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You know that thing when you see your ex at a party and you know you messed up the relationship? Yeah, that.

A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labor struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.

The world is coming to an end terror fills my bones I'm supposed to be an adult but on the inside I'm just a scared boy crying for his mum to come save him from this inevitable destruction.

Inas Halabi reflects upon the particular political and social condition of the Druze community living in occupied Palestine, taking individual and personal stories as a point of departure. It begins with an ascent of Mount Carmel upon which the Druze towns of Dalyet el Carmel and Isfiya are located, drawing the viewer into a world of geographic isolation and a locale shaped by coercion and control. Living mostly in mountainous areas in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine/Israel, as well as in diaspora globally, the Druze maintain close-knit social and religious ties as a minority within and across national borders.

Matter of the Heart explores the lived experiences of an unseen narrator, as he prepares for, undergoes and recovers from open-heart surgery.

In early 2020, former student Jack gets a job working in an art gallery in Berlin only for the coronavirus pandemic to arrive and ruin his plans. Jack notices his old university flame is stuck in Tuscany and decides to quit his new job and travel through Europe during lockdown with his new mates to find her.

The film explores cyclical motifs of arrival and departure through the artist’s grandmother’s migration to the United Kingdom and her posthumous return to Jamaica, creating a transcendental frame where memory and time merge. In this speculative space, the film navigates beyond the confines of mortality, reimagining a future where inherited stories resist linearity

When two lovers wake up tangled in wildflowers in the middle of nowhere they must navigate the landscape and their insecurities as they struggle to confess how they feel.

This story begins with an obedient child who grows up under the traditional education concept, she is taught by the adults to plant flowers while instilling their educational ideas and perceptions of the world. The child must obey what the parents said. As a result, the child grew up rebelliously, and adults regard this as wrong and correct the child by remoulding her towards the goal of "perfect", so the child is sent to the ‘human perfection project’ by adults, trying to remove the filth from the child.

When a bird of prey gets ran over, a teen girl's insistence to give it a funeral ignites conflict within her family. Dark, twisted, and yet still light-hearted, this animated horror drama plays on the extremes of childhood emotions.

Dedi, a magician and experimenter immersed in mystical practices, is attempting to resurrect his deceased lover, Pierre. Set in the 18th to 19th centuries in a town between modern-day France and Belgium, the story unfolds within the confines of Dedi's dark room. Over the course of 36 hours, Dedi performs five unsuccessful resurrection attempts, each revealing a malevolent force attempting to escape the body. Undeterred, Dedi persists, determined to bring Pierre back to life. The film explores themes of forbidden knowledge and the consequences of tampering with life and death, creating an atmosphere of anticipation and mystery.

Examining the relationship between the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, using a combination of archive material and interviews to explore the truth behind the headlines

I never knew how to answer the question, "what is your name," because if truth be told, I do not have a name, I have five names... Using family album and hand drawn animation, How I Got My Names tells a personal story about dealing with a traumatic childhood while navigating the ever-confusing young adulthood.

The myth becomes the reality. when a normal day becomes your worst nightmare. The sight of yourself, foreshadowing your own death.

A blue comedy nature documentary about how frogs reproduce.

A gentleman, alone in his study, hurriedly writes a letter with an ink pen.

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.

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

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.

Following a Scottish community devoted to perhaps the world's greatest monster myth. Their efforts are disrupted by the arrival of an ambitious scientist who begins a definitive search for the Loch Ness Monster.

Featuring Clive Oppenheimer, professor of volcanology, this film explores the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on earth

It’s lovely when you hear someone say, “I love Christmas time. Everyone’s” in a party mood AND to top that!! CHUBBY always has a new DVD out !!!!! Have a watch for yourself Chubbs x

An anonymous woman reflects on happier times spent with her former companions.

Grief is a unique experience every time. It's heartbreaking. Literally.

A couple who met and fell in love in China. The boy wants the girl to come with him to study in England, but the girl refuses. A few years later, the girl comes to England to study and tries to find out where the boy used to live.

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

In 1981, Britain experienced the whitest Christmas of the 20th Century with over half the country blanketed in snow. Featuring unseen archive and celebrity anecdotes, we tell the untold story of this spectacular weather event.

Day by day, a strange figure chases an officer worker in this scribbling, textural animation. Is the creature as horrifying as it seems?

Hidden is a short period drama that explores World War II from the perspective of a young Jewish girl, Esther, who lost her father to Holocaust. Years later, with a heavy heart she reveals the truth about the horrifying events of the past, and tells the stories of those who never had a chance to share them.

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.

An awkward first date gets even more uncomfortable when the young couple realise there's something they're both trying to avoid.

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

An animated short about those simple childhood memories that ensured you had the BEST DAY EVER.

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.

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.

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.

A young man witnesses a horrific event unfold in front of him, leaving him with guilt and anger.

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

If you love any era of hip hop, this is the definitive video mix of 50 years of hip hop with nearly 500 tracks in under an hour, featuring every key artist and track from 1973 to 2023, mixed by DJ Beat A Maxx for BBC 1Xtra. Featuring everything from the first samples of Babe Ruth, to Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang and Afrika Bambaataa, all the way through Run DMC, Beastie Boys, NWA, Queen Latifah, Jay Z and Lil Kim, to today’s titans like Nicki Minaj, Drake, Cardi B, Lil Nas X, and absolutely everyone in between. The mix comes from video DJ and turntablist Beat A Maxx, who recently DJ’d at Beyonce’s 2023 Renaissance World Tour in London, and the show is introduced by our hip hop officianados of Kenny Allstar and Snoochie Shy, 'For The Love Of Hip Hop' host Romesh Ranganathan, DJ Dee from Panjabi Hit Squad, and resident Fun Lovin' Criminal New Yorker Huey Morgan

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.

The extraordinary story of Natalie Davidson, a teacher with Tourette's, whose lessons could be interrupted by uncontrollable swearing and how she travels the UK visiting other people with the syndrome.

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

A man envisions a murder in his pursuit of power.

Finding peace in a world designed to push us to insanity.

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.

Callie finds herself trapped in a time loop in a museum. No matter how many times she tries she can't seem to leave, until she engages with an LGBTQ+ display, which invites her to share her story. Doing so creates an unlocking that is key to her self-discovery.

A short documentary on James McIvor

But She Still Wears Kohl and Smells like Roses retells the story of a collection of glass vessels from the V&A collection that were excavated in Palestine and Syria. The replicas were produced in Palestine with local artisans, the Twam family, and an anonymous family that works in the black market to make and sell forgeries. The original vessels in the glass gallery are replaced with tomb cards that narrate the violence of exhuming bodies to retrieve the "grave goods" and illustrate the power of the female body in the history of archaeology. The installation was accompanied by an experimental film that stitches personal histories with the history of glass.

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.

Cartoon allegory of censorship.

Knuckle Sandwich when you Knuckle Sandwich

Historians, journalists and public servants recount the time-line of events of 8th September 2022, when Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

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.

The documentary film weaves together themes relating to the bond between humans and nature, and the profound impact of gardening during turbulent times. The documentary asks its viewers to reflect on the intrinsic connection between humans and the natural world, emphasising the therapeutic and empowering qualities that can be found in cultivating the land.

A short film.