Fringe Flicks Season 4 Selected Films
Short films with bite, wit and weirdness
39 short films selected for our 2026 season of underground, inventive and memorable short cinema in Liverpool.
Fringe Flicks is PVTV’s quarterly underground short film night at DoES Liverpool, showcasing strange, bold and distinctive short cinema from Liverpool, the UK and beyond.
Season 4 events:
Friday 15 May 2026
Friday 25 September 2026 (TBC)
Friday 27 November 2026 (TBC)
All events are Pay What You Can.
Selected Films
11:11
US
Written, directed & produced by: Sophia Gordon
A study on synchronicities and phenomena of high strangeness, 11:11 examines the connections between initiation, ritual, and the universal sequences surrounding us.
Website: http://sophiagordonart.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sophiagordonart
Agathe Must Go
France
Directed by: Dylan Hall, Maya Hatar
Agathe, aged 90, lives as a recluse in a snow-covered cabin. When her daughter visits to bring her into town, the encounter takes a darker and stranger turn.
Allowed Third Parties
US
Written & Directed by: Robert M Steinberg
Produced by: Aaron Klopfner
A short absurdist sci-fi comedy about digital footprints, algorithms, and the promise of living forever through the systems that outlast us.
Angry Cars
UK
Directed by: Shaun Clark
Produced by: Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas
In the brutal chaos of life on the roads, cars clash, flirt and fume in this savage reflection of human impatience and absurdity.
Website: https://flickermill.com/portfolio/angry-cars/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shaundclark/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1097022216
Best friend
Spain
Written, directed & produced by: Lorenzo Damián García
Itziar prepares a dinner to get the truth out of her boyfriend, Borja. When he finally confesses what is really inside him, honesty proves harder to live with than either of them expected.
Bits and Bobs
UK
Produced by: Lucy Ellis
Exploring the interaction of motion and sound, Bits and Bobs plays with the forms and movements of found materials through stop motion and shifts in perception.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucyellisart/
Collection Title : Turtle
Iran
Directed by: Ehsan Majouni
Produced by: Sepideh Norouzi
A woman is determined to bring her beloved back to life after he vanished into the waters in search of a place to call his own. She waits for his impossible return, washed back to her by the tides.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ehsan_majouni
Community Guidelines
Norway
Written, directed & produced by: Maren Dagny Juell
Set in a dystopian future shaped by social media’s community guidelines, this sci-fi talk-show drama follows a former content moderator whose surreal experiences begin to blur the line between censorship, empathy and artificial consciousness.
Community Lives - OORYA
Liverpool
Directed by: Laura Spark
A claymation music video inspired by 1980s animated videos and children’s TV, made for OORYA’s track Community Lives, a call to build and expand communities that love, resist and grow together.
Esli Mozhno - So Many Fools Around
Uzbekistan
Written, directed & produced by: Anton Evdokimov
A music video combining live action with stop motion animation that asks why there are so many fools around.
Evil Sommelier
US
Written & Directed by: Jenna Bolena
What happens when the person serving you wine in the restaurant is evil?
Fruit and Nutter
Merseyside
Written, directed & produced by: Vanessa Stantan
A comedy about Bernard Nutter, a man who falls in love with a pineapple, only for his overbearing mother to see the fruit as a rival and set out to destroy it.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/5Af90r7ILwA
Goblin Quest Ep. 1: Jonah The Muscular
US
Directed by: Yann Carrillo, KC Ho
Written by: Yann Carrillo, Jules Pincus
The independently animated pilot for a brand-new web series in which a self-assured but weak goblin hero embarks on a mysterious quest through a world of absurd residents and epic nonsense.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GoblinQuestShow
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goblinquestshow
Human Layers
Netherlands
Directed by: Fatemeh Zare
An animated look at how people act differently in different contexts, following a couple at work, together, and alone, where they can finally express themselves beyond social pressures and norms.
I’m Here to Return
Spain
Written, directed & produced by: José Carlos Martín Nieto
A surreal parody about trying to make work inside an AI ecosystem. Not-so-dystopian, not-so-serious, and wilfully disgusting.
Idyll
Estonia
Written, directed & produced by: Rao Heidmets
A surreal stop motion warning that war must be confronted long before it reaches your doorstep, because once it arrives, hiding behind the curtains will not help.
Immolation
India
Directed & Produced by: Debjit Bagchi
A micro experimental short that questions familiar stories about light, attention and attraction in a brief, abstract burst.
Joie de Vivre
UK
Directed & Produced by: Jamie Harry Scrutton
Performing as alter ego Hattie Go Lucky, Jamie Harry Scrutton offers a ride into a strange and playful burlesque world through dancing hands and lofi performance.
just two poonds a month
Merseyside
By: Jack Hardy
A short satire on charity chuggers.
