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.
After being away from home and estranged from his family for three years, a Palestinian transgender man returns for the first time to attend his father’s funeral. But, when he arrives, he’s met with a cold reception, making him wonder if he can face his past, make peace with his family, and find his own closure with his father.
Blending comedy and drama, Alterations reveals moments of humour, tenderness, and quiet resistance. It explores how identity is negotiated within family structures, and how transformation - like grief - is both deeply personal and universally human.
A multi-layered crime drama set in contemporary Europe and beyond, inspired by real events and personal experiences.
The film follows interconnected characters whose lives are shaped by loyalty, moral dilemmas, and the consequences of their choices.
The story spans five countries - Poland, Japan (in the heart of Tokyo), Myanmar, Ukraine, and the UK (London). It draws on true experiences: the main character spent three years in a martial arts monastery in Japan during his twenties, and a war reporter who was kidnapped during the conflict in Ukraine, prompting a tense rescue mission. These events form the backbone of a story the characters never meant to tell.
Through parallel storylines, BASTION explores the complex web of relationships, conflicting interests, and personal responsibilities that define human behavior. Grounded in realism and driven by authentic characters, the film delivers an intense, emotionally resonant narrative where every decision carries weight.
This drama presents a gripping, uncompromising portrayal of courage, loyalty, and moral choice, revealing the story they never meant to tell and offering a rare glimpse into human experience across continents under extreme circumstances.
Haunted by his reputation and hunted by those who fear what he might become, a younger Bigby Wolf is pushed into a deadly setup involving a masked attacker and a forbidden weapon. As the night unravels, Bigby begins to realise the truth isn’t being searched for, it’s being manufactured.
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
A cinematic documentary filmed inside active war zones in Ukraine that reframes how conflict is witnessed and remembered.
The film removes traditional narration, allowing only children's voices to shape its emotional and narrative architecture. Their testimonies unfold as a chorus of memory, loss, and fragile hope, transforming lived experience into a meditation on childhood under siege. Only Children's voices - no adults, no outside commentary, no mediation. The film's sonic landscape is shaped through an original symphonic score by Academy Award-winning composer A.R. Rahman and an original Ukrainian-language piece created with a Grammy-winning Ukrainian composer, extending the children's voices beyond image into sound. Through this union of image and music, the film resists commentary and invites the audience into an intimate, human encounter with a generation growing up inside conflict.
The film follows Boyd Fallon, a grieving father desperate to find his daughter's killer three years after her death. With the police making no progress, he hires a private detective. Along the way, Boyd meets Father Vaughan, who hints that his daughter's death may be connected to the Antichrist. As he pursues various dangerous leads, he eventually
encounters a false prophet who offers to help him find the truth.
The end is near as the animal world is in revolt.
Three short stories from animals of our pillaged seas, the land we hunt upon, and the air which we overindulge.
In a bid to revive her career, the vocalist for a progressive metal band turns to a cutting-edge biotech firm to restore her lost voice, beginning an irreversible transformation that culminates on the night of the band’s comeback show.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2026
In a modern-day Lisbon, a city caught between locals and tourists, two art students drift through a weekend of sexual fluidity and late-capitalist burnout.
Sofia obsesses over nuclear war and lives in the shadow of the narcissistic Amandine but their toxic friendship is put to the test when Amandine crosses paths with Guilherme, a pseudo-intellectual Portuguese artist, at a fringe art event - derailing both friends' plans.
An acidic comedy exploring intimacy, identity, and the contradictions of being human in a generation powered by irony, anxiety, and Instagram.
