SAT SEPT 6 - SUN SEPT 7
2025
Sunday Sept 7
18:00 - 19:30 | Light on the Grasslands: Celebrating Local Talent | 46m plus Director Q&A
Films from Cornwall & Devon, all genres
Elevation Film Festival proudly champions homegrown talent. This programme highlights inspiring work from local creatives, bold, original, and rooted in our community. Come celebrate the voices shaping the future of film, right here at home.
Lymp
Harry Faint | 5min | United Kingdom
During PE at a Cornish Secondary School, the new kid tries his best to hide who he is to fit in... Harry is a film director, writer, and queer media researcher, with a keen interest in exploring and representing LGBTQIA+ identities and experiences in visual media.
Christmas, 1978
Lara Fullalove | 17min | United Kingdom
Set in 1970s rural Devon, 'Christmas, 1978' is a short film that delves into the nuanced relationship between a father and son within a heavily catholic working-class community in the week leading up to Christmas Day.
I want this
Micha Colombo | 4min | United Kingdom
An overwhelmed mother is lost within her daily life until a midnight moment in nature helps her to find clarity.
First Light
Graham Guy-Robinson | 7min | United Kingdom
First Light is a meditation on Peace, originally conceived as an architectural space orientating and connecting us to each other through the universal light of the sun. First Light calls for a dawn of a new era of peace.
glimmer
Janine Rook | 1min | United Kingdom
Poetic moving image about surface disruption as glimmering interaction between seen and unseen forces.
Happy Wrapping Film
Richard Ashrowan | 6m | United Kingdom
Through translocations in time, place and identity, an oscillation between hiding and revealing, being seen and not seen, time then and time now, as child and adult, as belonging, not belonging, textures, skin, light, Dartmoor, Japan, and, well, some happy wrapping.
Workshop Film
Notch Studio & Collaborators | United Kingdom
As part of Elevation's film making workshop, Notch and Patchwork Studios have worked with a group to create an analog, experimental, hand made and hand developed 16mm film in just 3 days. Screening as the last film shown at the festival!
Q&A with workshop participants, Tom Kirkman and Studio Notch.
