Videoteca

Requiem 2024
A pregnant woman spirals into emotional disarray when faced with the prospect of birthing her child into a world of environmental ruin.

Deaf, Profoundly 2024
An intimate exploration of a fractured and strained relationship between a young adult and his profoundly deaf mother. Following a crucial few days in Oscar's life the audience are invited to hold his hand as he begins to learn how to talk about his feelings, by unearthing the deaf experience.

All My Blues 2024
Terrell Simmons, the enigmatic owner of 'T's Jazz Palace', a bustling underground jazz club in London, and his son, Daniel Simmons, a promising jazz musician, have a complex relationship that reaches its boiling point at the end of an embarrassing night for Daniel where he fails to live up to his fathers' expectations on stage. 20 years later, Daniel must attempt to reopen the club with his brother, however, the scars left from his last time in the club won't be so easy to heal.

Experiments of Colour and Substance 2024
A young artist's desire to reach new heights with his creations is pushed to the limit as he decides to take a different substance each day to see how his craft is affected.

The Donkey with the Baby on Her Back 2024
Dani, a twenty-five year old child of divorce, returns home to help her father move out of what used to be their family house. As she packs up her childhood bedroom, reminiscing on saddling herself with packed bags and moving her life week by week, she thinks about a time when her parents must have been more in love than ever- their wedding day. Taken back into the 90's, Dani experiences her parent's special day through the eyes of the donkey that carried her mother to the altar. As Dani sees her mother and father through a new perspective, she has a newfound understanding of their individuality and an appreciation for the vast love that originally created her, however broken it may be back in present day.

Love Not Love 2024
A representation of a queer experience. Our protagonist is thrust into a world where she isn't celebrated or even accepted at a basic human level. We follow her and her girlfriend's painful journey through suicide attempts.

Here on Business 2024
In the solitude of a sterile hotel room, a consultant grapples with conflicting emotions as her burning desire for change collides with the sobering reality of career progression. In a lifeless budget hotel, a consultant faces a make-or-break presentation for a fully funded MBA. The catch: committing to an extra five years in a job and lifestyle she loathes. Navigating her values, desires, and the barren hotel landscape, she faces a five-year sentence unless she can redefine her future.

Nowhere Near 2024
An experimental, non-narrative film exploring intimacy and the tension in a relationship between two people as they balance being physically removed and seeking contact, and how this intensifies the emotions they share. The film is exhibited through the lens of four different emotions: love, fear, joy and sadness. These are presented at face value without much explanation. The main focus is on their outward physical expression, both independently, and about one another, without the film having a clear temporal structure, rather presenting this relationship in a single instant and all at once.

AlieNATION 2024
This short film shot in a small town in Sweden navigates themes of nostalgia through an original monologue, reflecting on gender identity struggle and the pursuit of a new beginning in a foreign land.

Lullaby for the Lost 2023 star_border 6
A sleeping man’s fading memory of his late Mother unravels through a recurring, hypermnesic dream that reverberates and transforms throughout his life, tracing from his final dream back to his first.

Bloodshed 2023
Tilly, Miah and Safa are three young women who endure debilitating period pain. Following an adolescence with little menstrual education, support or relief, they navigate the physical and emotional toll of intensely painful periods while trying to maintain a normal life.

Baile 2021 star_border 8
In rural 1950s Ireland, Emer's only daughter is rushed away to hospital after being badly beaten by her teacher. In defiance of her husband, she marches down to the headmaster's office. Faced with systemic abuse, Emer decides to take matters into her own hands.

The Greenhouse Next Door Release date not available
Daisy, an 11-year-old girl with a passion for adventure, sneaks into her neighbour’s greenhouse and steals a beautiful flower as a birthday present for her mum. However, once home, she soon realises she has accidentally stolen something (or someone) else too – her neighbour, Fred! The only problem is that, thanks to some magic experiments, he’s managed to turn himself into a caterpillar! Daisy must embark on a journey across her neighbour’s fantastical garden once again in order to return Fred the Caterpillar safely back to where he belongs, facing a few of her fears along the way...

Reel Deception Release date not available
As an homage to early Hollywood, this film showcases that the concept and purpose of special effects has not changed throughout its many years of use. Though the majority of techniques have gone digital, VFX continues to dissolve the boundaries between reality and illusion, immersing audiences within stories.

The Walk To Normal Living Release date not available star_border 10
The Walk To Normal Living is an Bournemouth Film School documentary production made in association with Arts University Bournemouth. Highlightingt the beautiful positives of drug and alcohol recovery, defying stereotypes of the dark and depressing depictions often associated with addiction. Created and directed by Loren Hobbs, the film covers the addiction recovery journey of her middle-aged father in a beautiful way. Andy shares his sorrows, but more importantly, the documentary focuses on his learnings and the continuous effort it takes for an addict to refrain from bad habits.

White Feather Release date not available
Set during the First World War in February 1916. In James Callaghan's last 15 minutes, his friends watch and wait as he's tied to a post and blindfolded after being found guilty of cowardice and desertion within the British Army. Fronted by 17-year-old, Wilfred, the 6-man firing squad, all similar in age, are ordered to aim, fire, and execute, ritualistically, carried out supposedly in the interests of discipline and morale.

There's No Place Like Home Release date not available
A woman attempts to bury the pain of being transgender in modern-day Britain.

Brumdog Release date not available
Eager to test his friends' devotion to him, 10-year-old British-Indian Zakir Noorani lies about moving to India forever. What he doesn't know is that he has a special power, one that allows him to speak into existence whatever he wishes if he fails to cross his fingers. Or at least that's what his sister Aaisha leads him to believe. Haunted by his recent viewing of Slumdog Millionaire, Zakir attempts to escape his fate while his sister relishes in his torment.