Programme

BEFORE LOVE

BEDA DOCAMPO FEIJOO · SPAIN · 2025 · 91 min · SPANISH

Two neighbouring couples; a powerful attraction sparks between a remarkable woman and her audacious neighbour.

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BROTHER-IN-LAW

SZYMON JAKUBOWSKI · POLAND · 2026 · 104 min · POLISH

A brutal present-day prologue, then ten years told in six immersive fifteen-minute mastershots: the escalating violence inside an “ordinary” Polish family. What begins as a hopeful wedding dissolves into a cycle of abuse, as Ewa hides her bruises through one family gathering after another and keeps shielding the man who causes them. When the violence finally becomes public, the family must face both the truth and a judicial system that lets the perpetrator prolong the fight indefinitely while his victims live in fear.

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Comatogen

Igor Cobileanski · Romania · 2025 · 104 min · Romanian

Nurse Alina rekindles an old love with Pavel, who hires her son — until the boy steals €18,000 and money reshapes every bond.

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The Sands of Redemption

Antoni McMillan · United Kingdom · 2025 · 45 min · English

An independent drama written, produced by and starring Aberdeen filmmaker Antoni McMillan.

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The Victorians

Dwight A. Gabbert · Netherlands · 2025 · 75 min · English

As unsuspecting tourists flood the city of Amsterdam, a band of rogues lies in wait.

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A million thanks

Fernando Merinero · Spain · 2026 · 87 min · spanish

A self-proclaimed “Founding Emperor” who built an empire on the beach — and founded the Intergalactic Fun Bank.

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The Land We Fight For

Dimitri Nasennik · Estonia, Ukraine · 2026 · 39 min · Estonian, Ukrainian

Two 67-year-old farmers from Ukraine and Estonia, former Soviet soldiers, volunteer for the Ukrainian army so their countries are never occupied again.

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BEVERAGES

Adrian Morar & Moe Essa · United Kingdom · 2026 · 22 min · English

When a simple intimidation job becomes a botched gunfight, four aspiring mobsters face their own incompetence — a stylish, self-aware crime comedy.

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Burial Permit

Hashem Aliakbari · Iran · 2025 · 12 min · Farsi

A mother dies. Her son, leaving Iran, faces unexpected challenges to bury her. Religious laws and government structures that have controlled women throughout their lives follow them even into death.

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CHOICE

Naddine Madell · Canada · 2025 · 16 min · English

A solitary priest wanders into a diner, where a waitress draws out the pact his father once made for his survival — now come due.

Contrition

Marco Beyermann & Ben Keenan · United Kingdom · 2026 · 13 min · English

In a volatile Northern Irish town, Damien is haunted by a childhood IRA hostage ordeal that tore his family apart.

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Dobrina

Hannes Rall · Germany/Singapore · 2025 · 5 min · English

Lotte Reiniger meets Sergio Leone in this award-laden animated short where desire burns as bright as the desert sun.

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Lélek

Joseph Iyore · United Kingdom · 2026 · 28 min · English

A seemingly innocent act of kindness sets off a chain of events that unearths a centuries-old tragedy, revealing an inexplicable connection between a struggling single mother and an immortal man haunted by the family he lost.

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LET'S PRETEND I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU

DANIEL PRADILLA DE BEDOUT · SPAIN / USA · 2026 · 19 min · SPANISH

A sommelier spends a weekend in the woods with a mysterious woman; their intimate escape is slowly disturbed by a past relationship.

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Letters Of Love SHORT

Johan Wickholm · Gibraltar · 2025 · 21 min · English

Spain, 1977: bright teenager Peter falls into a cartel's grip, until a mysterious girl's letters spark his fight to reclaim himself.

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LONELY

Bobby Bosko Grubic · Croatia / USA · 2025 · 19 min · Croatian

In the twilight of a life marked by disappointment and regret, an old man discovers a flicker of hope through an unexpected friendship.

MONDAY

Lisa Giles · USA · 2026 · 7 min · English

In the final minutes before oxygen runs out, one exhausted scientist races to save humanity as the world ends.

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Priority Seat

Shaun Preece · Wales, United Kingdom · 2026 · 3 min · English

On a cold, rain-soaked morning at a forgotten Welsh bus stop, a hostile hooded teenager and a frail elderly war veteran share a few silent minutes waiting for a bus that will not hurry. The sight of an old scar pulls the boy into a glimpse of the man the veteran once was, a soldier who gave everything for others on a distant shore. Confronted with the life behind that tired face, the boy is forced to see the man the world walks straight past, and in a final quiet act of grace he gives him the coat off his back. Priority Seat is a three minute drama about the heroes we overlook, adapted from a scene the director’s own father witnessed and carried for years.

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Reunion

Maura Foley · Ireland · 2024 · 13 min · English

Aoife and Jen travel home for a reunion, reminiscing on love, loss and life.

