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Chronic Youth Film Festival: Shorts Programme: Not Here, But Everywhere + Q&A (12A*)

Against All Odds

Not Here, But Everywhere

A collection of shorts exploring how absence lingers through rest, censorship, loss, miscommunication, and erasure–followed by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers.

What is suppressed will always find its way to the surface. Through experimental and narrative films, this programme challenges dominant perspectives through acts of defiance. Surreal yet evocative, these works redirect the gaze, resist controlling forces, and affirm that the lost are never completely gone.

All films will include descriptive subtitles and the Q&A will be live captioned. A short introduction before the film will be displayed as text on screen.

Content warning: Violence. If you’d like a more nuanced description of what to expect, please get in touch with the programmers by emailing [email protected].

£10.40

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Under 18s £6

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Programme

Receiver 

2019 Ireland dir Jenny Brady 14 mins

An assemblage of deaf history that considers how we speak and listen, revealing communication to be a violent and fragile operation.

 

The Ban

2024 Ireland/UK dir Roisin Agnew 25 mins

A blip in Thatcher’s censorship era saw actors hired to dub the voices of IRA members for broadcast media during the conflict in Northern Ireland. Through unseen archival footage and present-day interviews with key figures like Gerry Adams and Stephen Rea, revisit the people’s power against the British government’s use of censorship to justify ‘terrorism’. 

 

Creekmouth

2024 UK dir Yasmine Djédjé-Fisher-Azoumé 4 mins

The 1953 North Sea flood, is remembered, retold, and reanimated. The everyday stories of those who were displaced from Creekmouth village come to life in this beautiful illustration of oral histories.

 

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

2024 Scotland dir Theo Panagopoulos 17 mins

Through early 1930s archival footage, Scottish missionaries unknowingly captured the enduring spirit of Palestine. Panagopoulos weaves these coloured images into a tender meditation, where ‘Flowers of the Holy Land’ stand as silent witnesses to a people's unbroken connection to their soil. Here, beauty and resistance intertwine in a landscape both occupied and beloved.

 

Deadlock

2025 Algeria/France dir Lucien Beucher and Mahdi Boucif 9 mins

Childhood friends Sifou and Mahrez are left with the shadows of their brothers who fled from Algiers to Europe. The hazy uncertainty of what lies ahead leaves them wondering: Can they escape the cycle or are they doomed to follow the same deadlock? 

 

Resistance Meditation 

2024 Canada dir Sara Wylie 4 mins

Bending space and temporality, Sara Wylie envisions a world where time is reimagined outside of capitalism’s agenda of productivity and non-disabled norms. A pulsing and evocative meditation on agency found through stillness and crip time.

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