The Experimental Fiction Film Festival showcases the best and most exciting independent experimental fiction films from around the world. The event is dedicated to exploring the creative possibilities and boundaries of experimental fiction filmmaking, and promoting the development of new modes of storytelling and audio-visual communication. The event programming features a diverse selection of short films that embody the experimental fiction filmmaking ethos. The films are chosen for their deviation from traditional narrative and stylistic norms and their emphasis on creative exploration and experimentation. 

The audience will have a chance to vote for the best 2025 Experimental Fiction Film and the winner of the 24/7 Filmmaking competition.

London Quick City

6m45s, United Kingdom, Directed by Mark G Lonsdale

A lone figure, dressed like an office worker, runs through a deserted capital city. This experimental short, filmed on Super 8 in the 1990s, explores both a lost London and the idea of our relentless motion, daily disengagement and sense of dislocation.

Multiple Stories

19m44s, Russian Federation, Directed by Ershova Alexandra

This film is about love and people’s misunderstanding of each other. This project is based on a novelistic structure: each of the novels outlines a small segment of life in which a person is looking for understanding, in both the literal and figurative senses of the word.

Missing Meaning

8m40s, Portugal, Directed by Vasco Diogo

This film is entirely created using a mobile phone and various applications, most of which are AI-driven. It is a journey through the fears, nightmares, heroes and wonders of an infant’s openness to the world.

Pluto in Aquarius

19m18s, Belgium, Directed by Hippolyte Laveix

She loves to dance, eat and frolic. She also observes: People, sky, nature ... Something has begun.

Fainter Echoes

6m29s, United States, Directed by Brady Lewis

The film is made entirely from 16mm and Super-8 film, shot over a 45-year span, on nine different film stocks, and built around excerpts of audio of my grandfather in 1977. The film deals in dreams, impressions and fleeting memories, trying to depict a person, a place and a relationship.

Gargantua

24m10s, United Kingdom, Directed by Stephen Crowe

This is an animated film about a wild book from renaissance France. The original novel is a chaotic feast of booze, bodies and brains – once described by Voltaire as “the worst filth ever vomited up by a drunken monk.” The story (?) centres around two giants who devour armies and gobble knowledge as they explore the known and unknown world.

The Tensile Strength of Air

16m2s, United States, Directed by Shayna Connelly

After witnessing a suicide in public, Lauren re-evaluates herself in relationship to friends, family and career. Fantasy and reality blend as she assesses her identity and reasserts herself differently in the world.

Sulfur

14m44s, Portugal, Directed by Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes

I am the dead. I am the living.

Screening of the best 2025 24/7 Filmmaking Competition films

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