
WINNER: Dan Thorburn
As rising sea levels loom across the coast of Wales, a father and son clash over the future of their failing caravan park.

Saul Abraham
Progressive muscle relaxation, Lycra, spoken word. As Michael (Himesh Patel) seeks novel ways to halt his spiralling depression, a moment of hope arrives via an unexpected source. ENJOY is a touching, offbeat exploration of the ways in which depression manifests itself in men across different generations. The film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and has gone on to screen at a host of Oscar and Bafta qualifying festivals around the world, winning Best UK Short Film award at Raindance Film Festival and British Short Film Awards. It is being distributed via Disney+ from September 2022.

Dumas Haddad
Flowers is an afro-futuristic fairytale of love, following a ceremony of a mother giving away her son. Our protagonist is gifted with a heavy crown by his mother to the disappointment of his overlooked brothers. A crown of glory. A crown that comes with a mission and a price. This is a story about the deep, transformative power of love, a story about family, purpose and realising one’s destiny. Flowers reimagines what a black fairy-tale would look and feel like, adopting references to classic Disney stories from the 1930s-50s and modernising tropes for this whimsical coming of age tale.

Joy Webster
Twenty-something Addy is out to get revenge against Tom, her ex-boyfriend and well-known TV host. But when she sneaks into Tom's apartment one night while he is asleep, things begin to spiral out of control, putting her new relationship, and much more, at stake.

Ka Ki Wong
In a staggered time and space, an unusual relationship unfolds between a pair of siblings, one an arsonist, the other a firefighter.

Tan Ce Ding
A young scam call operator is thrust into a moral dilemma as she navigates a life-changing situation.

Margareth Villers
Correctness-loving Eve and careless Leida are colleagues and opposites, working every day side by side at a small town library. During a casual word game between the two, prideful Leida's factually wrong answer about Numbats' habitat upsets Eve. Unfortunately for her, the book that could end the debate is missing. Unanswered calls to the book borrower and Leida's smirks set her off on a hunt for the book. An absurd adventure to prove her co-worker wrong begins and takes unusual turns until the very end.

Elliott Gonzo & Elliot Warren
In east London, Danny, a man juggling fatherhood and addiction, is unexpectedly left to look after his daughter Jess for the night. Danny makes a risky decision to involve her in a dangerous job for a much-needed paycheck.

WINNER: Katie Blair
Imogene is a single, free-spirited New Yorker in her 40s. Unprompted, her absurdly traditional family thrusts a pregnancy on her. But all that can be expected from Imogene is the unexpected.

Jason Hogan
Emily, a homeless ballet dancer, undertakes a potentially life-changing audition. In the audition room, she is identified as the girl wearing the number twenty. She is graceful and poised, yet in the outside world, she struggles to find somewhere to sleep, let alone focus on her art. Twenty is the story of the girl behind the number.

Alexis Gómez
In a world where senseless war and conflict irreversibly alter the lives of countless families, Bumbumpapá asks the question: when there seems to be only darkness, can you find a spark of light? Director Alexis Gómez shares the tale of a father desperate to shield the joyful innocence of his young daughter in harrowing moments that may be their last.

Andrew McGee
In the near-future age of artificial intelligence, Luna is finally ready to re-enter the world of dating, turning to smart contact lenses to overcome her grief and anxiety. But when her search for human connection takes a dark turn and her vision is held for ransom, she must outsmart a mysterious hacker to save her sight... and her date night.

Ethan Evans & Jess Bartlett
An overwhelmed woman listens to a sleep ambience app to unwind before bed, but when the sounds eerily blend with reality, she suspects it has conjured something frightening into her room...

Florine & Kim Nüesch
Following an argument, unhappy couple Suzanna and Andrew decide to purchase a sex robot called James, very much to Andrew’s displeasure. James, who was meant to be a mere sexual experiment to bring them closer together, stirs up unexpected feelings in Andrew and unwittingly uncovers the very fractures that damaged Andrew and Suzanna’s marriage in the first place.

Irene Lopez & Robin Asselmeyer
In a not-so-distant future where AI technology is part of everyday life, Rebecka (41) is working from home with a sick daughter. Although her AI-clone, “R”, assists her in the household, Rebecka fantasizes about different ways to kill her.