Premiere Category

Live Action, Premiere

Annika Chavez Turns a Shared Bathtub Into an Uncertain Stage of Fluid Friendship in Her Wry Short ‘Three Minutes’

Annika Chavez breaks down how experimentation within an organic shoot helped her capture the unspoken weight of a life-changing moment shared in a bathroom.

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Live Action, Premiere

Lorenzo Gonnelli Builds Familiar Tension Only to Collapse It in His Morally Suspended Fractured Short ‘Godless Animals’

Lorenzo Gonnelli talks crafting tension through omission and having the unseen carry more weight than any image shown in his genre subverting thriller.

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Live Action, Premiere

Charlotte Serena Cooper Dismantles Queer Screen Death Tropes with Genre Pastiche in Riotous Satire ‘Bury Your Gays’

Drawing on years of script supervision, Charlotte Serena Cooper masters the visual grammar of five distinct genres to subvert a tired cinematic cliché.

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Animation, Premiere

Thomas Laurance Exorcises Creative Paralysis Through DIY Rotoscoping in His Scatological Satire ‘Tortured Artist’

Thomas Laurance deconstructs the unequivocally independent process of his joyfully crude sub-£100 comedy short lampooning the toxic pressure to make good art.

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Live Action, Premiere

Firas Itani Charts the Invisible Sisyphean Weight of Everyday Labour in Tense Drama ‘Lower Ground’

Denying any relief, Firas Itani uses framing, contrasting colour & relentless routine to depict skewed power dynamics in his portrait of everyday servitude.

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Live Action, Premiere

Amandine Thomas & Gerardo Coello Escalante Capture the Uneasy Nuance of the Tourism Economy in Drama Short ‘SUSANA’

Amandine Thomas & Gerardo Coello Escalante explain why they broke the fourth wall to implicate viewers in the uncomfortable economic realities of mass tourism.

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Live Action, Premiere

An AI-Powered Sex Robot Exposes a Relationship in Crisis in the Nüesch Sisters’ Dark Comedy ‘Marriage Unplugged’

From a glossy sex shop to a sterile home, sister-directors Florine & Kim Nüesch describe using visual world-building to map a relationship’s decay.

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Live Action, Premiere

Gus Reed Choreographs a Delicate Dance of Discontent in His Enigimatic Disquieting Short ‘Losing Season’

Gus Reed breaks down the precise blocking used to map a psychological power struggle when a woman's stagnation is disturbed by an uninvited visitor.

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Live Action, Premiere

Jessica Barr Blurs Performance And Personal Trauma In Her Intimate, Visually Claustrophobic Acting Short ‘Private Moments’

Jessica Barr discusses using the meta-narrative of an acting class to explore the pressure on female filmmakers to mine personal trauma for their art.

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Live Action, Premiere

Amir Youssef Constructs a Tender Child’s-Eye View of Personal Loss Amongst Historical Rupture in ‘Dawn Every Day’

Using wide lenses and a meticulous B&W palette, director Amir Youssef locks us at eye-level with an eight-year-old boy grappling with a world coming apart.

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Live Action, Premiere

Love and Loathing Intertwine in Katie Lambert’s Perfectly Formed Teenage Desire Comedy ‘I Hate Helen’

Katie Lambert take us all back to school and maps out the disco choreography and swimming pool shooting of her effervescent coming of age comedy short.

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Animation, Premiere

A Woman Finds Relief in Self-Pleasure in Olivia Griselda & Sarah Cheok’s ‘She and Her Good Vibrations’

Olivia Griselda & Sarah Cheok reveal the hilarious true story that inspired their fearlessly funny animated short about a woman addicted to solo pleasure.

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