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A lonely boy prepares for his first day of high school

Images reflecting on a solitary life in a Swedish apartment. In old age, a woman confronts her feelings towards the man she used to live with, but whom is no longer around.

Through a series of enchanting encounters, Fern discovers how to see the world from a different perspective.

An empowering documentary that explores the untold story of the UK and North West’s LGBTQ past over the last 50 years through two women’s incredible journey of rebellion and activism.

Narrated in first person, this film explores the impact of anxiety and how it can affect your life. Aneeka and Sam’s testimony is open and honest, and creates an intimate portrait into what it is like to live with severe anxiety, and what might cause it.

A simple bus ride can be a highly stressful experience.

A lonely Nan looks after her 3 grandchildren overnight while her son has to go out on important business errands. The children, overly attached to their devices ignore their Nan through the short time they stay with her. They are simply too attached, and need to learn to 'Unplug'. This film is a physical and visual representation of the metaphor 'in your own world' when people are attached to their screens.

Clout examines the creation, distribution and ability to access bodily knowledge in relation to the inequitable availability of technology and community.

Ramsgate FC take on Arundel FC in an FA Cup qualifying match.

Shaun Lewis AKA Stormin was one of the pioneers of Grime. While sharing the story of his rise to mainstream fame from the underground scene, his battle with cancer returns.

Irish photographer Tom Wood, affectionately known as "Photie Man" by the people of Liverpool, his adopted city, needs no introduction. He captured it in an almost obsessive manner from 1978 to 2001. His photographs are a tender chronicle of the daily life of the Scousers, from the market to the Anfield football stadium, through its nightclubs and the seaside resort of New Brighton. In front of Emmanuel Bonn's camera, the photographer revisits these places that continue to nourish his work. Back in his home in Wales, against a backdrop of classical music, Tom Wood invites us to dive into his archives and shares his vision of the medium, his life, and the projects that have marked it. A modest and touching portrait of whom Martin Parr calls the "unsung genius of British photography.”

Victoria gets an unexpected visit from Steven, her boss's mischievous and spoiled son, who seeks a favor in exchange for assisting with her family's financial struggles.

Imagine if space was for everyone. Maybe I'll go one day.

Future Perfect follows a child's drawing of their parents as it is placed in a time capsule until the earth dries to a husk. It's then found by aliens who use the drawing as the blueprint for a twisted new version of humanity.

As Andrew deals with the emotional aftermath of his father’s funeral, an unwanted visit from his ex-boyfriend casts new light on parental acceptance and the complex nature of forgiveness.

Ebun Sodipo’s film And the Seas Bring Forth New Lands brings together archival footage and a performance of original text to grapple with the interconnected precarity and joys of Black life. Footage combines clips from popular films, news broadcasts, social media platforms such as Vine, and fashion shows. Sodipo’s film reckons with the demands placed on Black existence while speculating on other ways of being adjacent to these violences. The soundscape knits together music from artists such as Blood Orange and Solange, along with Sodipo’s performed text.

Elderly woman seeks husband who wants to have his cake and eat it.

A short suspenseful horror film of the found footage genre, following two students through a media project turned sour after a mysterious book leads them to an unknown part of the country.

Given exclusive and unrestricted access, Rebecca Salvadori’s film about East London venue Fold viscerally captures and contrasts the immersive sensory experience of clubbing with intimate behind-the-scenes footage of the unseen hands that shape the environment this unfolds in. The result is a 360 study of of one of contemporary culture’s last remaining temporary autonomous zones: a place where community is forged through music, personal and societal restraints begin to fall, and transformation and even spiritual transcendence become a possibility. Salvadori’s film offers a unique vision into contemporary club culture, exploring the intimacy between ravers and the invaluable team behind the venue.

An egg that won’t crack. A mermaid who wants to do the splits. A breast that won’t lactate. A pelican that pecks itself. This performance to camera builds on a series of live works made in 2018 and develops a free-associative language to discuss the lived experience of fertility treatment. Viriditas is a concept associated with the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen – a notion of spiritual ‘greening’, which here is applied to the female body. Performative action is layered with readings of Hildegard’s texts and coded watercolour drawings. Other points of reference include Carlo Crivelli’s portraits of the Virgin and Child; the lactating nereids on the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna; and the pagan-Catholic hybrid goddess, Madonna of the Wheat. This work is supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

A concrete skate park under grey skies. Enter a sassy young girl in pink DM's and bunny ears...

Conceived in relation to both the rapid decline of flying insects and the high recurrence of animation, Not (a) part is handmade or contact film that works with the subject and/or material of flying insects. Numerous dead bees found on walks were positioned directly onto negative film and contact printed. Occupying approximately 24 frames they run at a rate of one bee per second. The length of the film is determined by how many specimens are found over a specified period of time.

A portrait of Jamaican-born artistic polymath Barbara Samuels. Featuring an account of her first generation, diasporic experience in Southend and London, and her discovery of hippiedom and the personal freedoms offered by entry into creative life.

The remarkable true story of Michael Cohen, a charlatan art dealer who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run.

A documentary about following your dreams, in the smallest of places and the life of an IndieDev. Join Dan as he travels the UK in search of what it takes to create and bring video game ideas to life and struggles and triumphs of being an Indie Developer in the UK.

Danny doesn't fit in the box they've been put in.

De Quervain's Story is a collection of memories and images, (...) In this short film I document some of the objects for massages, cremes, mattress, tablets, food supplements, exercises I used to heal. It has been filmed with a Bolex 8mm, on Fomapan film, home developed by myself with the Caffenol developer, using the Adrian Cousins' formula.

