WFF_2023 Long List
Important information for filmmakers
Below are the films that have been selected for the WFF_2023 Long List.
The Long List contains the films selected by the Screening Panel to be put forward for consideration by the Selection Panel for the Short List, from where the Official Selection Panel will select films for the Official Selection (the films selected for screening).
Films selected for the WFF_2023 Official Selection (screened at the festival and eligible for laurels) will be published on 4th November 2023.
The Award Winners and Special Mentions of each category will be announced during part 2 of the festival, which will take place in February 2024. (dates to be confirmed).
Please note that only films included in the WFF_2023 Official Selection are eligible for festival laurels.
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WFF_2023 Long List
Feature Film Award
back home | Nisha Platzer | Canada
Balika | Aitor Sánchez Smith, Lander Ibarretxe | Spain
Beloved | Yaser Talebi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Better together | Anastasia Vasileva | Russian Federation
Bright House | Rouhollah Hejazi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Cage : Between Two Battles | Cenk İzgören | Turkey
Destiny | Yaser Talebi | Norway
Duet | EKİN İLKBAĞ, İDİL AKKUŞ | Turkey
Eleanor Slaughter | Chris Chan Roberson | United States
Fallen: The Search of A Broken Angel | Alex Kruz | United States
Finally Nearly Getting There | James Card | United Kingdom
Flathead | Andrew Modeen | United States
Grey Matter | Arabella Burfitt-Dons | United Kingdom
Hölderlin’s Echo | Hannes Rall, Susanne Marschall | Germany
Just Let Me Go | Luis Miguel Boliqueime Diogo | Portugal
Mother & Wild | Mark Forbes | United Kingdom
Nowhere | Tim Seyfert | United Kingdom
Only Love Matters | Dr Kamran Qureshi| United Kingdom
Orbital | Maysam Hassanzade | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Passing Through | David Walter Hall | United Kingdom
Punch drunk | Adel Tabrizi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Remi Milligan: Lost Director | Samuel Lodato | United Kingdom
Sabrás dónde encontrarme | Oliver Ramos | Spain
Skinjacker | David Izatt | United Kingdom
Sofía will return | Joaquín Lisón | Spain
That Great British Documentary | Joan Hillery | United Kingdom
The Annoyed | Mehdi Fard Ghaderi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Flight of the Massaïa | Nabil Bouraghda | France
The Lies We Tell Ourselves | Saara Lamberg | Australia
The Raw youth | Matin Sajadi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
To Have Time | Mario Alejandro Arias, Gabriela Alonso Martínez, Nicolás Martín Ruiz | Spain
Traces | Dubravka Turic | Croatia
Transformation | Saeed Mayahy | Turkey
Ujan Story | Shahram Badakhshan Mehr | Armenia
War Blade | Nicholas Winter | United Kingdom
Who buries the undertaker? | Andreas Schmidbauer, Tanja Schmidbauer | Germany
Wounded Psyche | Meysam Jafrinejadsedehi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Best Foreign Short Film
A Drop of Blood from Nazanin | Kavoos Aghaei | Iran, Islamic Republic of
A minute’s silence | Mohammad Pourriahi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
A Piece of You | Hadi Nouri | Iran, Islamic Republic of
A Visit From Home | Seyf Naman | Switzerland
Adieu Gaston | Victor Guilbaud | France
Alikija | Hamid Vatanparast| Iran, Islamic Republic of
Anemone | Alicia Hernanpérez Hidalgo | Spain
Another Day | Sahand khalaj | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Back & Forth | Che Chun Hei | Hong Kong
Bad blood | Mario Mariño Luezas, Jose Manuel Manero Hernández | Spain
Berlin Rising | Vincent Janssen | Germany
Beyond the Sea | Hippolyte Leibovici | Belgium
Birthday | Nobuyuki Morikawa | Japan
Black Flowers | Stefania Dall’Armi | United Kingdom
Bodies | Dimitris Vrouvas | Greece
Bohemia by the Sea | Diminik Enzi | Austria
Boxing Day | Leigh Schilling | Australia
Braille | Behrad Ezzati | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Caged | Orestis Rouskas | Greece
Camping | Derek Quick | United States
Chuva | Erik Cruz | Brazil
Cleaner | Edwin Mullane | Ireland
Close | Markus Tolvo | Spain
Cocoon | Saeed bojnordi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Dance in Nothing | Sina Hadadi, Ali Rostami | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Der Bruder | Jeremias Zeh | Austria
