KINO SHORTS 86- Thur 8th OCT 2026

PROGRAMME

PART 1.

DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE
Dir: Sam Conlon, Wri: Hannah O’Malley. Pro: Ethan Bracegirdle, UK, 2025, 5 mins
After a bank heist got busted, a group of bird themed criminals must plan to escape their fate but struggle when they realise that one of their own set them up!

RED ROSE PROTOCOL
Dir/Wri/Prod: Imran Naushad, Aron Dhari and Zilwood Crawley, UK, 2026, 5 mins
Caine has been double crossed by his own team. He must make his way to the extraction point.

A PORTRAIT OF IREN ICHABOD
Dir/Wri: Jacob Varley, Co-Wri: Rowan Mackenzie Pro: Aidan Carrol, UK, 2025, 19:20 mins
A dodgy art dealer thinks he has struck gold when he discovers an unknown painting by famous artist Irene Ichabod. However, when strange and unexplainable things start to happen, he begins to wonder if he has gotten more than he bargained for.

GUM
Dir/Wri/Prod: Carol Fitzgerald, Wri: Dan Lovatt, Co-Pro: Thomas Jackson, UK, 2025, 9:28 minsHorror film. Gum’ is a surreal horror story about a low level bureaucrat struggling through the day at work, while stress chewing a highly addictive tub of chewing gum, which begins to have violent bodily effects.

RITUAL
Dir/Wri: Noman Yousafi, Co-Wri: Sabastian Roberts. Pro: Amelia Straiton, UK, 2026, 3:42 mins
In this quiet, experimental film inspired by Maya Deren, a solitary woman drifts through the sunlit rooms of a house. As she reads at a table, looks through an open window, and moves slowly between the garden and the house, these ordinary moments begin to blur together, as though she is caught somewhere between reality and memory.

Part 1 running time 44 mins

Q&A THEN INTERVAL AND NETWORKING BREAK

PART 2

500 HENCHMEN
Dir/Wri/Prod: Steve Hester, UK, 2026, 14:34 mins
James Lyons is an ordinary man with an extraordinary dream: to become a world conquering supervillain!

THE WARLOCK’S INTERN
Dir/Wri: Jake Thomas, Co-Wri: Maia Charlton, Pro: Chloe Chan, Wren Owens, UK, 2026, 3:51 mins
Wilkin the satyr is employed as an intern for Kargaroth the evil warlock to help with his scheduling and time management, however this job isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.

BARK FOR ME
Dir/Wri/Pro: Lewis Ainsworth, UK, 2028: 8:37 mins
Willow, a self-styled punk misfit obsessed with transgression, navigates a day of chaotic friendships, kink, and class resentment in a decaying city. When he hires a dominatrix to humiliate him, the session exposes an uncomfortable truth: the degradation he seeks isn’t a performance, but the reality of his everyday life.

SUPERNOVA AND GALLOP
Dir/Wri/Pro: Adam Gregory, Co-Pro: Kadambari Ramesh, UK, 2025, 18:14 mins
Supernova and Gallop tells the story of Lindsay and Tanya, two best friends who have been making a web series together for a number of years. After an embarrassing incident, Tanya no longer wants to continue the web series and wants to move on and grow up. Lindsay, however, wants her to see that it was never about the views — it was about their friendship. The film is a light-hearted look at friendship, growing up, and why creating things just for the sake of it matters.

Part 2 running time 45 mins

FOLLOWED BY Q&A AND NETWORKING AT THE BAR

Total Programme length 85 mins plus Q&A’s. End time app 10 / 10.15pm (Bar till 11pm)

PLEASE NOTE: Future dates in the Autumn Kino Shorts series are Monday 2nd November and Thursday 3rd December. You can still submit your films to these events. Deadline for submissions is the 15th October. Submit your shorts now.