WFF_2020 Long List

Important information for filmmakers

Below are the films that have been selected for the WFF_2020 Long List. 

If your film or a film you represent is included in this Long List and the title or director’s name or not correct or misspelt, please contact us at myfilm@winchesterfilmfestival.com so that we can correct it immediately. We apologies in advance if this is the case.

The Long List contains the films selected by the screening panel to be put forward for consideration by the selection panel for the Official Selection (the films selected for screening).  

Films selected for the WFF_2020 Official Selection (screened at the festival and eligible for laurels) will be published on 1st November 2020. 

The Award Winners and Special Mentions of each category will be announced during the festival week, which has been postponed to May 2021 (exact dates to be confirmed).

Please note that only films included in the WFF_2020 Official Selection are eligible for festival laurels

IMPORANT: Key dates and important information for filmmakers can be found here

WFF_2020 Long List

Best British Short Film

A Car at Night Mykea Perry
AfterLife  Paul Wright
Another Day  Stuart Black & Satinder Gill
Appreciation  Tomison Adepeju
Ariella  Michael Jobling & Jack Jobling
Avernus  Simon Ross
Bulldog  Kieran Stringfellow
Cheeseburger  Scott Driver
Choker Orson Cornick
Dinosaur  Mori Thomson
Don’t Walk  Hannah George
Eulogy Mateo Willis
Give Me a Name  Sheena Holliday
Goodbye Danny  Andre Llewellyn
Hi, Stranger  Kristen Brookman
Home Time  Bhulla Beghal
I Love You More When You Fall  Michael Blundell-Lithco
If It’s Not Too Late  Claudia Selby
Innocence  Ben Reid
Jonathan Commits  Adrian Dean
Lavender Andrew Ball-Shaw
Lily Shipman  Alex Black & Dan Fox
Limbo Callum Brooks
Living Next Door to Alex Brendan Cleaves
Love From Santiago  Inti Rowland
Lycanthropy  Alexander Black
Moody  Donell Atkinson-Johnson
Moonshine  Tom Sands
My Dad Marie  Maj Jukic
Night Visions  William Glass
Off Grid  Carl Timms
On The Inside  Eunice Sayson
On Wenlock Edge  Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood
Opening Up  Ryan King
People Show 138: Last Day  Carteth Brierley
Purple Scarf  José Prats
Squall  Mark Brennan
Sweet Solitude  Jacob Percival
Sydney  Paul Wyett
Take Control  Luke Waters
The Boy Who Thought He Could Fly  Emma Pitt
The Dead Ones  Stefan Georgiou
The Fat Lady Sings  Ben Crabb & Jack Harrison
The Feathers  Joe Bor
The Joy of Growing Pineapples  
Simon Hutchins
The Sands of Time  
James Hughes
The Stag Hunt  John La Bouchardière
The VV Vlog Ep. 2 “How to be a Feminist”  Sophia Carr-Gomm
The Wall  Andrew Fisher
This Camera is Broken  Joshua Hext
This England  George Taylor
This is Not Becky  Alec Liddle
To V.oyage  Aram Atkinson
Upside  Will Herbert
Vaccine  Owen Trett
Werewolf  Markus Meedt
Whyfor  Jack Trowbridge
Winter Coat  Werner Vivier
Wooden Character  Robert Duncan

Best Foreign Short Film

The Abujrants  Antonio De Palo
A Hard Goodbye  Àngel Andreu
About Chameleon  Guglielmo Loliva
Above Us Only Sky  Arthur Kleinjan
Ay San  Reza Ravan
Bajo la Palmera (Under the Palm Tree)  Pau Bacardit
Behind the Yellow Line   Javad Habibpour
Blue Ashes  Thaddeus Christandl
Borderless  Behrad Sahebgharani
Bubble  Shahab Najaf
Casiopea  Fernando Manso
Changing Room  Atefeh Rahmani
Cold Ashes  Masoud Motlagh
Crumbs  Ettore Mengozzi
Custien  Hamidreza Khosh-Bazan
Dame  Foster Wilson
Dancing with Death  Shae-Lee Shackleford
Death Locked Out  Amir Karami
Draft  Olga Alikberova
Dry Leaves  Ali Sohail Jaura
Eye Exam  Cho Juyoun
Fair Play  Denis Kudryavtsev
Fabricated  Ali Gatmiri
Gaïa Pierre Christophe
Goodbye My Son  Yuichiro Nakada
How Many of Us Were to Be Here  Vinicius Silva
In Between  Ana Pasti
In the Same Room  Mohammad Pourriahi
Inhale  Nasser Zamiri
Inner Self  Mohammad Hormozi
Irony  Radheya Jegatheva
Joseph Turns 42 (Or the Inconsistency of Wonders)  Paul Maziere
Kintsugi  Nadja Bobyleva
L’Oro di Famiglia (The Family Gold)  Emanuele Pisano
La Tierra Llamando A Ana
 (Earth Calling Ana) Fernando Bonelli
Layover  Olivier Frigon
Life is Beautiful  Mostafa Rahimi
Long Ride Home  Dame Pierre
Love X Bites  Myat Noe
Lust Day  Wei Shengyu
Mary Mary Quite Contrary  TinNgai Chan
Mermaid Season  Cristal Castillo
Midnight Movie: Magnum Opus  Myriam Khammassi
Nearby Memories  Pauline Moreau
Negligent  Mats Bjerknes
No  Erhan Karaca
Pa’lante  David Van
Pola  Natalia Lampropoulou
Quite on Set  Jeanette Buck
Quit  Sina Gholamnejad
Rainbow in the Dark  Ben Mosca
She’s the One  Tim Russ
Sin Aliento  Uxia Santiago
Stunned, I Remain Alert  Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos & Henrique Amud
Synchronization  Anna Kasińska
Take It And End It  Kirineos Papadimatos
The Body  Adam Weber
The Existential Hotline  Handrik Harms
The Favour  Joanna Bowzer
The Five Minutes  Shange Zhang
The Ice Cubes  Sara Dufossé
The Leak  Alberto Marchiori
The Living  Azuma Fujitani
The Missing Trait  Riccardo Roan
The Other  Saman Hosseinpuor & Ako Zandkarimi
The Sobering  Barry Pollack
The Vasectomy Doctor  Paul Webster
The Woman of the House Felipe Espinosa
Their Eyes  Fraser Pemberton
Time Out  Ali Riahee
Two Strangers  Sam Fayad
Viral  Tim Gagliardo
Wait a Moment  Edriss Naseri
Waves  Federico Turani
Why are we Unhappy in Cities  Zhao Gang
Yael’s room  Shir Cohen

