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Zhimei is an international student studying film in the UK. After the outbreak, she stayed in her room all day trying to find creative inspiration from various information on the Internet. One day, when she and her roommate Yoyo were browsing dating apps, she saw two young boys named Thomas. Zhimei began to imagine two story lines in her mind based on them, and her fantasies and desires swayed accordingly.
Jums the elephant is torn from his family and endures captivity and abuse. An unforgettable journey unfolds, of power, compassion and family bonds.
Live-action short from Scotland
Former journalist and professional doomscroller, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (Funny Women 'One To Watch' 2020, British Comedy Guide Pro Performance Award finalist 2021) will heal your crippling phone addiction... Welcome to the Doomscrolling Clinic. Suchandrika is not a qualified medical professional, but she did start a career in newspaper journalism after the internet became a fairly big deal, so you know her judgement is impeccable.
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.
Jolie is a young girl with not much left to her name; after losing her family in a fire that she accidentally started. Encountering a mysterious creature, she undertakes a self-discovery journey into her trauma, reliving the horrors of that night.
David's wife suddenly passes away. What follows is a quiet meditation on the family home being changed forever.
Fitting explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a prosthetic leg. It asks what it means for to create an extension to someone else’s body, and the impact this has on both maker and amputee. The film demystifies this unfamiliar space and experience for the viewer, and questioning stereotyping and prejudice widely seen within our society's consideration of body image.
Frustrated by how they are treated, a group of disabled individuals challenge the narrative, and barriers, that society has placed upon them.
Chick walks around her chair in her garden in the late 1980s.
Papercut is a short film centred around an alien-like character called Urk. The film takes us through Urk's daily routine, each part taking place in a different universe.
A student who's family has fallen apart seeks to improve his life by taking a younger student under his guidance. Later finding that his mentees past and present troubles seem to be a more worthy cause for the miserable life he is living.
A short film that blends personal essay with unnerving imagery, in the hopes of taking the current narrative surrounding trans and queer people as ‘monsters’, and juxtaposing this with childhood videos, amusement parks, and slugs… ‘Monsters’ was inspired by queer-theory, such as Richard Dyer’s work on the queer-coding of vampires.
A two screen short on the sea, gulls, oystercatchers, fishing, and counting.
As proud grandparents, Charles and Camilla have ten grandchildren between them. While some of them are princes and princesses, others have lives outside the media spotlight. Explores these grandchildren and the complex family they belong to.
A poetic documentary detailing the spiritual relationship between an organ and its player
What might a right-hemisphere worldview reveal? ‘Longing’ is an ontological dialogue, weaving contrasting scenes with intimate converse amid the sensual Saharan dunes, while contemplating the paradoxical nature of context.
Max decides to go camping and discovers MORE than he bargained for...
A woman must face dark realities as she chooses a name for her unborn baby.
A teenage boy has trouble getting to sleep
An intimate moment in broad daylight on the Valparaíso shore.
Observing the everyday life, obstacles and creativity of one woman from St Helens, Merseyside; we follow Cath as she reaches 50 and takes stock of her journey in negotiating the balance between life and art. Having arrived at a point of now-or-never she revisits her alter-ego Kitty O'Shea in a final attempt to shift the balance from occasional maker to practising artist.
When a small naive robot looking to break into the film industry auditions for a stunt role in a upcoming film, he encounters the scary, formidable force of the ‘OCD-27’ stunt coordinator robot. The coordinator puts him through his paces as he struggles to deal with all that’s thrown at him whilst they both learn to have fun along the way.
From cradle to grave. A travelogue in the vein of the early super 8 films by Derek Jarman and Mark Jenkin, and the rambling grimoires of Ithell Colquhoun, retracing the primal journey of the early Holocene mystics of the Guernsey bailiwick.
A sheep writes a letter to his sister whilst being prepared for a ritual.
A documentary about the history of Glasgow Deaf Athletic Football Club and interviews with past and current players.
A documentary about light and how it works
Olive's peaceful train journey becomes a stressful situation.
A performance for the Bolex camera in which dimensions of stasis and movement are physically enacted by filming at varying frame rates. A still figure, saturated with light, appears to be highly overexposed. As layers of the image dislodge and peel away it becomes apparent that the exposure is correct, and that actually the brightness is caused through repeated multiple superimpositions.
