International Documentary Short Film Competition 2

The Revolution Against Death

Joshua Oppenheimer continues to explore the interplay of fear and desire, belief and delusion, individual and system, as a thousand elderly Americans gather at a ‘life-extension’ conference in a last-ditch bid to outrun a fate they may well already have met. Yorkshire Premiere | Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer | Denmark | 2026 | 23 mins | English

The Dark Knot at the Center

In the years before Roe v. Wade, women travelled across the US to Mexican border towns in search of underground abortion care. Their intimate letters echo across present-day landscapes, retracing clandestine journeys that resonate with unsettling urgency today. UK Premiere | Inês Pedrosa e Melo | Portugal | 2026 | 17 mins | English

Intersecting Memory

A box of videotapes unseen for 20 years takes filmmaker Shayma’ Awawdeh back to her childhood in Hebron during the Second Intifada. Memories of school and birthdays collide with the everyday violence of growing up under occupation. Yorkshire Premiere | Shayma’ Awawdeh | France, Occupied Palestinian Territory | 2025 | 20 mins | Arabic

A Woman’s Place Is Everywhere

After their mother dies, twin sisters Emilija and Ona face eviction from the Williamsburg loft they’ve always called home. Filled with art and memories, their family home becomes a living archive of motherhood, sisterhood, and a disappearing New York. Yorkshire Premiere | Fanny Texier | USA | 2026 | 22 mins | English

Nothing Happens After Your Absence

A filmmaker returns to his hometown to screen a film for the community, but finds himself thwarted by bureaucracy, local custom and war, prompting a minimalist, tragicomic meditation on the power - but also the limits - of cinema as a tool of resistance. UK Premiere | Ibrahim Omar | Sudan | 2026 | 15 mins | Arabic

Content Guidance: Contains images of violence, injury and death, and mature themes including war, abortion, grief and trauma.