"The films that end up in the programme selection are the survivors of a very bloody battle" - Manchester Animation Festival's Steve Henderson is the latest interviewee in our Meet the Gatekeepers series.
Joan is startled when she finds a strange man in her house, but the situations begins to feel all too familiar.
A plucky, pioneering pre-historic fish, has a ground-breaking plan to improve his life in this fun three-minute short from Aardman
Taking the form of a vintage nature film, this short explores the migratory pattern of a herd of fantastical wild creatures from the sky.
In vicious comic form, London-based artist Steve Cutts encapsulates the tyranny of Man in a scant 3min.
A fascinating look at the strange phenomenon of competitive fast-talking in the late 1980s.
A peculiar man searches for love in a dark and troubling world.
A distant father is forced to confront a heroic but troubled past life as an 80's TV show mascot.
Former Guantánamo detainee, Mohamedou Ould Salahi, and his guard, Steve Wood, reunite in Mauritania 13 years after last seeing each other, rekindling an unlikely relationship that profoundly changed their lives.
Steven Fuller is a winter caretaker who has lived at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years. As the cold weather approaches and the seasonal transformation begins, he hunkers down in his remote mountain cabin. But Fuller and Yellowstone face an uncertain future, with the climate crisis threatening to forever change one of North America’s last great wildernesses
