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A diverse collection of short films by UK filmmakers.

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Unearthing The Pen1000 Voices
(Country: UK; Director: Tim Travers Hawkins; Writer: Tim Travers Hawkins; Cast: Adam Buxton, Tamsin Clarke)
Dark animation which gathers together voices of detained asylum seekers.

(Country: UK; Director: Hannah Skrinar)
Meet a group of Sheffield-based environmentalists developing innovative ways to access healthy food.

(Country: UK; Director: David Brindley)
A portrait of several UK residents who have chosen unusual ways to dispose of their loved ones' ashes.

(Country: UK; Director: Scott Dawe)
A young man tries to identify the strangers appearing in his grandfather's old 8mm films.

(Country: UK; Director: James Ross)
Three dying men come together to participate in a photography project.

Lauren's StorySteel Homes
(Country: UK; Director: Laura Hyde; Cast: Lauren Graves)
A documentary about a visually impaired teenager determined to challenge others' perceptions of people like her.

(Country: UK; Director: Kristian Hove, David Lalé, James Newton)
A documentary looking at one man who is living in poverty on the French coast waiting to get a boat to England.

(Country: UK; Director: Johanna Wagner)
Observational documentary about the filmmaker's father and his love of analogue technology.

(Country: UK, Iraq; Director: Georgie Weedon)
A documentary following famous Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin on his return home from exile.

(Country: UK; Director: Adam Low)
A documentary examining issues of class and race in Emily Bronte's classic novel.

(Country: UK; Director: Theresa von Eltz; Writer: Theresa von Eltz; Cast: Kit Jackson, Robbie Jarvis, Carla Juri, Daniel Unwin)
A teenager visiting Sicily befriends a stranger but experiences painful memories when visiting local ruins.

(Country: UK; Director: Eva Weber)
Self-storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and of lives we cannot let go.

(Country: UK; Director: Max Goldini)
A documentary looking at what life is like for families where there are big age differences between the children.

(Country: UK, Uganda; Director: Carol Salter; Cast: Locheng)
A bold young Karimojong boy digs in the ground to unearth a curse his tribal elders once put on education.


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