domestic violence short film
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Daddy Come Home (4 mins)
dir: Sebastian Anthony Pecchia
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
A bizarre music video staring Anthony Head as the "King" delivering a powerful and deep song in a style that will catch the listener off guard, the ever present fool is always watching on.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Dawn At Gougane Barra (5 mins)
dir: Luke Morgan, Jake Morgan
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
The genesis of the film, Dawn at Gougane Barra, started some 16 years ago when Kurt was visiting Ireland with his brother. Kurt had read that there was an idyllic mountain valley, located a mere hour’s drive west of Cork City. When he started to see Gougane Barra’s valley and lough (lake) unfold before him, Kurt was immediately overcome by its tranquil beauty. The memory of that magical place has never left him. Years later, Kurt was composing an Irish-sounding song that had the feel of a sunrise. He remembered that beautiful valley he’d visited so long ago and named the new piece, Dawn at Gougane Barra.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Dear Single Mum (4 mins)
dir: Jesse Roth
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
A film targeted towards single mums. The writer and producer wrote the script based off his personal experience.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST ONLINE CONTENT, The Audience Award
Death Is Just A Feeling (15 mins)
dir: Alec Jordan
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
When Dawn's family is struck by tragedy, she will go to any lengths to bring them back together again, no matter how damaging. Death doesn't have to be the end.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST EDITING, BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS, BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP, The Audience Award
Departure (10 mins)
dir: Andrew Harmer
BLOCK D - Saturday, 18th November, 4:00pm
Departure is a moving account of dealing with the loss of a loved one and the impact this has on the people left behind. Set to the backdrop of a science fiction tale about alien intervention, it is a visual metaphor about losing someone close to you through illness.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, BEST SCORE BEST, MALE ACTOR (Rory Wilton) BEST FEMALE ACTOR (Katie Sheridan) BEST SOUND DESIGN, The Audience Award
Devan Coultrie is Unwell (11 mins)
dir: Punam Farmah
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
Confused, out of sorts; Devan’s day isn’t going well. From the bathroom, his bedroom to a bar. What exactly is going on? He finds himself waking up in the bath, after what turns out to be a rather mixed up day. Here he is, trying to make sense of it, in the city of Birmingham. An adaptation of a short story from the book 'Postcards From Peace: A Peace Series Collection'
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
D.I. Ray (6 mins)
dir: Ewen Weatherburn
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
D.I. Ray is a drunk but loveable cop haunted by a serial killer. He suspects the killer to be closer than he thinks.
nominations: The Audience Award
suitable for All audiences
Dig (8 mins)
dir: G J Hewitt
BLOCK D - Saturday, 18th November, 4:00pm
A mother searches a secluded beach, determined to find a certain item, that will bring her some closure.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT FILM, BEST FEMALE ACTOR (Susan Sims), The Audience Award
DIVA Orchestra - Time in a Bottle (4 mins)
dir: Aurelien Durand
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
"Time in a bottle" is a classical American song, written and played by Jim Croce in 1973.
This music video, from a unique orchestral arrangement of the original track and performed by the DIVA Orchestra, was shot in only one day during the pandemic at the historical monument "Theatre de la Renaissance" in Paris. A major and famous theater built in 1872 by Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Don't Worry About Me (4 mins)
dir: Elisa Martin, Kate Moore
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
We all have grieved over losing someone we loved in our lives. However, for Reece he struggles to face the facts that someone close to him is no longer with him and finds a way to hide away his emotions even questioning why doing activities will help him accept that they’re gone.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Don’t Stress Stay Blessed (2 mins)
dir: Nataylia Roni
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
A Short Improvised Film focusing on mental health, being happy and staying blessed.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, The Audience Award
Down, Down, Down (11 mins)
dir: Lily Rose Thomas
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
At a disastrous dinner party, three generations of women reckon with their relationship with alcohol - and each other.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST ENSEMBLE CAST, BEST EDITING, The Audience Award
Dying to Meet You (10 mins)
dir: Ava Bounds
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
A hotel lobby in Depression America is the crucible where a brilliant, ruined drunk battles his demons one last time. This true story reveals what happens on the day Bill Wilson turns down a drink and creates Alcoholics Anonymous.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
E-G
Easy (10 mins)
dir: Alisa Selishchava
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
In this fake world of social media, all we need is connection and love. Lucky for Eddy and Sibylle, their first date is going really well. The conversation is flowing and attraction is obvious. They fall in love and live happily ever after. Hold on, hold on, this is not a Hollywood film! We don’t have a happy ending. What we have is deception, lies, disappointment and laughs. And you might recognise yourself or a friend in our heroes. This is the new normal after all.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
Echo (15 mins)
dir: Jo Southwell
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
A young woman, Alice explores an imagined memory with her lost child, Echo. As she begins to drown in the memory, Tom calls her back to reality. But what will she choose ?
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST FEMALE ACTOR (Lizzie Aaryan-Stanton), BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS, BEST STUNTS OR CHOREOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
Echo's Voice Box (4 mins)
dir: Alex Sultoon
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
A singer is terrified of losing her voice and thinks someone is out to steal it.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Exhibit A (4 mins)
dir: James Wilkinson
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
A mysterious intergalactic art collector has their, sights on one of earths masterpieces. But a plucky security guard ensures it will not be a simple lift."