Destructive Sleep Apnea | Yurii Boiko | Ukraine
Ecciù | Sole Tonnini | Italy
Een Saam (Farther) | Josh Hundermark | South Africa
Erosion | Maryam Ghasemi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Exchange | Barzan Rostami | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Falling Up | Maryam Bakhtiari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Fast Car | Fabio Cordero | Spain
Feeling Good Tonight | Yuchen Zhou | United Kingdom
Field | Meijing Lü | China
First Time | Scotty Baker | United States
Fixing Things | J. Prazak | Jan Prazak | Austria
Footsteps | Hamed Bahrami | Iran, Islamic Republic of
For Child Never Born | Afsaneh Aghanezhad, Vali Bagheri | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Frozen Life | Vahid Aalam | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Fully Effaced | Sophie Artus | Israel
Gangrene | Ignacio Gil Toresano | Spain
Gladiators | Maryam Rahimi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
God Level | César Tormo | Spain
Gray House | Bahram Afshari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Hangman | Megan Brotherton | United States
Happen to Happen | Julie Joohee Jeon | Korea, Republic of
Head Eaters | Pedram Gharehbaghi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Her Mother’s Eyes | Sawyer Macres | United States
Here Lies Bird | Douglas Lennox-Salinas | United States
Hope | Volkan GİRGİN | Turkey
I Promise You Paradise | Morad Mostafa | Egypt
Ilunga | Klaudia Magdalena Pachuta | Poland
It’s Only Me | Barbara Elbinger | United Kingdom
Ivania | Luigi Abanto | Spain
Jaan’s Day | Freddy Lond | Estonia
Jouissance | Sadeq Es-haqi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Judge | Nicolo Pozzali | Italy
La Première | Nadav Lapid | France
Lachie & John | Lee McClenaghan | Australia
Lady | Fardin Ansari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
left behind | Hamed Bahrami | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Lucky Coin! | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
Lupita From Now On | Miguel Guindos | Spain
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
Mirrorty | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
Mixed | Mina Sadat Hosseini | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Nachtbesuch | Joana Vogdt | Germany
Nag | Hosein Torkjoosh | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Naked Men in the Woods | Paul Ploberger | Austria
Nelson | Tijah Bumgarner | United States
No | Kavoos Aghaei | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Off-Season | Francescu Artily | France
Panic Attack | Anthony Assad | Ireland
Parvaz Mahiha | Mohammad Towrivarian | Iran, Islamic Republic 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
Resurrection under the Ocean | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
Rooftop | Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov | Bulgaria
Safe | Josema Roig | Spain
Shards | Henrik Dahlbring | Sweden
Sky(pe) | Riccardo Menicatti, Bruno Ugioli | Italy
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
Somewhere to Stay | Amirhossein Hatami | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Sphinx | Hamid Yousefi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Stain | Anna Evtushenko | United States
Subzero | Laleh Noureddin Mousa | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Suffocation | Mahmoud Atshani | 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 Analogy of Space | Oleksandr Hoisan | Ukraine
The Bathtub | Sergi Marti Maltas | Spain
The Creature | Muhammad Reza Yarikia | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Death Ox | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
The Dog | Mohsen Afshar | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Dream I’ve Never Had | Majid Halvaei | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Ghost Hunter | Michael Hollis | Australia
The Imperceptible | Parviz Rajaei (khazan) | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Invitation | Luigi Reniery | Spain
The Last Child | Serna Amini | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Last Dinner | Marie-Ange Casalta | France
The Librarian | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
The Midway Pact | Pourya Osati | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Mosquito | Joshua Ebrahimi | United States
The Naming of the Things | Gadi Rubin | United States
