With UK's leading short film festival forced online, we dive into the Encounters 2020 programme and take a look at what the festival has to offer this year - including some new films from some old S/W favourites
Wanting a fresh start, Lauren moves into a house with her daughter and new boyfriend - but the spirits of the house have plans to turn them all against each other in very bizarre ways.
A few minutes after midnight, a young woman realizes that her partner has disappeared after they had sex. Worried, she goes out to look for him in the darkness of the streets.
New Zealand’s millennial MP, Chlöe Swarbrick, challenges the establishment during the most important year of her political career.
Legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson reflects on a gruelling and often surreal life between the goalposts.
In an overpopulated future, a family returning from a day at the beach have to travel through a tunnel that serves a deadly second purpose.
All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he's assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why of it-all before the person they're running from puts together the pieces.
To confront his past trauma, an amputee veteran acts in a hyperrealistic military simulation.
A metamorphic creature will stop at nothing to impress the unseen audience and avoid their dreaded silence.
Marall follows her parents to a party and they want her to behave. As the evening progresses she finds the adults’ behaviour increasingly strange.
