YOUTHFUL SPIRIT
SOCKTOPUS
2 Weeks 2 make it Grand Prize winner
Running time: 1:38
University of York
GRITSTONE GAMES
2 Weeks 2 Make it Runner Up
Running time: 1:52
Jack Kelly / Konky Media
ST. ANDREWS TENNIS CLUB
2 Weeks 2 Make it Audience Award
Running time: 1:08
Josh Broughton and Jack Copley
DRAINED
Director: Patrick Mcintyre
Running time: 12:30
University of Hull
AS SHE GOES
Director: Stepan Persidski
Running time: 5:00
University of York
LONE MAGPIE
Director: Sam McLeod
Running time: 7:58
Leeds Arts University
PSYCHO
Director: Dan Hartley
Running time: 3:55
Wakefield College
GREEN JUMPER
Director: Indigo Kamal-Poole
Running time: 14:18
Met Film School
ORTHODOX
Director: Erhan Palaogha
Running time: 9:38
Sheffield Hallam University
RISING SPIRIT
O MIO!
Director: Anna Dobos
Country: U.K.
Running time: 5:35
Genre: Comedy
A distraught woman finds help in a diner.
GOOD CHOICE, JOSEPH
Director: James Farrell
Country: U.K.
Running time: 6:03
Genre: Comedy
Joseph’s indecision has brought his life to a standstill, until he finds a mysterious tape player that can tell the future.
SOME KIND OF SPRING
Director: Lu Lu
Country: U.K.
Running time: 14:54
Genre: Drama
With a visa about to expire, Shuting celebrates what may be her last birthday in London. Lin Yue wants to throw her a party at their flat, but for various reasons none of their friends can come.
GHOST LIGHT
Director: Rebecca Shoptaw
Country: USA
Running time: 5:18
Genre: Thriller
During a late night phone call, something is revealed in the distance that warrants a closer look.
CRITICAL
Director: Lisa Rustage
Country: UK
Running time: 3:28
Genre: Sci-fi / Horror
A paraplegic woman in hospital, discovers life can get much worse when creatures invades the hospital.
YOUR ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP
Director: Andrew Day
Country: UK
Running time: 9:27
Genre: Comedy / Drama
A couple’s relationship manifests itself in the most unusual form after confronting where they are with each other.
ALL CHANGE
Director: Joe Molander
Country: UK
Running time: 3:12
Genre: Drama
What starts as innocent conversation on the train exposes the regrets two men have over their friendship, which – years ago – nearly became something more.
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL DOCK PUDDING
Director: Sarah Mason
Country: UK
Running time: 10:43
Genre: Documentary
Dock pudding is the ‘caviar of the Calder Valley’, as proudly Yorkshire as brass bands. Made with dock leaves, the recipe is handed down from generation to generation, secret picking spots sacred. In Mytholmroyd — a West Yorkshire town scarred by floods
NORTHERN SPIRIT
PARTNERS IN CRIME
Director: Chloe Bush
Country: U.K.
Running time: 7:13
Genre: Documentary
When a studious young adult and their quiet 90 year old grandmother involuntarily move in together, their lives change in the most unexpected ways.
TIME OF THE LILLIES
Director: Lydia Thompson
Country: U.K.
Running time: 3:22
Genre: Animation
In the dictatorial Republic of Staven, Carola is hounded by one of her countless victims. She recalls a forbidden love from the past that was never to be, and is reminded of the husk of a person the betrayal turned her into.
LEGACY
Director: Brannon Yau
Country: UK
Running time: 9:27
Genre: Documentary
Long hours, unspoken expectations and inherited sacrifices shape everyday life in a family-run takeaway.
I WISH I WAS THERE
Director: Flora Martyr
Country: UK
Running time: 9:45
Genre: Animation
Whilst relaxing on holiday, a woman receives a series of phone calls from the hospital. Initially ignoring them, her imagination gets the better of her forcing the realisation that she needs to confront her fears.