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
Final Parade (5 mins)
dir: Atlos Croft
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
Two clownettes have their holiday ruined by an underwater epiphany.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP, BEST STUNTS OR CHOREOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
For The Love Of Dog (12 mins)
dir: Sophie Bird
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
Sisters Eleanor and Laura embark on a journy to find their dog Buckley. They come to realise that upon finding their beloved mut, they had also found each other.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Found Home (3 mins)
dir:
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
Lucy Beaumont, a waitress within a vegetarian restaurant at Ambleside finds a way to recover her traumatic upbringing and discovers her safe space
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
Fragments of a Broken Memory (3 mins)
dir: Lewis Malin
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
Shot on super 8 film. Fragments of a Broken Memory tells the story of a young lady who finds peace in the mundane things in life and anger in societal norms.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Galahad Jones (36 mins)
dir: Rebecca Louise Goff
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
Galahad Jones tells the story of a former British Army Paratrooper invalided out of he army after a friendly fire incident. The film picks up the story 25 years on, when Galahad, suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is struggling, barely existing on the fringes of society, working a lavatory cleaner, whilst his friend Mitch, who was also caught up in the friendly fire incident, is homeless.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT FILM BEST MALE ACTOR (Anton Lesser), The Audience Award
Ghosted (8 mins)
dir: Declan Smith
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
Emily befriends Imogen online which is the start of a relationship that takes an unexpected course leaving Emily in the dark.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG FEMALE ACTOR (Rebecca Hanser), The Audience Award
Gift of Life (6 mins)
dir: John Bradburn
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
Music Video For The Infinity Ring starring Jenny Runacre (who worked with Passolini in Canterbury Tales, Antonioni in The Passenger and Jarman in Jubilee). The world is out of order and a mysterious figure creates two opposing forces to return it to unity.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Going Nowhere (Pilot Episode) (24 mins)
dir: George Walker
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
Tasked with bringing more tourism to the Yorkshire town, a local man struggles to hold the community together, as a crew documents the whole peculiar experience.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST TV PILOT, The Audience Award
Good Grief (11 mins)
dir: Robert Sharp
BLOCK P - Tuesday, 21st November, 8:00pm
Featuring BAFTA winner Vicky McClure (This is England). Four mothers experience the agony of child loss in a film that highlights the importance of grief.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT, BEST ENSEMBLE CAST, The Audience Award
Guilty Bunch of Flowers (9 mins)
dir: Wayne Kelly, Matt Holt
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
When lovers, husband, sister, wife and mother all share their guilt through the same bunch of flowers, anarchic chaos ensues.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST ENSEMBLE CAST, The Audience Award
H-L
Happy Okay Mate (4 mins)
dir: Luke Collins
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
In this short dance film by Tom N Rob we see Rob arrive to collect the bins at the back door of a theatre before his eyes fall on a ‚Äòcancelled’ theatre production. Spying an open back door Rob slips into the theatre and takes to stage once more before an unexpected character joins him. Can he stay and dance or will he be thrown back out on the streets?
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, BEST STUNTS OR CHOREOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
Helen of Troy's (5 mins)
dir: Nick Flügge
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
An auto-biographical tale of frustrated ambition, broken dreams and magical fish. While everyone including her boyfriend has gone off to Uni having all the sex, Helen is stuck still working at her Dad's fish 'n' chip shop, dreaming of escape.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Her Castle (17 mins)
dir: Daniel Ellerby
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
A reclusive hoarder finds her solitary existence upset when a kind-hearted social worker shows up at her door, and leaves her questioning if she can open herself up to the possibility of learning to live again.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT, BEST FEMALE ACTOR (Angela Harvey), The Audience Award
Hit Man: Ep. 1 (Pilot) "Secrets Of Lies" (20 mins)
dir: Elias Plagianos
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
Starring Richard Kind, Karen Allen, William Sadler, and Peter Riegert.
A lonely hitman from New York City travels to small towns around the country trying to find meaning in his inconsequential life as he fulfills his contracts and eliminates his targets. Based on the best selling "Hit Man" book series by Grand Master of mystery Lawrence Block.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST TV PILOT, The Audience Award
Holiday Classics (2 mins)
dir: James Pyle
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
This holiday season, get ready for a home video adventure the whole family will never forget (EVER...)
nominations: , The Audience Award
suitable for All audiences
Hope It Hurts - Havannah (3 mins)
dir: Lewis Malin
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Horizon (15 mins)
dir: Daniele De Muro
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
In the borderlands, crossed by climate refugees looking for safety, men face their primordial nature, in a bleak reality where the law of the strongest rules the world. Hidden in an underground shelter and resigned to his fate, the main character observes the definitive decline of society as it surrender to the evil nature of men, until a special encounter, interpreted as a divine sign of light, turns on his faith and hope for the future of humanity.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
I Called You (6 mins)
dir: Jane Moriarty
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
Home alone after a night out, Sammy finds signs of an intruder and must convince the Police she is in danger. But should they believe her ?
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST EDITING, The Audience Award
If You Go Down To The Woods (6 mins)
dir: Duncan Woodhouse
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
3 friends discuss an urban legend of the monster that lives in the woods. They decide to see if the stories are true and head to the woods. Little do they know what is waiting for them.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS, The Audience Award
IMPOSTER The Series (6 mins)
dir: Shayda Frost
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
A down-on-her-luck painter, desperate to get noticed, steals an outrageous idea from her ex-boyfriend and turns it into an extra feminist performance art piece that makes her go viral for all the wrong reasons.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST ONLINE CONTENT, The Audience Award
In The Shadow of Darkness (15 mins)
dir: Manjeet Gill, Andrew Walker
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Isaac (84 mins)
dir: Tariq Sayed
BLOCK Q - Wednesday, 22nd November, 6:00pm
In the near future a company specialising in cellular meat trial its synthetic technology in a bid to create the perfect child. Nicholas and Sarah are guinea pigs to this trial and are provided with a seemingly healthy son, after losing their own child to a genetic disease.
