Our Introducing… slot is a space for discovery and collaboration at Screening Days. With it, we aim to bring you films beyond the release calendar that you may not yet be aware of, but which may connect you to new audiences in your communities.
Bringing together award-winning UK animation directors from the past two years, this selection spans intimate animated dramas to bold mixed-media and experimental works, providing a platform for the UK’s richly talented animation industry. By showcasing the creative breadth of British animated storytelling, we hope to spark new opportunities for regional cinema exhibition and help bring more animated short films to the big screen. Scroll down to read more about each film in the programme.
Introducing… will be available to watch singly or together on our online platform at Autumn Screening Days, as well as screening in-person at Phoenix.
With many thanks to all the filmmakers
The films
Two Black Boys In Paradise
Dir: Baz Sells | UK | 2025 | 9 mins
Two Black boys go on a journey of self-acceptance. Their love for each other and their refusal to hide it lands them in a paradise free of shame and judgment.
Booking enquiries to Ben Jackson (cc: studio@one6th.com)
And Granny Would Dance
Dir: Maryam Mohajer | UK | 2024 | 10 mins
Six year old Marmar observes how the adult women in her life navigate their relationships with their loved ones and each other. She listens in on her grandmother’s friends laughing about their partners as they play an illicit game of cards. Based on the director’s memories of her childhood in Iran, And Granny Would Dance is a tale of love, grief and resilience across generations.
Booking enquiries to Animate Projects
Bunnyhood
Dir: Mansi Maheshwari | UK | 2024 | 9 mins
“Mum would never lie to me, would she?” Innocent Bobby discovers the answer to this question when she is surprised by a last minute trip to the hospital.
Booking enquiries to Mansi Maheshwari
Dédé (Ancestor)
Dir: Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume | UK | 2025 | 3 mins
By drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people and other tribal groups in the Ivory Coast, “Dédé” examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture. The film translates these forms, traditionally found in wooden and bronze sculptures, into animation through charcoal drawings and frame-by-frame relief engraving on copper.⠀
Booking enquiries to Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume
The Eating Of An Orange
Dir: May Kindred-Boothby | UK | 2025 | 7 mins
In a large manor house identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything will change for one woman when she gets given an orange by an unknown figure. She has never seen an orange. In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm of lichens, slugs and sensuous fluidity. But how can she balance this with the world she knows? She must make a choice: abandon her discovery, or step forwards into a new way of being.
Booking enquiries to May Kindred-Boothby
Hope is Lost
Dir: Eno Enefiok | UK | 2025 | 17 mins
Fleeing her past, a single mother arrives in Y2K-paranoid London with her infants, seeking refuge. A charismatic stranger offers help, but his sinister motives threaten her family, forcing a desperate fight for survival.
Booking enquiries to Adam Smith
Wander to Wonder
Dir: Nina Gantz | UK | 2023 | 14 mins
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
Booking enquiries to Emma Berrebi
Part of ICO Autumn Screening Days 2025
Also screening:
Animalia (in-person & online)
Arco (in-person & online)
DJ Ahmet (in-person & online)
Good Boy (in-person & online)