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Our selection of lens-based media from around the globe, screening at Cornwall Film Festival 2025. STEP INTO THE FRAME AND EXPERIENCE STORIES FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE Cornwall Film Festival is a global platform inviting filmmakers from every corner of the world to showcase bold, captivating and innovative stories. BOOK TICKETS Festival Cornwall Film Festival 2024 Intersection 2025 Press Press Blog Merch Store Talks CFF 25 Industry 2025 FAQ's & Access titles Diary & Tickets Black Tide In Focus 2025 Selected films 2025 Enter Short Films QuckCut 90sec INTERSECTION: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS ON HANNAH FIELDS LEWIS HERIZ A patch of land in Derby, UK, is adopted by an ex-NHS Psychiatric Nurse and transformed by a cyclical system of recovery. A poetic portrait of a place, the people who support it and that it supports. RIVERVIEW SIMON RATTIGAN A river divides territory and is at once a way in and a way out, where tidal shifts push and pull one's desires to go and explore the beyond, while old loyalties hold onto the past weighing down one's need to escape. GILBERT & GEORGE DAYTRIPPING FOREVER! IAIN B. MACDONALD "Gilbert & George Daytripping Forever!" follows the artists Gilbert and George as they embark on another adventure to Southend-on-Sea and explore the meaning of their art and their lives. OLEUM 'VERSUS' (DIRECTOR DUO): TANYA BABIC & JASON SUKADANA In a bold reimagining of Opera for the screen, 'Oleum' follows a wounded mechanic’s journey to hear the plaintive song of a local waitress one last time. SPOKEN MOVMENT FAMILY HONOUR DANIEL GURTON In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. At the family dinner table, heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history. DREAMT BY ANOTHER VIKKI BARDOT Dreamt by Another is an allegorical take on creating with artificial intelligence and a meditation on identity, memory, and love. Interweaving passages from Pinocchio (1883), The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), Frankenstein (1818), and Borges's The Circular Ruins (1940), the film builds a single narrative about coming into existence. It extends the lineage of wooden puppets, toys, and monsters into the realm of artificial intelligence, as the latest chapter in humanity's pursuit to make the unreal come alive. A POEM VASILIOS PAPAIOANNU In an underground garage, a voice message becomes the testament of a love left in limbo, while fleeting images allude to the moment that led to it. A FROG SITS IN WATER DYLAN FRIESE-GREENE A Frog Sits in Water is an experimental film exploring human complacency in the face of disaster. Set during an all-consuming heatwave, the film follows a lone figure spiralling into psychosis as the world boils and rots around him. Surrounded by spinning fans, he blocks out the sunlight and plays his saxophone in a desperate attempt to to drown out reality and retreat inward. The film seeks to examine the tension between numbness and expression, questioning whether making art in a dying world is an act of resistance or simply a way to survive. It is a study in indifference, discomfort, and the fragile persistence of creativity amid collapse . GOLDFISH AKHIL KUMAR Goldfish is a thought-provoking micro-short that captures the struggle of staying present in an age of endless distractions. With the average human attention span now just 8.25 seconds—shorter than a goldfish’s, we’re caught in a cycle of notifications, fleeting dopamine hits, and the constant pull of what’s next. Both timely and relatable, this film offers a sharp reflection on focus, presence, and the way technology shapes our minds—inviting audiences to pause, reflect, and reconsider what really holds their attention. GLIMPSE ULRIKE SWOBODA-OSTERMANN Deep in rural Cornwall, autistic Thomas loves to read. Retreating from a world he finds sensorily challenging, he spends all day buried in books, telling himself stories of heroes and epic quests. When a flying football starts a new friendship with sporty Agnes, Thomas initially finds it hard to relate and let her into his world. This distance between them means that Agnes becomes bored with Thomas’ storytelling, forcing Thomas to use his incredible creativity to make new stories for them both. Through their burgeoning relationship, he learns how to express himself creatively, empathise and learn from others, making his unique experience of the world around him more understandable and manageable. STRAIGHT AHEAD 01: RUNNING AWAY BECALELIS BRODSKIS Made across months of travel, this improvised drawn animation — filmed against train and bus windows — becomes a contemplative collage of continual journeys between Cornwall in the west, Suffolk in the east, and the places in between. Rooted in a purist manifesto of straight-ahead animation, it discards planning, storyboards, light boxes, and corrections to embrace the raw energy of the line. The result blends frantic motion with calm reflection, capturing shifting landscapes both internal and external. PRESSING STEPHANIE BARBER A woman washes her hair in the kitchen sink while telling her friend about a memory of sitting in a bathtub and watching her aunt get ready to go out. A narrative fragment, a very short story, a performance and exercise in the prosaic as mythologized through memory. ENTER NOW Our programme of shorts features the most innovative and adventurous ideas from filmmakers whose short films manifest stylistic boldness, strength of form, and the ambition to use the medium in a way that resists cliché. Shorts to feature films, the Cornwall Film Festival is a British Independent Film Awards Qualifing festival. ENTER NOW WHAT'S ON Lifelong Learning week 3–7th November 2025 Creative Careers Month November Community week 10-16th November 2025 2025 IntoFilm Schools Festival 11-28th November BFI Blockbuster season Too Much A Season Of Melodrama Previews week at The Poly Falmouth 17th - 22nd November 2025 STORIES FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD - OUR FUNDERS & PARTNERS

