Dark Nights Film Fest

15/10/2026

Ricardo Bravo accepting his award for Best Unproduced Short Film Screenplay 2026. Congratulations Ricardo!

14/10/2026

Grace Presse accepting the Dark Nights 2026 Midnight Spotlight Award on behalf of herself, Agata Alexander and Jason Kaye, for the sound design on her short film SLEEP TIGHT. Congratulations Grace, Agata, and Jason!

14/10/2026

Pablo Cabel accepting his Dark Nights 2026 award for Best Short Film Screenplay, for SHARD. Congratulations Pablo!

13/10/2026

Axel Zeltser accepting his Dark Nights 2026 award for Best Short Film Director for DOGS REIGN. Congratulations Axel!

12/10/2026

PV Lehtinen accepting the Dark Nights 2026 award for Best Short Film, IURIMA - A TALE OF THREE FISHERMEN. Congratulations PV!

PV Lehtinen, on behalf of IURIMA - A TALE OF THREE FISHERMEN, recip...

12/10/2026

A few further reviews from this year's program, including one for IURIMA, which has taken out the Best Short Film award.

12/10/2026

All ticket-holders from Saturday's event have the opportunity to vote for their three favourite films in this year's program which will determine the Dark Nights 2026 - Audience Choice.

Any ticket-holders who haven't received an email in their inbox, check your spam folder, and if not there, let us know.

Voting will be open for 48 hours.

12/10/2026

A MASSIVE thank you to all the following people who helped deliver Dark Nights Film Fest 2026:

- The Skeleton Crew on the day: Vanessa Caruana, Shahane Bekarian, Pauline Ekimova, Phoenix Tilly, Marion Pupulas, Brett Garten.
- Ness, also for photography, and administrative assistance & support.
- Michael O'Rourke, for tech edit & compile, and operation (also Shahane).
- Cynthia Colli, for program layout and ticketing.
- Mikey Crane, for key art, and Tim Richter, for graphic design.
- Jack Moiseyev, for promotional advice & support.
- Lauren Grimson, Glenn Fraser, Amelia Foxton - the Dark Ambassadors - for creating fabulous original publicity and general awesome support.

- to all the festival attendees!

- and, last, but not least, all the talented filmmakers whose films made up this year's program. A terrific response from audiences on the festival curation.

12/10/2026

Congratulations to all our 2026 Award Winners, and a very special thank you to our awesome 2026 Jury:

Short film judges - Ursula Dabrowsky, Barry Watterson, Winter Williams.

Unproduced Screenplay Competition judges - Shayne Armstrong, Margaret M. McDonald, Martyn Roberts.

Check out the full list of awards below.

Best Short Film iurima - a tale of three fishermen(Finland)Best Short Film Director axel zeltserfor DOGS REIGNBest Short Film Screenplay pablo cabelfor SHARDBest Short Film Performanceconsuelo trujillofor KILLJOTEMidnight Spotlight Awardgrace presse,agata alexander, jason kayefor SLEEP TIGHT soun...

28/05/2026

I'll just leave this here.

'Obsession' proves horror fans are still way ahead of Hollywood, which continues to ignore the genre until the box office forces it to pay attention.