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Something Pointless

Asa Bailey · United Kingdom · 2026 · 14 min · English

When a bullied young boy discovers an older man quietly affixing painted eggshells to a forgotten brick wall in their neighbourhood, an unlikely friendship forms — and he begins to understand how even the smallest, “pointless” acts can leave behind something transformative and lasting.

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The Fall guys

Charles Belleville (41 Blackford) · United Kingdom · 2025 · 16 min · English

Two weary hitmen on a job get tangled up with a group of unsuspecting weekend guests at a remote rental house.

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The Inheritance Clause

Charles Henri Belleville (41 Blackford) · England · 2025 · 15 min · English

A billionaire's heirs are flown to the Maldives to hear his will — only to find the dead man has set them a deadly game.

The Last Sun

Orlando Charvetto and Nigel Canepa · Gibraltar · 2026 · 29 min · English

In a future where the sun is blocked and humanity lives underground, Gibraltar holds the last light and a scientist fights to bring it back.

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The translator

Milad shiri · Iran · 2025 · 15 min · Persian

A translator caring for her Alzheimer's-stricken father-in-law loses him one day through a moment's negligence.

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Til Death Do us Part

Charles Belleville (41 Blackford) · england · 2026 · 14 min · English

In a quiet English village, an improbable run of dead husbands draws a detective to a roomful of unbothered widows.

ENDLESS PLUM RAIN

ZHIXUAN LIU · CHINA · 2026 · 19 min · Chinese

Lin Xiaoyu earns her way out of a rural village through education, only to be slowly consumed by the city's demands and dependency.

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Grid

Leo WEN · China · 2026 · 2 min · English, Chinese, Japanese

An experimental AIGC short crafted in the distinct visual style of Wes Anderson.

LAST MEMORY

Ahmed Youssef · Egypt · 2026 · 5 min · English

After a catastrophic accident, Daniel awakens inside an artificial memory built to give him one final perfect moment.

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Lonely Angling

FENG SHI · CHINA · 2026 · 3 min · CHINESE

By a desolate lake at dusk, a lonely old man fishes alone — a spare, poetic meditation on loneliness, oblivion and fate.

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THE 18TH HOLE

Mike Ferrara · United States · 2026 · 9 min · English

When a frustrated Florida husband, father and weekend golfer steals a mysterious black book from the library, he thinks he has found the secret to getting his chaotic life under control. But the book does not fix his problems. It feeds his wounded pride, turning one man’s petty suburban meltdown into something much darker. Think Clark Griswold with the Necronomicon.

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The Last Dance

Leo WEN · China · 2026 · 3 min · English

An AIGC nostalgic short film built on the visual language of Bradford Young's warm skin tones, Barry Jenkins' saturated golden palette, and Spike Lee's choreography of Black community gatherings. Structured on a dual-timeline single-thread design, the film moves between the present — a Black community Sunday gathering in the summer of 1955 — and flashbacks to 1905, when the protagonist and his wife were twenty: their first meeting, and their wedding beneath the stained glass of a small Black church. A seventy-year-old man sits at the edge of the dance, watching, while he himself does not move. Only when the sun has set and the crowd has gone home does he finally rise — and dance, alone, the last dance he owes her. The film does not dramatize grief; it stages the dignity of farewell. Joy is the surface, and the private ritual is a tender layer buried within the celebration. Core Innovations: 1. An inverted homage to the floating feather — Referencing Forrest Gump's opening feather but assigning it the opposite meaning: here the feather is not "the randomness of fate" but the embodiment of the departed wife, traveling across fifty years from her bridal veil in 1905 to his shoulder in 1955. 2. A metaphor driven by historical research — Based on the fact that American men did not wear wedding rings in 1905, the film builds a silent metaphor: the ring on the old man's finger was never his, but hers. A single thin gold band carries the full weight of "she is no longer here," with no dialogue at all. 3. One melody, three arrangements — The original OST "The Last One" presents the same theme in three forms — 1905 ragtime piano, 1955 soul-jazz, and 1955 stripped-down solo — anchoring temporal shifts in the audience's ear as "the same song wearing three faces."

VOID RESONANCE

Yu Zhao · China · 2026 · 10 min · Chinese

This short film follows three astronauts who board the Boroos, a mining ship lost for sixty years, on a deep‑space recovery mission. But they soon discover that the ship carries a mysterious substance from a forbidden zone. This substance magnifies human fears and desires, killing everyone who steps aboard. As supernatural events multiply, the entire crew perishes. The universe is a mirror that reflects our hidden selves—it is neither a beginning nor an end, but an unfathomable abyss within us that can never be filled. Writer, Director, Editor, Producer: Zhao Yu

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The Book of Time

Ukraine · 2026 · 7 min · English

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