Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition 2

The second of five programmes in our prestigious international competition for short films, with selections from Mexico, France, Greece, Palestine, Spain, and Cambodia.   On a pleasant Sunday afternoon in a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the regular collection of money from merchants and residents carries an ultimatum that forever alters the neighbourhood, morphing the community into a site of resistance.Yorkshire Premiere | Gerardo Del Razo | Mexico | 2025 | 18 mins | Spanish Bordeaux, 1987, Christmas Eve. Three siblings are far away from their mother and while the eldest treats himself to a weekend getaway, his younger siblings are left to their own devices, making them susceptible to untold dangers both internal and external.Yorkshire Premiere | Linda Lô | France | 2025 | 18 mins | French Two brothers, Reda and Abu Rashid, return to the island on which they were born and raised. Only this time, instead of trying to keep the darkness of their childhood buried in the past, they decide to confront it once and for all.UK Premiere | Tawfeek Barhom | France, Greece, Palestine | 2025 | 13 mins | Arabic Maria, a woman with an intellectual disability, longs to be a mother, yet her caretakers dismiss her dream as impossible. Denied recognition, she takes action, sparking urgent questions about autonomy, rights, and the power to decide over her “disabled” body.UK Premiere | Clàudia Cedó | Spain | 2024 | 25 mins | Catalan When Grandma Nai’s lively family visits her grave for the Qingming Festival, she discovers that her grandson Meng is being pressured to marry a woman. So, together with a neighbouring ghost, Grandma Nai sneaks away to take care of him for one more day.Yorkshire Premiere | Chheangkea | Cambodia, France, USA | 2025 | 19 mins | Khmer