FEATURE FILMS
Welcome to the Online Feature Film Showcase for the Brighton Rocks International Film Festival, 12 - 21 June 2026. Discover stimulating films that offer new ways of looking at the world around us.
NB. This site is viewable on mobile devices, but is best experienced on a tablet, computer or television.
Digitally You
Online, Jean can present herself as Scarlett, the talented actress she always knew she should have been. Charles may present himself as an artist, but really he has retreated into a digital fantasy long ago. As their digital avatars grow closer, ultimately, they must face the boundaries of where their true identities lie.
I'd Rather Be Turned Into Cat Food
In the ruins of a burned-out church, a failed punk rocker descends into a long, wandering discussion about the futility of existence with two philosophically inclined Muppet-like puppets. Blending live puppetry, animation, and raw punk energy, I’d Rather Be Turned Into Cat Food is a darkly funny meditation on disillusionment and the fragile possibility of hope, featuring the voices of punk legends Jack Grisham (TSOL) and Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks).
Jane Is Acting Up
Who was Jeanne Baret, this woman who, disguised as a man, embarked on a world tour in 1767 with the Bougainville expedition? The film recounts his possible adventures and confronts this extraordinary destiny with that of three women, our contemporaries, who made the trip. Jane is acting up /Jeanne fait des siennes is the result of the interweaving of two strata of narratives: that of a character who tells her story in the form of hypotheses, and that of three women, Yadira, a Mexican, Geneviève a Malagasy and Marie-Ange a Mauritian, each of whom has invented a destiny from a life of exile, fragments of which they reveal to us. In a way that is both concrete and poetic, these lives recapture, overlap or contradict Jeanne's distant, unknowable adventure.
W: A Return to Oz
Locked and loaded with film tape, a man explores an abandoned rave house, once known as The Warehouse, that was once the beating heart of the South West’s clubland.
Plymouth is a city with the characteristics of everything great and terrible about Britain simultaneously. From its lush seaside views, heritage streets and culture to its concrete jungle estates, poverty and violent crime. In Plymouth, it is the best of times and the worst of times. The Warehouse, and the five or so clubs in its interior, had everything you want in a club - a diversity of music, people, drinks, drugs, strobes, chill outs, massive speakers and a MC to drive the night through - a microcosm for the grand state of clubland across the globe. With this exploration into W we explore the rest of Britain and the world in its decline and development and see what place nightlife and youth spaces have in our world as we progress into the century.