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Two characters meet and fall in love, sharing pieces of themselves with each other, but soon find the fragility of their connection and themselves.

When his scarf is stolen by a biker gang, a boy must chase them on a skateboard and confront their leader.

A young Jehovah’s Witness falls into a deep depression when he is expelled from his religious community. He mysteriously wakes up in the hospital morgue alongside an out gay man, who has died prematurely. Tensions rise, as it quickly becomes clear that the two men both lived and died in very different ways. Now, as they take time to understand each other’s journeys, trading opposing views on sex, love, and religion, they learn that their way out is not just to talk, but to listen.

A Documentary film about the life and activism of LGBTQ Scot Kath Duncan The most important Uk Civil rights leader past 100 years but almost forgotten in time until my Highly acclaimed stage play #liberty and my biography of Kath The Last Queen Of Scotland stage play Liberty.

Cameras go behind-the-scenes in the giant supermarket chain for 24 hours to uncover the secrets behind Tesco's success, investigating how they make their money, and revealing ingenious hacks for consumers to shop smarter.

This film is about a bewildering fantasy journey of a person and a frog.

A woman and a man quietly advance their relationship while eating at a restaurant.

An experimental short that explores the historical role of cinemas as cruising sites, as well as cinema’s relationship with desire and fantasy.

A quietly poignant domestic film made of images gathered around the house and its surroundings over a two-year period. The title might seem self-explanatory, we do see pillows, bowls, roses, trees – but also curtains, tablecloths, saucers, other trees and flowers (in the garden and arranged on vases). We sense the changing seasons and we sense a lived-in space – one that is shared as the pillow arrangements suggest. Working with a Bolex camera involves a tension between the technology and the world surrounding the filmmaker, the maximum shot length is limited to around 20 seconds because of the windup spring motor.

Our story follows Stevie, a man with a TV for a head but without a remote to help, as they struggle to get through their day at work.

The story of a Mormon man and his vegan business partner who made millions by duping their sex-loving customers into buying what they believed was a ‘natural’ alternative to Viagra. Stiff Nights promised to be a natural sex supplement, but that wasn’t the whole, hard truth.

A mercenary is tasked with killing Rab Freedman - a drone who seeks to unionise drones against the mega-corporations who enslave them.

During lockdown, comedians experimented with hundreds of online comedy gigs that connected people worldwide. Access Festival curates the best examples of these, beaming comedians from their homes into yours via Zoom and NextUp. So this January - stay in, warm up and enjoy over 15 unique and hilarious virtual gigs that pioneer a new way to enjoy comedy, streamed directly into your home.

On his son's 18th birthday, David battles between the past and present as a familiar face unexpectedly turns up at the pub.

Presented as a series of visual field recordings captured on expired 16mm film and staged interventions in place, Come On Pilgrim originates in the experience of the filmmaker living in a flat overlooking the Mayflower steps in Plymouth (UK). This location provided a jumping-off point to interrogate histories of settler-colonialism, identity, and mythos in the surrounding landscape, from the viewpoint of a recent immigrant. These histories are related in fragmentary fashion by community members in a collage of voices, contrasting with monumental narratives set in stone. Throughout the film, history rubs against absurdity and elements of folk tradition. Fellow immigrants are rendered visible in everyday situations, protests are documented, a wizard invents an empire, vinyl is vandalized, and Anglo-Saxon re-enactors trek through the moors, gesturing towards waves of settlement on the island currently known as Great Britain

A young father is writing a letter addressed to his daughter, while he is facing the pressures of his relationship with her.

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted.

Among the peace and quiet of the rural English countryside, a young couple on a weekend camping break stop by a quaint village shop for supplies. As George enters, his girlfriend stuck outside talking to a local busy-body, he finds himself paralysed by shock, alone with the shopkeeper; a previously convicted man who groomed him as a child 22 years ago, Mr Amble.

A shared voice with no words. Ultra Violet Neon Planet is a film documenting the cultural origins of bleep, a sub-genre of house and techno developed in Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford in the late 1980's. Using a mixture of interviews and archival film provided, the documentary explores the transatlantic connection between Yorkshire and the mid-western cities of Chicago and Detroit, unravelling the subconscious influences that shaped the sounds of bleep.

‘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.

