Box Office/Doors Open: 6.30 pm, Start at: 6.50 pm
PART 1.
THE COMB
Dir/Wri: Nick Dunleavy, Pro: Indira Townend, UK, 2025, 6 mins
England, 1002AD. Mere moments after massacring a host of Vikings, a Saxon tries to justify his bloodlust, with chilling consequences.
DREAM OF COLOUR
Dir: Jamie Veale, UK, 2025, 6:30mins
Dreams Of Colour tells the story of a man crushed by the daily grind of his work to the point where he starts to lose sight of what he is to himself and the potential he carries until a dream reminds him.
FATE
Dir/Wri: Logan Wilson, Pro: Olly Carysforth (Salford University), UK, 2025, 3:42 mins
An arrogant director meets a grim end when he finds himself hunted through his theatre by the three Fates of Greek myth.
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INTO THE BLUE AGAIN
Dir: Almir Datoo, Wri: Dan Lovatt, Pro: Joe Brashaw, UK, 2025, 12 mins
Pauli believes he’s a Goldfish, but nobody believes him. With his sister threatening to kick him out, he embarks on a quest to prove he doesn’t have to grow up, and that though he’s lonely, he’s not alone.
FORGIVE ME
Dir/Wri: David Harte, Pro: Aatif Ati Zafar, UK, 2024, 4 mins
A man keeps vigil beside his deceased wife, refusing to let her slip away. Armed with a dwindling vial of vampire blood, he desperately sustains the illusion of her life, buying time until their estranged son arrives. As the night drags on, love, grief, and denial blur together forcing him to confront himself.
Q&A THEN INTERVAL AND NETWORKING FOLLOWED BY PART 2
SCRUFF
Dir/Wri/Pro: Theo Rushall-Jones, UK, 2026, 5:132mins
An abstract exploration through memory and identity with themes of depression, childhood & change.
MEMORIES
Dir/Wri/Pro: Bailey Mowatt (Salford University), UK, 2024, 5 mins
Memories is about a voyeristic man, who is writing about his activities in a personal journal, reflecting back at his most pivotal moments shown through still photography – a snapshot into a killer’s mind..
SHOWING AROUND FINLAND TREES
Dir/Wri/Pro: Richard Howe, UK, 2025-6, 11 mins
Documentary/travelogue filmed during the Finland Summertime. Exploring the effects of the country’s carbon neutrality targets , and climate change upon nature.
CARNEVIL
Dir: Matthew Lee, Wri: William Khanna, Pro: Tegan Whitbourn (Salford Uni), UK, 2025, 5:37 min
Carnevil is a short film about A Halloween prank that goes horribly wrong when a real killer blends in with the scare actors, turning a night of staged terror into a deadly game of survival.
BLOOMS ACROSS BORDERS
Dir: Mohammed Eskandar, Wri: N Bussink/J Berrisford, Pro: Aiecha Ali, UK, 2025, 4:47 mins
Following the narrated journey of a small flower, Blooms across Borders tackles the difficult topic of immigration from the perspective of the importation of the flower market into the UK. Immigrants and refugees fight every day for their safety and their human rights, whereas flowers are imported in huge numbers to fill our shops. Why should one of these be labelled as ‘bad’ and ‘foreign’, while the other is capitalized for our economy.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A AND NETWORKING AT THE BAR
Total Programme length 80 mins plus Q&A’s
