“By any standard one of the UK’s most ambitious and creatively programmed festivals” – Sight and Sound
A film and mixed arts festival which takes over venues across Birmingham every May, Flatpack is not your average film festival. Substituting warehouses for red carpets, screenings pop up in all manner of unusual spaces, and the programme mixes film with music, performances, contraptions and surprises. Flatpack takes the traditional film festival and turns it on its head. The result? A “magnificently eclectic” (Time Out) and “joyously inventive” (the Guardian) celebration of film in all shapes and sizes.
Short and Suite, Flatpack's Youth Strand, has been running since 2018, but this is our first year accepting submissions! We aim to champion UK young filmmaking, and so welcome films of all genres, mediums, and budgets. Filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds are especially encouraged to submit.
Short and Suite currently has just one award up for grabs:
- Short & Suite award for the best film! [£200 CASH PRIZE]