38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Beat
United Kingdom
2013 Fiction 12 min
A film about a man walking a paper-thin line between hopelessness andeuphoria, testing and pushing the boundaries of conventions and impulse.
With : Ben Whishaw
Screenplay : Aneil Karia
Image : Stuart Bentley
Editing : Amanda James
Sound : Gunnar Óskarsson
Production : Fifty Nine Productions
Aneil Karia graduated from the National Film and Television School (NFTS). Since then he has made clips and commercials, and notably the video giving the countdown to the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.Beat is his first short film.