BEST UK SHORTS
MAGID / ZAFAR
LUIS HINDMAN
Tensions arise amidst the heat of a busy British Pakistani takeaway.
IN THE CLOUDS
ALEXANDRA BAHIYYIH WAIN
Sara, a six-year-old Iranian refugee, sneaks out with her sister to explore their new London estate, but strange encounters blur the line between reality and imagination in a world shaped by loss.
FRIDAY IS MUSHROOM SOUP
ARNOLD T RICE
In a crumbling council flat, Doug (David Sterne) spends his days with Sky Sports, egg-custard tarts and teasing his favourite carer, Kate (Katy Trevor). But tonight, nothing goes to plan. Kate’s late, her toothache is flaring, and Doug seems strangely evasive. As she rushes through her tightly rationed 15 minutes, he drops unexpected news that leaves her caught between duty, concern and her own creeping burnout. With time running out and patience fraying, Kate is forced to confront both Doug’s defences and her own breaking point. Maybe tonight wasn’t the night to finally quit smoking…
THE MAN THAT I WAVE AT
BEN STEPHEN HYLAND
A man has an existential crisis trying to work out who the mysterious man is that he waves at.
GARDENING
SARAH BEEBY
In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do 'the right thing', she realises that she must regain her voice and find new paths to healing, before she and her garden are destroyed completely.
WAVELENGTH
KATE AUSTER, HOLLY WARBURTON, JACK LEDGER-DOWSE
Two people tune into each other across the noise of the world. When the signal fades, what remains? A story of connection built not on certainty, but on echoes, pauses, and the quiet rhythm of shared moments. A relationship told through the subtle shifts of presence and absence, of intimacy and distance, and the traces we learn to hear when someone is gone.
TUSKY
STEVEN BOYLE
Rhubarb farmer Harry Bamford spent his working life growing and perfecting his prize-winning crop. Now, long retired and under the care of his struggling wife Joyce, Harry begins to experience vivid and disturbing hallucinations.
EXIT AT THE NEXT JUNCTION
DAVID HIGGS
A tense journey takes a turn when a child glimpses another life through the window of his mother’s car.
DARK SKIN BRUISES DIFFERENTLY
SUSAN WOKOMA
Children lie. But when one lie threatens Ms Lawson’s integrity as a teacher, can she keep on defending a student as peculiar as Maria Obasi?
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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. ​
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​
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