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Jacob stays up playing games alone in his flat when later he finds out he isn't the only one there.

Hovering Between Us follows a night in the life of a young 'almost' couple. Maria and Alex live together, and have been friends for years with an interwoven history, but their relationship has drifted.

From the Christmas tree to the Christmas turkey, revealing how Christmas as it is known has its roots in the Victorian era. A look at the transformation of Christmas as it went from partying to a far more family-friendly celebration.

Short film following the struggles of male mental health. Showing the journey of a man confronting his demons and nightmares while finally admitting that it’s ok to not be ok. Shot on an iPhone 11 Pro Max

Upon moving into a new house with her daughter Lucy, Jennifer soon uncovers the remnants of the previous owner.

MAMILS (Middle Aged Men in Lycra) is a short comedy that captures an intense rivalry between two amateur cyclists as they eagerly try and one up each other in increasingly ridiculous ways.

Based on a children's book of the same name, Wylder is a story about a Boy, his Dad and the great outdoors.

A reflection and re-creation of the years that shaped who I am. A time when protest and resistance were part of everyday life. What was personal - politicized when people came together to fight for their rights. The actions of Students, the Women’s Movement, Gay Liberation, Squatters and Claimants Unions, provide a documentary framework for what are in essence personal memories, a child’s POV.

Following the deaths of his stepmother and grandmother, disability and LGBT+ rights campaigner Paul Davies attempts to write to the father he feels rejected by, hoping to find resolution and peace.

Two lost souls in London. Connected through a poem in German and the question of how they will meet.

From a steamboat in a cornfield to the true story behind Hurricane Katrina's floods, new discoveries reveal how the Mississippi river shaped America.

This is a film about the strangely idyllic time we had during the first UK lockdown, and the media we consumed.

Boots on Ground is an autobiographical account of a second-generation British South Asian woman’s experiences with the police, racism and violence in London. Presented in split-screen, mobile phone footage captured during protests in the summer of 2019 show the legs and feet of police officers patrolling the area around Buckingham Palace and The Houses of Parliament in indiscernible formations. Kiran Kaur Brar’s spoken narration describes a disturbing personal chronology of police violence and racial discrimination, beginning in her childhood in the 1980s and eventually converging with the day of filming.

Film by Seema Mattu

Told entirely in drawings made over nearly thirty years by British Artist/Filmmaker Penny Andrea, ‘Locks & Keys, Water, Trees’ portrays the genesis of a rare brain tumour with its origins in early childhood. Diagnosed and treated in the artist’s late twenties, the film reflects an ongoing process of recovery from traumatic brain injury. Portraying drawing as both escape and embrace, a ‘shuttle between inner and outer worlds’, and video as its counterpart medium in time, the film speaks to the communicative power of art to connect, explore and heal trauma.

The Quintessence considers the scientific study of outer space as a narrative, and analyses the hidden dreams and expectations of those shaping contemporary research about the universe.

Two young lovers each plot one another’s murders on the same day.

Richard Forbes-Hamilton's "(third study for) Swedge of Heaven" explores themes of liminality, transition and reanimation around locations of ritual gatherings in Essex. Starting in an edgelands underpass, we come across a Neolithic fertility figure and a rave mascot beating a drum with glowsticks. Employing 3D models of real-world sites alongside computer-generated actors, the film hovers between neon and natural worlds.

"Coisich, a Rùin" explores the decline of the woollen industry in the Scottish Borders through the accounts of workers of the long-abandoned Heather Mills, built on the River Tweed in 1871. Connecting with old looming traditions through oral histories, Flora Litchfield applies a tapestry of sound to images of the empty space to re-energise its dormant life.

In Amy Cutler’s "Supermoon Variations", a red super-moon is evocatively refracted through lenses and 35mm nature slides. Filmed during lockdown from Cutler’s London balcony, the film captures a night-time performance in which shapes are barely visible, with an immersive soundtrack intensifying glimmers of detail and illusionary perspectives of human scale.

