Student Film
Student Film
Student Film
Saturday 26th September 12.30pm
A new generation takes centre stage in Student Film, bringing together playful, poignant, and wonderfully inventive shorts that leap between childhood memories, unlikely friendships, first loves, acts of rebellion, and eye-popping adventures. Full of fresh ideas and distinctive voices, this is a glimpse of the filmmakers shaping the future.
Official Selection 2026
LES VIEUX
Dir: Axelle Fuset, Boris Boidron, Fanny Ghesquiere, Lucile Brunet, Jérémy La, Lauren Félines, Maëlys Guillemoteau, Manuel Mabayog
A brief interlude of life, where the end gently unfolds beneath laughter and warmth. This film portrays a group of elderly individuals leisurely basking in the sunlight along the Côte d’Azur.
NORHEIMSUND
Dir: Ana A. Alpizar
A girl’s long-distance romance with an older Norwegian man promises to pull her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba, but her dreams are shaken when she realises he isn’t as idyllic as he seems.
YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE CAKE
Dir: Ting-Jui Chen
Ping faces conflict with her girlfriend Lala’s homophobic and aggressive father, The Man. As tensions escalate, she is forced to take drastic action and kills him. This act becomes a ritual of transformation - a severing of ties, a rebirth, and a step into a new phase of life.
EACH, ALL AND EVERY
Dir: Nikoletta Veress
Mr Rabbit is unable to decide what to become when he grows up. Overwhelmed by the choices, he escapes into his imagination, creating tiny replicas of himself to explore a world full of possibilities. But after one fatal mistake costs him an opportunity, the loss overwhelms him.
EYE JAM
Dir: Julia Jolliffe
A lonely creature’s desperate struggle for connection in a desolate world, no matter the cost.
NEKO NEKO NIGHT
Dir: Fanélie Ollivier, Éline Bellon-Curutchet, Lorena Lopez Ospina, Yamato Ebina, Raisa Monroy Castro
A cute animal host is presenting a TV commercial, selling a bottle of liquid supplement that could cure anything and anyone, but it sounds too good to be true…
LEARNING TO CRY
Dir: Lewis Lewis
Crying in public is something most people avoid. For some men it’s a calling. With the audition for Much Wenlock’s new Town Crier approaching, Joffrey - the only applicant - must convince the council he’s crying for the town, not just for attention.
THE LAST GAMMON
Dir: Elmaz Ekrem Littlewood
Dave is on a mission to find the last gammon in London for his bird's brekkie, and nothing — not even the impending apocalypse - can stop him.
ILLUMINATE
Dir: Max Hogg
As the sun sets over a once-bustling theme park, a small duck finds himself lost in an unfamiliar world. Guided by Glint, a glowing lightbulb, the pair journey through the sleeping park, forming an unlikely friendship to get the duck back home.
CAN CIRCLES CIRCLE?
Dir: Xuerou Huang
What if language lost its meaning, but we still kept talking? This surreal animation deconstructs the relationship between language and meaning, as words lose structure and meaning becomes fluid. The film invites viewers to make their own meaning out of what doesn’t make sense.
EVER ENDING SUMMER
Dir: Nikki Girod & Sylvia Jorde
Maya is a young woman who moves to a new city and leaves her home and childhood behind. At the railway station, shortly before her departure, she looks back and remembers all the beautiful and difficult moments of her childhood.
NEST
Dir: Stefania Burla
Fifteen-year-old Selma feels crushed: by her mother's expectations, by those of the Catholic village in the Swiss mountain where she lives, and ultimately by her own. On the night before a religious procession, she encounters a group of teenagers hidden in the dark of the local sports hall.
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Animation 1 Animation 2 Change Comedy Documentary Drama Music Video Student Film