Drawing on a location test filmed in Uganda and an email exchange with the scout, this short film captures cinema’s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries, binding the fiction of filmmaking with state-building.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2026 - Forum Expanded - World premiere
After C. P. Cavafy. Dedicated to the body, to remembering, to forgetting.
When blinded, the senses can cross-pollinate so that they become more closely bonded.
Likewise, they can also disassociate and lose contact with each other. Desire transforms things into other things. The erotics of absence and suggestion direct attention away from the materialism of pornography.
Longing is described through cinematic space as distance and proximity.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026 - World premiere
Structured as a psychogeographic voyage, the film explores place, memory, and sensation through the inner life of a poet whose sense of self gradually dissolves into cinematic reflection.
Departing from conventional documentary forms, EVERY MOON IS ATROCIOUS invites audiences into a layered sensory environment where image, sound, and language operate associatively.
At its core lies the poetry of the late Niall McDevitt (1967-2022), whose work forms the conceptual and emotional spine of the film, shaping a trance-like rhythm that mirrors the protagonist’s journey towards death and the unknown.
Yvonne McDevitt’s filmmaking resists separating form from feeling. Dreamlike visuals, intense durational shots, and richly layered sound design prioritise emotional resonance over linear narrative.
Fragmented imagery and superimpositions draw viewers into a meditative mode, presenting the film as a cinematic drift that charts inner terrains as much as physical ones. Movement through cities and coastlines becomes inseparable from movement through memory, grief, and desire.
Official Selection Dublin International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere
Robert Schumann wrote a declaration of love for Clara in his early music. SCHUMANN A LOVE STORY is a 30 minute dance film about this declaration set to one of his most famous works, Fantasiestücke Op.12.
The three dancers and the pianist tell the story of how Schumann's two alter egos, Eusebius-the mild, and Florestan-the wild fight for Clara's attention.
Which of Schumann's two passionate sides will she choose?
THE WALNUT OF KNOWLEDGE turns Niyaz and Jonah’s yearly travels to Iran into a layered home movie. Based in a family garden outside of Tehran, we spend time with Jonah: watching his quest finding treasures beneath an old Walnut tree. The 80 year old Walnut tree has been a witness to many events from war to revolution, generations coming and going. Jonah hears these voices whilst he tries to understand his connection to this land. We hear mother and son’s reflections on life, history and belonging.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2026 - World premiere
1985 was a difficult year for me. My mother had died, an attempted love affair went badly wrong, I hadn't made a film for five years. I bought a video camera and went to Cuba for three weeks.
Music and memory play important parts. I first heard this particular music in Louis Malle's LES AMANTS (1958) when I was a teenager.
A dialogue-driven short film set in Enfield Island Village exploring tensions and misunderstandings that can arise between men and women in urban spaces, especially against the backdrop of modern-day gender politics, stereotypes, and social expectations.
Official Selection Women X Film Festival 2025
Now AGAIN is the first filmic interpretation of Marcel Proust's entire novel 'À la recherche du temps perdu'.
Part One encompasses the volumes SWANN'S WAY and WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.
Now AGAIN is the first filmic interpretation of Marcel Proust's entire novel 'À la recherche du temps perdu'.
Part Two encompasses the volumes of THE GUERMANTES WAY.
The first filmic interpretation of Proust's entire novel, Philpott stretches narrative form into rich and varied experimental territories, providing a visual feastand sonic immersion, using AI and unique digital production techniques, to reveal the vast panoramic structure of Proust's great masterwork and provide a 21st century foundation for this timeless 20th century epic.
A new form of story-telling for a modern age.
Closer to documentary invention, rejecting costume drama.
Closer to art than stage.
Writing in pictures and music.
A personal meditation on the intimate ways our lives are shaped by ongoing colonial histories, how we make sense of this knowing and finding joy.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2026
Centered around the filmmakers’ local park, this film is a celebration of London and the resilience of migrant communities that have shaped the city from its beginnings. It’s about the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-25 and a line which stretches all the way from then to today. It’s about Palestine, which sits along this colonial continuum, and a park full of dancing, BBQs, birthday parties and joy. Through a hybrid form that combines documentary, archival footage, and direct animation this film meditates on the colonial remnants lodged in our lives and asks what it means to celebrate, play, and belong amid the rubble of empire.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2026
In extreme cold, the human body can turn against itself through paradoxical undressing: failing nerves mistake freezing for heat, compelling the dying to shed their last protection.
In 水托邦 HYDROTOPIA, hydrophones frozen into ice capture the material disintegration of their frozen body as a projected film gradually emerges into clarity. The film follows British-Chinese artist Jamie Man suspended by hooks pierced through flesh in a winter landscape, practising rituals rooted in Shiva-dedicated traditions that explore a state of perpetual non-being. As the ice surrenders its form and the image sharpens into focus, transformation itself becomes the subject: matter abandoning one state for another, the body held suspended between dissolution and emergence.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026 - World premiere