ITV News Royal Editor Chris Ship marks the most significant moments in Prince Philip’s life and finds out how the son of a Danish prince ended up marrying The Queen.

Climbing. It's doubtful that if we asked you to name your favourite part of the ride, the climb would be it. However, a huge area of cycling is obsessed with the pipedream of increasingly lightweight superbikes. We're setting out to create a no hold's barred lightweight climbing bike, using cutting edge components and materials, to see how light we can go. However, it doesn't stop there. We're then running the numbers to see just how much of a performance increase this bike can lend to a regular in the hillclimbing pain cave. Meanwhile, there's the matter of body weight vs bike weight to the resolve. Has the arms race for the lightest bike possible been the wrong focus all along?

A parent-teacher meeting one Saturday morning attempts to address a complicated altercation between teenagers Jolene Strickland and Stacy Duvelier, with the help of an expert arbitrator, Julie Langham.

During their journey to prison, a tortured detective has to choose between bringing in his brother for a crime he actually committed, or offering yet another chance.

A short film created by Tiago Ruas during his time at Arts University Bournemouth.

A therapist attempts to navigate a young man's toxic relationship issues with his ex-girlfriend using state-of-the-art virtual reality technology. But is his memory reliable?

In 2008, at age 12, Chance was abducted by the NDC, an active guerrilla group in Eastern Congo, while visiting his older sister in Mubi in the province of North Kivu.

Dara and Sophie's once close friendship is now only sustained by likes, memes and ever-delayed meet-ups. When Sophie commits suicide, Dara is forced to look behind the surface of Sophie's last messages.

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

Up to 4,000 car washes and around 1,000 interior washes per day; plus a hand wax station, 48 vacuum cleaner spaces, a petrol station and an oil change service: the world's largest car wash in Stuttgart-Feuerbach (Germany) is a superlative system. The documentary takes a look behind the scenes of the family business and shows the enormous logistical effort involved in handling the vehicle masses and the perfect luxury car care.

A biographical 2D animation following the realisation of a missed opportunity to make a connection with a relative after attending their funeral digitally during the pandemic.

Just before turning in for the night, Sarah soon finds her evening much more entertaining than she anticipated. Surely cause and effect is the rational judgement? Or perhaps there is a far more whimsical reason? Who or what is the controller? ‘Controller’ is a three minute, comedic short film created by just two people. When life gives you a lockdown, make a lockdown lemonade. This is our lemonade.

In La Nave, Colombian artist and first-time filmmaker Carlos Maria Romero (aka Atabey Mamasita) translates the meaning and spirit of Carnival de Barranquilla during a year in which gatherings were forbidden. Through clandestinely filmed performances with members of many different communities—indigenous, trans, queer, rural, Afro-Colombian and radical outsiders among them—Maria Romero recreates northern Colombia’s largest cultural event as an essayistic performance film, demonstrating how Carnival is a lifeblood to its many diverse participants.

Special agent Michael Burrell attempts to stop an enemy from his past from exposing him and releasing information that could destroy his friendship and the world.

The story of two cake figurines who fall in love - with a twist.

Elise revisits the traumatic memories of her lover Jessica committing suicide due to the catastrophic death of their child, struggling to escape the eternal circle of anguish and misery she tries to move forward, but is she just stuck in an endless loop?

Pongolee ‘Pong’ the Pangolin and her assistant Shelley the snail are back on tour with their circus and will present their newest trick that will blow you away.

When Sam's brother passes away, she organises a virtual funeral for him inside their favourite childhood video game, In Perpetuum. Her closest friends log in and join her - but the server is old and unstable. As the world breaks down around them, Sam realises her brother might not be as far away as she thinks. In Perpetuum's stunning visuals were created using Epic Games' Unreal Engine.