In the small, sleepy town, a seemingly ordinary mug sits quietly on a kitchen counter. However, this isn’t just any mug, it’s an ancient relic, believed to have been crafted centuries ago by an unknown artisan. Throughout the beautiful, touching film, the mug appears to possess a strange, almost magical quality, whenever it is held, the characters experience moments of clarity or inspiration. For a young writer struggling with self-doubt, the mug sparks a burst of creativity that propels them to complete their long-overdue novel. Mugged Off is a heart-warming exploration of how the simplest of objects can carry profound meaning, weaving a story of love, loss, and the quiet power of everyday life.

A Huel-obsessed creature happens across a lifetime's supply of the food supplement.

Cookie Valentine goes to a mindfulness workshop to find herself...in a Chamber of Horrors.

When Spuds meets a mysterious girl in a nightclub, the last thing he expects is a troubling diagnosis...

A man with a secret - on the full moon, all is revealed...

An unnamed man runs through the forest. At first: peace. Until something felt wrong. Something was watching, following, waiting. The only thing to do in this situation: Leg It.

During a family argument, a teenager flees to the garden to find some relief from the noise and conflict inside, but the argument follows them out and cannot be escaped. Feeling hopelessly fed up, they begin to grow into the grass and are swallowed by the ground. When they wake, they are in a world beneath the garden floor where they have transformed into a cryptid creature, a green man, an escape from being human. What seemed at first a magical escapism becomes a burden as the house and conflict still plagues them. This short film deals with themes including childhood, anxiety of growing up, puberty, Queerness, and body dysphoria. As well as exploring climate anxiety and the urge to be closer to nature and the Earth.

A microshort film about the deadly Ghost of Stonelen Castle

In a rebellious fusion of punk ethos and gender identity, ‘Unapologetic Resonance’ delves into the poignant tale of a transgender protagonist defying societal norms and finding their true voice amidst the vibrant underground punk scene.

The confrontation between human emotion and technological development. In a distant space station, four scientists are trying to discover a chip that annuls human emotions. When they think their goal has been achieved, everything changes.

Two men born as princes formed a seemingly tight brotherhood however, their relationship has fractured under the immense pressures of the future of the crown. After losing their mother at such a young age and growing up in the public eye William and Harry's journey has not been easy. Both have dedicated their time to many worthy causes paving out their own lives and forming families. Only each other can understand what the other one has gone through however their relationship is complex and the stakes are high.

On the death of her husband, Malal retrieves her hidden pencils and paper from beneath a floorboard to draw the flowers in her garden. While her sons argue over who will look after her now, she leaves the house alone for the first time in years.

This film is based on the true story of an Uyghur man who has been living in London for more than 20 years. A Uyghur family is devastated when they can no longer communicate across continents. They find solace in chance encounters with sympathetic strangers in London

A harrowing depiction of a childhood experience of alcoholism and its impact on interfamily relationships and mental health.

An exploration of the many characters and life of songman- David Bowie.

After years of struggling with acne, former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! winner Georgia 'Toff' Toffolo examines the dangerous lengths that people go to for perfect skin and investigates the billion-pound spot fighting industry.

A young Jewish girl plans on coming out to her family as gay on the same night her mother plans to set her up with a young Jewish boy.

A brutal coming-of-age story in the Stone Age, told through the artefacts that remain.

While working and traveling in Russia, Cork-based Sam meets U.S. citizen Gabe, who is trying to trace the birth mother that he and his sister were taken from in childhood when they were adopted into America.

A college student is staying in to complete an essay when she begins to suspect she is not alone in the house.

An elderly queer person reminisces on their long-lost friend in this gorgeous semi-animated music video.

A retrieval courtship in suspended animation.

Whispering Saucers derives from a sonic transfer experiment on parabolic antennas—in which, by standing at a certain point, the antennas can transfer whispers through their curves and send them further distances. The performers are asked to wander around and make various sounds, but when they face each other, they must mimic one another. Who will mimic who—this enigmatic communication becomes somewhat of a power game. The play of Whispering Saucers suggests that loud and clear communication is not essential to understand each other. What matters is where you’d stand to understand one another.

Marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush to British shores in 1948, this documentary follows a remarkable project spearheaded by the King, who has commissioned ten leading artists from Britain and abroad to create portraits of ten pioneering members of the Windrush Generation.

