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Personal reality is reality. What happens when our minds are allowed to take over?
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Personal reality is reality. What happens when our minds are allowed to take over?
Bristol VFX studio Lux Aeterna reveals what goes into making a sci-fi short in a virtual production volume, and the opportunities emerging technologies pose…
Audience favourites from across Europe compete for the ultimate prize - winning the hearts of 511 million Europeans in this year-long continental tour of the…
Nothing here is quite what it appears to be. Ghosts guide the living, trains leave Russia without touching the ground, the Gorillaz wander across India, and a…
Blak Wave in Focus. The only regional recipient of the new Channel 4 Creative Equity IP Fund.
The unique craft of creating and structuring short film scripts is rarely taught. This session rethinks the 3-act structure to serve the mini movie.
When their agency is threatened, these characters have to adapt or resist.
Love letters by carrier pigeon, a dying woman floating through space with a Soviet dog, a daughter dancing to keep her mother from drowning, and Don Hertzfeldt…
Head of Bristol Film School, Freya Billington chairs a panel of filmmakers discussing their different approaches to working within and adapting to the…
Watch this trilogy about Cornish people, planet and place and hear from the filmmaking teams about their process of working in 360 for the first time.
DepicT! is our super short filmmaking competition challenging filmmakers from across the globe to create an imaginative and original short film of 90 seconds…
Alienated Dylan (George MacKay) throws off the shackles of his solitary life in an attempt to experience the highs and lows of existence at its most extreme.…
Dancers, demons, time loops and a very bad night out in Bristol. Seven new films from across the South West.
A selection of dramas which celebrate having someone in your corner. I got you.
Join Climate Spring's Lucy Stone to explore how storytelling can connect big ideas about technology and climate to human experiences and illuminate solutions…
Bristol-based Storyboard artist Jay Clarke explores the relationship between visual storytelling and exposition, revealing how filmmakers utilise both to tell…
12 writers from across the UK will present their early stage works.
Bodies that betray us, connections that barely hold, and a shrimp in love with a blind fish. This programme swings from allegories about blind faith to joyful…
What happens when we go beyond the monitor, and the distance between us disappears?
Practical insights from an experienced awards campaign expert to help filmmakers position their shorts, reach influential audiences, build momentum, and…
People becoming things they didn't expect to be: a mother, a hag, a planet of someone else's nostalgia, a corpse's travel companion. Plus a good look at that…
Exams, crushes, auditions, and the night you become someone new. Five films from the edge of adulthood.
ANiMiNSPO brings to Encounters a selection of animation directors to share and discuss current works in progress and upcoming projects.
Kangding Ray takes his techno score for Sirât and builds something new from it, pushing far past the soundtrack into a live work of its own. Director Óliver…
The legendary Late Lounge returns, best watched after dark and probably not on a full stomach. Mothers turning into silverfish, dinner guests eating each…
Celebrate 25 years of Adult Swim with a throwback showcase packed full of fan favourites, animated delights, best digested with a brand-new special crossover…
Longing for a closeness that keeps slipping out of reach.
BAFTA-winning Casting Director Isabella Odoffin opens up about her craft, from the creative processes behind her work to the collaborative relationships that…
Miracle bread that turns people into loaves, a painter who vanished, animals in revolt, a writer choosing between silence and action, and a pint in the pub…
Join Mandy Chang, CEO of the Documentary Film Council, for this session on building a more sustainable and ambitious documentary industry in the UK.
What stays and what gets taken. Three films about mortality, migration and the living world, from Joshua Oppenheimer's thousand-strong revolt against death to…
This session will unpack why brands are commissioning short form content designed to feel nothing like an ad.
These characters let it all out and show their strength
Academy Award-winning director Aneil Karia sits down with BAFTA-winning writer-director Nida Manzoor for a masterclass tracing his journey from acclaimed short…
A damaged spaceship, a Romanian hillside, a surrealist garden, a hospital corridor, a carrot heist, a man called Vova who can only say one thing, and a dark…
History arrives uninvited - through the door of a family gathering, onto a quiet Chicago street, into the pages of a love story. From Bristol to the orbit of…
Decisions have consequences, but not for the makers.
Jim Baitte (Jack Redmayne) is a hapless sound recordist about to lose his job working under tyrannical director P.W. Griffin (Os Leanse). His last chance to…
Eight animated shorts for ages 6 and up. A capybara and his best friend Mister Tangerine, a fearless four-year-old on the steepest hill in town, a birthday…
The Family Gaming Room, hosted by Andy Robertson and the Family Gaming Database, is where the playing happens. Free, drop in, all ages welcome. Unlike other…
Join professional animator Maraike Kraemer for a playful, hands-on introduction to the magic of stop motion. Families will sculpt their own clay characters,…
Seven shorts for ages 10 and up. Nosferatu becomes a foster carer, Death's new apprentice turns out to be better at the job than he is, a grumpy raccoon breaks…
On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science…
Join professional animator Maraike Kraemer for a fun, hands-on introduction to the basics of stop motion animation. Designed for ages 13–17, this workshop…
Moon travels through a mysterious unexplained world free of adults. Moon meets a scholar turned sage and her translator in a mountain hut, where she tries to…
A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.
Deeper Into Movies presents Warp Vision: a feature-length trip through the music video archives of Warp Records.