"When I was 9 my father took me to see a public execution in Iran. This film is an effort to re-create and recapture that brutal memory." (P.K.)

A freelance journalist has been kidnapped and thrown in the boot of a car. Only the flare of his lighter can illuminate his claustrophobic prison in this speeding car. He searches desperately for any way he can escape. With time running out and hope almost lost, he will indeed be making an example, but maybe he can get one last message of hope out before the end and a final act of defiance.

A story about a girl, her loved place, memories, and change.

A murder has been committed at Duchess Cindy's mansion, the guests are shaken and they're almost out of punch. Tensions are definitely reaching dangerous levels. The murderer must be caught quickly before anyone does anything rash. There's only one man who can solve the crime... Hunt!

Director Aleah Scott collects first-hand accounts of sexual assault and harassment in a film that portrays the long-term effects they have on women. Premiered on Girls on Film, Safe marries care-free images of schoolgirls with harrowing narratives of abuses suffered by women when they were younger and in school uniform.

One month after marrying the woman of his dreams, Simon Sansome and his bride were starting a life and a family, when tragedy struck. Due to medical negligence, he lost all function from his waist down. Little did the couple know it would be the making of the man, now ranked in the 'top 100 most influential men in Britain'.

How should we remember catastrophic events? And what remains in people’s memory when their stories are silenced? All the Dreams We Dream is a hand-drawn animation based on the memories of those who endured famine in Qazaqstan in the 1930s. Based on two memoirs retold by poet Gafu Kairbekov, it seeks to explore questions of empathy and fear, asking how stories of violence and pain should be recounted in the modern age.

After regaining control of her thoughts, to finally become one with her other self, louise wakes up within her dreams.

A young girl is lost in the woods looking for her mum; however, she stumbles upon a different kind of mother.

Film by Seema Mattu

Idrish acts as an urgent and potent piece of anti-deportation activism. With reports of deportation flights regularly in the news, the film is rich with resonance to our current moment. In one striking sequence, footage of a protest march gives way to staccato editing and propulsive sound design by Claude Nouk, who re-uses and manipulates archival sounds to transform the film into a powerful rallying cry. Radically reanimating the documentary form, Jacob enlivens the archive to tell a vital history.

As Scottish poet Ivor Cutler muses, in Jamie Kane's "The Pump": 'Gravity begins at home.' Kane's film grapples with premonition and what you miss when you lose everything. The gaping absence of one’s own house swallowed by nature through a flooded mine shaft is told through a personal account of the events. Objects from the rubble, outside structures and interior details map such loss against the impermanence of possessions.

Ice Ceiling is about the direct manifestations of an unwell mind, producing auditory hallucinations that manipulate the protagonist.

The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.

The tragic story of a 24-year-old Lee Irving, a young man with learning difficulties lured to his death by four people he thought were his friends.

"Accompanied by a pulsating sound, distorted visuals and a reading of Sappho's "Ode to Aphrodite", "Anagenisis" is a sensual performance piece which reflects the artist's own exploration of his Greek heritage and Queer identity." - Nottingham Contemporary

Ruth, a newly divorced gallery manager selling her city home, sees a video of a sheepdog, Mick, for sale. She visits farmer Huw and his wife Megan in the remote hills.

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.

An abstract film.

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It Goes Without Saying is a film/sound/performance piece based on a text/poem of the same title. Images in color and black+white are super-imposed from two 16mm projectors. One projector plays a 5 minute color film; this film is played forwards and backwards, continually being re-threaded – we see writing and un-writing, painting and un-painting. The second projector screens a series of writing actions on various surfaces; on rock, on paper, in negative and in revealed invisible writing separated by black intervals. During the performance these two superimposed projections create a flow of repeating actions: creating and uncreating, writing and erasure, color and blackness. The sound is created live by the performer through manipulation of a hand cranked cassette machine, contact mics, guitar pick-ups, looper and percussive machines. The text is read intermittently through the performance.