Sunday 12 October 2025 – 13:15
97 mins
Certificate: DFF 15
Venue: Denbies Wine Estate Visitor Centre
Here are the films selected for the Adult Short Films category at the 10th Dorking Film Festival in 2025.
A Swiped Illusion
Director: Tegan Grace Muggeridge. UK, 2025, 2 mins.
Online, you see what you want. In real life, you see the truth. Identity theft carries hidden dangers for group of young adolescents in the 21st Century.
Absence
Director: Jessica O’Gorman. UK, 2025, 3 mins.
In a future police state where human art is banned a young girl investigates a hint of what once was on the edge of the city.
Ash Sunday
Director: James Alexander Allen. UK, 2024, 15 mins.
As a straight laced middle class family sit down to a Sunday dinner to celebrate the life of their late matriarch, they suffer vivid hallucinations of a twisted past after accidentally scattering her ashes on the roast chicken.
For King and Country
Director: Andrew Bill. UK, 2025, 15 mins.
A young aristocrat grapples with familial expectations and personal desires during the Napoleonic Wars. Entrusted with a crucial military command, he faces a dilemma between following his heart or fulfilling his duty.
The Isle of Grit and Grain
Director: Annie Catford. UK, 2025, 5 mins.
Video art film presenting a succession of images from a deindustrialised coastline.
Lizzie
Director: Paul Macauley. UK, 2024, 5 mins.
Lizzie is determined to make the most of her first summer by the sea. Will Brighton live up to her hopes, or is she just stuck in the past?
Lovebirds
Director: Christian Azzola. UK, 2025, 6 mins.
In a screen-obsessed world, Clive rediscovers a passion and makes an unexpected connection when he simply looks up from his phone.
Midnight At Mickey’s
Director: Vin Wolff. UK, 2024, 5 mins.
Two tough guys face off in a seedy late-night diner.
Nibbling of the Night
Director: Gabi Bania. UK, 2024, 10 mins.
A stale middle-aged marriage takes a change for the weird when a pair of vampires pay a visit one night.
Trail
Director: Alice Underwood & Shaun Dillon. UK, 2024, 4 mins.
Two dancers navigate a trail and find tender connections in this short dance film that was shot in Surrey.
Voiceless
Director: Thomas Schubert. UK, 2025, 20 mins.
When a young man with a stammer is reluctantly pulled into his friends’ writing and performance group he confronts his fear of public speaking. Yet he also discovers the power of his own voice in the most unexpected way.
We Need To Talk
Director: Andrea M Catinella. UK, 2025, 7 mins.
Married couple Tom and Claire sit in yet another session with a counsellor. But this one is going to be different…
Image from Trail showing in Adult Films