Cornwall Film Festival 2025 Selected Long and short films, with Immersive STEP INTO THE FRAME AND EXPERIENCE STORIES FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE Cornwall Film Festival is a global platform inviting filmmakers from every corner of the world to showcase bold, captivating and innovative stories. BOOK TICKETS Festival Cornwall Film Festival 2024 Intersection 2025 Press Press Blog Merch Store Talks CFF 25 Industry 2025 FAQ's & Access titles Diary & Tickets Black Tide In Focus 2025 Selected films 2025 Enter Short Films QuckCut 90sec SELECTED 2025 INTERNATIONAL Best International Short Film Screening Sunday, November 23, 2025 3:00 PM GMT The Poly Eggs Benedict Directed by Johnny White The Secret Assistants Directed by Katey Lee Carson Reliefs Directed by Juan Manuel Gonzalez Fernandez Corteza Directed by Simon Acosta THE GUIDING LIGHT Directed by Cristina Rodríguez Paz Inheritance Directed by Anthony Misiano, Tyler A. Wallach Dragging the Chain Directed by Virginia Blackwell UK SHORTS Best UK Short Film Screening Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:30 PM GMT The Poly MAGID / ZAFAR Directed by Luís Hindman In the Clouds Directed by Alexandra Bahíyyih Wain Friday is Mushroom Soup Directed by Arnold T Rice The Man That I Wave At Directed by Ben Stephen Hyland Gardening Directed by Sarah Beeby Wavelength Directed by Kate Auster TUSKY Directed by Steven Boyle Exit at the Next Junction Directed by David Higgs Dark Skin Bruises Differently Directed by Susan Wokoma BEST OF THE WEST Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:00 PM GMT The Poly Poll Pri (Clay Tip) Directed by Edward Rowe Bare Roots Directed by Ellen McDougall An Mor: Where the Tides Speak Directed by Guy Potter, Nahlia Loren Couto Nacre Directed by Lydia Jenkins Spare Part Directed by Ada Player, Bron Waugh Paper Bag Thief Directed by Alice Panerai Circle Hook Directed by Maddy Corner MUDDIED Directed by Cordelia Angel Clarke THE REMOVED Directed by Rebecca Rose Dave Muir - 'All or Nothing' Directed by Hugo Pettit Burnout Directed by Matthew Hendry, Tolli Myers PEN MARI Directed by Siôn Marshall-Waters Sounds of our Lives Directed by Coco Potter FRESH Thursday, November 20, 2025 12:30 PM GMT The Poly Soviet Fantasia Directed by Penn Bálint The Beginning of Identification, and its End Directed by Philipp Gufler BARK Directed by Caoimhe M. Harley Hi Mom, It's Me, Lou Lou' Directed by Atakan Yılmaz Everything you want Directed by Mariana Machado LIMP Directed by Harry Faint Heartware Directed by Leander Behal Joe Directed by Tom Brittney Carclew Directed by Seth Harrison INTERSECTION: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS Friday, November 21, 2025 2:15 PM GMT The Poly On Hannah Fields Directed by Lewis Heriz RiverView Directed by Simon Rattigan GILBERT & GEORGE DAYTRIPPING FOREVER! Directed by Iain B. MacDonald Oleum Directed by VERSUS Spoken Movement Family Honour Directed by Daniel Gurton Dreamt by Another Directed by Vikki Bardot A Poem Directed by Vasilios Papaioannu A Frog Sits In Water Directed by Dylan Friese-Greene Goldfish Directed byAkhil Kumar glimpse Directed by Ulrike Swoboda-Ostermann Straight ahead 01: Running Away Directed by Becalelis Brodskis pressing Directed by Stephanie Barber BLACK TIDE Sunday, November 23, 2025 7:45 PM GMT The Poly ROCK POOL Directed by Dan McKay Oil Spill Directed by Louis Heilbronn IMMERSIVE(18) Directed by Rohan Thomas SCREEN STARS Mordrik Directed by Joseph Inman IN SEMI-FINAL STAGE OTHERREALMS VR, XR & IMMERSIVE The Time Before Directed by Leo Metcalf Streets of Change VR Directed by Judi Alston, Andy Campbell murmuration Directed by Patricia Bergeron The Contrast or illusion Directed by Mariusz Borzyszkowski FEATURES The Big Sea Directed by Lewis Arnold Small Gods Directed by Asher Rosen Pieces of Us Directed by Ben Fullman Gentle, Angry Women Directed by Barbara Santi DOC SHORTS The Lost Boys of Carbis Bay Directed by Daniel Simpkins Growing Home: The Story of Petalon Flowers Directed by Sarah Howell, Steve Turvey INDUSTRY FOCUS 2025: PRODUCING EXPLORING THE ART AND BUSINESS OF SCREEN PRODUCTION At Cornwall Film Festival 2025, our annual Industry Focus shines a spotlight on the vital and often misunderstood role of the Producer. Whether you're working in short films, feature narratives, factual TV, or digital platforms, producing sits at the heart of the screen industry. This year’s focus explores all facets of producing—from development and financing, to production logistics, distribution strategy, and creative leadership. Through talks, panels, roundtables, and networking, we’ll be lifting the curtain on what it really takes to get a story from script to screen. READ MORE STORIES FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD - OUR FUNDERS & PARTNERS