Ines Adriana

Traversing grief, hope, love and home, Pray is a portrait of brotherhood that looks at what we do for the people we love, how we find joy in the midst of despair, and how community can support us.

During a dynastic crisis in 14th century Portugal, the 10 year old Beatriz enters into a forced marriage to become the country’s new queen. At the Monastery of Sancti Spiritus in Toro, where the tomb of Beatriz is located, this story is re-enacted, re-imagined, and recreated with children of the same age. As their imagination is allowed to roam free, a different way to interact with their country’s history opens up.

Three African American fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community.

New short film by portuguese director Henrique Brazão

New parent Ellie endeavors to find some semblance of the woman she once was and the relationship she used to have with her partner Nick, but as each of her attempts are thwarted she is led to an act of transgression that cannot be ignored.

In an abandoned shopping center, Luis sees his best friend being assaulted. Incapable of facing it he runs away from the adolescent violence that haunts him while struggling against himself.

In typical Arab fashion and on the prowl for lady suitors, Roula invites Zeina and her daughter Reem over for an Arabic coffee matinee. When young Reem is encouraged to participate in a coffee cup reading ritual, she gets more than she bargained for. In true Lovecraftian fashion, the ritual goes awry – she can no longer unsee what she now sees; she can no longer unhear what she now hears, and things will never be the same again.

Visual artist Alicia Nauta embarks on an ambitious new project in which she is both the creator and the canvas. Unfolding nearly wordlessly to the percussive music of John Cage, UNTOLD HOURS captures the painstaking labour of an artist at work with a singular blend of absurd humour and unexpected beauty.

In the midst of a searing heatwave, two little kids find the way to cool everyone down.

Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation and isolation that threaten her identity.

Pastoral Malaise is a short film about the absences within rural pastoral environments, often framed by romanticism and picturesque conventions, constructed as tourist sites and refuges in rural landscapes across Britain.

Robin, a young autistic man desperate to fit in, tries on different roles to understand what kind of man he's supposed to be.

Noah battles to overcome his grief at the death of his mother, a journey that takes him from his flat to beyond the stars. An animation in stop-motion and oil paint.

Rosa unexpectedly finds herself spending an evening out alone as her daughter throws an 18th birthday party in their house. Wasting time in her small Cornish town, she spies a woman she has met once before - and is drawn to her.

A young woman, desperate for connection and a regular at the Broken Hearts Hospital, finds herself prescribed a love-cynical rebound.

For 60 years, with no help or architectural expertise, one man builds a gigantic cathedral using waste and recycled materials. He works mostly alone, without ever drawing a single sketch, while his community labels him a madman.

Seventeen and in love, Bette’s escape with Lili becomes the dark night of her soul.

How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by prison. But reigniting what they had before isn't straightforward.

Finn takes a regular route into a hookup. But a story shifts the landscape, making his usual pathway out difficult to find.

A group of teenagers floats down the river, pretending to be dead for social media. One of them drifts away.

Ramin, who is on the spectrum, repairs electronics in his shop, but an embarrassing encounter with Marc at the supermarket forces him to confront the one thing he can't seem to fix: himself.

Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation?

A baby is bathed by its mother, who sings: “When I was a young girl…”. Later, a little girl’s voice will pick up the thread: “When I’ll be an old lady…”. Between the two, the film sketches an anthropology of all the different games, wonders, and plays with auditory perceptions that children carry out with water in all its shapes (baths, sprinklers, lakes…). But other dimensions are hinted at: an exploration of its meanings for mankind, a kaleidoscope of its movements, textures, and reflections, a spectrum of the scales in which it is to be contemplated. (Nathan Letoré)

Eighteen-year-old Anne explores body image, self-perception, and her own understanding of twenty-first-century womanhood in two highly contrasting worlds: that of her traditionally “feminine” mother, Céline, at home, and the gym where she trains among like-minded people.