The past washes ashore for a former child star who must contend with a horrific blitz of murder, magic and monkeys.

A mute photographer infiltrates a London gang to take revenge after his girlfriend is disfigured in an acid attack.

Martha (34) picks up her Dad, Paul (64) to drive to Brighton upon hearing Paul's mother, Martha's Nanna (94) has taken a turn for the worse in her care home. However, the drive from London unravels more than Martha expected as she is forced to confront her own demons.

Tessa and Isabelle, two friends, are caught in a zombie outbreak while travelling through the Scottish Highlands. As they fight to survive, they face tough choices about how far they’re willing to go, form alliances, and realise the infected aren’t the only thing they need to fear. 

In a world where morality ceases to exist, they discover the raw power of female rage and confront what it means to be a woman in a world that’s falling apart.

After her mother’s accidental overdose, Lizzie is forced to reconnect with her estranged father, Joe, after ten years apart. But as a defiant and reckless teenager, she soon discovers she has inherited her mother’s debt to a ruthless local gangster—who now expects her to repay it.

***Special Commendations Recipient***

Kate, a 25 year old woman from London receives the devastating diagnosis of terminal cancer. Determined to organise her own funeral, Kate turns to her best friend Ella to help her plan it all. Funny memories, tears and laughter will show this journey to an inevitable end.

***Winner of Best Screenplay Award***

The story is about a self procliamed 'hero', Jonah Pechman, who wants recognition from society for all the good things he has done. He has helped charities and has worked very hard at work but no one thanks him for it, leading him to commit an extreme crime to get attention, but not how he intentionally wanted.

Charles' small town loner life in Britain is torn apart when he is summoned by his estranged, recently deceased father's security detail to travel to his laboratories in Texas. He must struggle to understand his father's legacy and seek the truth about his own identity.

When Jack Corral falls in love with Amy Lee, life becomes more complicated as his flatmates turn against him, his deepest secret threatens to be revealed and a spy conspiracy forces him to make choices that will determine his survival and sanity as social unrest displaces his world of reality.

25-year-old Jillian Summers starts her quarter-life crisis after her roommate moves out, her job is put at risk and her aspirations fade.

***Special Commendations Recipient***

Nathan, a public defence lawyer, takes on a care system defendant, Tom, in the torture-murder case of his ex-foster parents. Though Tom has confessed and an apparent no-hoper, Nathan persists with unconventional methods to advocate for his young client.

***Special Commendations Recipient***

Jimmy Kilmore, a former entertainer on a kids’ TV show in the 90s, has spent years on the fringes of society. A series of setbacks and betrayals triggers the emergence of his old persona, Mr Nobbly, this time with a homicidal thirst for vengeance.

"How many times can you die before you lose yourself? A former assassin, suffering from dementia, undergoes an experimental treatment that turns her into an unstoppable force—one who can't stay dead. But as she pieces together her fractured memories, she must face the enemies of her past and a truth that could shatter her reality."

When Danny Beckman’s cellmate vanishes from their locked cell, and everyone around him says he was never there, Danny’s past and present, memories and imaginings, allegiances and grudges all collide as he fights to solve the ultimate locked room mystery.

Meticulously planned by an unknown organiser, a group of people have come together for a final glamorous dinner party before taking their own lives. Hiding among the guests this evening is a journalist, trying to write an article about this odd business model.

An antiquarian book collector has a frightening experience in a maze like second hand book shop when he learns about the story of Wild Edric.

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Wild Edric was a Saxon Lord who owned much of Shropshire. One whilst hunting he came across seven beautiful maidens dancing in a clearing in the woods. He abducted one of them who turned out to be the queen of the fairy folk Godda. She agreed to marry him and take on human form as long as he never reproached her. “You must never reproach me with who I am, where you found me or with my sisters from whom you stole me”. One day she is late with his breakfast. He reproaches her and she disappears for ever leaving him bereft.

When a grieving teenage boy, sent to live with the father he's never met, is haunted by memories and wrestling with his identity, it takes the magic of pebbles on water and the transformative power of kind friends to help him accept his past and welcome his future.

***Special Commendations Recipient***

At the request of her elderly, famous singer husband, a vain wife drives him to a remote nursing home, only to learn hours later of his mysterious death. Faced with her precious daughter’s accusation of murder, she begins to suspect a meticulously orchestrated plot behind it all.

A prominent novelist ponders on his formative years, when he was an aspiring writer wooed by a flamboyant playwright whose unconventional seduction methods defied a mother-in-law also infatuated by a young man who challenges her traditional values.

Gav, a low-level drug dealer and wannabe poet is plagued by dreams of Gemma, his ex-girlfriend from 10 years ago. After a chance encounter in a supermarket car park Gav decides to kidnap her. He takes her to his drug hideout and handcuffs her to a radiator then questions her about their past relationship. But the unstable Gav is not prepared to hear the truth and Gemma has to choose her words very carefully...