Films:

1. THE CALL, Dir: Riffy Ahmed (UK, 2023) 13:52

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.

2. FITTING, Dir: Caitlin McMullan (UK, 2023) 10:51

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. Demystifying this unfamiliar space and experience for the viewer, and questioning stereotyping and prejudice widely seen within our society's consideration of body image.

3. BETTER, Dir: Celine Hunter (UK, 2022) 15:25

Kitty’s left home, and Ruth is worried because Kitty’s sick. But when Ruth goes to find her, she realises she doesn’t know Kitty – or her illness – at all…

4. NO BALL GAMES, Dir: Sam Brewster (UK, 2023) 2:35

Compassion casts you out. In this cyclical fever dream, a woman struggles to win over the crowd.

5. TEXT ME WHEN YOU ARE HOME XX, Dir: Niklas Bauer (Germany, 2022)  10:00

At night, a woman enters a stranger’s car, casually and voluntarily. But soon she begins to sense the dangerous situation she might be in.

6. THE PLANT COLLECTOR, Dir: Kathryn MacCorgarry Gray (UK, 2022) 4:50

Julia collects plants from all over, particularly the gardens of notorious killers across the UK.

7. MANMADE, Dir: Plum Stupple-Harris (UK, 2023) 15:00

Funerals can be true male environments where men want to cry but refuse to while their past rides up to hit them. Eddie Holgate is caught in this exact situation. His father has built him up all his life to be tough in an attempt to trickle down his masculinity. But as a tumultuous and charged service at his team's football pitch sparks unwanted memories, Eddie is forced to examine the man he idolised his father to be against the husband and caregiver he very much was not. With the help of his older brother, Joe, Eddie manages to unpick years of emotional neglect and abuse, and finally, allows himself to cry.