June 2026 Programme
Adorer
Director - Krystian Kuzanski
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After a one-night stand, Yves believes he has found the love of his life. But when his feelings go unreciprocated, he crosses a line to invade the privacy of the woman he adores.
Burnin’
A retro style music video for the retro sounding song Burnin' by Canadian band Good Co.
Checker
Director - Bev Shroot & Charlton Schneider
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Joe, an OCD sufferer, races to stop his chaos before it ruins his livelihood and his life.
Croccante
Director: Bornajeans
In collaboration with well-known Italian producers, Hey Cabrera! and Bruno Belissimo, Croccante is an energetic blend of disco and house funk, an ironic critique of club posers and an invitation to let go and dance freely. Culminating in a playful, catchy hook thanks to Hard Ton's Sylvester-inspired falsetto, which lends itself to classic 1970s funk hits and seems specifically designed to be played underneath the disco ball.
Influenced by the queer underground world of John Waters and Divine's filmography, pop-art, Liquid Sky and Leigh Bowery, Croccante takes you on a journey into the surreal world of Protopapa. Ranging from beautiful, saturated imagery to grotesque, whimsical scenes, Protopapa invites you into his Italian disco party where he celebrates the unique and diverse identities of his queer family (House of Protopapa), featuring prominent international queer performers.
An ode to early queer nightlife in 1970s/80s NYC, Croccante is an energetic blend of disco and house funk. An ironic critique of club posers and an invitation to let go and dance freely.
Effort
Director - Liam Lau-Fernandez
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A young woman’s thoughtfully planned dinner date begins to collapse as her date’s unspoken anxieties quietly surface.
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
Director - Matt Chandler
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Told in intertwining memories spanning 15 years, Olly speaks to a therapist to try and make sense of how his recent trauma has affected his relationship to his polar opposite but caring brother Liam. When communication between the two of them creates a divide in their already fractured relationship, they take drastic action to not only make things right, but to break the cycles of guilt, shame and trauma within their family. Told through the pretense of the popular British ‘punch for points’ game of Yellow Car, Liam's guilt, shame and repressed understanding of his brother pushes him down a path of revenge, with the sight of every yellow car serving as a violent reminder of what justice looks like to him.
Hell
Director: Tom Brett
When a volcano erupts in a medieval town, a nun abandons her holy life at the convent and ventures out into an apocalyptic landscape in search of her love.
HELL is a live-action short film created using a hybrid production process that combines filmed performances with animated environments, all constructed within Unreal Engine on a laptop by the director. The film features physical sculpture, paintings and real architecture which were scanned using photogrammetry and assembled in virtual space. Blending live-action performance and handcrafted artistry with emerging digital techniques, HELL creates an immersive cinematic experience that invests the medieval world with new heights of emotion and reality.
Interlinked
Director - Samuel Aka-adou
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INTERLINKED follows JJ, a young man haunted by unresolved trauma and psychosis. On his journey he finds moments of peace, love, connection and solitude but the film constantly asks one question: how much of what we see is actually real?
Filtered entirely through JJ’s fractured perspective, the line between memory, reality and imagination slowly collapses until the truth of his psychological state reframes everything the audience thought they witnessed.
A psychological drama about the invisible weight people carry in silence, INTERLINKED asks us not to see those struggling with mental health as “other” but as fully human.
No One Can Hear You
Directors - Finn O’Toole and Lyo Yuson
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Fermi wakes aboard a derelict spacecraft, rescued by a lone castaway. But as they strive to repair the ship and return to Earth, a troubling truth emerges...
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Director - Paula Leitenberger
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When LEO (they/them) and their partner JULI (she/her) find themselves in a threatening, violent situation at night, the defense escalates: LEO defends them both and seriously injures the attacker. In shock, they flee. While LEO teaches others during the day how to assert their own bodies, silence grows around the incident. As they try to process their actions, the boundaries between guilt, trauma, and justice become blurred.But what happens when the body remembers? Who bears the consequences?
Rotten
Director - Abby Kolman
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For Stella, being 17 is the best thing in the world, and she’d like it to stay that way, forever. Terrified of growing up, she isolates herself in her childhood bedroom to prepare for the perfect 18th birthday, convinced that if everything goes right, nothing will ever change.
As the day goes on, she refuses to accept that time passing is out of her control and ignores the signs that she has outgrown her environment, causing her room to slowly rot.
Rotten is an experimental coming of age film, exploring the complexities of modern girlhood, growing pains and the rejection of freedom.
Stick Insect
Director - Tom Prinz
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Florence and Aidan are on holiday by the sea. They sit, read, walk, talk and go on their phones. A boredom has set in, and in evading it, both come away hurt or irritated as the trip goes on. That is, until they make a strange discovery.
To Be
Director - Caroline Sierk
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Jack Adler is a dreamer. He feels that soulless poetry recitation is an injustice to the meaning between the lines, and he hungers for connection with others who cherish the truth of storytelling as much as he does. When Jack stumbles upon an artistic safe haven, he learns he may not be so alone after all.
Toilet Boy
Director - Toby Norman
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Kicked out of lesson, two boys take comfort in the school toilet revealing their mutually destructive relationship.
Two Curves and a Chapel
Director: Michael Edlinger & Chris Dohr
An Artist from Vienna is looking for grants in rural Austria and becomes immediately the center of unnecessary attention.
