WFF_2023 Short List
Important Information for filmmakers
Below are the films that have been selected for the WFF_2023 Short List.
This Short List contains the films selected by the screening panel to be put forward for consideration by the Official Selection panel for the Official Selection (the films selected for screening), published on 4th November 2023.
Please note that only films included in the WFF_2023 Official Selection are eligible for festival laurels.
If your film or a film you represent is included in this Short List and the title or director’s name are not correct, please contact us at myfilm@winchesterfilmfestival.com (using as subject matter: Correction to Long List 2023 + title of your film) so that we can correct it immediately. We know how important this is to you.
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WFF_2023 Short List
Feature Film Award
Better together | Anastasia Vasileva | Russian Federation
Bright House | Rouhollah Hejazi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Eleanor Slaughter | Chris Chan Roberson | United States
Flathead | Andrew Modeen | United States
Nowhere | Tim Seyfert | United Kingdom
Orbital | Maysam Hassanzade | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Annoyed | Mehdi Fard Ghaderi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Lies We Tell Ourselves | Saara Lamberg | Australia
Traces | Dubravka Turic | Croatia
Best Foreign Short Film
Adieu Gaston | Victor Guilbaud | France
Alikija | Hamid Vatanparast| Iran, Islamic Republic of
Anemone | Alicia Hernanpérez Hidalgo | Spain
Back & Forth | Che Chun Hei | Hong Kong
Bad blood | Mario Mariño Luezas, Jose Manuel Manero Hernández | Spain
Beyond the Sea | Hippolyte Leibovici | Belgium
Bodies | Dimitris Vrouvas | Greece
Bohemia by the Sea | Diminik Enzi | Austria
Boxing Day | Leigh Schilling | Australia
Caged | Orestis Rouskas | Greece
Camping | Derek Quick | United States
Cleaner | Edwin Mullane | Ireland
Close | Markus Tolvo | Spain
Erosion | Maryam Ghasemi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Falling Up | Maryam Bakhtiari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Field | Meijing Lü | China
Fixing Things | J. Prazak | Jan Prazak | Austria
Footsteps | Hamed Bahrami | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Fully Effaced | Sophie Artus | Israel
Gangrene | Ignacio Gil Toresano | Spain
God Level | César Tormo | Spain
Gray House | Bahram Afshari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Hangman | Megan Brotherton | United States
Head Eaters | Pedram Gharehbaghi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Her Mother’s Eyes | Sawyer Macres | United States
I Promise You Paradise | Morad Mostafa | Egypt
Ilunga | Klaudia Magdalena Pachuta | Poland
It’s Only Me | Barbara Elbinger | United Kingdom
Ivania | Luigi Abanto | Spain
La Première | Nadav Lapid | France
Lady | Fardin Ansari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
left behind | Hamed Bahrami | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Malakout | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Man’s Best Friend | Marcus Støren | Norway
Matapang | Léa-Jade Horlier | France
Mirage | Nazanin Ghanbari Mohammadi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Mixed | Mina Sadat Hosseini | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Nachtbesuch | Joana Vogdt | Germany
Naked Men in the Woods | Paul Ploberger | Austria
No | Kavoos Aghaei | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Panic Attack | Anthony Assad | Ireland
Parvaz Mahiha | Mohammad Towrivarian | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Pregnant |Golnaz Jamsheed | Iram, Islamic Repbic of
Presto | Keyvan Ahmadi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Privacy | Habib Zahirnia, Meisam Amiri Hoseini | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Recess | Kerem Ergün, Ismet Ergün | Germany
REM | Muhammadreza Yarikia | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Rooftop | Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov | Bulgaria
Sleeping Jade | Jonathan Boissinot | France
Slight Pain | Poya Nabi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Small Town Movie | Jarret Liotta | United States
Something More | Joshua Butler | United States
Stain | Anna Evtushenko | United States
