Music Video
Music Video
Music Video
Sunday 27th September 4.15pm
Moving between dreams, desire, dance and defiance, this year’s Music Video programme showcases the raw and inventive ways that filmmakers tell stories both intimate and epic. From pulsating hand-painted animation to mind-blowing spectacle, these videos transform songs into vivid visual worlds and bend cinematic language into something entirely its own.
Official Selection 2026
TAME IMPALA - LOSER
Dir: Sam Kristofski
After a bitter goodbye, a man (played by Joe Keery) drifts through an aimless day of small disappointments, fleeting encounters, and impulsive choices, finding brief sparks of connection amid the quiet absurdity of loneliness.
BALMING TIGER - OUI
Dir: Lee Suho
A playful parade of body paint, bizarre props, optical illusions and unexpected transformations, Oui twists reality at every turn. Blending live action with surreal effects, it’s a wonderfully weird visual journey where nothing is quite what it seems.
WEVAL - OPEN UP THAT DOOR FT. KILIMANJARO
Dir: Bear Damen
A relaxed house party takes a irresistible turn when one man's carefree energy transforms the room into a joyful and unexpected celebration of movement.
LEX AMARNI - THE KILL 2
Dir: Chris Ullens
A pair of Barbie doll protagonists spiral from doomscrolling to murderous chaos, as meticulous stop-motion animation transforms influencer culture into an outrageous, gleefully gruesome horror spectacle.
SOOBIN - MỤC HẠ VÔ NHÂN FT. BINZ
Dir: Phuong Vu
Led by a blind fortune teller, an imaginary Vietnamese village becomes the stage for a wildly inventive fable where folk traditions, hip-hop and surreal satire collide in a playful exploration of beauty and desire.
JUANA MOLINA - UNINHUMAN
Dir: Dante Zaballa
Inspired by the story of the Monkey King, a strange sun-headed character races through a riot of hand-painted imagery, bringing together improvisation, vibrant colour and the spontaneous joy of collective creation.
ALASKAN TAPES - BLANK SLATE, OPEN SPACE
Dir: Kyle Rose
As a couple quietly pack up their shared home, familiar rituals become poignant reminders of a life together, capturing the bittersweet space between leaving somewhere behind and beginning anew.
ALICE PHOEBE LOU - MIND READER
Dir: Jabu Nadia Newman
Featuring TikTokers Izzy Perez and Emma Fuente, a young couple explores the joy and vulnerability of falling in love through tender snapshots of togetherness, separation and the shared memories that remain.
AMERICAN FOOTBALL - BAD MOONS
Dir: Alex Acy
Filmed in infrared black and white, a group of boys roam their snowy Canadian hometown, pulling pranks and getting into trouble in a bittersweet portrait of adolescence, friendship and the messy uncertainty of growing up.
CHUCK STRANGERS - EVERYDAY & G PACK
Dir: Broken Antenna
Two crime stories race forward with raw, low-tech energy, shifting perspectives between an immigrant couple dreaming of a better life and the police whose actions bring chaos crashing into suburbia.
DANIEL OG - AFRICAN GIANT
Dir: Nathan Miller
A Sixth Sense inspired opening gives way to playful spectacle as Daniel OG transforms into a giant, bringing a mischievous, DIY sense of scale to the streets of Hackney.
FOO FIGHTERS - OF ALL PEOPLE
Dir: Alex Acy
Swiss extreme skiers BPC film an adrenaline-fuelled audition for the Summer Skiing World Cup, unleashing an outrageous and fearless display of skiing that trades snow for concrete, glass and other unlikely surfaces.
FUTURE ISLANDS - THE MOON IS BLUE
Dir: Wandrille Maunoury
In 18th-century rural France, a huntress pursues her former lover, a vampire disguised as a nun, in a gothic confrontation where a toxic romance culminates in a brutal reckoning.
CUCO - DREAMIN’
Dir: AG Rojas
Shot on 16mm, a young boy follows his compassion for a chained dog to a troubling discovery next door, where the presence of ICE transforms an ordinary Los Angeles summer into something far more vulnerable.
Discover this year’s programme
Animation 1 Animation 2 Change Comedy Documentary Drama Music Video Student Film