Tickets are on sale for our short film screenings and pre-production workshop
Starts at
22 Feb 2025 18:00
Location
Manchester & Sheffield
Join us at BFI Future Film Festival 2025, the UK's largest festival for young filmmakers.
We’ll host film screenings in Manchester and Sheffield with filmmaker Q&As and networking, along with a workshop led by BFI Insight Emerging Producer Cat Marshall.
BFI Future Film Festival runs 20 February to 6 March in cinemas UK-wide and online. Their film programme showcases 54 short films by young filmmakers, whilst events include panels with industry experts, masterclasses, discussions and interviews.
Tickets are now on sale for our events - book below!
BFI Future Film Festival presents: Northern Perspectives (Film Screening)
A showcase of fresh voices from the Future Film Festival programme highlighting the festival's Northern talent. This session will feature an extended Q&A from some of the filmmakers in the programme along with filmmaker networking in the bar area after the screening.
Interested in other Future Film Festival events? Check out our production workshop with Cat Marshall in Sheffield on 1 March.
This event is supported by the BFI Film Academy awarding National Lottery funding.
An ode to a postbox painted gold, and the mood that birthed it. The Golden Postbox is a wry, and possibly moving, micro-documentary investigating the changing attitudes of Sheffield's city centre towards a postbox. The film was shot in 1 day, on a 2012 camcorder, as a commission for the 2024 Filmmaker Challenge at Sheffield Doc Fest.
A Few More Minutes Please
Dir. Dylan Scott
A quiet nineteen-year-old struggles to order at a restaurant while grappling with the building pressure to choose a purpose in life when he can't even choose what to order.
ESC
Dir. Pamela Simoes Gomez, Olivia Timms
An office-worker rabbit lives every day trapped in his monotonous, repetitive work cycle. One day on a smoke break, he encounters a wild rabbit, and this event shifts his life forever, haunting him with visions, long after. Whilst trying to keep up with the constant demands and endless paperwork, he finds himself further and further in a state of stress and turmoil. As the visons occur more and more frequently and the workload never seems to get any less, his stress reaches a crux, forcing him to break from reality and be transported into a surreal, hallucinatory world, leading him to finally leave it all behind in a freeing, yet terrifying, pursuit of an unknown true purpose.
The Journey Home
Dir. Noah Lei Underwood
A creature considers its current bindings and finds them wanting. Winner of Film Hub North’s DIY Filmmaking Challenge.
Last Night in IRL
Dir. Ola Adediji
Insecure Anna is abandoned by her friend at a virtual reality house party. Giving in to the social pressure, Anna tries out the beauty filters. In between her selections, an unfiltered, mysterious man catches a glimpse of her natural face. Sparking a passionate fascination between the two.
Rebirth
Dir. Joel Claudio
After tragedy strikes a bustling London neighbourhood it is sent into disarray, along with our Hero who becomes lost to their pain. Soon after a cherub-like figure appears, embodying the change the community craves, and bringing winds of hope and growth as he bears witness to the revival of the fractured neighbourhood and leads our protagonist out of darkness.
Over There
Dir. Shuqi Li
The protagonist of the film is a jobless woman from an ordinary family who is forced by financial pressure. She had to sell her body and then transform her consciousness to the digital world. She owns a small house in the digital world and seems to be living a good life, but she realises that something is not right.
Big Deal
Dir. Isabella Thompson
A coming of age stoner comedy that follows two best friends, Casey and Sarah, on their quest to smoke weed before parting ways for university. In the spirit of making things up as they go along, the pair traverse the treacherous, middle class streets of North West London to rendezvous with a peculiar dealer. As the night spirals, they question not only their friendship and the anxieties of growing up, but also, how do you actually roll a joint?
Zizz
Dir. Manyu Zhao
A girl trying to fall asleep, but city noises, her too active brain and uncomfortable bed are stopping her to get into her dream.
Everything Looks Simple from a Distance
Dir. Conor Toner
It's 1969. The Americans have not yet landed on the moon and in the North of Ireland, political tensions are mounting. Noah has a plan to convince politicians, money men, religious figureheads and paramilitaries that a Northern Irish trip to the moon, might be the best route to peace.
Red Thumb
Dir. Kolya Kishinsky, Geneva Huffman
A gardener tries to control his environment as he discovers a pulsing red plant. As it physically grows so does their connection, becoming his prized blooming obsession.
Future Film Festival Presents: Preparing for your film shoot - Pre-Production with Cat Marshall
Are you preparing for an upcoming film shoot? Maybe you want to make a film but don’t know where to start? Or perhaps you just want to know more about the filmmaking process? Join us for an interactive session with film Producer Cat Marshall (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Mars) as part of Future Film Festival 2025. During this workshop we will take a look at an in-depth look at the role of the producer, the different roles when crewing up and the different areas you need to consider when in the pre-production stage of making a film. Join us after the event for a screening of short films programmed as part of the Future Film Festival 2025.
This event is supported by the BFI Film Academy awarding National Lottery funding.
Cat Marshall is a Yorkshire based producer working in film and high-end TV. She was Associate Producer on the feature film adaption of the hit west end musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021, Amazon Studios) directed by Jonathan Butterell, which was nominated for the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film in 2022.
She has most recently produced Mars for Mercury Studios, a short film from an original idea by multi-instrumentalist Yungblud, written by the award-winning Chris Bush and directed by Abel Rubinstein. Mars was longlisted for the BIFA Best film in 2022 and premiered at London Film Festival the same year, with it’s North American premiere at Tribeca 2023. Other producing credits include Liam Williams’ comedy short The Coaches (directed by Jonathan Schey) for Sky Arts in 2017; and documentary My Mad Spirit Woman written and directed by Jessi Gutch for Sheffield DocFest, 2022.
