Two for the price of one. You can see a selection of shorts from Black filmmakers based in the North East followed by a Q&A and check out the eight new shorts in competition for the S.O.U.L. Fest Awards 2026. These films are gathered around a single question: who are we allowed to be? Through faith and rebellion, belonging and love, memory and loss — from a forbidden lottery ticket to a miner's search for solidarity, a fraught anniversary dinner to a teenage rapper's reckoning, a world-builder's fatal creative block to the quiet weight of an ordinary working day, a young man's shifting inner worlds to a first car that meant everything. Tender, bold and unmistakably now, this is a chance to celebrate the range and daring of Black British short filmmaking today.