Better to Have Loved

Director: Karen Macey

Year: 2009

Trapped and confused, one man is made to come face to face with the consequence of his actions. Through a series of haunting visions, fragments of that fatal night begin to piece to together and he is soon forced to realise the destructive nature of his obsession. A Trace of Her was made as part of the UK Film Council's Digital Shorts Scheme.

Director: Arturs Voblikovs

Year: 2025

A print shop owner with seasonal depression becomes obsessed with copying the life of his new customer, an extravagant jungle explorer, based on his film photographs... Official Selection London Short Film Festival LSFF 2026 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

Director: Andreea-Loren Florea

Year: 2026

Matei, a young boy living in a village on the outskirts of Romania, finds more solace in the company of his sheep than with his abusive, alcoholic father. When Matei begins to mimic his father's violence and turn it back onto the sheep, we glimpse the anger that may lie in his future. After he publicly humiliates himself in front of the entire village, his anger only grows, made worse by the fact that his father predicted it. It seems Matei is predetermined to be whatever he is told he is, and nothing else. He is stuck in a self-perpetuating cycle of violence and humiliation. So, when Matei runs off into the woods outside his village and stares at an innocent little sheep, he finds himself at a crossroads. Official Selection, Aesthetica 2026 Official Selection, BFI London Film Festival 2026 Official Selection, Encounters Film Festival 2026