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This short film is an acknowledgement to those who struggle with mental health issues.

Deep in the woods a small creature tries to plant his acorn but is interrupted by his nagging little sister. Out of frustration, he sends her to the top of an oak tree to find her own acorn and take accountability. What she’ll find and learn on her way there will change her forever.

Roots explores themes of home, displacement and cultural identity through the process of interweaving personal memory and animation. The film coalesces fragments of different conversations I’ve recorded with my mother as an attempt to understand more about my parent's culture and address questions I have increasingly become intrigued by as I have got older.

Peter as an artist is dangerously obsessed with his art and ambition, yet he manages to realize his dream with a way that he never dare to think of.

A female, who is a relationship with man, explores her attraction to women in a whimsical way, by inviting women to her house in secret and eating ice creams together.

This is a snapshot of my life before and during the covid-19 pandemic, and about how I found love.

A woman’s boyfriend is missing but he returns as a vampire and then things get weird.

Ramona lends money to a friend Anna who has been threatened with eviction. The next day Ramona realises she doesn't have enough funds to pay her own rent. She spends the following days trying to get a hold of a now elusive Anna, while scouting desperately for a job.

A prenatal experimental self-portrait.

Ibrahim is an African immigrant in Italy. Working as an delivery man during the Covid-19 pandemic, he struggles to make a living. Far away from his family, Ibrahim tries to make more money from the drug trade to afford the return journey to his country, but everything goes wrong.

Olivia and her ex-girlfriend Penny are reuniting for their friend Natasha's Halloween weekend away in Hollowhood. At first Olivia dreams of reigniting the love she and Penny shared, but the creepy locals, the peculiar priest, and a man whose wife went missing five years ago change those plans. Soon Olivia isn't focused on whether she and Penny can fall back in love, she's focused on whether she and Penny can survive.

In "Reflection, Refraction", Flora Debechi recasts optical and projector lenses from 'found' sea glass along the coastline of Bute – lenses to look at rather than through. Debechi's visual journal engages processes of capturing, waiting and transformation, from raw material to tactile sculpture.

Freewheeling film celebrating both sexual and stylistic fluidity. Phoenix literally changes colour as the characters circle one another. A medical student who sometimes rents out a room in his house receives a visit from a young woman he was romantically involved with the previous summer. But he shows little interest in her – mainly because he’s now in love with Harry.

Gaining ideology from their last album Disco Volodar, the short film uses the core theme of space. The short film is filmed at Unit 3 Regents Trading Estate, the usual area for Sounds From The Other City. Using the philosophy of avante garde pioneer Maya Deren ‘one must at least begin with the body feeling’, the films opening is of the four piece standing atop of the hill in the Pendle countryside. This quickly melts into a warped reality and lands you into the POV of a camera and trapped in a liminal space where you see a band in session.

The lines between documentary, art, and science fiction blur as artist Samuel Douek asks: what will the next 50 years of queer liberation look like?

The Specials started making music in the late 1970s and pioneered the 2 Tone movement. They are live in session for Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music.

The Duke of Edinburgh may have been the longest living Royal Consort in British history, carrying out thousands of official duties and supporting The Queen while walking two steps behind her - but he was also so much more. Dan Snow follows in The Duke of Edinburgh’s footsteps uncovering the myriad ways in which he turned his personal experiences and passions into causes which benefited not just this country but the wider world. From the awards scheme which bears his name, to his ground breaking work in conservation and his championing of British design, Dan finds out more about Philip the man, the contribution he made and the substantial legacy he has left behind.

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.

Conceived by acclaimed British creative technologist Antonia Forster, along with Thomas Terkildsen, this immersive project is the world's first virtual reality museum dedicated to celebrating the stories and artwork of LGBTQ people by preserving queer personal histories. The museum contains 3D scans of touching personal artifacts, from wedding shoes to a teddy bear, chosen by people in the LGBTQ community and accompanied by their stories told in their own words. The in-person version presented at Tribeca is a never-before-seen biometric experience controlled by users’ emotions in real-time.

Thomas, a curious child, becomes addicted to eating ants – despite the warnings of his parents.

A grandmother, mother, and daughter have something in common: big teeth.

A loud, emotional portrait of a reluctant goodbye to The London Palace Bingo Club - told through the stories of the regulars that loved and depended on it, and the owner who couldn't save it.

Sexuality and gender norms are explored when a chronically ill teen meets her new AI nurse.

When Hugh finds out that his video, his artwork has been stolen, re-contextualised, and turned into a viral meme by a TikTok user, he embarks on an internet odyssey, interrogating people.

A filmmaker evaluates his role while making an animation about nightclubs and men.

When Van Ngoc Ta originally trained as a lawyer, the Vietnamese family man never imagined that he would be rescuing women.

In the words of Christina Sharpe, a "visually and sonically rich" work inspired by Dionne Brand's "A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging." Commissioned by Hayward Gallery Touring and The Box, Plymouth, for British Art Show 9.

Fluidity are a drag movement in the northern UK town Doncaster. This documentary follows the group as they try to create a safe space for people in the heart of the town. What happens when an ex mining town struggling to recover births one of the most controversial drag acts in the UK?

A stressed-out woman tries to calm herself with meditation but otherworldly hauntings ensure that it’s anything but relaxing. Some nightmares can’t be quelled by deep breaths.

A man who forgets his history...

'Britain's Big Cat Mystery' is an award-winning documentary which explores the phenomenon of the United Kingdom's reports of mysterious large cats, which are alleged to be prowling the wilderness and countryside of rural Britain...