Alan Davidson is a fugitive, on the run from the Intergalactic Police. Now his old partner is being asked to track him down and help apprehend him on the orders of ‘The Commissioner’.
Charlie enters a record shop for a job interview. She is greeted first by the owner and later by another employee, who warns her of the owner. Later as she is being interviewed, her true intentions in applying for the job are slowly revealed.
Judith and Amrish rediscover the healing power of plants during the COVID-19 lockdown, a time marked by fear, death, upheavals, isolation, and loneliness.
After dark, London takes on a different form, when work, leisure, and other activities diverge from daylight expectations. New sensibilities emerge, and time and space are recalibrated. At night, sound bends towards the earth, flattening sonic perspective. Night-line pursues the nocturnal city from dusk to early morning, a place that gets in your head. Sometimes it is liberating ― at other times, a refuge. It is forever relentless and enveloping.
Composed of interviews with LGBT+ individuals, this is a documentary that discusses the popularity of anime in Queer communities. The visual style is heavily influenced by mid-2000s fandom aesthetics, and the discussions rotate around androgyny in anime, television censorship, identity formation, and fandom as a site of expression.
A complete idiot tries to win the heart of a paramedic by getting himself into a series of accidents.
A woman’s meticulously organized routine gets upended when her home starts to unravel and reality starts to creep in.
A creature considers its current bindings and finds them wanting.
Hugh’s playing days are long gone - in fact Hugh’s long gone - but an upset wee girl, with a burst football, makes him suddenly feel so alive again.
In a foreign landscape, a young Swedish and Jewish man attempts to understand his past whilst forging a way for his future
Collage, cut-out, stop-motion, digital and analogue techniques combine with tribal rhythms, chanting and dancing in a joyous love-letter to home.
Explore the story of Austin Allen's activism and letter writing campaign as he contemplates his legacy from his new home.
Ten frontrunners from the next generation of comedy talent
An officer does whatever it takes to put a man behind bars.
Two figures in an idiosyncratic restorative session place grief onto a stone, alongside verbal self-soothing, guided gestures and blue thoughts.
As a family from a politically and physically divided island, Meray and her father developed extremely opposite views to each other. She travels from Scotland back to her childhood home - to the garden where she once had nightmares of the conflict. Now it's blossoming with fruit trees that her father grows, acting as the conversational middle ground for the deeper problems of the relationship. As the debates about power dynamics in the house and on the island grow in parallel, she needs to understand her father's experiences and find the courage to tell him that she always sought his validation. Meray felt oppressed by her father and the state in north Cyprus, and finally wants to express herself within her family, and the Cyprus that she once escaped.
On 14 June 2023, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank inside the Greek search and rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea–the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history. Our digital reconstructions of the boat and mapping of its trajectory reveal inconsistencies in the Hellenic Coast Guard's (HCG) account and indicate that over 600 people drowned as the result of a failed towing by the HCG.
An old man, alone in his flat, experiences the daily struggles of living with dementia. Attempting to occupy himself with a familiar routine, very soon reality starts to fall away and he finds himself in a state of confusion and panic. He is forced to confront painful memories, whilst fighting to hold on to good ones. Can he come to terms with his condition, and find inner peace? A tale of humanity and the courage of showing resilience in the face of adversity.
Two girls meet and fall in love.
Immaterial Terrain is a film made by Emily Richardson along a seven-mile stretch of the Suffolk coast between Sizewell nuclear power station and the mythic drowned city of Dunwich. Camera in hand, over the duration of a year Richardson repeatedly walked this coastline. These walks – pilgrimages and acts of protest – structure a film that documents a singular and fragile landscape at an uncertain moment. Plans to expand the nuclear power station at Sizewell will have a lasting impact on the environment.
Exploring how the couple's fairy-tale romance pitted the Windsors against each other.
Anxious about failing an exam, Kavi experiences a supernatural enlightenment.
After being out of town for a while, Russell comes back home to the life he left behind. He’s got to face his ex-boyfriend Aaron, and confront the only family he knows – his brother Robert, who is against his sexuality.
A reclusive hoarder finds her solitary existence upset when a kind-hearted social worker shows up at her door, and leaves her questioning if she can open herself up to the possibility of learning to live again.