For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Celebrating 25 years of Somerset House, this programme of shorts honours the connections, creativity, and resilience that shape our environments, our sense of home, and the worlds we build.

Celebrating 25 years of Somerset House, this programme of shorts honours the connections, creativity, and resilience that define community.

Teenage Alike (Adepero Oduye) lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood with her parents (Charles Parnell, Kim Wayans) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse). A lesbian, Alike quietly embraces her identity and is looking for her first lover, but she wonders how much she can truly confide in her family, especially with her parents' marriage already strained. When Alike's mother presses her to befriend a colleague's daughter (Aasha Davis), Alike finds the gal to be a pleasant companion.

We return with a luminous collection of short films. Tender, defiant, and alive with truth. As Pride 2025 unfolds, we honour queer voices across continents, celebrating the joy, complexity, and beauty of stories that refuse to be silenced.

Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea. Black sea. Black coal. Burnt coal. Wet coal. Dusty coal. When Nam decides to leave the country via an agent who smuggles people in shipping containers, it causes a rift between his love for Viet and the desires for his own future.

Venus Xtravaganza emerged as a global trans icon after being featured as a glamorous “ball walker” in the groundbreaking 1991 documentary Paris Is Burning. Venus was murdered before that film’s release, and now, decades later, I’M YOUR VENUS picks up a trail gone cold as her two families—biological and ballroom—come together to honour her legacy, seek answers about her killing, and in the process find unexpected common ground.

In response to Black History Month, we're igniting change with a powerful short film series that challenges the status quo and amplifies the bold, underrepresented voices of Black-British filmmaking talent, shining a light on the diverse expressions of the African diaspora.

G.O.A.T Film Club is excited to present THE POWER OF SOUND: A MASTERCLASS, the first instalment from a series of interactive virtual craft sessions, aiming to support and inspire emerging and underrepresented talent.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are hosting a short film series exploring the infinite expressions of womenhood.

When night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace; to solve the case, detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves.

An exploration of the myriad expressions of the Black-British experience, subverting the status quote and spotlighting underrepresented talent from the African Diaspora.

Yas (Vivian Oparah) and Dom (David Jonsson), two twenty-somethings both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London - helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.

Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.