Projects in genres: Drama

Synopsis

Faced with the prospect of having to quit their family's off-the-grid sustainable lifestyle, a step-father has to choose between his green ideals and his step-son's dreams.

Synopsis

The ups and downs in the life of a rough sleeper from several years ago till the recent past.

Synopsis

While stuck at her sister’s baby shower a thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to have kids or not after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 - European premiere Official Selection Encounters Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2026 BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - Longlisted - Best British Short Animation

Synopsis

During a heatwave in Belfast, transgender man Owen returns to the flat of his on-off-again lover Seán after taking a pregnancy test. Official Selection Palm Springs International Shortfest 2025 Official Selection 37th Galway Film Fleadh 2025 Official Selection Leuven International Short Film Festival 2025

Synopsis

In this tender story of connection between the dead and their loved ones, Jace and Bryan welcome newly passed Lina to the cemetery. Can they help her find a way to connect to her sister?

Synopsis

On a rainy night, while closing a café, a young waitress is confronted by a mysterious older woman. Official Selection Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection HollyShorts Film Festival 2025

Synopsis

Haunted by unanswered questions about himself, Olly journeys through his past. His story unfolds in two starkly contrasting realms: the raw simplicity of his childhood, captured in his own drawings, and the fluid, surreal world of his dreams. We glimpse the fractured memories of his early years: an abusive father, a mother lost in the haze of the past, and his sister Sally, a beacon who urged him to find escape and control within his own imagination, transforming nightmares into refuges from reality. Official Selection Raindance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Venice International Film Festival (Biennale Cinema) 2025 - International premiere

Synopsis

Using both verbatim reconstruction and lip-synched archive, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND examines a tragic story of social shaming in a small island community. As panic about the imminent decriminalisation of homosexuality rises, the media provides a mechanism beyond the judicial one of keeping gay men in their closets.

Synopsis

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th century Liverpool recounts the trial of a corpse that has neither name nor past. Dozens of people gather to witness the absurd procedure. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Quinzaine des Cineastes - World premiere Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2026

Synopsis

Two young music students, Lionel and David, attending the Boston Conservatory in 1917, bond over their shared love of folk music. Years later, Lionel receives a letter from David, leading to an impromptu journey through the backwoods of Maine to collect traditional songs, and record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. This unexpected reunion and the music they collect and preserve, will shape the course of Lionel's life far beyond his own awareness. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Competition - World premiere Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2025 - North American premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

Synopsis

The daily grind of the elderly cleaner of a Japanese bathhouse is disrupted when a young man attempts suicide. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2026

Synopsis

A young boy after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, raised by his mother with the tale of an idealized dead father, is confronted with a brutish man who claims to be his real father. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025