Drama
Drama
Drama
Sunday 27th September 2.15pm
Go behind closed doors, beneath crowded streets, and inside the noise of modern life. Drama brings together gripping shorts that explore fractured relationships, buried secrets, identity, and the need to belong. With complex characters and stunning scripts, these stories linger in the spaces between what we feel, what we hide - and what we cannot let go.
Official Selection 2026
OUR PANTHEONS
Dir: Rosalie Charrier
An archaeologist digs - steady, precise. Behind her, a crowd gathers - laughing, watching, passing judgment like distant echoes. But she keeps going, deeper. Beyond the noise. Beyond their gaze. She’s no longer just unearthing the past, she’s searching for answers buried in her own present.
SAMMI, WHO CAN DETACH HIS BODY PARTS
Dir: Rein Maychaelson
Born with the extraordinary ability to detach and reattach his body parts at will, Sammi spent his life sharing this unique gift with those he loved. After his death, his mother embarks on a haunting quest to reclaim the pieces of her son, seeking to mend not just his body, but the very bond they once shared.
A SOUTH FACING WINDOW
Dir: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Azaa and Shagai, a couple in their late 20s, are living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia with their 6-year-old daughter. On the verge of divorce, they search for happiness in empty, high-rise buildings. Stuck in their car in the infamous city traffic, they fight it out.
WASSUPKAYLEE
Dir: Pepi Ginsberg
Kaylee Hord, a 17-year-old prank video influencer, is the newest member of a popular TikTok content house where she struggles to fit in and pay the rent. But when a new and intense friendship offers the chance of viral fame, Kaylee learns how far she'll go to belong.
G.S.W.
Dir: Jonny Durgan
A man is dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound when the paramedic treating him discovers he's the perpetrator of a school shooting at her child's primary school, which puts her in an impossible situation.
TO ALL THE GIRLS I NEVER BANGED: I’M SORRY
Dir: Harry Plowden
A dark secret is exposed when Ed and Nath, two Brits abroad, compete for the same girl while leading a hostel bar crawl in Budapest.
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Animation 1 Animation 2 Change Comedy Documentary Drama Music Video Student Film