Whisky Galore!
A wartime Scottish island faces a dire whisky shortage, which is driving the locals to distraction – that is until a shipwreck brings a massive cargo of Scotch within close reach.
Honeyland
Honeyland is described by The Guardian as an ‘astonishing, immersive environmental documentary’. Shot over the course of three years, it follows the life of Hatidže Muratova, one of the last women in Europe to employ traditional methods of harvesting honey from wild bees.
Ben Rivers introduces
Artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers creates intimate portrayals of solitary beings or isolated communities, using a documentary style as a starting point from which to imagine alternative narratives and existences in marginal worlds.
Selected 16
Selected 16 presents a collection of new short films by some of the most exciting early career artists working today, nominated by artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2025
Neptune Frost
Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist sci-fi musical set between an otherworldly techno-scrapheap in Burundi and a futuristic Rwandan coltan mine.
Roman Signer
I have always thought that explosions conceal and create possibilities for sculpture. For me an explosion was always a kind of mental liberation. The pressure, then the fear. After the explosion you feel incredibly free. I was just interested in that.
Our Living Archives
This event is part of Our Living Archives, an ongoing project organised by Museum X and Kowetha, which sets out to understand the collections relating to Black history held by Cornish museums and archives, and to increase access to these collections for people of colour.
Songs for the Future
Sound and song play a central role in the work of award-winning British-Greek artist Mikhail Karikis, whose works employ the power of peoples’ voices and of collectively-produced sounds to focus on themes of social and environmental justice, human action and solidarity.
Siticulosa
Set in the Apulia region of southern Italy, Siticulosa, 2025 (45min) is part of an ongoing body of work by artist Maeve Brennan, which focuses on the global trade in illicit antiquities. The film unfolds through a series of interviews with individuals including a biodynamic farmer, an art historian and a forensic archaeologist
The Arbor
Artist Clio Barnard’s moving film about the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar
Manifesto
Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto, 2020, (27 min) speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education.
Remember Nature
Remember Nature 2025 celebrates the 10th anniversary of an art project initiated in 2015 by the celebrated artist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017).
HAMISH FULTON presents Bringing Tibet Home
On the 6 November the celebrated ‘walking artist’ Hamish Fulton will lead a communal walk in Helston and introduce a screening of the documentary Bringing Tibet Home.
William Wegman And Man Ray
Dogs have been a central part of William Wegman’s life and art for over fifty years. His first collaborator was the camera-loving Weimaraner Man Ray, who was an active protagonist in many of Wegman’s early videos, shot in his New York studio in the 1970s.
The Big Sea
The Big Sea is an exploration of the human and environmental costs of neoprene production in ‘Cancer Alley’, Louisiana. Neoprene is a material often used to make wetsuits and the film uses the lens of surfing to expose issues of greenwashing, social justice and environmental racism, and to explore the power individuals have to create change.
William Kentridge
This presentation of two short films, made some twenty years apart, offers a window into the creative processes of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge.
Selected 15
Selected 15 is a touring showcase of new short films by early career artists.
John Smith
Renowned artist filmmaker John Smith will visit CAST to speak about his work.
Being John Smith
In Being John Smith, 2024, the artist reflects on the ordinariness of his name and its profound impact on his sense of self.
Eraserhead
David Lynch’s 1977 dystopian debut Eraserhead tells the story of a young factory worker who discovers unexpectedly that he is to become a father.
Cara Mamma
Screening Postponed. Cara Mamma (24 mins) draws on a series of candid personal letters exchanged between Daniela and her adult child Naissa over a three-year period, combining these with dream-like allegorical sequences and cinema verité.
Arrietty
Based on Mary Norton’s popular story, Arrietty follows a family of Borrowers – tiny people who use human neighbours’ everyday objects fort their own purposes
The Hooligan Project
Liubov Sliusareva’s 25-minute documentary The Hooligan Project follows Ukrainian theatre group Hooligan Art Community as they work with young artists in Cornwall following their displacement to the UK by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Children's Christmas Films
A selection of animated films for children will be shown in the black box screening space in parallel with the Christmas workshops on Saturday 14 December.