Kernow Kino 2

Kernow Kino is a celebration of authentic representation of Cornwall on screen.

This brand-new collection of eight short films by local filmmakers reflects the rich diversity of Cornwall’s language, culture, heritage and communities.

Film exhibitors and communities across Cornwall are taking part in Kernow Kino this spring, with film events centered around St Piran’s Day 2025.

Kernow Kino is presented by C Fylm and Screen Cornwall, funded by the BFI Film Audience Network and UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Kernow Kino short film programme:
ART (2023)
Life at the end of the line has always been tough. With the cost of living going up and pressure to cash in on their now quaint fishing cottage’s financial potential, Biddy and Rob find themselves at the end of the line in more ways than one. However, Biddy has a plan, an idea, a desire to paint. The question is will any of her work save them from financial ruin, and who at the end of the line will take notice?

Writer / Director: Ben Kernow
Running time: 14 mins
Language: Cornish
Subtitles: English
Content: Mild bad language

BLEUJYOAW (TO BLOOM) (2023)
A grieving teenager in rural Cornwall takes up running following the death of her father and finds unexpected solace and solidarity in textile dyeing, alongside an artist negotiating her own loss.

Writer / Director: Laura Canning
Running time: 12 mins, 15 secs
Language: Cornish
Subtitles: English

KING HENRY (2024)
Teachers at a Cornish Secondary school are playing catch up to the 21st century as two teens are elected prom king and king.

Writer: Natalys Willcox
Director: Henry Faint
Running time: 12 mins, 53 secs
Content: Discrimination, alcohol misuse, homophobia

KORDH (CLAN) (2023)
Living on the Isles of Scilly, sixteen and trans, Cam feels alone in the world until Teän comes back to the island for their nephew’s christening party.

Writer / Director: Jaime Lock
Running time: 11mins 27 secs
Language: Cornish
Subtitles: English

ROSES (2023)
Rosa unexpectedly finds herself spending an evening out alone as her daughter throws an 18th birthday party in their house. Wasting time in her small Cornish town, she spies a woman she has met once before – and is drawn to her.

Writer / Director: Coral Knights
Running time: 15 mins 29 secs

SPINES (2023)
When book-loving Thomas meets sporty Agnes, he learns how to use his storytelling to bridge the gap between them, show empathy and forge a new friendship.

Writer / Director: Joseph Inman
Running time: 10 mins 24 secs

THE HAG STONE (2024)
A beach café-owner with no customers has a change of luck when she gets to know a local forager who is looking for hag stones. Is it down to magic or friendship that the beach café begins to attract custom?

Writer / Director: Marie Macneill
Running time 9 mins 45 secs

THE WEIGHT (2023)
Commander Layla Ross has returned to Earth after a 33-year mission to find a planet capable of sustaining human life. Dejected and disillusioned, Layla is due to deliver her long-awaited findings with the eyes of the world upon her. Pressured to sugarcoat the results of the mission, Layla must make a decision that will have personal, as well as global, consequences.

Writer / Director: Susan Lay
Running time: 14 mins 40 secs
Language: English & Cornish
Subtitles: English