As their new son, Isaac, develops he becomes increasingly violent and dangerous, leaving the parents with no choice but to lock him away and keep him hidden while they try to uncover the truth as to what is driving him insane."
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST FEATURE FILM, The Audience Award
It's Getting Close To Christmas (4 mins)
dir: Steve Wilson
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
Christmas music video featuring Tony Christie
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Ithaca - Fluorescent (4 mins)
dir: Paul Cooke
BLOCK D - Saturday, 18th November, 4:00pm
Music video for ITHACA's song "Fluorescent" - featuring comedian Ed Gamble, some red balaclavas, and a bucketload of blood.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Just 14 Promotional Trailer (10 mins)
dir: Steve Broster
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
A teenage boy following his beloved football team during their unlikely nearly 80’s title challenge. A coming of age comedy with the teenage coping with bullying, his first love, death of a grandparent and everything else the season throws at him. A cross between Fever Pitch and Gregory’s Girl with a hint of Adrian Mole.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST EDITING, The Audience Award
Kaidan (21 mins)
dir: Zarak Khan
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
After a botched robbery KENJI is stuck with a cursed ring which can only be taken off by killing his two best freinds who were also involved.
suitable for 18+ audiences
nominations: BEST SOUND DESIGN, BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Keeping Up (3 mins)
dir: Josie Copeland, Keevy Wardhaugh
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
Keeping Up" is a short magic realism film that follows Joy, a woman trapped in an abusive marriage, who uses the power of makeup to hide her reality and portray an illusion of perfection.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, The Audience Award
Kill List, a Shoe Town Story (4 mins)
dir: James Millar
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
While carrying out his latest contract, THE HITMAN’s own demons are exposed, when he comes face to face with PAUL BROWN, the man who killed his brother.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Last Respects (15 mins)
dir: Andrew Hindle
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
Vinny a gangster boss lies on his death bed attended to by a nurse and doctor. Three associate gangsters visit to pay their last respects and while alone they vent their true feelings. However, it is soon revealed that Vinny is not dying, and was testing out their loyalty leading to serious consequences.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Last Trial - A Star Wars Collateral Story (12 mins)
dir: Marino Darés
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
18 years after the great Jedi purge and the rise of the galactic empire, a lost padawan acting as a rebel spy and a rookie stormtrooper face the hardest and most important trial of their lives whilst surrounded by a storm of smoke, fire and thousands of blaster bolts.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST FAN FILM, BEST STUNTS OR CHOREOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
Lepidoptera (5 mins)
dir: Elizabeth Fijalkowski
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:00am
An eerie horror-esque tale about an old man’s consuming obsession with finding an elusive moth that haunts his memories and dreams.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
Lies on the Line (17 mins)
dir: Nicole Sarah Fry
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
Lawrence Gordon installs telephones, still a novel item for most households in the 60s. However, his motive for doing so is not for the benefit of his customers. Using the telephone system, he taps into private phone calls out of an insatiable need to discover domestic indiscretions. His base of operation is his childhood home, a home haunted by unpleasant memories that motivate him in his mission. In one instance, Lawrence instals a new phone in the stylish home of Lesley Morris, a young woman who tires of her unfeeling husband. She, like all of Lawrence’s victims, is oblivious to his spying and has no idea that her own secrets are threatened to come to hideous light.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP, BEST COSTUME, The Audience Award
Like This, Like That (4 mins)
dir: James Plumb
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
The debut single from Samira Mighty - Like This, Like That is a fierce, in your face pop dance video which showcases Samira's undeniable star power and incredible talent. Created by Producer/Director James Plumb, with his frequent collaborator Thomas Foster on DOP duties, the production was filmed on valentines day 2023 and released 3 weeks later on Wednesday 8th March 2023
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Linda (8 mins)
dir: Joe Lycett
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
Linda gets a job in a post office, but her tall tales soon raise suspicions.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT FILM, BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Lost In Memory (19 mins)
dir: Wen Jing Shan
BLOCK Z - Saturday, 25th November, 4;00pm
Chen Guanhong wakes up injured in the suburbs and is called back to his company for an emergency situation. Then He realizes his wife is missing and decides to go to the Police Station after he leaving the company. However, there is a crisis brewing ...
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
Lucid (10 mins)
dir: Thea Viner
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
This film follows two sisters on their first night out together and the challenges they face as young women in a society battling a drink-spiking epidemic.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SCORE, BEST SOUND DESIGN, The Audience Award
M-O
M.E. by Tubeway Days (6 mins)
dir: Robin Slater
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
Music video - Live performance of M.E. by Tubeway Days. Originally by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Maggie's Lovely Trumpy Monster (1 mins)
dir: Alec McPhedran
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
Animated image based on my grandaughters drawing of a monster being a bit trumpy. Maggie was three at the time.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Magic Carpet Ride - Gazelle (5 mins)
dir: Christopher Bevan
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
Danielle Watson (This Is England) stars in the energetic music video for Northern Soul inspired track ‚ÄòMagic Carpet Ride’ from rock 'n' roll band Gazelle. Filmed on location in Belper, Derbyshire and produced by YSP Media.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Merry Crisismas! (2 mins)
dir: Ibitayo Tsaint Ibikunle
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
A little boy is awoken on Christmas Eve by a stranger bearing gifts!