Feature Film Award

All For My Mother  Małgorzata Imielska
Anonymous Killers  A.R. Hilton
Asking God  Wetengere SPK Kitijo
Basenji  Ian Scott Clement
COMPLY+-ANCE  Takumi Saitoh & Isora Iwakiri & Takashi Litsuka
Dorothea and the Myotragus Núria Abad & Marta Hierro
Eastern  Piotr Adamski
Gelateria  Christian Serritiello & Arthur Patching
Gervase “WiP”  Michael Peel
Long Day  Luo Yumo
Maquis  Ruebén Buren
My Day  Ibrahim Miiro
Nachts Kommen Die Bilder  Ulrike Korbach
Stolen Season  Pascal Payant
Supernova  Bartosz Kruhlik
The Badger  Kazem Mollaie
The Fox  Hemwant Tiwari
The Iron Bridge  Monika Jordan Młodzianowska
The New Abolitionists  Christina Zorich
Tierra calcinada (Scorched Land)  Antonio Ferrer
Toprak  Sevgi Hirschhäuser
Woman of the Photographs  Takeshi Kushida

Best Short Documentary

Benjamin Kahn: The mind behind the hat
  Natan Stoessel, Emile Meyjonade
Chasing Mandela’s Rainbow  Gary Janks
Guardians of Ua Huka Ben Cherry
High Flying Jade  Katherine Sweetman
Jennifer Wen Ma: Cry Joy Park – Gardens of Dark and Light  Dave Stewart Brown & Sixuan Geng
Memories  Charlie Herranze
Riot in the Meadow  Thomas Harman
Robes to Rock  James Newman & Josh Bean
Ser Feliz no Vão / Happy in The Gap  Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos
Shaking a Singapore Spear  Hannes Rall
Slowly  Cristian Scardigno
Stunned, I Remain Alert Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos & Henrique Amud
The College FKA Calhoun at Yale  Robert Menefee
The Lawnmower Men  Mr Brendan Cleaves
The Sawmakers  Jacob Hesmondhalgh
The Winchester Three  Mark Richardson
Time and Tide  Caleb Yule
Under the North Sea  Federico Barni & Alberto Allica

Best Animated Short Film

A Wasted Life  Lee Charlish
African Sonata  Kieran Firth-Bernard
Beyond the Line  Jinuk Choi
Echoe  Barzin Rostami
Flesh  Lisa Cruz
Freja  Sinéad Nolan
In My Particular Case  Chico Jofilsan
Irony  Radheya Jegatheva
Journey  Yue Zhang
Margin of Terror  Kieran McLister
My Dream, My Taste  Emily Downe
My Tagalong  Jerry Wang
Out with the Old  George Summers
Pokhysel  Charley Radford
Red Red World  David Finney
Song Sparrow  Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Trapeze Charis Dussek
Vern  Natalie Elliott

Best Foreign New Director

Amber Faisal Hashmi
Caught  Kai Sitter
Dancing with Death  Shae-Lee Shackleford
Draft  Olga Alikberova
Stunned, I Remain Alert  Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos & Henrique Amud
Wald  Floortje Pols
Winter Coat  Werner Vivier

Best British New Director

Dismissed  Aysha Scott
Eulogy  Mateo Willis
Left Behind  Carla Begg
New Years Day  Nathan Glendinning
Take Me Home  Oscar Horseman
Time and Tide  Caleb Yule
To V.oyage  Aram Atkinson
Wandaland  Richard Noble

Hampshire Prize

African Sonata  Kieran Firth-Bernard
Asking God  Wetengere SPK Kitijo
Binary Truths  Bradley Charlton
Don’t Walk  Hannah George
Gervase “WiP”  Michael Peel
Hi, Stranger  Kristen Brookman
Lily Shipman  Alex Black & Dan Fox
Limbo  Callum Brooks
On the Inside  Eunice Sayson
Robes to Rock  James Newman & Josh Bean
Squall  Mark Brennan
Sweet Solitude  Jacob Percival
Take Me Home  Oscar Horeseman
Time and Tide  Caleb Yule
This England  George Taylor
To V.oyage  Aram Atkinson
Uninspired Moments  Kristen Brookman
Vaccine  Owen Trett
Whyfor  Jack Trowbridge

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