In this documentary, the director Becky Miková enquires more about her family's history, in particular, about her great-grandfather Ján Mikuláš who owned a furniture factory in the late1940s Czechoslovakia. She learns more about his story through a letter from her grandfather Ivan, Ján's son. Apart from revealing the family's history, the letter touches on the political situation of the time and its effects on the family's furniture business.

For beauty is just the beginning of a terror we can barely stand: We admire it because it calmly refuses to crush us. Every angel terrifies. And so I control myself, choking back the dark impulse to cry.

Film-maker Martin Read has had insomnia for 30 years. He's on a mission to get answers from top experts.

Moth follows 8-year old Mabil as she escapes the troubles of her family with her vivid daydreams and imaginary moth friend. However, her fantasy is interrupted when she is forced to face her family past and put an end to her fantasies.

Made for Glasgow 2019 48 Hour Film Competition. Mockumentary

“To accept yourself against the face of adversity, is the purest form of courage.” A self-reflective insight into the fundamentals of culture within the Trans masculine community, and how in an age that prides itself on inclusion, we still find segregation and discrimination within even the most marginalised of people, which reflects us inwards.

Roberta Cowell’s Story is a one minute short detailing the life and achievements of one of the most prolific British Trans Women of the 20th century. It originally debuted as one of five short films in DOCMA filmmaking challenge #39 AMBITION. The short was created by Melissa Joan Clifford, a trans woman, and was made in the style of an archival film.

Rob Carter masters the well meaning idiot in this endearing character comedy based on a bad writer and his even worse books.

All fate can be willed by those who know how...

This modern-day drama follows the young, closeted Eli Hampton on his journey of realisation and self-discovery, all whilst he is trying to find his online lover, Noah.

a "lone wolf" dropout finds herself sad and lonely after all of her friends move away for university but as she's on her way home from her local pass time she is almost hit by a crashing asteroid, as she goes to investigate shes confronted by something she wasn't expecting at all, a new friend.

Every year, men from across the world arrive in the Pyrenees mountains to undergo a program of extreme physical and spiritual trials in order to be recognised as a ‘Lion of the Pyrenees.

When a group of young adults camp out in the woods, they become entwined in a murder. A murder which grows, and strangles their perception of trust, loyalty and morals. In protecting the people they love, they uncover those only willing to protect themselves.

After being asked by his teacher, Liam recalls the shocking events of his school holiday.

Vaca Muerta, Argentina, is one of the world's largest shale oil and gas deposits, that deposit is also home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In 2013, a new deal saw U.S. energy giant Chevron (energy) enter Vaca Muerta, opening the region for the first time to the international oil and gas industry. In collaboration with The Guardian, FA investigated a local Mapuche community's claim that the oil and gas industry has damaged their ancestral land, eroded their traditional ways of life and irreversibly damaged the environment.

Inspired by true events, based on the before and after events of a shooting; a lesbian couple fall into a dark wonderland of hate when they come to the terms with what they must do to become infamous.

Set in a timespace where past meets speculative future, Colonel Pike encounters animal-human hybrids in a shingle interzone. He observes their bioculture - a process of freedom and 'non-identity'. Paralysed by naivety, Pike becomes the subject of perverse ritual.

A girl falling in love with a boy from her college, but is their relationship actually all in her imagination?

A one take shot reciting Philippians 2:1-11

The latest in our bi-monthly magazine series looking at the Steam scene, both main line and the heritage network.

An abstract poetry-film made in response to Margaret Tait’s poem ‘Light’. The surface of the screen glistens and sweats as individual pixels shiver and shimmer. A soft voice-over explores the symbolic and physical properties of light whilst a contrasting voice interrupts with thoughts about the difficulties of writing.

19 year-old Alice uses an app to relive the last summer she spent with her girlfriend.

Document and dream exist as one in a visionary travelogue of a journey to Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire. The artists return to the site of an earlier experience in order to look again at a place of personal significance. Revisiting presents an experience mediated by technology and expresses the complex layers that inform how we navigate reality and create meaning from our experiences.

Colin Macleod was a modern-day land raider who gave a voice to the people of Pollok in the 90s. The M77 was being driven through their park, cutting the local community off from their only green space. Instead of Greta Thunberg or Extinction Rebellion, they had Colin Macleod. He started by staying up a tree for nine days to grab press attention. This grew into a full-blown protest camp and the Pollok Free State was born.

Enantiodromia is an exploration of unconscious intervention. A portrait of visual psychology and the mind’s attempt to balance itself, without conscious approval.

At the dawn of the Datacosm, data is planted, harvested, transported, stored and processed as data-feed for consumption by the data eaters. The infiltration of the data storage facility by a hacker leads to contamination by a thought virus which alters the Datacosm forever. Set in apuppet theatre, data scientists (as puppeteers) control puppets, objects and analogue data to create the narrative on the stage above. Code scrolls between the ‘real’ world of the puppeteers and the micro dramas enacted by the puppets. The film was derived from an original collaborative version of "Datacosm" which combined artificial intelligence and animation and was presented as a live performance.

"Tha-at’s right" is an attempt to choreograph a dance from a dance review. This review, written in 1959 by critic and poet Edwin Denby, articulates the music and movement of a dance using an idiosyncratic stream of metaphors. "Tha-at’s right" takes these outlandish descriptions literally by using them as a script or score, translating the written word back into a performance. This process was realised collaboratively with the performers onscreen over the course of a day.

Totem is a small, family owned Parisian style cafe where Nina, a young waitress is enlightened to the internal conflict going on inside everybody by a mysterious patron, who visualizes this internal struggle in the form of spirit animals – one that represents the “good” in each person, and one that represents the “bad”.

An intimate, insightful look into how virtual reality is affecting people’s social lives for the better.