3 - 9 NOVEMBER, 2025
FINALIST FILMS
ALL FINALIST FILMS (EXCLUDING SHORT FEATURE) WILL BE SCREENED AT OUR IN PERSON EVENT AT THE LIGHT CINEMA, NEW BRIGHTON ON THURSDAY 6TH NOVEMBER.
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ANIMATION FINALISTS
DOCUMENTARY FINALISTS
FICTION FINALISTS
LGBT FINALISTS
ALMA
Alma lives alone in her quaint cottage. We follow her as she navigates everyday life in her old age. Lonely, she takes pleasure in visiting a local farm shop most days. When she starts to unexpectedly develop feelings for the shopkeeper Joan, Alma is confronted with mixed feelings about moving on from her late wife; contemplating going against a promise she made to herself to live the rest of her years alone.
HORROR FINALISTS
STUDENT FINALISTS
SHORT FEATURE FINALISTS
RESORT PARAISO
Lorenzo is a man trapped in a decaying techno-bureaucratic world, a strange illness causing him to slowly lose his senses, detaching him from reality, whenever he can, the man escapes to a digital paradise where he can rest from his reality where machines are increasingly necessary for him to function, to work...to live.
DEAF
Beirut, Lebanon.
Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill the last wishes of the deceased: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.