THAT FUNNY FEELING
Director: Ellie Salt
Country: U.K.
Running time: 11:31
Genre: Drama
Beth is a young woman who dreams of becoming a circus
clown. However, she is held back by her spiritless partner.
AMERICAN ENGLAND
Director: Sam Rooke
Country: UK
Running time: 8:17
Genre: Documentary
The English countryside, framed as an American western.
HALF MAST
Director: Ross Cawton
Country: U.K.
Running time: 3:19
Genre: Comedy
A simple job to raise the St George’s flag turns into a farcical street-side showdown when two old friends accidentally spark a culture-war spectacle in suburbia.
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT
UNTOUCHED
Director: Simon Drew
Country: U.K.
Running time: 12:00
Genre: Sci-fi
In a near-future where virtual reality offers flawless intimacy, a struggling couple secretly escape into digital fantasies, each unaware the other is doing the same.
HAZARD PERCEPTION
Director: Amadeus Redha
Country: U.K.
Running time: 9:20
Genre: Romance
An expectant father and a woman haunted by her fear of driving spark an unexpected connection while waiting to be called in for their driving test.
"POPPY"
Director: Julia Schönstädt
Country: U.K.
Running time: 16:25
Genre: Drama
Following a devastating loss, a grieving mother reconnects with a seductive, unpredictable figure from her past. Drawn into an increasingly obsessive relationship, she risks losing herself to the very thing she cannot bear to let go.
KIT
Director: Lottie Amor
Country: UK
Running time: 16:40
Genre: Drama
A teenager with dwarfism is hidden away from an unforgiving world by his superficial mother but discovers that his talent for drawing can set him free.
THIS CONVERSATION HAS BEEN REMOVED
Director: Andrew Nolan
Country: Ireland
Running time: 7:03
Genre: Comedy
When Peter and Jill engage in an online flame war, they learn just how wrong "making it personal" can go
EMERGING SPIRIT
THE WITCHES OF POOL BOTTOM
Director: Ava Bounds
Country: U.K.
Running time: 7:03
Genre: Fantasy
When a teenage girl’s body-image fears become physical, she decides to destroy them.
VAE VICTIS, NAPOLEON!
Director: Richard Heap
Country: U.K.
Running time: 20:00
Genre: Historical
Woe to the vanquished. As storm and sickness close in, an exiled and aging Napoleon Bonaparte wrestles with his legacy of power, war and myth. His confidant: the ghost of Julius Caesar.
I'M GETTING SOMETHING ON YOU
Director: Jonas Alexander
Country: U.K.
Genre: Horror
A jaded fake psychic runs a late-night call-in show with only her bored cameraman for company. When a something hijacks the broadcast, her tricks collapse as the “other side” comes calling.
SUPPORTING SHORTS
AFTERGLOW
Director: Arran McKenzie
Country: U.K.
Running time: 7:38
Genre: Sci-fi
In a world where grief-tech has been outlawed for it’s adverse side effects, Millie, takes a banned capsule to reunite with her dead fiancé - but the figure in the void isn’t the man she lost.
DOWN THE LENGTH
Director: Milo Edwards
Country: U.K.
Running time: 21:28
Genre: Psychological horror
Lost in a hole of complex grief, a once promising young painter attempts to meet a looming gallery deadline by recording his increasingly disturbing dreams.
EVERY TIME I SEE A YELLOW CAR
Director: Matt Chandler
Country: U.K.
Running time: 14:12
Genre: Thriller
After a violent act shatters the lives of two brothers, Olly attempts to articulate a fractured and repressed truth, whilst his older brother Liam spirals between guilt and revenge.
UNCLE ARTOO
Director: Zoë Whittaker
Country: U.K.
Running time: 10:06
Genre: Comedy
In his later years, Nosferatu has become a foster carer for children. That seems like a good idea.