1. DZIFA Dir: Savannah Acquah (UK, 2022)  19:48

Esther and Chioma try to connect as Chioma struggles to fully understand the nuances of Esther’s life as a non-binary person. But through a queering of a Ghanaian naming ceremony, the couple are invited to reconnect in a celebration of diasporic Black queer joy.

2. FIRST STEP SWIM, Dir: Caitlin McMullan (UK, 2023) 6:56

First Step Swim follows Caitlin on a journey of wild swimming as she navigates not only her relationship to her body, but also to the water and space in which she inhabits through this short film.

3. ITCHING, Dir: Catherine Marriott-Brown (UK, 2023) 7:41

Shot on 16mm film, Itching tells the story of a lonely young mudlark with an itch she just can’t scratch.

4. ORIGINAL SKIN, Dir: Mdhamiri á Nkemi (UK, 2023) 12:20

In an alternate world where having sex means swapping bodies with the other person, a young woman struggles to be herself, defying her small conservative community where swapping is taboo. A deeply intimate portrait of identity in transition.

5. SUPERVISION, Dir: Sophie Colquhoun (UK, 2022) 13:29

Bea, an isolated and psychologically abused girl decides that rather than turn into her mother, she will instead become a spider. The decision to transform herself into a spider is one that propels her through an otherwise empty existence until the discovery that her mother too had tried to do the same in her youth. This transgenerational wound, bonds mother and daughter under the shadow of the spider and all that could’ve been.