Short Fusion: Roots

Synopsis

105 mins
Intimate dramas explore the complex familial bonds, environments, and memories that keep us rooted.

ASTRONAUTA
ITALY & GUATEMALA 2025 16 MINS
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
DIRECTOR Giorgio Giampà

In the Guatemalan jungle, a lumberjack grapples with his chauvinistic environment when his daughter dreams of following in his footsteps.

CASA CHICA
MEXICO 2025 25 MINS
UK PREMIERE
DIRECTOR Lau Charles

Witnessed through their different perspectives, siblings Valentina and Quique face a difficult truth about their father’s double life.

AN EXCESS BAGGAGE
FRANCE 2024 16 MINS
UK PREMIERE
DIRECTOR Myriam Garcia Marienstras

Sophie masks her sadness in motherly love, but when her daughter Lila leaves for camp, her anxieties begin to unravel.

PEOPLE & THINGS
POLAND 2024 20 MINS
DIRECTOR Damian Kosowski

A woman must confront the past when asked to identify her missing husband’s body at a recently discovered mass grave.

WONDERWALL
UK 2025 28 MINS
UK PREMIERE
DIRECTOR Róisín Burns

Amidst Liverpool’s dockers’ strike of 1995, little Siobhan has one concern: will Oasis beat Blur in the Battle of Britpop?