We've always supported Birds Eye View, the UK's celebration of women filmmakers - it's not only that we want to help address the fact that only 7% of film directors are women, it's also that it's a really imaginatively-programmed and very fun festival anyway.

Which is why we're supporting the UK short docs programme at this year's festival. This year's shorts selection includes something for everyone - thrills, chills, exotic foods and more than one rather atypical love story.  Birds Eye View has joined forces with us to present an eclectic and entertaining collection of short films from the next emerging wave of female filmmakers from around the world. Ranging from hilarious to heart-warming, tragic to just plain shocking, these films are guaranteed to get you talking.

We're especially pleased that one of the docs in the programme is the heartbreaking Peter and Ben by Pinny Grylls, which was the winner of the FourDocs documentary award at this year's London Short Film Festival, and I can honestly say is one of my very favourite short docs of the last few years. I've been raving to anyone who'll listen about it - ask anyone.

But it's not just about that one, all the docs in the show are high quality, from Flora and Thieves, which started its on FourDocs, to Eva Weber's awe-inspiring City of Cranes, which started life as a set of 3 Minute Wonders, to Kez Margrie's The Wrong Trainers, one of the finest animated docs you will ever see - not to mention the fact it'll make you want to end child poverty right here and now.

I'm really excited about this programme, so I hope I'll see you for the programme on Saturday 8th March at 4pm at the ICA. Plus remember to check out the rest of the programme - there's silent archive films, mobile phone films, comedy and loads of brilliant features. My particular tips are the agenda-setting Flying:Confessions of a free woman, a work-in-progress of the Age of Stupid (see yesterday's blog!) and, on my typical green trip, Sarah Turner's magnificent avant-garde musing, Ecology