Suspect (UK)

A thriller about two detectives who interview a potential suspect in a missing persons case.

Protecting the River Krupa (Slovenia)

With Western Europe’s waterways clogged by thousands of dams, Balkan countries are rallying to protect the continent’s last free-flowing rivers’ before it’s too late. In Croatia’s popular tourist region of Dalmatia, The Nature Conservancy and its partners helped protect the Krupa River in perpetuity, one of the first conservation wins of its kind in the region.

Salesmen (UK)

A young struggling, directionless salesman stumbles across a new-fangled religious movement while desperately trying to make a sale.

Bad Soil (UK)

A Welsh farmer has a difficult decision to make when his wayward brother turns up at the family farm one afternoon demanding to borrow a shotgun.

Killer Krush (Ireland)

When shy teenager Ben bumps into his crush Caroline at a party, things take a strange turn…

Mudlark (UK)

A community of dreamers scavenge the Thames mud in search of meaning.

Captain Brovary (Ukraine)

A group of documentarians is shooting a film about people’s lives during the war in the city of Brovary (Kyiv region, Ukraine). Unexpectedly, they manage to shoot material about a real hero with super strength. His name is Captain Brovary, he is quite narcissistic, he is loved by all the local residents, but on the horizon appears a mysterious competitor for good deeds – Black Mstyun, and legends are already spreading about this “newcomer”, according to some rumors, from a very strict and terrible. Through searches and a series of conflicts in different locations of the city, Captain Brovary realizes that his “services” are not relevant, he also finds out that his competitor is actually an ordinary young guy. The hero himself, worried that he was “defeated” by a young guy, falls into depression, and after some time climbs to the roof of a high-rise building to jump down – but there he unexpectedly saves a girl and already looks at himself and his benefit to the people around him in a new way.

Spiricom (Spain)

Violeta, an esoteric geek and unsolved crime stories, has just lost her husband, a heart attack victim. A few days later, she discovers that perhaps his death was not natural. Violeta needs to know the truth and to find out she buys an amazing gadget on the internet. What will happen from there will be an experience difficult to forget.

A love letter from depression (UK)

In this visual poem, the writer and performer Haleem explores his own mental-health by writing a letter to his depression.

Game Over (Türkiye)

In a basement in Istanbul a group of illegal Afghan teenage boys are determined to smuggle themselves into Europe – a utopia far away. Caught in the no-man’s land between childhood and adulthood they fearlessly play a dangerous game of destiny over and over again. But at what cost?

White Christmas 1948 (Greece)

During the Greek Civil War, a commander of the Communist side, wants to give his comrades an emotional humane moment before returning to the barbaric reality of the war.

The Neverending Game (SPain)

Raúl is making a route through the houses of his old friends from high school to recover those movies, books and other things that he lent and they have not returned. The last stop is at the house of an old soul friend, Nando, to get hold of his legendary video game “Final Loop 4”. Remembering wonderful afternoons together, the floor above begins to emit a strange and repetitive noise: something extraordinary and disturbing is happening there!

Friendly Fire (Israel)

A friendly soccer game between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy that takes place on the West Bank barrier starts to escalate into an uneven battle.

The film was painted frame by frame on the wall and become part of the ongoing conflict by staining the wall with over a hundred liters of paint.

Are we doing this? (UK)

A new couple, Jeff and Mia, attend her boss’s party hoping she might get a promotion out of it. Arriving late, they’re surprised to be greeted by a bowl of keys. Their relationship will be put to the test as they explore what their boundaries are but next time maybe Mia should read the invitation.

Time Spent (UK)

Nathan and his girlfriend are struggling with the cost of living crisis in the UK, so when Nathan gets a chance to interview for a dream job, he jumps at it.

After arriving in London for his interview, Nathan finds himself at a luxury apartment which feels a world away from his council flat on the estate. Nathan quickly realises that something is off when he’s faced with making an impossible decision that will affect the rest of his life. With the clock ticking, Nathan will have to decide whether to accept an opportunity of a lifetime or give up his memory of these events.

