The cornucopia of creative short films continues with these films made between 2024 and 2025. We begin with some wry views on the achievement of society, take a look at our rush to conflict, and finally, at the commonality of human experience and its effect on our lives and buildings.
Yes!
Madli Laane / Estonia / 2024 / 3 mins
The corners, slopes, dead ends, and curves of Tallinn Cruise Terminal nudge us to ponder the dilemmas of the achievement society. Should we push ourselves into a box, or shall we dare to be wrong? In a world that rewards perfection, failure might be the most radical act.
Bad For A Moment
Daniel Soares / Portugal / 2024 / 15 mins
A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighbourhood that his company is gentrifying.
Little Shrew (Snowflake)
Kate Bush / England / 2024 / 4 mins
A little shrew searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city. Blissfully unaware of the dangers surrounding her, she journeys through a war-torn Land of the Giants. Stunned and caught up in an explosion as the city is being bombed during a drone attack, she recovers and manages to continue her search for Hope…
In 769km, New York
Sofiia Buhrii / Ukraine / 2025 / 15 mins
In one of the few bakeries left in Kyiv, people with mental disabilities make bread. Along with their own challenges, they have to live through the experience of war.
Notes From Planet Three
Simon Ellis / England / 2025 / 13 mins
A boy shares the science of our solar system with his two-year-old sister, while internet contrarians have ideas of their own. A meditation on misinformation via social media.
Sulaimani
Vinnie Ann Bose / France / 2025 / 20 mins
One evening in Paris, two strangers – both young women from Kerala, India, find themselves in an Indian restaurant, where the sights, sounds and smells take them on a symbolic journey of bittersweet memories of their uprooting and emancipation.
High Street Repeat
Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill / England / 2024 / 4 mins
An experimental collage film commissioned by the Migration Museum, the film uses a range of animation techniques to explore the story of migration and enterprise, told through the changing face of Britain’s high street.
Join us in cafejac after the show for a performance by Ese Okorodudu
