Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra help his Somalian neighbour reenact a life marked by war and criminality.
Bognor Regis may have been repeatedly crowned Britain’s worst seaside town, but its residents now face a bigger crisis: the rising sea levels threatening to swallow up their small town.
Abandoned by her boyfriend in the middle of the night, a woman is faced with an unthinkable choice when she discovers a woman trapped in the back of a van.
In an AfroFuturist future, the King of a prominent Nigerian village has died and the Kingmakers select an unsuspecting boy from South London to ascend him.
A detached woman who earns a living by waking strangers up in the morning forms a pitiful kinship with a man paralyzed by his own dreams.
On Halloween night in a small town, a boy accepts a dare from his friends to hide in the back seat of an empty car and frighten the driver when they return. But what starts as a seemingly harmless prank turns into a night from hell.
"The simplistic act of splicing two clips together in a sequence, made me understand the editor to be a second director of sorts" - S/W regular Alexander Farah joins us to discuss the importance of editing when creating a short film.
The Academy voters have made their selections - the 15 short films progressing to the nominations stage have been announced.
Afong Moy, the first documented Chinese woman to come to the United States, realizes the men who separated her from her family only have interest in profiting off the peculiarities of her bound feet.
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of a West African hair salon. It’s the everyday antics of a bustling Highstreet.