The sprayer (Iran)

In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private.

So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary

Midnight ride (UK)

A drug-dealing, Italian delivery rider resorts to robbing a South London burrito joint after his bike and drugs are stolen, little knowing he might be the one taken for a ride all along.

Speaker (UK)

A disabled grocer goes to work as usual. On the way, he sees several men taking a girl to kill her. The grocer tries to save her life.

Satisfaction Guaranteed (UK)

Amy dreams of being a musical star on the West End stage – but when her boss threatens to fire her from her day job, she must push her performance to a whole new level.

Stillness (UK)

A photographer comes to take remembrance portraits for a family who have suffered a stillbirth.

A ray of hope: HAWFC – The gym of Champions (UK)

HAWFC (Holyhead and Anglesey Weightlifting and Fitness Centre) has produced more weightlifting medal winners than anywhere else in Wales, thanks to Commonwealth Games gold medalist, Ray Williams. However, HAWFC is more than just a medal factory.

TIM (US)

An insecure student with a crippling crush must find the courage to be seen.

the Nautilus Mutiny (UK)

When Lester Landon, a dyslexic criminal working for a dodgy watch dealership, decides on “the straight and narrow” he is tasked with one last job before he is set free. Time is running out as the ghosts of his past are coming back to haunt him.

Fear Incarnate (UK)

To protect his family, a teenage boy musters incredible courage to confront his greatest fear, manifested in physical form before him as a terrifying spirit known only as – The Beast.

Dig (UK)

A mother searches a secluded beach, determined to find a certain item, that will bring her some closure.

For pete’s sake (Spain)

Jim is going insane, he has been in the hospital forever. When the doctor finally arrives with his tests, the results are unexpected. A matter of laugh or death.

Misophonia (US)

A dedicated office worker crippled with an extremely sensitive auditory condition is desperate to survive a troubling workday!

Tommies (UK)

In Regency-era London five women waiting for a carriage descend into a frenzy of vicious gossip about a notorious scandal – with devastating results.

Georgina Ashton is on edge. It’s the last ball of the London season and she has no-one to go with: her husband Robert has suddenly left town and a friend – Fanny Beaumont – has mysteriously withdrawn an invitation to attend the ball with her. Having hastily rearranged to go with another friend, Mrs Willis, Georgina is shocked to find herself face to face with the very woman who has so inexplicably snubbed her. As the women wait for their carriage in the blistering heat tensions simmer – but the elephant in the room isn’t the one Georgina thinks it is. Rumours have resurfaced of a scandal that rocked London society some years before involving a gay brothel and clique of crossdressers. By the time the carriage is finally announced Georgina has been left in no doubt that she and her husband are about to be brutally exposed.

Ghanimah (UK)

The war on terror, the 7/7 bombings, the loss of the son’s mother and the allegiance to either Islam or Britain. What will unfold. Family, Duty or Honour? A heated argument occurs when Abdullah (Mikhail Sen – House of Dragon, A Suitable Boy) declares he is joining the British Military to the shock of his pacifist father Omar (Adil Akram – Spectre, What’s Love got to do with it?) and anger of his fundamentalist older brother Moh (James El-Sharawy – Tyrant, EastEnders). As their debate unfurls past resentments and revelations rise to the surface, boiling to a point where they can no longer contain themselves.

Clowning around (UK)

A Clown dreams of being a Circus performer, but soon learns that practice makes perfect!

Migration to dreams (UK)

This is a long documentary film produced in the North of Iraq/ Kurdistan Regional Government, Turkey, France and United Kingdom.

This is a highlight of the reasons behind the migration of Kurds from Kurdistan Regional Government.

Mass migration has obviously covered most generations and sections of the society.

Meanwhile, the difficult ways of migrants have become a threat to the lives of thousands of women, children, elderly and youth.

After a swift search in KRG, Turkey, France, and the United Kingdom to reveal the difficult situations of the migrants, the story that connects many heart-breaking ends.

