Our short film programme, featuring shorts from filmmakers from around the world, offers something for everyone!

Our short film programme is packed with inspiring stories for young audiences! Follow a brave snail conquering its fears, a determined penguin with big dreams of becoming a postman, and so much more in this collection of short films. 

This programme of short films is being held over a number of venues throughout Leeds! 

A new generation of Railway Children embarks on a heartwarming adventure, helping a young soldier in need and discovering the true meaning of bravery, friendship, and home.

The Railway Children Return is a sequel set during World War II, where three children, Lily, Pattie, and Ted, are evacuated from the bombing-stricken city of Manchester to the rural Yorkshire village of Oakworth, where they are welcomed by Bobbie Waterbury and her family - daughter Annie and grandson Thomas.

Recommended age 8+

Join us to celebrate 70 years of this heartwarming romantic adventure, a timeless re-telling of the 1955 animated classic.

A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a big red turtle, which changes his life.

A man gets shipwrecked off the coast of a deserted island, home to countless turtles, crabs and birds. Later, he encounters a red turtle, which leaves an impact on his life.

Recommended age 8+

Discovering who you are is a journey that lasts a lifetime.

Eleven-year-old Margaret moves to a new town and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia, who's coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of her life. Questions of identity, one's place in the world, and what brings meaning to life soon brings them closer together than ever before.

Age rating: PG

Join Maki, a brave Sudanese boy, on an epic adventure to protect his best friend Zarafa, an orphaned giraffe, as they journey across land, sea, and sky to Paris—where history and friendship collide

Get into the chocolate eating spirit with this iconic and scrumdidilyumptious version of Roald Dahl's much loved classic, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.

A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970) provides an unflinching insight into the conditions that gave birth to the blues in America, charting the evolving sound of the blues as musicians moved from rural areas into the cities. As both director and editor Jeremy deftly combines the field recordings and still photographs of the British blues historian Paul Oliver (1927 – 2017) gathered on a trip through the United States in 1960.