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG MALE ACTOR (Kaleb Parker), The Audience Award
Mine Mine Mine (20 mins)
dir: Duncan Ragg
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
A bed-bound man reflects on his childhood with Peter Pan, and how sometimes everyone grows up without you.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
Moulding the Future (20 mins)
dir:
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
A documentary short telling the story of the importance of heritage within the urban re-development of an iconic 250 year old iconic factory. The Spode works in Stoke-on-Trent was a pioneer in global ceramic development but today, it has an uncertain future.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: The Audience Award
Mr Mister by The Resolutions (5 mins)
dir: Nia Rani Pennie
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
This music video explores the damages of work and hussle culture in modern society through a satirical and comedic lens, and is backed by the upbeat, catchy song 'Mr Mister' by local Birmingham band 'The Resolutions'.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Mudlark (29 mins)
dir: Max Van De Banks
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
'MUDLARK' A bittersweet story set in Victorian Wales, drawing on Welsh folklore and history, tells of an orphan who scavenges on the riverbanks and is taken in by a widowed salmon fisherman.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP, BEST COSTUME, The Audience Award
New Neighbour (5 mins)
dir: Vincent Hazard
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
Ben is moving into a new flat and is trying to make a good impression on his new neighbours, which is important when you’re visually impaired. However, Ben doesn’t seem to be able to connect with his next door neighbour...
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Next Year x Mulini (4 mins)
dir: Sam Ebdon
BLOCK D - Saturday, 18th November, 4:00pm
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Night Terror 2 The Awakening (6 mins)
dir: David Duke
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
Steven arrives home only to find not all is as it seems
suitable for 18+ audiences
nominations: BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP, BEST COSTUME, The Audience Award
No Drinks On The Dance Floor (6 mins)
dir: Laura Weston
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
In a working-class town in England where nightclubs are facing extinction, we follow a young girl on a journey through city streets to a place that is free. Somewhere that played host to sweaty mosh pits, first kisses, boozy punch ups and life-long friendships. We witness the sound systems fired up one last time as she takes to the floor in a visceral exploration of dance, music and identity."
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Nobody Knows (2 mins)
dir: Jez . Alsop
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
Anna struggles with her grief for her terminally ill best friend
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Odd One Out (4 mins)
dir: Micky Wozny
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
A cycle of prejudice is broken when one ostracised outsider breaks the pattern with rebellious celebration.
Suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
Off That (4 mins)
dir: M. Ra'ees H, Kieran Atticus
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
The protagonist searches far and wide for a mysterious figure. However, he realises the answers he seeks are far closer to home.
Suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
On The Line (74 mins)
dir: Oliver Pearn
BLOCK O - Tuesday, 21st November, 6:00pm
Alderney, 1964. AGNES, 24, works alone as a switchboard operator in the telephone operator exchange. Agnes uses her powers of deduction and local knowledge to help the police track an abduction. But things take a turn for the worse when she realises everything is not as it seems.
Suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST FEATURE FILM, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, BEST COSTUME, BEST FEMALE ACTOR (Victoria Lucie), The Audience Award
Orchard Rewind All 00:03:00
dir: Sherrie Edgar
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
Reflecting on the natural space, a group of seven students explored the challenging and changing environment of the Coundon Hall Park. Students talked about planting trees with the school in the Orchard Garden, discovering The Spinney with friends, playing in the fields, and walking along the hedgerows.
"Orchard Rewind is a film made in collaboration with Cardinal Newman secondary school during the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF)
nomination: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Our Kid (100mins)
Dir: Sean Cronin
BLOCK F - Saturday, 18th November, 8:00pm
A story with a real beating Liverpool heart. starring Faye McKeever, Ricky Tomlinson, and Daniel P. Lewis.
Suitable for 15+ audiences
nomination: BEST FEATURE FILM, BEST YOUNG FEMALE ACTOR (Poppie Jae Hughes), BEST MALE ACTOR (Daniel P. Lewis), , The Audience Award
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Paul Roux - Bapteme (6 mins)
dir: Alessandro Amaducci
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
An astronaut trapped in a cage made of data is looking for a place. After a few attempts he realizes that he is looking for someone. He finds himself in another place where cyber insects are building another world, also closed. There is a person waiting for him. Finally the encounter between the two creatures can produce an alchemical and technological marriage able to free them.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Peeking Woman (3 mins)
dir: Luke Cooper
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
There is something in Sam's house, peeking around the corner, watching him whilst he sleeps.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, The Audience Award
Peeler (5 mins)
dir: Amy Gledhill
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
Strippers Beth & Lily are on their way to work a stag do and it's officially Lily’s last night on the job. She’s finally leaving behind her life in Birmingham and traveling around Europe as she’s always dreamed. Beth is determined for this not to mean the end to their friendship, and whilst trying to ignore the fact her own life’s a hot mess, they both suddenly find themselves in an unfortunate dilemma.
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
suitable for 15+ audiences
Pelican (4 mins)
dir: Thomas Longstaff
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
A chance encounter at a pelican crossing gets complicated.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Pick Me Up (18 mins)
dir: Jack Archer
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
An incel, escort, and pick up artist teach each other about relationships.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: The Audience Award
Prick (12 mins)
dir: Catherine Jane Kerr-Phillips
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
A young woman tries to piece together events after a murky night out
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: The Audience Award
Prowler (13 mins)
dir: Luke Cooper
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
A young girl has a night from hell when she realises she isn't alone, waking up to see the figure of a man in the darkness, watching her.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST STUDENT FILM
Pusskin (4 mins)
dir: ewen weatherburn
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
A British agent captured by an attractive international arms dealer, Could this be the start of a love story...
