SFL 2026 | SHORT FILMS SHOWCASE
🗓 SUN 17 MAY | 15.30 PM
shorts programme V
EARTH ALTERED
Earth has seen better days. In these stories, it’s been flooded, abandoned, reclaimed and occasionally visited by something unexpected. Aliens drop in, humans hang on, and nature starts quietly taking over.
2389: COMING HOME
Dir: Kateryna Sazonova | 12 Mins | USA | UK PREMIERE
Two humans, a scientist and a soldier from a Martian colony, come to Earth destroyed by climate change and resource wars, to find out if it is habitable once again.
ECHOING WHITE
Dir: Kha-Anh Le | 8 Mins | FRANCE | UK PREMIERE
One night, a wounded knight finds a crescent moon while she walks through the forest. Obsessed by its warmth and light, she can't take her eyes off it.
IT'S NOT THE CAT!
Dir: Louisa Bablin | 4 Mins | UK | LONDON PREMIERE
When a silver-skinned alien crash-lands in a suburban garden and finds a radio playing 80s music, it begins to dance, while a retired alien enthusiast awakens.
INVASION '53
Dir: Danielle Weinberg | 10 Mins | USA | UK PREMIERE
A man-eating alien crashes a suburban cocktail party.
WEEKEND AT MAURY ISLAND
Dir: Bradley Wilkinson | 5 Mins | USA | UK PREMIERE
Two couples spend their evening at a cabin when they are surprised by a fleet of extra-terrestrial visitors.
ALAIA
Dir: Oliver Coast Sullenger | 9 Mins | SWITZERLAND | UK PREMIERE
A young woman from a waterless world journeys to Earth's glaciers. To restore balance to her planet, she must trust her sacred bond and become water.
KARAYR (CAVE)
Dir: Neo Apelian | 17 Mins | JORDAN | UK PREMIERE
In the aftermath of a biological war that reduced mankind to ape-like cavemen, a lone survivor tries to civilise a caveman.
ANIMALIA
Dir: Marius Rolfsvåg | 25 Mins | NORWAY | UK PREMIERE
Animalia is a fable about humans and animals. In a future where nature has reclaimed the world, a woman discovers the humanity in animals.
EM & SELMA GO GRIFFIN HUNTING
Dir: Alexander Thompson | 15 Mins | USA | LONDON PREMIERE
A 1930s-set coming-of-age fable about mothers, daughters and the beasts they hunt.