SCFF 8th EDITION

Event Overview

SCFF 8th Edition is an international short film festival celebrating bold voices and fresh perspectives from around the world. This year’s program screens live in London and brings together filmmakers, cinephiles, and the SCFF community for a night of new discoveries. Can’t make it to London? We’ll publish the entire program on YouTube for 24 hours the day after the live screening, so you can still catch the event online.

Official Shortlist

Below are the seven selected works for the live screening.

1. 
   Holy Heavêness Director: Farnoosh Abedi, Negah Khezre Fardyardad, Mohammad Ghaffari Runtime: 10:00 · Country: Iran · Genre: Animation

   The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones… There are wounds in life that eat away at you like leprosy… The weight of the death of loved ones sometimes becomes so overwhelming that to get rid of this weight another birth is inevitable.

2. 
   Noces D'eau Director: Aurielle Jioya Runtime: 20:00 · Country: Benin, Canada, France · Genre: Short Film

   Kémi is a Frenchman of Beninese origin living in Paris. One day, while going through his grandfather's belongings, he finds a photo of a house in Benin, on the banks of a lagoon. This house, which once belonged to his family, has now become a vacation home. Having just arrived in Cotonou, Kemi decides to book the house for a weekend with friends, in the hope of learning more about his family and its origins. His grandfather Sourou, an austere and reserved old man, had severed all ties with Benin when he moved to France. In the company of his friend Thomas, his wife Afiavi and the beautiful Mériga, who has never left him indifferent, Kemi meets a mysterious young woman whom he saves in extremis from drowning in the lagoon. Her name is Angèle, and she tells him she knows his grandfather Sourou...

3. 
   Akababuru: Expression of astonishment Director: Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí Runtime: 13:33 · Country: Colombia · Genre: Short Film

   Kari, an indigenous girl who is afraid to laugh, meets Kera, who shares with her the myth of Kiraparamia, a woman punished by the gods for laughing at her husband. Kera reinterprets this and tells her that laughing set her free. Inspired, Kari uses laughter to confront those who bother her.

4. 
   47:10':00" Director: Serna Amini Runtime: 14:32 · Country: Iran · Genre: Short Film

   After his wife’s accident, a man faces a horrifying truth at the hospital: her heart has failed, and an urgent transplant is the only way to save her. But the overwhelming cost forces him to consider an unthinkable offer — selling his only child to a childless couple in exchange for the money needed to buy the heart. An offer that could save his wife’s life, but take everything else from him. Now, he has only 47 hours and 10 minutes to decide…

5. 
   TT Director: Charles Leo Panadan Runtime: 10:37 · Country: India · Genre: Experimental Film Student

   A man suffering from memory loss encounters a furious stranger who shares his face — their meeting unfolding at the edge of a cliff. With no understanding of the stranger’s rage, only driven by curiosity, he follows this mysterious double through surreal landscapes. Along the way, encounters with others in this unusual village begin to stir fragments of memory — revealing a forgotten bond that may hold the key to who he truly is, and what connects them.

6. 
   Internal Embers Director: Alec Tufenkjian Runtime: 4:57 · Country: United States · Genre: Animation Student

   Escaping the rising tensions in his home, a young Lebanese man has lucid visions and interactions of his deepest anxieties through the smoke of a hookah.

7. 
   Out of the Peat Director: Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason Runtime: 12:28 · Country: United Kingdom · Genre: Short Film Student

   Flesh as film, and film as flesh... An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection.

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