Subzero | Laleh Noureddin Mousa | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Survivers | Carlos Gómez-Trigo | Spain
Survivor | Karim Azimi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Synthesis | Mohammad Towrivarian | Iran, Islamic Republic of
That’s what I’m gonna do | Michaël Theus, Nicolaï Tchetchelacvili | Switzerland
The Bathtub | Sergi Marti Maltas | Spain
The Invitation | Luigi Reniery | Spain
The Last Dinner | Marie-Ange Casalta | France
The Mosquito | Joshua Ebrahimi | United States
The Naming of the Things | Gadi Rubin | United States
The Old Young Crow | Liam LoPinto | Japan
The Online Shop | Carsten Woike | Germany
The Sprayer | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Star | Nadav Lapid | Israel
The Steak | Kiarash Dadgar Mohebi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Two Lives of Sepideh | Soha Niasti | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Torment | Arturo Mombiedro | Spain
Unjustified | Mohammad R. Khavari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Vis A Vis | Soheil Kiani | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Winds of springtime | Carmen Pedrero | Spain
Witness | Aida tebianian | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Best British Short Film
440 | Akeel Khan, Abdullah Anees
A Dream Dark Day | Aaron Stephen Bishop
Baby Boy | Greg Hall
Bedtime | Matt Davies
By Any Other Name | Daniel Deville
By the time I came looking you were already gone | Inti Rowland
Can We Talk? | Tom Gimlette
Chairs | James Hughes
Don’t Choke | Sonny Baez
Erica’s Game | Eben Skilleter
First Timers | Hector Bell
Kind-Hearted Intermission | Ian Roberts
Kiran | Bhulla Beghal
Lone Star Tick | Ewan McIntosh
ManMade | Plum Stupple-Harris
Merman | Madeleine Wynn
Mother’s Day | Theo Kaufman
Outlets | Duncan Cowles
Pushing Daisy | Leah Revivo
Read to Me | Dan Horrigan
Run | Matthew Bartlett
Ruth | Paul Romero Méndez, Arturo M. Antolín
Scavengers | Hugo Cavalier
Sensibility | Ben Kernow
Spag Bol | BRICK
Suong | Evan Preston
Tell Me You Love Me | Paulette Randall MBE
The Cornucopia Club | Joseph Archer
The Elegy | Sarmukh Hundal
The Halo Effect | Phoebe Eleanor White
The Last Bee On Earth | Nick Flugge
The Liver | Daniel Brereton
The Pink Pill | Cassiah Joski-Jethi
The Tortuer | Peyman Mandegar
The Whole World Blind (or: The Ballad of The Ballad of the Cuck and the Eunuch | Finbar Somers, Seán Mackey
Toast | Lawrence Rowe
Unthinkable Conversations | Emma Richardson
Whispers of Smoke | Nathan Theys
You’re Out | Indira Townend
Best Short Documentary
Berook | Andreas Johansson | Sweden
Beyond the Facade | Tiara Symone Jamison | United States
Culture Talk on the Radio | Errkaa | Germany
Finding Stillness | Ricky Gane, Sarah Gane | United Kingdom
in·spi·ra·tion | Patrick Crellin, Bethany White | United Kingdom
The Analogy of Space | Oleksandr Hoisan | Ukraine
Best Animated Short
A World in Chaos | David Crisp | Hungary
Demi-Gods | Martin Gerigk | Germany
Future Of… | Scott Coello | United Kingdom
Kicking a ball really hard into the face of a child (and the subsequent act of revenge) | Ian Roberts | United Kingdom
love bubbles | Marcel Hobi | Switzerland
Malakout | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Sprayer | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Best Foreign New Director
Dawn of Death | Armin Rajaei | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Delusion | Sina Hadadi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Don Javier | Alejandro Llamas | Mexico
Falling Up | Maryam Bakhtiari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Malakout | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Pregnant | Golnaz Jamsheed | Iran
Still Life | Konstantinos Doxiadis | United Kingdom
Survivor | Karim Azimi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The last Dinner | Marie-Ange Casalta | France
The Old Young Crow | Liam LoPinto | Japan
The Sprayer | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Steak | Kiarash Dadgar Mohebi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Best British New Director
A Dream Dark Day | Aaron Stephen Bishop
Birdsong | Liam Beazley
Heart’s Desire | Loren Alleyne
Lone Star Tick | Ewan McIntosh
Short Stay, Long Stay | Danny Carter
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