Key
US
Written, directed & produced by: Anne Ciecko
Also produced by: Ahimsa Rahul Roy
A stop motion exploration of iconography and chromatics.
Loop
Netherlands
Written, directed & produced by: Richard Wareham / Grüntyers
Unfortunately for Henk, he finds himself stuck in an infinite loop on a damp Wednesday afternoon.
Website: http://gruntyer.com
Mr Universe I
Taiwan
Produced by: Lin Yen-Ju
A surreal, low-fi sci-fi piece exploring alien imagery, television, media simulation and the impurities that emerge when cultural fantasies are reproduced and fed back to us.
Website: http://linyenju.com/mr_universe/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linyenju.art
Parakeets
Spain
Directed & produced by: Alex Rey
Hayao Miyazaki has announced his retirement, but the muses of inspiration have other plans for him.
Website: https://www.mms-distribuciondecortometrajes.es/catalogo/periquitos.asp
Perversion
Mexico / France
Directed & produced by: Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Fabre
Written by: Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Fabre, Liam Colomer
Strange creatures roam the night in search of passion and love, only to encounter the dark side of the city and the price that comes with desire.
Scarlett
US
Directed by: Christie Blizard
Robotic imagery takes on human guise.
Website: http://www.christieblizard.com
Post Life (Death)
Germany
Written & directed by: Louis Fraser
Seeking refuge in a bathroom at a house party, Ginger is confronted by a resident creature whose slippery words push him towards breaking point.
Sound in Vision
Merseyside
Produced by: Andrew Jones
An ethereal homage to birds, nature, cups of tea, music, skateboarding, bike rides and foxes, filmed on the Wirral.
Some things are a sign, but some aren’t
Slovenia
Written and directed by: Danaja Kurnik
In the middle of a conversation about psychoanalysis, a girl stumbles upon a sign.
The Man Cave
Portugal
Written and directed by: Sarah Legow
A childhood memory re-enacted through public photos, staged scenes and stop motion animation, The Man Cave is a brief and exuberantly strange journey through two girls’ shared vision of manhood.
The Apteryx Clan and the great falafel ball heist
Netherlands
Written, directed & produced by: Richard Wareham / Grüntyers
A surreal music video following kiwi mobsters as they escape gaol, take in the sights of New Zealand, and attempt to steal the Prime Minister’s falafel balls from parliament.
Website: http://gruntyers.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gruntyers/
The Quackening
Wales
Written and directed by: James Button
Produced by: James Button, Paul Marke
A grumpy Welshman reluctantly visits his grandmother, only to discover she has got herself cursed. Now he must save her, and possibly the world, from a demon duck before midnight.
Website: http://www.splonkcomedy.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesbuttonfilms
Trailer: https://youtu.be/r02FXGc_X7c
The Other
Iran
Directed by: Negah Sohrabi
Produced by: Abolfazel Amir
Farhad, a young historian, is hired to organise a dead man’s diaries. As he falls in love with the old widow’s niece, he begins to realise he may be living a life that is not entirely his own.
Westernmaquia
Spain
Written, directed & produced by: Ángel Rodríguez Fernández
On the dusty main street of a Western town, a duel to the death turns into something stranger when a spectator transforms the violence into a dark work of art.
Weird Dream
US
Written, directed and produced by: Tucker Wooley
When you have one of those weird dreams.
Website: http://tuckerwooley.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/tucker13x
Who Kidnaps Who?
US
Written, directed & produced by: Tyler Baum
A strange music video that kidnaps your ears and eyes away to an undisclosed location.
What Now?
Merseyside
Directed by: Kieran Shayle
Written by: Aimee Elizabeth, Alfie Ross
Produced by: Kieran Shayle, Alfie Ross
When two lazy cleaners accidentally break a beloved taxidermy cat, they are forced onto a dangerous journey to replace it.
Website: https://www.kieranshayle.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kieran_shayle/
Wuthering Hearts
Word of the Day: Anchor
Leeds
Written and directed by: Laura Jayne Hodkin
Produced by: Sierra Martin-Persi, Michelle Chu, Domitille Adebimpe-Collardey
On the windswept Yorkshire moors, emo teen Helena embarks on a turbulent journey of love.
US
Directed by: Josh Helaughstra
Produced by: Brooklyn Demme
A surprising expansion of the Word of the Day universe in which Ms. Goat and Brian move closer to the light.
You Don’t Mess With Demons
Liverpool
Written, directed and produced by: Alice Hopwood
Three friends with an interest in the occult experiment with a Ouija board and discover they have summoned more than they bargained for.
Website: http://alleycatstudio.co.uk
Instagram: https://instagram.com/alleycatstudiouk
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