Categorie: Short Doc 2026

Sean Ryan of Leap Castle, insisted that he doesn’t fabricate when telling the story of what he and his wife see and hear at their home. Where most would refer to these apparitions as ghosts, Sean prefers to call them spirits. He describes the regular visions as people with a haze around them. Sometimes there is a lot of activity; other times less so. The sounds they hear are footsteps, doors opening and closing and crowds talking. However, on occasions that he has gone in the direction of the noise, nothing is apparent there, with the location of the spirits always out of reach. There is spirit, though, a lady, who touches off people. A lot of guests to the castle have also felt her presence. The remarkable thing Sean told us was that this experience never seems to alarm his guests, rather they always remain very calm, something that surprises them! Sean doesn’t regard his home as haunted and, as far as he is concerned, the spirits he sees and hears have as much right to live there as he does. Sean is happy to continue to live alongside them as he has done since 1994, when restoration on the castle began.

The return home of an Italian soldier 80 years after his death in a German prison camp in Poland. Found together with 59 other Italian prisoners by a group of researchers and returned to his family, who remember him and relive his life through memories and a emotional burial ceremony.

In Search of Immortality is a deeply personal cinematic journey into the heart of the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest spiritual gathering. Through the eyes of the filmmaker, we witness not only the breathtaking scale of millions converging at the confluence of three sacred rivers, but also the timeless myths, rituals, and seekers who sustain this ancient tradition. From the legends of Amrit—the nectar of immortality—to the living presence of sadhus, gurus, and devotees, the film explores humanity’s eternal quest to transcend mortality. At once a spectacle and an intimate reflection, it is the odyssey of a mortal being who steps into the sacred flow—seeking answers, and perhaps, immortality itself.

A docuseries hosted by two filmmaker siblings exploring all the ways people cope with grief and death across cultures and communities, hoping it helps them finally process their own grief and confront their immense fear of death. Even if it makes them super uncomfortable.

A film about a group of people who interact with a supernatural, female spirit referred to as ‘the Goose,’ and her resting ground, Crossbones Graveyard in Southwark, London. Through experimentation in cinematic form and intimate accounts of grief, a surreal but powerful place of healing is revealed.