Puma Blue will celebrate the release of his eagerly anticipated debut album In Praise Of Shadows with a one-off concert film titled ‘A Late Night Special’. The live performance, which is set to be filmed at the historic Battersea Arts Centre in London and features an expanded eight-piece band, will be broadcast on February 11.

Manipulated film stocks frame a love story in vivid and vibrant abstract greens, purples, pinks and blues. Wei plays with absence and presence, human and landscape, through fragmented images and dialogue exploring the agency of objects and the reliability of the image. Simultaneously inviting and elusive, the film is a beautiful questioning of storytelling, image-making, authorship and perspective.

In a haunting encounter, the film captures our fragmented perception of time during the pandemic while exploring the dynamics of mutual support. We are made aware of earthly transience (mono no aware) in a time when the Earth seems to stand still. Before We Collide is a short film shot on a Nishika N8000 analog lenticular camera consisting of over 800 photographs pieced together. The film does not give the impression that it is made for me, you, or anyone for that matter. It simply exists as an artefact that can be witnessed, like found footage of a ghostly apparition.

Ancient myth is charged with the magical crackle of vinyl in rapper and playwright Testament’s timely musical story of a young man’s journey out of isolation.

Commissioned for S-AIR’s 2020 residency programme, Letter from Sapporo (2021) is a collage film offering a glimpse of daily life in the Japanese city of Sapporo. The film is the product of approximately 16 participants capturing material with their smartphones. Focusing on moments of stillness, intimacy, labour and humour, disparate material is wedded into a compelling and coherent whole by Quaintance’s subtle editing, original music and vivid sound design.

Disjointed centres around the experience of two men working in the industrial food complex. The film deals with a patriarchal paradigm in crisis and offers a performative space to relive and heal from trauma, where work movements become a way of embodying that which remains inaccessible through words and descriptions.

A moving-image collaboration between two artists. Unfolding from the creators’ perspectives in the Somali diaspora, the piece takes the lead from East African mythos and Islamic imagery to explore mythmaking, Blackness; a ‘generation of ghosts’ and the transient spirit.

A paranoid university student discovers one of his housemates has been swiping his milk, sending him into an obsessive psychotic spiral of investigating who the culprit is, before he loses his mind.

Joyce and Frances work at 1-800-D-Direct, the latest and greatest Dishwasher sales company in 1960’s Manhattan. But when a customer is given the wrong data, the women must navigate her out of a life or death situation.

An animated meditation on wide-open water-logged lands as imagined from an urban interior: a property-guardian tower-block flat in east London.

An exploration of the hypocrisy and repetition of racist anti-GRT rhetoric in Britain, combining dog-whistle Tory soundbites with footage of the insidious reality in a montage style. Utilising droning soundscapes and disturbing imagery of recent police brutality against GRT people, the film asks the audience to listen to the repeated lies and bigotry of the powers-that-be, including the likes of Home Secretary Priti Patel, who is featured in a campaign trail interview.

A stretch of the Mississippi River once called "Plantation Country" is now the "Petrochemical corridor", known to those who breathe its toxic air ad "Death Valley". Using advances techniques in cartography and fluid dynamics, FA worked to support local demands for accountability and reparations.

A surrealist, experimental exploration of a narcissist's efforts to go on a date with themselves

🌈equality in exploitation🌈 An audiovisual work about the sinister exploitation of Pride and LGBTQIA+ symbolism by the arms industry and corporations in general.

A playful and personal meditation on a state of being, of how to move and interact with nature and the space of the park in a time when the world was so tangibly in flux. It takes a long view of the changing seasons and the puzzling activities of humans and other wildlife.

Dive deep into the Ibiza affair, the rise of Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and his fall following the political scandal, and the role journalism plays in controlling those in power.

A rivalry ignites between a teenage girl and an older woman over a slot machine.

A short film using old cine footage about a family's secrets and lies.

Four friends on a surreal night out at a disco follow Elton John and Dua Lipa into a fantastical universe.

An Afro-futuristic message that re-frames black cultures through poetry, movement and dance.

Bradley is non-binary – but is aware that this identity is not fully recognized by wider society. Bradley has two events approaching: their wedding to long-term partner, Emma, and their ordination as ‘Black Veil’ – the highest level within The Order of Perpetual Indulgence. Will these two events give Bradley the confidence to step out into the world as their authentic version self?

William has been visiting the coffee shop a lot more than usual, is it for the coffee or is it for the cute boy sat across that keeps smiling at him?

Someone who is anxious about what they eat is offered a doughnut.

The São Manoel Hydroelectric Plant: in the heart of Brazil, deep in the Amazon rainforest. Everything the site needs must be transported via a long and arduous route. These transformers weigh over 200 metric tons each - they have to travel 4,000 kilometers before they reach their final destination. The workers at Megatranz are experts: long distances are easy for them. The haulage convoy covers most of the route easily - but the last 100 kilometers are difficult. The temperature is 40 degrees Celsius in the shade, the conditions merciless, the roads dusty and the bridges old. This is demanding work for the workers and the cargo. But it’s also a bonding experience. Mistakes can be fatal. The way across the river is dangerous. A ferry is repurposed into a barge: a highly risky maneuver. Nerves of steel are just part of the job - but that’s no use when your luck runs out.

A chronological study of the view from a single window onto the skylight of Passaporta, a bookshop in Brussels. Shot over eighteen months and making extensive use of time-lapse filming. The work is underpinned by Siegfried Kracauer's assertion that we can never exhaust the field of view.

An invisible scientist uncovers the ubiquitous influence of algae on our planet in a visually sumptuous science fiction documentary that stretches from the deepest past to the near future.