Screening dates and booking

Credits

  • Total running time

    77min

  • Programmed by

    Hyun Jin Cho, Qila Gill, Erik Martinson

  • Content warning

    This short film programme contains flashing images.

The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon

  • Director

    Adam Piron

  • USA 2025. 13min

  • Languages

    English, Kiowa, Plains Indian Sign Language
    With English subtitles

  • Content warning

    Contains flashing images.

Alongside lore and a reunion, letters to Kiowa student Belo Cozad from 1890, written in hieroglyphic code, resist settler colonial efforts to decipher them.

she’s waiting for the sunset

  • Director-screenwriter

    Martyna Ratnik

  • Lithuania 2024. 8min

  • Language

    English
    With English subtitles

To break image curses, a filmic time capsule is opened early and introspective musings meant for the future seep out.

Ka Ba Ddi: a breath, a move, a game

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  • Director

    Alia Syed

  • UK 2025. 10min

  • Language

    Dialogue-free

In this South Asian team sport, players repeating ‘kabaddi’ frantically cross boundaries on the court, tagging their opponents before returning.

Nothing out of the Island: Bridges

Nada fuera de la Isla: Puentes

  • Director-screenwriter

    Dalissa Montes de Oca Mosquea

  • Dominican Republic-USA 2024. 16min

  • Language

    Spanish
    With English subtitles

An elegiac journey home in remembrance of a mother lost at a young age – images complete any gaps in memory.

Half Memory

  • Director

    Ufuoma Essi

  • UK-USA-France 2024. 30min

  • Language

    English
    With English subtitles

  • Content warning

    Contains flashing images.

Travelling across space and time, varied cityscapes act like scaffolding, holding up reflections on memory – what was silenced – and generational perseverance.

How to book

Tickets start from £10 for all screenings and events in London, with concessions available for many screenings. Booking information and ticket prices.

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