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After escaping the witch’s gingerbread house, Gretel and Hansel struggle to rebuild their lives—but the trauma lingers. With Hansel spiraling into violent candy addiction, Gretel seeks help from a mysterious alchemist whose cure may cost more than they can afford. As desperation deepens, Gretel is forced to confront dark truths, impossible choices, and the haunting legacy of their past.
Scientist Dr. Doohickey experiences some strange things on Christmas day, where a blizzard causes a very strange anomaly that only him and his friends notice
A dance from reality into a surreal valley of imagination.
What would you do during one of the long summer days, when you are left alone to play in the courtyard? Of course run races with a cat, make toys out of everything you could find and chase pigeons. Only children have days like these.
An Anglo Saxon Horror Story
A dark fable about a woman who kills herself with her imagination.
A monster takes over the city skyline and bodies turn golden.
Split between the safety of her 'happy place' and a hard to navigate reality, River tries to communicate the darker side of her mind.
Tiny sets off on a journey to save his beloved!
A couple faces the unimaginable end to their bond when one decides to enter the mysterious light.
This film is about a bewildering fantasy journey of a person and a frog.
A small boy creates a fantasy world with his pirate toys to explore the bonds between captain and first mate, as well as father and son, all to process an immense loss in a way that small children understand – a hero facing a great monster.
Set over two time periods, the story is a mix of English and Scots Gaelic and follows Isla; a young girl who returns to the Scottish Highlands with her father, leading her to the mystery of the legendary and mythical being, The Selkie.
A hungry raccoon crosses paths with a baking, chainsaw wielding lumberjack.
‘The Scattered Body or A World Unclouded by Dust’ explores fragmented histories and the invisible work to care for archival objects from a Vietnamese community archive in Hackney to a state film archive in Hanoi. Moving through the archives and their systems of care, the body is both a material and medium to explore the multiple lives of archival objects, the spaces that contain them and the ecstatic labour that sustains them.
Everyone's been hurt. Fake it 'til you make it; pick a character and wear it like armour. The Al Pacino and Michelle Pfieffer of Battlefield in Glasgow face another day in the hood - but will their paths cross?
shoe salesman earl t. funk has an out-of-this-world pitch!
Paul wants to escape the pressures of teaching his homophobic students by entering the fantasy world of ballroom dancing. After a disastrous experience at a straight dancing school, Paul's life takes a definite turn for the better when he discovers Linda, the glamorous lesbian dance teacher. But who will he be dancing with at the college Xmas party?
A young woman with telekinetic powers goes out on the queer scene for the first time.
With Santa retired to the Bahamas, Christmas is now run by Christmas Incorporated, a glossy, corporate empire led by eccentric billionaire Jerri Ronson, who is set on modernising, streamlining and optimising the festive period. Eager to prove herself, Goldie, Jerri’s ambitious elf assistant, is sent from sunny California to shut down the world’s last traditional toy workshop, hidden deep in the rainy British countryside. There, she discovers a chaotic world of handmade toys, misfit elves and unexpected heart, and begins to realise what really makes Christmas special. Now Goldie must decide where she stands before Christmas loses its magic for good.
Set 50 years after the first short film in this series (Among the Stars: Terra Firma), a strange signal in space kicks off the story, with the protagonist trying to verify it’s source, leading to an investigation that has massive ramifications for not only itself, but for the whole of humanity. Among Strange Worlds explores themes of mental health, neurodivergence and finding purpose. This film is currently in production, so please follow Ethan (Music and Sound) and Dean's (Art and Animation) social accounts to go on the journey of creating it with them. Ethan: @ethanmcinerneymusic Dean: @Deanmagpie This short film is part of Ethan McInerney's 'Among Strange Worlds' audio visual album, generously supported by Youth Music as part of the NextGen Fund.
A woman who cannot sleep, a sinkhole in the road, and a hospital that floods intertwine as the city's 'body' collides with a 'wave'.
In the clutches of abuse, a woman's desperate bid for freedom intertwines with the chilling allure of a deadly Rusalka.
Compilation of 7 short scenes: ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’; ‘Old Mother Hubbard’; ‘Little Miss Muffet’; ‘Goosey Gander’; ‘Jack and Jill’; ‘Old Woman in a Shoe’; ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’. Only the last one is known to have survived and to be available to watch.
Once upon a time, in an English house with a fairy garden, a strange boy lived isolated with scientists wondering how to remove the violence gene.
A dark fairy tale about a little girl who ventures into the "dream world" to rescue her brother but first she has to listen to the story of "The Bone Chair".
A folk tale of an angel in a stone.
Trans is intemporal, always existed and always to exist.
Lucas is a blind freelance artist, struggling with his mental health due to his mother’s dementia. One day, he notices a girl in a café, Sophie, and from that moment on he can’t get her out of his head. But when he's gone, how far will she go to be with him?
A sentient Puppet entrapped in a Void tries to create his magnum opus.
After a meetup goes wrong, a sex worker is killed, and her killer undergoes a series of increasingly bizarre and surreal tasks to rid himself of a haunting spirit.