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Rebel: Revival of the Order (10 mins)
dir: Lauryn Ritchie, Devynn Ritchie
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
After the perilous fight on the desert planet of Takiron, Jenkari flees to a new planet where she can strengthen her connection to The Force.
Rebel: Revival of the Order is the thrilling finale to the Rebel series.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST FAN FILM, The Audience Award
Red Pill (4 mins)
dir: Will Dolan
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
Fuelled by rhetoric he’s learned online a young teen asks out his best friend, entirely unprepared for what might happen if she says no. Red Pill is a film about dangerous online communities radicalising boys and young men that is written verbatim from the online content that they are being exposed to.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG MALE ACTOR (Nathanael Saleh)
Restless Dreams (19 mins)
dir: Lucinda Lewis
BLOCK Z - Saturday, 25th November, 4;00pm
Audio Visual music video short film. Follow Gravelle as they descend into the abyss.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Results Day (10 mins)
dir: Omari McCarthy
BLOCK D - Saturday, 18th November, 4:00pm
Set in the inner city of Handsworth, Birmingham, UK - Results Day is a coming of age story that follows ‚Äúbook-smart‚Äù Curtis and ‚Äústreet-smart‚Äù Jordan, best friends and inseparable since childhood. Curtis dreams of leaving Handsworth while Jordan dreams of ruling it. But opening their A-level results reveals a surprising twist - Curtis, despite all his revision, has not done as well as he hoped, while Jordan, despite not revising at all, has done better than anyone expected. Curtis is disappointed. His results have altered the perception of himself, Jordan and the trajectory of his life. Jordan’s only worry is the reaction when he takes his results home. The looming threat of an uncertain future causes the tension between them to escalate into an argument putting them at odds with each other. As they make up and part ways the bitter-sweet reality of their fates finally sets in‚Ķ Their exam results mean things will never be the same again.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG MALE ACTOR (Tobias Martin Clarke), The Audience Award
Revolution X (93 mins)
dir: Matthew Philip Cannon
BLOCK K - Sunday, 19th November, 6:00pm
"Revolution X" is a time-twisting film of good against evil. It tells a story of humanity and the grounding, undeniable power of human will. Through the juxtaposition of positive and negative forces, the consequences of disregard to our individual purposes, parallels the liberation that comes with empathy and connection. By transcending time and reality, the dual narrative explores the debate of nature vs nurture, and their impact on the film rejects conventions of mainstream sci-fi that conforms to an action orientated spectacle, and instead focuses on the why rather than the what, allowing for a thought provoking production.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST FEATURE FILM, BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Riley & Rambo (5 mins)
dir: Danny Hardaker
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
Riley & Rambo is a story of a boy and his horse that offers insight into the Rag n’ Bone world of Holme Wood Bradford.¬†
With a backdrop of deprivation we discover the resourcefulness and happiness that’s found in an older and genuine way of life; where freedom can be found.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
Salute 50 | Biggest Wargame Event in Europe but… (11 mins)
dir: Richard Blades
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
Vlog of my first time at Salute the largest Wargame event in Europe who are hosting their 50 event. Shot on 22/04/23 released 23/04/23.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST ONLINE CONTENT, The Audience Award
Scrawn (8 mins)
dir: Samuel Harrison Crow
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
Scrawn is a short documentary about baby pigeons growing up in the wild - which, here, means a fire escape in Washington Heights, NYC. Ever seen a baby pigeon before?
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
Scrum Wars • Episode 1: A New Sprint (7 mins)
dir: Jaz Garewal
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
Ha’nah Bilbraxia-Stevens gets a crash course in Imperial Agile on her first day as project manager for the galactically past-deadline Death Star. She quickly learns that design critiques can turn deadly when the interim scrum master is the Dark Lord of the Sith.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, BEST FAN FILM, The Audience Award
See (6 mins)
dir: Johan Oudshoorn
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
"SEE" is about a boy who doesn’t feel well in the dirty and poluted world around him. He decides to jump on his bike. His journey ends up in France, just like Vincent van Gogh. Where he starts seeing the true colors of Earth and starts painting on his iPad.
The goal of the film is to inspire people to take action for our planet and also to rediscover the true colors of Earth.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Seen (13 mins)
dir: Hendrik Harms
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
When an artist paints a series of portraits for vampires, he does so in an altruistic attempt to return their reflections to them. However, on opening night of his exhibition, he soon learns the hard way why their image was struck from them in the first place.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: The Audience Award
Shush (2 mins)
dir: Luke Mark Cooper
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
The late night library is a place to read and study peacefully... as long as you stay quiet.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Snickered (4 mins)
dir: Anna Piggott-Reeves
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
When an attempted heist goes terribly wrong Des and Luke are forced to rethink their loyalties to each other. With the police closing in, Luke is prepared to go to any lengths to save his own skin.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, BEST STUDENT FILM, The Audience Award
Solar (6 mins)
dir: Connor Clifford, Lewis Hooper
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
A young bot hiding out in an after school club, seeks a human connection and a chance to live free.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST STUDENT FILM, The Audience Award
Stay With Me (9 mins)
dir: Nikola Palmer
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
After a husband loses his wife he revisits their old house and gets swept up in a surreal path merging memory with life.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST SCORE, The Audience Award
Stinga D - Du Coeur (4 mins)
dir: Steve None
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
Music video for a Birmingham based artist collaborating with a Greek-speaking artist.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Such A Lovely Day (17 mins)
dir: Simon Woods
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
Seen through the eyes of eleven-year-old Sam, we are taken on a journey through the loveliest of days. A glorious, happy family gathering in a perfect English summer garden. There’ll be lunch under the mulberry tree and wine and games and dancing. And then, of course, this being a brilliant party, there’ll be a surprise.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG MALE ACTOR (Tommy Finnegan), BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Sunday Roast (15 mins)
dir: Olof Berghe
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears to be a nice dinner is gradually changing into something else. Sunday Roast is about mental disorders and revolves around the conflict between curiosity, obligation and danger.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
Sunflowers In the Night (4 mins)
dir: Andres Useche
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
When Russian missiles fall on her Ukrainian city, Valentyna Veretksa, an athlete, flees with her kid daughter, and competes in marathons around the world waving Ukraine's flag and imploring the world to do more for all who, like her husband, stayed behind to resist the invasion back home. The brutality of the attacks on Ukraine are contrasted with the unbreakable spirit of its citizens.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
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Take Me To Your Influencer (5 mins)
dir: Tom Lincoln, Greer Dale-Foulkes
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
The fate of the planet is in the hands of its most popular teenage girl.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS, The Audience Award
Tell Me You Love Me (12 mins)
dir: Paulette Randall MBE
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
Based on a true story - A rooftop party for two, a brother & sister celebrate their love. She has escaped from a violent husband but her scars run deep. She makes the ultimate choice.