The Old Young Crow | Liam LoPinto | Japan
The One-Way Ticket | Melika Rezapour | Germany
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
The White Costume | Baset Sandi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Titi | Marzieh Fakhar | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Torment | Arturo Mombiedro | Spain
Trinkhalle | Alexa Ramthun | Germany
Unjustified | Mohammad R. Khavari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Unnamed | Iranmehr – Salimi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Vigil Hours | Marko Marinkovic | Serbia
Vina | Bahareh Aghajari | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Vis A Vis | Soheil Kiani | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Waiting Room | Giovanni Mazzarà | Italy |
When the Monsters Come out | James Amuta | Nigeria
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
A London Portrait | Rizan Fateema
Apache Rain | Nick Maltby
Are We Friends? | Luke David Sims
Baby Boy | Greg Hall
Background | Xuan Qin
Bad Habits | Jacob Dudman
Bedtime | Matt Davies
Between the Lines | Dom Lee
Bin Day | Elliot Taylor
Borne | Claire Heather Molloy
Buvons | Iván Kozirev, Daniel Joseph
By Any Other Name | Daniel Deville
By the time I came looking you were already gone | Inti Rowland
Can We Talk? | Tom Gimlette
Car Sick | David Hayman Jr
Chairs | James Hughes
Conversion | Richard Broomfield
Crocodile | Liam Steers, Frankie Lipman
Don’t Choke | Sonny Baez
Erica’s Game | Eben Skilleter
Fade | Neilson Black
Fate Takes The Wheel | Ade Yinka Kosoko
First Timers | Hector Bell
Fragile Reflections | Andrew Short
GHANIMAH | Sai karan Talwar
Good Grief | Robert Sharp
GRIM | Grace Alwyn Ashworth
Growing Pains | Robert Smith
Her Castle | Daniel Ellerby
Hidden | Paul Riordan
Hymn & Her | Adam Nightingale
I Am What Remains | Senal Ranatunga
In the Dark | Sam A. James
In The Shadow of Darkness | Manjeet Gill, Andrew Walker
Innocent | Carolin Pech
It Is What It Is | Ryan Edwards
Jam | Crystal Leaity
Joni | Gregory Nice, Jack Stanton
Kind-Hearted Intermission | Ian Roberts
Kiran | Bhulla Beghal
Learning to Swim | Trudie Shutler
Lies on the Line | Nicole Sarah Fry
Lone Star Tick | Ewan McIntosh
Lost and Found | Erica Miller
Love’s Defiling Moment | Richard Gren William Crooks
Man Off The Coast | Matt Sedgley
ManMade | Plum Stupple-Harris
Melody | Jubair Khan
Merman | Madeleine Wynn
Midnight Ride | Alessandro Farrattini Pojani
Moon Mountain | Inti Rowland
Mother’s Day | Theo Kaufman
Museum Piece | Steven Lancefield
My Darling Amelia | Talor John Marshall
Obsidian Hounds | Richard Anthony Dunford
Òran na h-Eala | Steve Exeter
Outlets | Duncan Cowles
Pick Me Up | Jack Archer
Playing Away | A D Cooper
Pushing Daisy | Leah Revivo
Read to Me | Dan Horrigan
Red Black Green | Naphat Boonyaprapa
Release | Daniel Johns
Roof | Sam Roy
Rummy | Rebecca Tuffin
Run | Matthew Bartlett
Ruth | Paul Romero Méndez, Arturo M. Antolín
Salz Got Herpeez | Ravin Vythelingum
Same Time Next Year? | Nagham El-Khoury
Save the Orchid | Vladislav Motorichev
Scavengers | Hugo Cavalier
Scrutiny | James Quinn
Sensibility | Ben Kernow
Siblings | Daniel Thomas Glenn-Barbour
Small Town, Big Hell | Martha Dunlea
Snapshot | John Clark
Spag Bol | BRICK
Sugar Babies | Harry Shaw
Suong | Evan Preston
Synapses | Reece Berry
Tell Me You Love Me | Paulette Randall MBE
Tempest | Jake Hoang
The Briefcase | Vijay Varman
The Cornucopia Club | Joseph Archer
The Elegy | Sarmukh Hundal
The Five Stages of Wardrobe Assembly | Dan Ackroyd
The Gig | Xander Turian
The Halo Effect | Phoebe Eleanor White
The Last Bee On Earth | Nick Flugge
The Liver | Daniel Brereton
The Magical World Of Miracles | Elle Van Knoll
The Misunderstanding | Alastair Marshall
The Pink Pill | Cassiah Joski-Jethi
The School System | Jesse Roth
The Stag | Evan Preston
The Tortuer | Peyman Mandegar
The Whole World Blind (or: The Ballad of The Ballad of the Cuck and the Eunuch | Finbar Somers, Seán Mackey
Time Spent | Rob Daniel Hutt
Tin Foil Flat | Ruari Barratt
Toast | Lawrence Rowe
Tom, Dick and Harry | Asim Dar
Two Stars Short | Zak Klein
Unthinkable Conversations | Emma Richardson
Vulnerable | Adam Bellamy
When This You See | Megan Lyons
Whispers of Smoke | Nathan Theys
You’re Out | Indira Townend
Best Short Documentary
Berook | Andreas Johansson | Sweden
BREXIT Field Trip | Fritz H Kohle | Netherlands
Connect | Satoru Okabe | Japan
