Shaun Hughes

A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection showcases a range of cinematic voices—both emerging and established—exploring the exhilaration, vulnerability, and confusion of coming-of-age through stories that celebrate queer love, self-discovery, and the breaking of societal boundaries. Blending narrative shorts, experimental visuals, and music-driven pieces, the anthology offers an evocative, multifaceted portrait of innocence transformed.

An emotionally repressed and traumatised young man is challenged by disruptive outsiders to face up to his delusion, and risks losing the final bond to his dead mother.

Cariño is a short psychological thriller set in Spain. We follow the Rider as he travels through rural Spain on his motorcycle. An unexpected and tragic accident sends the Rider spinning into a world of darkness. Uncovering themes of loss, abandonment, love and pain, Cariño explores the darker side of human nature and delves into the contamination of destructive psychology.

A mysterious paranoid man's evening turns into a nightmare when he is targeted by a pair of pedophile-hunting vigilantes.

Canada, 1840's. A small cottage sits alone in the mountains, dwarfed by the surrounding landscape. It's inhabitants, a humble married couple who have been driven from their home country of Scotland during the Highland Clearances, have fallen on desperate times. Driven to the edge and in isolation, Henry, a man with an unshakable devotion to his wife and God, struggles to maintain routine in the face of sheer desperation, until an unexpected arrival threatens to shatter his world completely. No More Shall We Part examines the lengths that we will go to in order to preserve the love of another in the face of adversity, weaving a beautiful, brooding tale of one man's struggle against the wilderness and his own psyche.

A headstrong homeless man must take responsibility for his own actions after his beloved dog, and only companion, is seriously injured.