With Tamzin Outhwaite, Previous credits include: EastEnders, Death in Paradise, Ridley Road.
Danny Bayne, The Peripheral (Netflix) Hollyoaks,
Grease is the Word- Winner- BBC"
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT FILM, BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Text Me When You Get Home XX (10 mins)
dir: Niklas Bauer
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
At night, a woman enters a stranger’s car, casually and voluntarily. But soon she begins to sense the dangerous situation she might be in.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
That's The Respect Side (9 mins)
dir: Russell Dixon
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
"That's The Respect Side" is a short documentary that opens our eyes up to Deer Stalking and Animal Management from the perspective of Warwickshire based Deer Manager, Mark Broadhurst.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
The Ache (4 mins)
dir: Elliot Stone
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
The band SUE find themselves lost on a beach and tormented by a strange monk like being.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
The Box (12 mins)
dir: Velton J Lishke, Frank Nosa
BLOCK P - Tuesday, 21st November, 8:00pm
Lana has just moved in with her seemingly doting boyfriend Ray. He's as subservient as they come, is happy to provide and has no issues with Lana's unemployment. Only Lana can't help but suspect something more sinister. After rooting through Ray's house and belongings, her paranoia inducing neglect of her anti psychotic medication blurs her vision of their healthy relationship.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SCORE, The Audience Award
The Cornucopia Club (10 mins)
dir: Joseph Archer
BLOCK P - Tuesday, 21st November, 8:00pm
A disgusting dinner party is violently interrupted by unwanted guests.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
The Daftown UFO Mystery (10 mins)
dir: Lee Charlish
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
A short animation 'mockumentary' documenting UFO activity in Daftown, UK, the alleged epicentre of alien sightings. In a show hosted by seasoned reporter Butch Gossamer, various sightings are discussed and dissected. The truth is literally ‘out there’... Way out there!
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
The Dream Police - Chilled with the Ghost (6 mins)
dir: Robin Slater
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
Featuring Christopher Fielding with Paul Fielding & Reece Smith
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
The Haunted Baby Carriage From Hell (9 mins)
dir: JT Seaton
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
In this LGBTQ+ Comedy Horror Short Film, Spencer and Cameron move into a new house that just so happens to be haunted by an old baby carriage. As the carriage endeavors to scare the couple, the attempts ultimately fail because the couple just doesn't care... like... you know... at all.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
The High Life (28 mins)
dir: Stephanie Sanditz Creator, Amy French Director
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
A half-hour serialized dramedy exploring a mixed-religious family, when their black sheep daughter moves back home and tries to find God out of her childhood bedroom. The Pilot follows the Gold family as they reunite upon the mysterious death-request of their wealthy Aunt Linda, where everyone is forced to look at their lives with a little more honesty, revealing no one is who they pretend to be.
Based on a Real-Life Co-Ed Naked Family Funeral.
suitable for 18+ audiences
nominations: BEST TV PILOT, The Audience Award
The Man of the House (15 mins)
dir: Daniel Elkin
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
Spending the night at a secluded AirBnB in the Irish countryside, Chloe & Tash’s night takes an unexpected turn when the host turns up unannounced with peculiar ramblings about a cosmic event in the sky.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST ENSEMBLE CAST, The Audience Award
The Need (8 mins)
dir: Susana Lasa
BLOCK Y - Saturday, 25th November, 2:00pm
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: The Audience Award
The One Note Man (21 mins)
dir: George C. Siougas
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
A lonely bassoonist lives his life meticulously, mired in routine. Each day, he plays a single note in an orchestra and leaves the stage while the rest continue. One day, his exit is accidentally delayed and he hears a breathtaking violin solo, which changes his life forever. A Christmas love story."