Culture Talk on the Radio | Errkaa | Germany
Disturbed | Michael-Claude Winfield | United States
Finding Stillness | Ricky Gane, Sarah Gane | United Kingdom
For The Better | Jay Dixon | United Kingdom
Game Over | Saeed Mayahy, Miriam Carlsen | Turkey
Garden State | Julie Langsam | United States
in·spi·ra·tion | Patrick Crellin, Bethany White | United Kingdom
Lights, Camera, Economics: Independent Film in the UK | Nick Spyropoulos | United Kingdom
Now that we are all here | Nicolás Fernández-Montes Cuberta, Javi Espárrago, Ignacio Peñalver Peinado, Carmen Macías | Spain
Other Times | Xavier Guàrdia | Spain
Rootless | Defne Özden | United Kingdom
The Analogy of Space | Oleksandr Hoisan | Ukraine
The Most Beautiful Corner in the World | Robo Mihály | Slovakia
Three Sisters | Iman Behrouzi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Under the Impression | William Thomas Rabbitt | United Kingdom
Unnamed | Iranmehr – Salimi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Best Animated Short
A World in Chaos | David Crisp | Hungary
AstroSquad Teaser | Siwapong Ruenrerng, Chromatic Graph Team – | Thailand
Clowning Around | Robert Brown | United Kingdom
David | Patrick Ward | United States
Demi-Gods | Martin Gerigk | Germany
Everywhere | Step Cheung, Kai Chung Ng | Hong Kong
Franklin | Maddy Stevens | United States
Freedom St. 24/2 | Galya Bistritskaya, Katerina Eli | Israel
Future Of… | Scott Coello | United Kingdom
Insomnia | Zhenya Orekhova, Kristina Riaposova | Russian Federation
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
Meet Again (JAEHOE) | Ap-sol Kang | Korea, Republic of
Mr. Copycat | Mr Men 50th Anniversary Tribute | Kieran Firth-Bernard | United Kingdom
Odd One Out | Micky Wozny | United Kingdom
Our Tight House | Gyopár Orsolya Búzási | Hungary
Remembering Nearfield | Sean Alexander Carney | United Kingdom
Scratch | Levente Lajtai | United Kingdom
Shadow day | Renata Ramos | Colombia
Shakespeare for all Ages | Hannes Rall | Germany
Temporarily Removed | Dotan Goldwaser, Yoav Brill | Israel
the analogy of space | Oleksandr Hoisan | Ukraine
The Holiday Maker | Harry Mead | United Kingdom
The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth | Joël Gibbs | United States
The mysterious Amulet | Simon Wendler | Austria
The Red Ball | George Morgan | United Kingdom
The Secret Diary of a High-Rise | Stephen James Ong | United Kingdom
The Sprayer | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Vicious Cycle | Tianyun lyu | United States
Best Foreign New Director
A Different Day | Levi Kenneth Wise Catoe Jr. | United States
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
Fast Car | Fabio Cordero | Spain
Handwritten | Sina Hadadi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Hole | Amirali Masomi Far | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Lucky Coin ! | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
Malakout | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Mirrorty | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
Pregnant | Golnaz Jamsheed | Iran
Resurrection under the Ocean | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
Save the Orchid | Vladislav Motorichev | United Kingdom
Still Life | Konstantinos Doxiadis | United Kingdom
Stranger | Julia Hayden Fung | United States
Survivor | Karim Azimi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Analogy of Space | Oleksandr Hoisan | Ukraine
The Death Ox | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
The last Dinner | Marie-Ange Casalta | France
The Librarian | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey
The Old Young Crow | Liam LoPinto | Japan
The other | Negah Sohrabi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Sprayer | Farnoosh Abedi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
The Steak | Kiarash Dadgar Mohebi | Iran, Islamic Republic of
Best British New Director
A Bad Hand | Riley Dunmore
A Dream Dark Day | Aaron Stephen Bishop
Belle | Joe Furey
Bin Day | Elliot Taylor
Birdsong | Liam Beazley
Black As Before | Craig Alexander Tonks
Destroyer | Albert Bullock
Dragons | Tyrese Shipp
GHANIMAH | Sai karan Talwar
Heart’s Desire | Loren Alleyne
Lone Star Tick | Ewan McIntosh
Short Stay, Long Stay | Danny Carter
Siblings | Daniel Thomas Glenn-Barbour
The Gig | Xander Turian
This Feeling | Jack Fielder
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