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.
Our second instalment, PEOPLE, PLACE, SPACE, encapsulates the terrains of belonging. From a Welsh valley to a waking volcano, live TV to Super 8 streets, these films travel the edges of home. Music rebuilds what history erodes; a soldier returns; a daughter listens at the threshold. Where we stand, what we carry, and the rooms we make for ourselves. Chosen, inherited and imagined.
Grab comp tickets while they last and join us for networking drinks from 3.00pm + special Q&A with the filmmakers after.
Please arrive 10 mins ahead of the screening to secure your space as tickets will be reallocated on the day for no-shows.
Screening Room: Embankment Entrance.
DÈYÈ DO BON DIÉ - DIR/PROD: ROY JOX-FREDSTIE // Conversations about home, danger and identity on the slopes of a reawakening volcano.
NO STRINGS - WRI/DIR: MOLLY LIPSON // Climate organiser Milly is preparing for her first live TV interview when her boyfriend drops a bombshell about why she's been chosen as the movement's spokesperson.
DIY (DONE IN SPITE OF YOU) - WRI/DIR: HANNAH OLIVER // 'DIY' is a tribute to the constant renaissance of Black British music culture.
HEART VALLEY - DIR/PROD/CAM/EDIT: CHRISTIAN CARGILL // Heart Valley follows a day in the life of Wilf Davies, a shepherd from the small village of Cellan, Wales. He has never left his valley, eats the same meal every day and works his farm alone, where his family of one hundred black-spotted sheep depend on him.
NO WAY BACK - DIR/PROD: TOM TURNER // British army veteran turned volunteer soldier, Fraser Good, has returned to the UK from the war in Ukraine. Civilian life, however, is unfamiliar. When the battlefield feels more like home, he faces a tough decision.
TOO LONG AGO, NOT FAR - ART: YAN WAI YIN // A personal journey unfolds on Super 8 film, recording a city’s life and memory, where every street, sound, and gesture becomes a notation of what endures.
SWEET LIME - WRI/DIR: FATEMA ABDOOLCARIM // After Amra and her mother pick up Hawra from the airport, she eavesdrops on the women's intimate conversation, while pretending to be asleep in the car. Catapulted into a space between childhood innocence and adult reality, Amra must choose whether to reveal a tragedy she has innocently discovered.
THE VISIT - WRI/DIR: EBELE TATE // When 18-year-old Nneka attempts to connect with her estranged mother after 10-years, the fantasy of who she is, is abruptly shattered by the harsh reality of living with mental illness and extreme poverty.
Official programming for the Somerset House Step Inside Think Outside Weekender 2025.