UK Competition 2: Memories of the Earth

+ Q&A

Haunting, humorous and rooted in tradition, this UK Competition selection explores buried pasts, urban legends, and the rituals we inherit.

  • Total running time 114min

In this UK Competition selection, the land itself becomes a keeper of memory, of what endures and what fades. Childhood rituals crack open old traumas. Diasporic currents flow between Jamaican and British rivers. An overturned car transforms into myth. A mining operation bows to a monstrous creature. Office walls echo with misogynoir. And a man pursues a horse’s skull to fulfil an ancient folk rite.

Contains scenes of self-harm, racist violence and graphic violence or injury, and themes of drug use.

Flint

UK 2025. Director Naqqash Khalid. 17min

A River Holds a Perfect Memory

UK 2024. Director Hope Pearl Strickland. 17min

Flipper

UK 2025. Directors Can Köroğlu, Teva Cheema. 11min

Progress Mining

UK 2024. Director Gabriel Böhmer. 17min

Out of Office

UK 2025. Director Kialy Tihngang. 19min

Pen Mari

UK 2025. Director Siôn Marshall-Waters. 13min