straight 8 2025 - LIVE ONLINE PREMIERE

fresh from their debut at the bfi imax last week, watch the top 25 straight 8 films of this year's competition.

each film is made on a single roll of super 8 film, with only in-camera editing and no post-production.

watch them loud, on the highest video quality setting, on the biggest screen you can get your hands on!

then get inspired to try the challenge yourself.

straight 8 2026 entry is now open at https://straight8.net/2026


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all colour films processed and scanned at top global film lab cinelab film & digital, straight 8's partner since 2016 (https://cinelab.co.uk)

thanks also to shots (https://shots.net) for their continued support of straight 8

and thanks most of all, to everyone who entered 2025, or who will enter 2026: you are what make this great!

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one super 8 cartridge no retakes

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programme:
07:15 - boltzmann dreams of meat by thomas bullen - canada
10:42 - creator by koichi izuhara - japan
14:09 - immodest by charly and robyn faye - uk - top 8
17:36 - i have something to tell you by naomi christie - usa - top 8
21:05 - housekeeping by louis joblin, esteban jaramillo, crosby allen-jennings - new zealand
24:32 - almost married by rodrigo mella - uk
27:55 - just thinking of you by tom van scoyoc - usa - top 8
31:23 - your new home by carlotta beck peccoz - uk
34:52 - the return of the screw by cosmo fletcher and wolf newton - uk - top 8
38:23 - a night to remember by michael gordon - canada
41:35 - bitter fruit by kristin duffy - uk
45:08 - deconstruction by bailey krawczyk - usa
48:09 - breakpoint by maxime laurent - uk
51:26 - finding home by james trosh - uk - top 8
54:51 - chander rosh by nefertiti titli - india
58:19 - sign language by max mir, matthew poole - uk
1:01:46 - el frasco sinfónico, (or how i stole sounds from the city that isn’t afraid of color) by nick mironov - uk
1:05:25 - hors saison by riwa philipps - lebanon - top 8
1:08:57 - crep conscious by olly sarginson & rosie loizeau - uk
1:12:29 - bunny's trick by kathryn rust - uk
1:15:44 - madame moon by ananda siml and laura unger - germany
1:19:21 - fragments by fionn condren - ireland
1:22:52 - there will be another by ben slotover - uk - top 8
1:26:24 - split ends by grace cassidy & laura hafes - uk
1:29:48 - the storm, the calm, the madness, the magic by nihar palwe - india - top 8