ALL OF ME

Viv, a talented musician, faces late stage Leukemia that threatens the life she’s built. Her best hope is a bone marrow transplant from her estranged family, but reconnecting means confronting a difficult past.

Nominated for:
Cinematography Award - Diana Olifirova
Acting Award - Chereen Buckley

SPINOSAURUS

A young girl cares for her younger brother at home, while she awaits her mother’s return.

Nominated for:
Directing Award - Tessa Hoffe
Producing Award - Tessa Hoffe

HOWLS

A young mum runs away with her fragile son to a woodland hut community in Scotland and door steps a random boy she has recently met. When hope of acceptance in his community quickly fades, she loses control, whilst her son finds solace in a mysterious wolf.

Nominated for: Directing Award
Catriona MacInnes

MUM VS THE WORLD

Lucy has 99 problems but Soya ain’t one.

Nominated for:
XX Award

GIBBERISH

On Christmas Eve, after a silent year of absence, a daughter returns home. Afraid to lose her, afraid of her, her mother tries to break down her daughter’s wall of secrets and lies. A portrait of misunderstanding and missed opportunity when words crackle and fade like a broken frequency that will never reach its destination.

Nominated for:
Acting Award - Jo Hartley

THE HAPPIEST BARRACK

The Happiest Barrack is an experimental documentary, a chronicle of my maternal grandmother’s life in Soviet Hungary. It serves as a memento of times past and as a reminder of how socialism colonized the soul’s of a generation.

Nominated for:
Directing Award - Noémi Varga

BABY MINE

When her Middle Eastern husband kidnaps their child, Sarah blindly recruits a prejudiced neighbour to hunt them down. A sense of dread slowly tightens its grip as a little girl’s life hangs in the balance and a new threat rears its head.

Nominated for:
Directing Award - Nour Wazzi
Cinematography Award - Rina Yang
Editing Award - Vee Pinot