Short Film Showcases

Film Hub North's BFI Film Academy Micro Short Film Fund & Northern Exposure Showcase + Filmmaker Q&A | 90 mins

Since 2018, the British Film Institute's Film Hub North regional outpost has showcased the most exciting filmmaking talent from the North of England at venues and festivals across our region as part of their Northern Exposure and Micro Short Film Fund schemes, and will be heading to Scarborough this month for Scarborough Film Festival's Coast to Credits event, with a short film programme curated by a group of young, emerging film curators. Filmmakers based in the North of England can submit their shorts of any form, genre or narrative approach for consideration to be a part of the Northern Exposure scheme each year. 

The Micro Short Film Fund offers grants of £1000 to emerging filmmakers aged 16-25 who have successful applied to the scheme to make a short film with support from Film Hub North's Talent and Development team. The fund is part of the Region's BFI Film Academy programme which offers opportunities for ambitious 16-25 year olds, anywhere in the UK, to get to know more about film, gain filmmaking skills and how to forge a career in the screen industries. The programme selected for Coast to Credits are all films made by filmmakers based in Yorkshire and Humberside. Our Regional BFI Film Academies are currently based in Scarborough, Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford. 

Selected filmmakers from Yorkshire and the Humber will be showcasing and discussing their films with their communities at Coast to Credits and joining us post-screening in a Q&A hosted by Manon Euler, Head of Film Hub North. Tickets are free and available from the SJT Box Office in advance online HERE

The Rest is Silence – Dir. Finn Chadwick
Birder - Dir. Emmy Kay
Talk to Joe – Dir. Elliot Hearld

Into the Blue Again
Dir. Almir Datoo / 2025 / Drama / 12 mins
Pauli thinks he’s a Goldfish, but nobody believes him. When his sister Eva gives him an ultimatum, Pauli embarks on a quest to prove he is what he claims to be, and that he is not alone.

Char Bahnien
Dir. Zainab Nadeem / 2025 / Drama / 3 mins
Explores the emotional depth of sisterhood within a British Pakistani household through everyday moments - playing Ludo, sharing chai, making sweets - reflecting the unique roles each sister holds, rooted in love, care, and cultural identity.

Wanderland
Dir. Nicole Pott / 2022 / Drama / 15 mins
A young girl attempts to navigate the sea front on the search of her missing alcoholic mother over one night. BAFTA long-listed 2023.

Outlasting
Dir. Lewis Doherty / 2025 / Documentary / 4 mins
A celebration of the resilience of Jeffrey Dudgeon and Northern Ireland’s queer activists who bravely faced the courts and police while fighting to decriminalise homosexuality.

Pegs & Bacon
Dir. Sarah Nicola Mason / 2025 / Documentary  / 9 mins
A heartwarming short documentary about May, an 84-year-old shopkeeper who has been the heart and soul of her small farm shop for over fifty years. 

The film showcase will be followed by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers. All films are subtitled for accessibility. 

Leeds Young Film's INDIs on Tour Short Film Showcase + audience discussion

INDIs on Tour presents a selection of hand-picked award-winning short films created by young people from all around the UK which have featured in various editions of INDIs Film Festival for 16-19 year olds. The film programme will be followed by a guided audience discussion with Debbie Maturi and Eleanor Hodson from Leeds Young Film. Tickets are free and available from the SJT Box Office in advance HERE.

Gearstick Shifter (/Highway Drifter)
Dir. Alex Marshall / 1 min
What gear are you in? Are you shifting? Are you drifting? Is it even you? Maybe it's the gear-stick-man above.

CRUMBS
Dir. Bingqi Liu / 1 min
This film tells the story of a regretful incident.

The Bakedown
Dir. Francesca Vulato / 4 mins
Three contestants compete in the final round of their local baking competition. When things start to go sideways, they must do whatever it takes to become the winner.

Phantom Pains
Dir. Ah Young Shin / 1 min
A ghost tries to navigate where it came from.

I  PLAYED MY TROMBONE TODAY
Dir. Nicolas Lucas / 2 mins
A trombone players mind and reality start to merge whilst nervously awaiting to perform, activating parts of his brain which process memory, emotion, vision and movement differently.

Lamp Post
Dir. Jamie Hall / 2.30 mins
Two friends try making their own film. Everything is going smoothly, until one of them disappears behind a lamp post. 

The Last Straw
Dir. Cleo Parker / 3.45 mins
Cyril the Scarecrow is terrified of birds. How will he manage to scare away Bertie the crow who just won't leave him alone? 

Washed Up
Dir. Liam J.M. Wilson / 2.30 mins
A fish gets washed up onto the beach where a group of hungry seagulls await... 

Getting to the Moon
Dir. Jacob Nicholson / 3 mins
A whimsical animation that follows a young astronaut in 1969 as he tries to get to the moon by various means before meeting another astronaut with the same goal. 

The film showcase is 21 mins in total and there will be a 45 minute audience discussion to talk about the films screened guided by the Leeds Young Film team in the auditorium immediately after the showcase.