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT FILM, BEST LOCAL FILM, BEST SCORE, BEST EDITING, BEST SOUND DESIGN, The Audience Award
The Pink Pill (20 mins)
dir: Cassiah Joski-Jethi
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
Valentine’s Day. Two young people looking for love meet in a Love Hotel for their second date. Girl seems nervous. Boy seems forward. We’ve all seen this a million times before, right? Wrong.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
The Red Hair Tie (8 mins)
dir: Johanna von Salmuth
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
A humbled young woman is trying to get into her dream dance company, but her fear of failure increases her anxiety.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST SCORE, BEST STUNTS OR CHOREOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
The School System (3 mins)
dir: Jesse Roth
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
Is the school really meeting the needs of our youth? How could it be improved? In this short film, we answer these questions.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, The Audience Award
The Space Between (15 mins)
dir: Chris Mcquire
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
When Carina, an art student experiences a death of someone close to her, she turns to sleeping pills as a coping mechanism, causing her to hallucinate and lose sense of reality.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
The Transaction (4 mins)
dir: Jane Sanger
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
A Victorian themed drama, when a young client tries to bargain with the madam of a brothel in orcer to secure a mistress.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, BEST COSTUME, The Audience Award
The Unusuals (20 mins)
dir: Lewis Clements
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
The Unusuals explores the lives of four extraordinary individuals. The intriguing subjects are observed over a period of months through documentary-style interviews and a combination of self-recorded and fly-on-the-wall footage. While they are eccentric and odd, they are also scarily recognisable, and they teach us that it's OK to just to be you.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST TV PILOT, The Audience Award
The Wait (10 mins)
dir: Natasha Dubalia
BLOCK X - Saturday, 25th November, 12:00pm
Whilst on the run, an unexpected turn of events pushes Mia to make a decision that will lead to dire consequences.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST FEMALE ACTOR (Natasha Dubalia), BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
The Wedding Car (11 mins)
dir: Gareth EDWARD eVANS
BLOCK N - Monday, 20th November, 8:00pm
Two friends are heading to Rob's wedding but all is not as it seems, and things come to a head when they arrive at the church.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: The Audience Award
The Wych Tree (5 mins)
dir: Daniel Dunn
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
Anna grew up hearing Midlands folktales and superstitions from her grandmother. As a child she was scared of witches that she believed were buried under Wych Elm trees. She thought her fears were put behind her until a new monster presents itself, but this monster is not supernatural and is one we can all recognise today.
Inspired by folktales and mysteries from the Midlands, and by real life horrors.
Starring Jessica Gittins who recently starred in BBC iPlayer's ""Unveiled""."
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, The Audience Award
There is Nothing Nice Deep Within (8 mins)
dir: Fiorella Spitzer
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
A girl’s repressed feelings burst to the surface like devastating fire, destroying reality, forcing her to flee to a subconscious world where she has to face her demons.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
This Able Man (11 mins)
dir: Raphael Arp Rodrigues
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
This Able Man is a powerful documentary showcasing the sport of Wheelchair Basketball, revealing how, despite the massive hurdles that life puts in front of them, some paraplegics manage to turn their lives around in a positive way and manage to fulfil their own inner human goals.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST STUDENT FILM, The Audience Award
This Is Not a Film (5 mins)
dir: Mahdi Hassanieh
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
Two deaf people are busy talking in a café. The world around them is kinder in the silence of judgments.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, BEST YOUNG FEMALE ACTOR (Ruby Cooper), BEST YOUNG MALE ACTOR (Rio Trotman), The Audience Award
Tick Jhik (2 mins)
dir: Peeyush Shrivastava
BLOCK W - Saturday, 25th November, 10:00am
This is story of life since time immemorial. And this cycle will continue till humans exist on this planet.
suitable for ALL audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Tommies (15 mins)
dir: Brian Fairbairn, Karl Eccleston
BLOCK D - Saturday, 18th November, 4:00pm
In Regency-era London five women waiting for a carriage descend into a frenzy of vicious gossip about a notorious scandal - with devastating results.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST ENSEMBLE CAST, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP, BEST COSTUME, The Audience Award
Too Autistic For Black (6 mins)
dir: Talisha Johnson
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
An insight into what it's like to be black, British and marginalised in the autism discourse. Presenter Tee Cee talks openly about her own personal experience.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Traces (7 mins)
dir: Adriel Esteban Matos
BLOCK H - Sunday, 19th November, 12:00pm
A lady in her twenties goes back to her childhood home to pack out her mother’s belongings, both of which have a rough history with one another
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST STUDENT FILM, The Audience Award
Truth to Material (22 mins)
dir: Rachel Mayfield
BLOCK M - Monday, 20th November, 6:00pm
A walk around multi-cultural Birmingham to discover how to belong and fit in
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
Tuna and Ted (5 mins)
dir: Steven Lancefield
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
Meet Turnover Ted, the world's grumpiest jacket potato seller. No staff, no fillings, no oven. Meet Tuna a customer who doesn't know NO means NO.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, The Audience Award
Two Letter Word (2 mins)
dir: Lewis Malin
BLOCK T - Thursday, 23rd November, 8:00pm
Visualisers following a poem about consent. Two letter word is a poetry short film which uses a depiction of images that follow a poem regarding consent.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MICRO SHORT, The Audience Award
Typical? (14 mins)
dir: Sarah Leigh
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
Frustrated by how they are treated, a group of disabled individuals challenge the narrative, and barriers, that society has placed upon them.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST ENSEMBLE CAST, The Audience Award
Ukrainians in Exile (5 mins)
dir: Janek Ambros
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
2 time Oscar winner Janusz Kaminski presents Potyahz z Ukrayiny - a woman in Ukraine tells us her story and the hopes she has of other countries taking care of those who were forced to leave her country.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
V-Z
Vacant (4 mins)
dir: Martin Law
BLOCK C - Saturday, 18th November, 2:00pm
A wandering homeless man seizes an opportunity.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, The Audience Award
Voices - Ciinderella Balthazar (4 mins)
dir: Vittoria Rizzardi Peñalosa, Ciinderella Balthazar
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
The visuals of "VOICES" are inspired by the artist's heritage: the Mapuche indigenous tribe in Chile, known as People Of The Earth.
