Stigma

Director: Andre Semenza

Year: 2003

As Cinzas de Deus is a visual poem in a universe of realities.   Set in the ruins of an abandoned, once grandiose 19th century city, the film follows a woman, Helo, entering a world of memory and feeling, where characters - perhaps ‘trapped souls’ - are living and re-living moments from an unspecified past.   Helo penetrates their dream-like reality, visions of her own subconscious, absorbs them, challenges them, releases them. Their memory bank gradually erased, they disappear into the ether.    In a climactic finale she confronts her own personal nemesis. She survives the life-and-death confrontation, and, left behind, she dances alone, immersed in dust and eternity.

Director: Jon Shaikh

Year: 2027

1750, Bedlam The worst place on Earth. Jack Slack, a bare knuckle carnival boxer, consumed with rage, fights his way in to the pits of hell to rescue his sister, Sarah from a lifetime of incarceration. Soon trapped and imprisoned himself, his rage and skill at fighting are noticed and he is singled out by the masters of the hospital for a special course of treatment. Meanwhile, Jack still has a plan, if he can only keep the madness at bay.

Director: Rahul Roye

Year: 2026

Preparing for gender-affirming surgery, a trans man discovers he is pregnant, forcing a profound reckoning with identity, masculinity, and fatherhood. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - Short Cuts Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026 - Competition