But after all they will reach their dream country, they were aiming for, and the distance of the road will be complete, but their problems are still not over and will remain, to fulfil their dreams.

In this documentary up close with the immigrants, in their journey from the beginning to the end.

Babel (Spain)

Several people at a given time, are in a situation in which they speak nonsense, only being able to verbalize a disjointed phrase. Society, in the face of ignorance, isolates them to proceed with their study.

My superpower (New Zealand)

In his search for his superpower, nine year old Maxwell discovers that his words have the power to help and to harm.

ufologists (UK)

The truth is out there! Well, in Cornwall anyway!

Television journalist Ellie Thornton spends time in the county of Cornwall reporting and following the lives of a Cornish UFO investigation team, as they explore the beautiful, rugged and unseen Cornish countryside, in an unalienable desire to seek out extra-terrestrial activity. A weirder unlikely group you couldn’t expect to meet. Four hapless but very likeable individuals live out their own fragile existence in this world, whilst searching for life from another. The truth is out there!

Sace (Nigeria)

Based on true events. In northern Nigeria, thousands of young women are kidnapped annually and sold into sex trafficking. Only a few of them escape. This is the story of one of those women who escaped.

Old man, con man (UK)

Ervin, an ex con man, is released from prison to find his old pal Micky waiting for him. The 75 year olds seem to hit it off as they drive around town, with a few pit stops along the way, but the cracks begin to show after 15 years of neglect.

Maria Jose Maria (Portugal)

On the same night that a dismembered and decapitated body is found in the city streets, Maria José wakes up startled by the absence of her mother.

The authorities try to find the author of this heinous crime, but soon they will face unexpected circumstances.

With a Hitchcockian touch, this psychological horror film, with both gore and absurd humor, is inspired by a true story that horrified Portugal in the mid-nineteenth century.

The Relented (UK)

After two decades of political and economical turmoil, society has broken down. We follow Mitchell, a young man and newly declared Dissent, surviving alone as hunter gatherer in the wild for the past 18 months. As Mitchell makes his way through dangerous territories, on a slow route to the Freeland when he finds himself in an interaction he thought not possible.

Sunday Roast (Sweden)

Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears to be a nice dinner is gradually changing into something else. Sunday Roast is about mental disorders and revolves around the conflict between curiosity, obligation and danger.

Sin zero (Spain)

Ivan, 32 years old, lives in a town where everything remains the same, and begins to question his identity as a human being. Is he a product of his circumstances?, Has he decided who he really is,? How honest is he with himself?

Through different social and family atmospheres He will manage his feelings, his life.

Last may in palestine (State of Palestine)

After the assassination of the journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh on May 2022, I return from the UK to Palestine and open my archive of May 2021 upraising in Haifa. On this trip, I relive memories and places I left, but it did not leave me, and ask questions about being a journalist during dangerous events.

Sew to say (UK)

10:30am Start

Thalia is an artist and banner maker who, in the early 80s, joined a women-only peace camp to stand against nuclear weapons through non-violent action.

41 years ago, in the summer of 1981, a group of 36 women left their homes and marched from Cardiff, the capital of Wales, to Greenham Common near London to protest against the American Cruise missiles that were going to be deployed in the UK as part of the Cold War response.

When I was a girl (UK)

11:45am Start

A film by acclaimed David Yates, When I Was A Girl is a story about a young girl, Anne, growing up in Swindon just after the Second World War and how she faces the adult world, parental fighting and her father’s death and the awakening of her own sexuality.

Dublin Crust (Ireland)

12:20pm Start

Worn Out, Played Out, Strung Out. 10 years after Punk band ‘Crust’ split up, the band members lives have fallen apart. Drummer Bonehead has just been released from prison and sets about reforming the band for one last show.

Everybody wants to be loved (Germany)

1:55pm Start

A blisteringly hot summer day. Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn’t have time to worry about it: Patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centered mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.