Convention and sexuality are explored through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - International premiere
Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes - the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle - a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
The true crime genre’s ubiquity is driven by people’s endless fascination, disgust, and - bizarrely -search for comfort in genre conventions that still have the ability to generate complex emotions despite their predictability and familiarity. In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, filmmaker and multimedia artist Charlie Shackleton dissects the true crime genre by recreating it. Using Bay Area landscapes, archival material, reenactments, film and TV clips, and voice-over to walk the viewer through what his film would have been like and why, this film is a captivating and entertaining experience that will forever change how you watch your next murder programme.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection True/False Film Fest 2025
Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - Best of the Fests
Official Selection First Look 2025 (New York, Museum of the Moving Image)
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025
A film that is inspired by the novel 'The Baron in the Trees' by Italo Calvino. Calvino's book tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere
An animated exploration of diasporic female identity, inspired by the director’s Bété ancestry in central Ivory Coast.
Blending abstract storytelling with rich spiritual iconography, the film delves into feminine cosmology, folklore, and traditional artistry. Featuring copper motifs and intricate relief engravings, DÉDÉ reimagines West African sculptures through animation, bringing mythological deities, fertility carvings, and tribal masks to life in a visually striking journey.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Festival 2025
A burn survivor dwells on the incident that scarred him, unraveling a tale of malpractice and the devastating cost of putting profit over people.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere
Vic, a gentle custodian of a beautiful but vacant church, finds her peaceful routine disrupted when a property agent arrives to photograph the building for its impending sale. As she uncovers the unsettling truth about the new owners, Vic must confront the fate of the sacred space she holds dear.
Guardian Angel is a drama about faith, loss, and the pain of facing a changing world. A slow-burn, atmospheric piece that allows the audience to breathe in the story in the silent spaces.
Brandon, a British civil servant and sex addict who is infatuated with prostitution, has been living a hedonistic lifestyle with a group of Southeast Asian prostitutes in his old flat in Cambridge. Yet, ironically, he is also a devout Christian, having attended church with his mother every Sunday as a child. Every night, he repents for his actions, struggling with the intense guilt that arises from this collision of lifestyles.
A haunting exploration of familial bonds, intergenerational memory, and the enduring impact of shared narratives. Filmmaker Kamila Kuc steps into the emotional stream of inherited family history as the lines between documentary, testimony, and fiction blur.
An inspiring film designed to empower individuals and encourage them to transcend their limitations, fostering a belief in their own boundless potential through impactful language, epic music and a remarkable voiceover.
Embrace your Uniqueness, Be True to Yourself and realize that you are…LIMITLESS!
Ampersand, 1978, re-purposes clips from a 1974 film I never completed. In Specto they are re-purposed again. The hot tungsten filament of a Specto film projector is a recurring image, along with re-worked clips of a troupe of actors performing Artaud’s Jet of Blood at locations in the city of Lincoln. You’ll see the cathedral and a dilapidated mill with UNSAFE 74 painted on its wall.
Two artists navigate the unspoken tensions of shared space, ambition and gendered balances of power. Amid a cavernous studio that contrasts the minutiae of their concerns, the film captures moments of stilted dialogue and abstractly manipulated footage, building a sterile, heightened atmosphere.
In a world where art and reality collide, Miho’s vivid dreams reveal the cosmic force of the Architecture, uniting her with artists across the globe in a desperate battle to heal the universe.
