Two Short Nights

Want to join us for the whole of Two Short Nights Film Festival 2025? The Two Short Nights Festival Pass gives you access to almost every event at the festival.

From sacred rituals to a fox in drag, join us in celebrating the creativity and skill that goes into exploring the world and everything in it as only animation can.

From deadlines to dead bodies, a selection of shorts that take a look at how we react under pressure.

Exeter Phoenix are offering one South West based filmmaker £500 in cash funding to support the production of a short animated film which is 3-5 minutes in length.

A collection of some of the best films from across the South West. This tour de force of talent will take you on a journey through a region full of incredible filmmaking.

Exeter Phoenix and Two Short Nights Film Festival are inviting you to join us for a special social event hosted by our sponsors Screen Devon.

Devils, demons or DMs? Explore the horrors that keeps you awake at night in this collection of sinister shorts.

Want to see it all but make the whole festival? Check out this showcase of the films in consideration to win the Two Short Nights Best Film 2025 Award.

A collection of shorts that untangle the ties that bind and explore complicated relationships with friends and family.

A collection of the best docs at Two Short Nights, highlighting fascinating stories and showing off the diversity and power of documentary film.

Join us on closing night where Two Short Nights will platform this year’s Exeter Phoenix Short Film Commissions on the big screen for the first time.

The best films from 2025’s 48 Hour Film Challenge, followed by the presentation of this year’s festival awards.