An experimental short film that explores the relationship between trauma, synaesthesia, and art. Shot on 8mm film, the film follows the story of a person with PTSD and synaesthesia who is recounting their memories associated with the color red.

We follow a young married couple, Cassie and Ade, over an evening as they try their best to right a wrong. Cassie is Welsh “working class”, focused and driven, while Ade, of African descent, is laid back and lighthearted but apprehensive. They both have their daughters' future and best interests at heart, but their opposing opinions and personalities clash. Can they agree on how to achieve their goal, and are their actions a little...extreme?

A paranoid and schizophrenic girl spirals out of control after her best friend supposedly steals her money.

At 74, Azdyne Amimour should be contemplating peaceful retirement. But his days are fuelled by an overriding goal: to make reparations for crimes he didn't commit and find his missing granddaughter, whom he has never seen. Amid family trauma and longing, the story of Azydyne and those who share his predicament shines a light on the far-reaching and shattering effects of war and terrorism on families as they seek to assemble the pieces left behind.

The nocturnal city reveals a machine of desiring forces linked to the spectacle of Capitalism. In the consuming night, the dazzlement of the city as a networked flow of information and surveillance is revealed. Affective forces create and shape the experience of this machinic city, but within this illumination and control, seeking out the liminal, queer spaces of desire becomes more urgent.

Musician James Edwin Lane explores his personal battle with agoraphobia through the creation of a new genre: the folkloric film ballad. Working with non-professional actors in the mythic landscape of his native county Durham, James builds a film narrative around his original composition, The Heron Man.

This animated documentary explores the experience of telling the world that you are autistic when you also identify as LGBTQ+.

Cost of living, climate change, food, housing, land: the multiple crises we face are deeply interlinked, which means the solutions are too. “Everything Must Change” explains how all these crises – and the accompanying spiralling price rises – have come about, and shows how a just transition away from a free market extractive system based on exploitation to a renewable energy system based on peoples needs can solve all of them. Drawing on the experience of numerous inspiring social movements, the film shows how climate change driven by profiteering from our global systems has destroyed our planet and increased inequality. We need to transform global infrastructure and services to be people oriented, by building a global mass workers and peasants movement to enact a just transition. For the people, by the people, and never for profit. Because government and big business aren’t going to do it for us.

Security guard Ruby takes over a colleagues night shift at the abandoned cinema... but is it really?

On a quest to produce a genuinely original short film, our filmmakers encounter novel artificial intelligence. What will you see? The world's first narrative short produced using generative AI - each frame has been rendered by artificial intelligence, an interesting collision with reality.

Two ex girlfriends meet up, facing their past struggles and love, while also contemplating an uncertain future.

A wannabe criminal accidentally locks himself in a vault with his ransom hostage and a bomb set to explode.

Tenderfold is an explorative piece on the ephemeral qualities of the human embrace.

Sore Throat (2023) is a visually stunning research-led film that explores how sound overheard through walls has impacted queer people in the Philippines, where the interpretation of sound is informed by monstrous mythology and the distortions of colonisation and gentrification.

A speculative fiction work set in a salty world, at first, and then is a collage of photographs, moving image and sound. Part of a continuing project looking at a future, world, parallel, time alternate, dimension, through a salted lens, set in an over salinated beach town. With a queer approach and a nod to 1960s French new wave cinema, the work layers a 35 voice choir with crawling digital sounds, harking to sci-fis from the past projecting somewhere into the future.

Go behind the scenes of the intense world of professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). Follow the personal stories of legendary players Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato, and Casper “cadiaN” Møller as they navigate the highs and lows of the Intel® Extreme Masters (IEM) Major Championship in Rio de Janeiro. Narrated by the dynamic CS:GO caster Alex “MACHINE” Richardson, “Game and Glory” immerses you in the high-stakes drama and nail-biting tension of one of the largest esports events ever, with a staggering prize pool of $1,250,000. Experience the unmatched energy of a crowd like no other, and the electrifying atmosphere that made the IEM Rio Major an unforgettable chapter in esports history. Whether you’re a seasoned fan or new to the scene, this documentary promises to captivate and inspire, showcasing the relentless pursuit of glory in the world of professional gaming.