Little Pains
Growing up hurts, but in the little pains they found healing. At her mother's funeral, 11-year-old Sophie slips away from the grief rituals into an impromptu birthday party for a grieving new friend. Glitter, toy guns, and fleeting connection collide into something messy and beautiful.
Producer Diva Rodriguez
Co-Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Executive Producers Yoshinobu Noma, Junko Jimbo
Starring Hannah Cortez, Leo Ashton, Logan Crane, William Flanagan, Lucie Makayla Ellis
DOP Ben Halford · Editor Martina Zamolo · Music Leif Kaner-Lindström
Alus (Beer)
In a charming Lithuanian village, a delicate bond between a father and son unravels through an ancestral beer-making tradition as they prepare for the annual harvest celebration.
Producers Maitland Steel, Pilar Cartró Benavides
Documentary contributors Armantas Baginskas, Bronius Baginskas
DOP Milda Baginskaitė · Music Leif Kaner-Lindström · Sound Antony Metaxakis · Colour Luna Arzner
The Last Cowboy in Salford
Jonny Richman is a seventeen year old Jew. He is also a cowboy, much to his parents' frustration. A darkly comic neo-Western set in Manchester, England.
Producers Pilar Cartró Benavides, Alastair Hope-Morley
Executive Producers Matthew Greenburgh, Andrew Macdonald (DNA Films), Neil Blair, Nick Sadler, Kirsty Bell
Associate Producers Emilie Georges, Naima Abed (Paradise City)
Starring Charlie Woolley, Kenton Lloyd Morgan, Craig Karpel, Anna Darvas, Raymond Nicholas
DOP Josh Hughes · Editor Josh Mallalieu · Music Will White · Production Design Jessica Wretlind
Lia IRL
Young boy with learning difficulties befriends a voice-activated AI assistant that unknowingly prepares him for the real challenges of life.
Producer Diva Rodriguez
Starring William Flanagan, Prosper Sira, Rob Lloyd, Laura Breen
DOP Sammy Jarvis · Editor Luna Arzner · Music Leif Kaner-Lindström · Sound Antony Metaxakis
Duet
A woman's 30th birthday brings up an unspoken spectre from the past and sparks a confrontation with her brother about the defining event which broke their family and their attempts to come to terms with it.
Producers Pilar Cartró Benavides, Floris Driebergen
Starring Harriet Barrow, Michael Rivers, Joe Briggs with Katy Ehrlich
DOP Thomas Terminet · Editor George Hayward · Music Katy Ehrlich · Sound Massimiliano Borghesi
Teddy
A young immigrant searches for her own identity while fighting for recognition in a male-dominated classroom.
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Executive Producers Nikola Vasakova, Rebecca Rainey (Girls in Film)
Starring Annelise Edwards, Loreta Bačinskienė, Rolandas Lukošius, Gloria Adeniyi, Nicole Evans, Oliver Akers
DOP Abigail Timmins · Editor Martina Zamolo · Music Leif Kaner-Lindström · Sound Massimiliano Borghesi
The World is Ours for the Taking
In the world where communication and physical contact is a threat, people still aim to form a community. Creativity becomes a means for survival and allows them to form relationships. But is survival more important than love?
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Starring Martha Binns, Shem Joseph, Esther Agbakwuru, Poppy O'Brien, Max Barker
DOP Hamish Saks · Editor/Colourist Andrew McKee BFE · Sound Antony Metaxakis
Pink Pool
When no one shows up at her birthday party, young Agnès makes all the wrong choices.
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Starring Mireia Oriol, Kenan Yetnayet
DOP Ariana Oña · Editor Lia Hayes · Music Leif Kaner-Lindström · Sound Antony Metaxakis · Costumes Krizia Robustella
Layla, At Last
On an assignment in Morocco searching for evidence of the extinct Atlas Lion, Layla finds herself in her late mother's homeland. After a unique solar eclipse, she walks a path that traverses time and space questioning the existence of things thought impossible.
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Starring Sharea Samuels, Eurydice El-Etr
DOP Hamish Saks · Editor Jack Hayes · Music MS Kumar · Sound Massimiliano Borghesi · Production Design Milda Baginskaite
Unearthed
When Kelly, a pregnant geologist working for a fracking company, finds her co-worker dead, she embarks on a journey to discover whether the murder was an act of protest or something far more nefarious.
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Executive Producers Milan Krsjlanin, Amy Jo Bryant
Starring Victoria Moseley, Jamie Biddle, Chris Pybus, Vikash Bhai, Caroline Wildi
DOP Matt Gillan · Editor Samantha Cobb · Music Edward Melech · Production Design Milda Baginskaitė
My Rose
A young woman finds a magical ring that takes her into an otherworldly realm of sexual discoveries.
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Starring Payal Mistry, Reičela Paula, Martha Binns, Esther Agbakwuru
DOP Hamish Saks · Music Noah Richmond · Sound Liam Gilchrist · Costumes Aimee English
7 Planets
A space-obsessed girl realises that in cosmic matters, it's all about the long game.
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Starring Poppy O'Brien, Martha Binns, Sue Moore
DOP Cassie Stone · Editor/Colourist Lia Hayes · Music Ben Stanbridge · Sound Massimiliano Borghesi
Apples
When a young village misfit starts a job at the local apple orchard, the already cold relationship with his grandfather is challenged.
Producer Pilar Cartró Benavides
Starring Kieran Urquhart, Terry Ashe, Hannah Waring
DOP Avinash Govindasamy · Editor Joel Maudsley · Music Ben Stanbridge · Sound Antony Metaxakis