A aspiring filmmaker pitches a horror movie with the intention of making into a feature film.
A college student goes to research nature conservation, and instead comes up against a Tyrannosaurus Rex
Heartwood follows Midge, a bratty girl of about twelve years old. Bored and frustrated by her overbearing father, she decides to leave the monotony of the hiking trail to set off on her own adventure into the woods, in which she makes a magical discovery.
A woman descends into the Underworld to confront her sister, Death, and to bring back her unborn child.
An unusual love story about a man who falls in love with a cat after the murder of the woman he adored. But is the cat all it seems?
Alone in a dark house he unleashed the unspeakable terror of underground cinema..... The King in Darkness is a no-budget experimental horror film loosely based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. Drawing on the techniques of both experimental cinema and cult horror it can produce lasting psychic revelation on it's audience.
An immortal storyteller from medieval England crashes the present day wedding of Elizabeth and Edward, believing Elizabeth to be his long lost love.
A young girl ventures into the forest in search of a mythical spirit — a fox adorned with antlers.
The short follows a socially anxious teenager who finds his old panda teddy bear that starts talking to him.
One of the 25 best Straight 8 films for 2024.
Lucy, Noirville's only inhabitant, takes a mysterious journey through the night in a hope to cure her loneliness in this darkly surreal tale.
In a world where minimalism is the new big thing, mysterious creatures apart of our solar system are putting colour around space. Turning our galaxy into an avant-garde art piece. Until one day they're unwanted, left to rot like a toy you bought when you were 5. So they moved to another galaxy to plan the earth's anew.
Jake, a professional athlete (at county level) runs in a school race with some “awesome running”. In a scene deemed too emotional for the wider public, Jake falls over dramatically and breaks his ank. It is unclear what happened when filming this scene, just that something strange and paranormal occurred, thus the film was cut. In another mysterious scene, in the medical room, Jake tells his PE teacher that he's really upset because he lost the race to be told in a sadistic manner that he can't run for another 6 months and he'll just have to suck it up. Some claim that the shot of Jake’s feet are to pay homage to Quentin Tarantino and others claim something more serious happened, either way early viewers claimed to feel nauseous. Then, 6 months later Jake runs again and in a Christopher Nolan-Inception way, it ends with us never knowing if he won the race, however this is unconfirmed and rumors suggests the results of the race are so shocking, it was cut to protect audiences.
A short film following a grieving farmer and an injured fox entangled in the weeds he has allowed to grow in his garden. Through a brief conversation, the fox provides the farmer with a life-changing world view and the courage to continue.
A daydreaming young boy sees his comic book cowboy hero come to life.
A group of circus acrobats peacefully live in the desert. But their tranquillity is shattered when an extravagant and unreasonable little girl appears from nowhere and demands to see an amazing circus show.
Marauders fan series.
A tragic story is played out by porcelain figurines residing in a bric-a-brac shop. Barnaby Barford's animation explores notions of forbidden love, material wealth and class divisions using traditions of value within ceramics, while also turning the classic ‘rags to riches’ plot on its head with an unexpected twist. Commissioned by Animate Projects, funded by Arts Council England and Channel 4.
The Reverend Nicholas Lumb is taken into the other world by elemental spirits and replaced by an exact copy, a changeling made from an oak log. When the spirits have finished with him he is 'cancelled'. Eventually the original Lumb turns up roaming about the west of Ireland.
Can two young witches use their skills to survive and successfully make their way across the countryside to meet The Old Wizard?
At a certain age, discomfort from within and outside the body becomes a norm to our way of life. A continuous cycle we must face. This is an exploration of womanhood along the themes of absurdity conveyed in strange and obscure installations. A symbolic display of the discomfort and major change expressed through performance, collaboration, visual shots that signify the sudden shock of growth and bodily development, intensively indulging in destruction to explore the representation of constraining body pain and inner wrath.
Based on a Greek legend, this is the story of Arion, the young musician whose life is saved by a dolphin, and of a friendship between the two that ends when the dolphin is captured and dies. Told in a mixture of prose and verse, the text is adapted from the libretto of an opera of the same name.
A film about a mysterious new boy who, in the course of a single day, rids his school of its bullying, gambling, laboratory explosions and abysmal cricketing record - then disappears.
A sweet documentation of the snow on March 2nd 2024, and the nostalgia that came along with it.
A group of young people confined in a strange afterlife are compelled to reflect on the circumstances of their deaths.
All fate can be willed by those who know how...
17 year old Mina isn’t like most teenage girls. Her concerned parents decide to act before it’s too late. But things don’t quite go according to plans. Part horror movie part magical realism, “Paper Thin” is a subversive take on psychiatry, religious homophobia, the power of fairy godmothers…and the truth.
After arguing with her sister, Kara takes her anger out on the environment by throwing and littering her plastic bottle. Her actions awaken the creature Hubris. Kara has to race against time to save her sister from the clutches of the monster and take responsibility for her actions.