INEFF 2026: Screening Block 1
The Experimental Fiction Film Festival returns on 20 June for a one-night-only showcase of bold international cinema and experimental storytelling. Bringing together emerging and established filmmakers from across the world, the programme explores surreal narratives, speculative worlds, fractured realities, and visually adventurous filmmaking rarely seen on mainstream screens. Expect an evening of distinctive cinematic experiences, exciting conversations, and boundary-pushing fiction film from across the international underground scene.
The evening programme will be concluded by a screening of the best films submitted to this year’s
24/7 Filmmaking Competition. The audience will then get a chance to vote for the winner of the competition, as well as the best film of the festival.
Programme:
Suspension - Directed by Neil Kendricks
2mins 30s, United States.
An unseen figure is drawn toward a solitary searchlight
scanning the darkness for lost souls at sea.
Everything Is Right Before - Directed by Anna Antsalo, Jenni-Elina von Bagh
16mins, Finland.
An actor trapped in endless preparation spirals into
uncertainty as the moment of performance refuses to begin.
East of Asessippi - Directed by Bob Kotyk
7mins, Canada.
A fleeting encounter at a Toronto subway station sparks an
unexpected human connection.
Hurricane Season - Directed by Michelle Trujillo
6mins, United States.
Anxieties surrounding hurricanes erupt into a visceral search
for escape through hand-processed 16mm imagery.
Sound of Mind and Body - Directed by Gordon Monahan, Bill Coleman
15mins, Canada.
Brainwaves become sculptural sound and image in an
exploration of technology, emotion, and the body.
Mechanical Siren - Directed by Violeta Vieytes Vivares, Damian Sato
9mins 30s, Colombia.
Forced onto land, a displaced mermaid drifts through
fractured memories of beauty, violence, and survival.
Apus Apus (aka Five Meals and a Swift) - Directed by Alfie Elms
8mins, United Kingdom.
A series of meals quietly reveals shifting emotions and
human connections beneath everyday ritual.
Metropolis v1.1 - Directed by Sepehr Rezaei
17mins, Iran.
A fantasy tale inspired by Iran’s internet blackout,
following a lone figure navigating a world plunged into
online darkness, searching for a way back to connection.
Pharmakon - Directed by Kissel Hiram Bravo
7mins, Mexico.
AI, photogrammetry, and digital processes collide in a
haunting exploration of technology, myth, and control.
Beneath the Plant Moon - Directed by Petri Tapani Eskelinen
13mins, Finland.
Growing plants and moving mechanical sets unfold together
in a dreamlike meditation on time and transformation.
A Wonderful Thing To Do - Directed by Oulin Chen
8mins 30s, Austria.
As an asteroid approaches Earth, one filmmaker creates
a device to preserve the most precise memories possible
before the end.
A Failed Experiment - Directed by Josh Weissbach
6mins 30s, United States.
A group of filmmaker-scientists investigating sonic botany
drift into a strange study of plants, colour, and perception.
Blinkity Black - Directed by Ethann Néon
22mins, Belgium.
One blink, one lost image. Another one, another lost image.
And so on a thousand times a day.
Murmur - Directed by Irene Dionisio
6mins, Italy.
Through the flight of a seagull, a female figure explores the
fragile boundary between the physical and the divine.
Day Tickets and Single Tickets available!
