Past Editions

Test Film

Rose of Nevada

dir. Mark Jenkin

United Kingdom · 2025

Closing Night - California Schemin'

dir. James McAvoy

United Kingdom · 2025

The Souffleur

dir. Gastón Solnicki

Austria, Argentina · 2025

Eagles of the Republic

dir. Tarik Saleh

Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland · 2025

Once Upon a Time in Gaza

dir. Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser

Palestine, France, Germany, Jordan · 2025

The Stranger

dir. François Ozon

France · 2025

Mortician

dir. Abdolreza Kahani

Canada · 2025

A Magnificent Life - Presented by Manchester Animation Festival

dir. Sylvain Chomet

France · 2025

Are We Good?

dir. Steven Feinartz

United States · 2025

Hen

dir. György Pálfi

Hungary, Germany, Greece · 2025

Shorts 7

One of Us

dir. Stefan van de Graaff

United Kingdom, United States · 2026

Five Kinds of Fear

dir. Bruno Bini

Brazil · 2026

I've Seen All I Need to See

dir. Zeshaan Younus

United States · 2025

Shorts 6

Littermates

dir. Michael Woloson, Scott Tinkham

United States, United Kingdom · 2026

Afrodite

dir. Stefano Lorenzi

Italy · 2025

Finding My Voice

dir. Arabella Burfitt-Dons

United Kingdom · 2026

The Model

dir. Marcus Flemmings

United Kingdom · 2026

Love Me Tender

dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet

France · 2025

Magic Hour

dir. Katie Aselton

United States · 2025

North West Shorts 3

Sophia

dir. Dhafer L'Abidine

United Kingdom, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates · 2025

Shorts 5

Animated Shorts

Demon Seed

dir. Donald Cammell

United States · 1977

Shorts 4

Ride or Die

dir. Josalynn Smith

United States · 2026

Mutt Cat

dir. Shay Kelly

United Kingdom · 2026

Orphan

dir. László Nemes

Hungary, United Kingdom, · 2025

VISCERAL IMAGES

dir. Ed Palmer

United Kingdom · 2026

Synthesized

dir. Christopher Green

United Kingdom · 2026

Shorts 3

Documentary Shorts

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

dir. Steven Spielberg

United States · 2021

Shorts 2

Maricel

dir. Elias Demetriou

Cyprus, Greece · 2025

LifeHack

dir. Ronan Corrigan

United Kingdom · 2026

Shorts 1

Student Film

Never Get Busted!

dir. David Anthony Ngo, Stephen Mccallum

United States · 2025

Ex Machina

dir. Alex Garland

United Kingdom, United States · 2026

Misper

dir. Harry Sherriff

United Kingdom · 2025

Solitary

dir. Eamonn Murphy

Ireland · 2025

North West Shorts 2

I, Robot

dir. Alex Proyas

United States · 2024

Exit 8

dir. Genki Kawamura

Japan · 2025

My Father's Island

dir. Vladimir de Fontenay

United Kingdom, Norway, France · 2025

The Curse

dir. Kenichi Ugana

Japan · 2025

Satisfaction

dir. Alex Burunova

United States, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom · 2025

Moon

dir. Duncan Jones

United States · 2009

The Last One for the Road

dir. Francesco Sossai

Italy · 2025

Small Gods

dir. Asher Rosen

Uganda, United Kingdom · 2025

Keep Quiet

dir. Vincent Grashaw

United States · 2025

Surviving Earth

dir. Thea Gajic

United Kingdom · 2026

Anything That Moves

dir. Alex Phillips

United States · 2025

Rebuilding

dir. Max Walker-Silverman

United States · 2025

Ultras

dir. Ragnhild Ekner

Sweden, Denmark, Finland · 2025

Think of England

dir. Richard Hawkins

United Kingdom · 2025

The Oldham Man & The Sea

dir. Colin Offland, Marc Ingham

United Kingdom · 2026

The Fence

dir. Claire Denis

France · 2026

Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

dir. Joel Alfonso Vargas

Couture

dir. Alice Winocour

United States · 2025

The Cure

dir. Nancy Leopardi

USA · 2026

Our Hero Balthazar

dir. Oscar Boyson

United States · 2025

Lady

dir. Samuel Abrahams

United Kingdom · 2025

Rhino

dir. Tom Martienssen

United Kingdom · 2025

Erupcja

dir. Pete Ohs

United States, Poland · 2025

Honey Bunch

dir. Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli

Canada · 2025

North West Shorts 1

The Last Viking

dir. Anders Thomas Jensen

Denmark · 2025

Father Mother Sister Brother

dir. Jim Jarmusch

United States · 2025

The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford

dir. Seán Dunn

United Kingdom · 2026

Chatlines

dir. Neil Ely, Lloyd Eyre-Morgan

United Kingdom · 2026

Box of Frogs

dir. Ian Puleston-Davies

UK · 2026

Opening Night - Psychopomp (includes Q&A with Kit Harrington) and The Good Boy

dir. Jan Komasa

Poland, United Kingdom · 2026

Test Event

dir. Mr Test

UK · 2025