In Mapuche mythology, Antu represents the Sun (pictured through the golden palette), as well as light, wisdom and spirit, and is married to Kueyen, a Wangulén spirit that represents the moon, (which we brought to life through the silver set up). In this video, the singer appears as both the Sun & the Moon as a visual representation of light and darkness, of femininity and masculinity. The duality of our own spirituality and our internal voices.
Through her journey from the top of a cliff right down to the depth of the sea, we wanted to highlight the process of understanding and listening to our own voice against the echo of others and learn how to love it and celebrate it. Our rebirth (water element) when we understand the journey we are meant to be on.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Wait in the Car (5 mins)
dir: Damien Hyde
BLOCK L - Sunday, 19th November, 8:00pm
Starring Guy Pearce - Adrift while burdened by the weight of grief, Robert seeks a way through the obscurity of a life he never planned. Carrying only mementos of former happiness and fear of the untrodden path ahead, he is lead on a pilgrimage chosen by fate, where footprints will be erased and a heavy past unable to follow.
suitable for ALL+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
Walking Sports (8 mins)
dir: Peter Kehoe
BLOCK A - Saturday, 18th November, 10:00am
An exploration of the UK's first Walking Sports Centre.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, The Audience Award
We are the Earth (5 mins)
dir: Zoé Rose
BLOCK V - Friday, 24th November, 8:00pm
In a world crushed by pollution, conflicts, eco anxiety, alienation of the individual and fear of the future, a human being is lying down, hopeless and surrounded by shadow. Yet, anger and refusal of the disaster to come will ignite in him/her - and in us all - a flame of life, carrying the hope of a better tomorrow.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award
West Flies The Raven (17 mins)
dir: Ross Syner
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
The eyes of the Raven are known to be cursed for those who are unworthy. Greybane the last living Truthsayer, tells of a prophecy; that one day someone who is worthy can stare into the Raven’s eyes and wield the rage of The Almighty. Holmgaard and Reivarn are destined to take the throne from their father, only one can be king. The destiny path is being forged, the path to greatness is drenched in blood.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SOUND DESIGN, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, BEST COSTUME, BEST STUNTS OR CHOREOGRAPHY, The Audience Award
What Are You Doing? (5 mins)
dir: Karl Dixon, Rachael Cowley
BLOCK G - Sunday, 19th November, 10:0am
A young woman finds herself the victim of coercive control from her boyfriend, requiring his friends to become up-standers rather than bystanders.
A powerful short drama created as part of a campaign from the MESARCH study team and Coventry University, in partnership with Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Coventry City Council and Coventry Haven Women’s Aid.
The film aims to enhance public understanding of abuse in young people’s relationships, and shows that we can all play a part in preventing sexual and domestic abuse.
suitable for 12+ audiences
nominations: BEST MIRCO SHORT, BEST EDITING, The Audience Award
White Roses (3 mins)
dir: Sharon E Sørensen
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
A shrubbery rivalry between two neighbours escalates, but when one of them experiences loss, the other puts aside their differences to offer support.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST ANIMATION, The Audience Award
Wider Than The Sky (11 mins)
dir: Philip Taylor
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
Jenny's father has been diagnosed with Cancer. To cope, this deeply creative child makes scenes inside shoeboxes into which she escapes. One day a chance encounter with a seemingly ordinary cafe owner provides the catalyst for a truly magical happening.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG FEMALE ACTOR (Willow Bell), The Audience Award
Williams & Mansell: Red 5 (87 mins)
dir: James Wiseman
BLOCK I - Sunday, 19th November, 2:00pm
Feature length documentary about the career of racing driver Nigel Mansell and the Williams F1 team. Focusing on both the development of the Williams Engineering F1 team from its incorporation in 1977 and the driving career of Nigel Mansell from humble beginnings in Birmingham, England. This documentary tells the story of how team and driver came together and their struggle to win the World Formula 1 Drivers' Championship against some of the greatest drivers of all time. Contributions come from World Champions Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Jenson Button along with F1 experts and people who worked with Williams and Mansell during the 1980’s and early 1990’s.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST DOCUMENTARY, BEST LOCAL FILM, The Audience Award
Witch (10 mins)
dir: Christopher Marchant
BLOCK R - Wednesday, 22nd November, 8:00pm
A working father is so exasperated by his young daughter invading his home office he convinces her the room is haunted by a terrifying witch.
suitable for 15+ audiences
nominations: BEST SHORT, BEST YOUNG FEMALE ACTOR (Thea Evans), The Audience Award
Wuss (14 mins)
dir: Nadine Wilson
BLOCK S - Thursday, 23rd November, 6:00pm
Abandoned by his father, young Zach struggles with feelings of loss, and self-blame. Despite his mother's encouragement to express his emotions, Zach shies away, convinced that crying reflects weakness. At least that’s what Daddy says. However, when his cherished cat goes missing he embarks on a relentless journey to find is beloved pet companion and fix his family.
suitable for 12A audiences
nominations: BEST YOUNG MALE ACTOR (Joseph Davison), BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER, The Audience Award
Yellow (13 mins)
dir: Elham Ehsas
BLOCK B - Saturday, 18th November, 12:00pm
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, The Audience Award
Zoetrope - Supercaan (4 mins)
dir: Simon Peecock
BLOCK J - Sunday, 19th November, 4:00pm
Official music video for the UK indie band Supercaan.
suitable for All audiences
nominations: BEST MUSIC VIDEO, The Audience Award