WFF_2024/25 Long List

Important information for filmmakers

Below are the films that have been selected for the WFF_2024/25 Long List. 

The  Long List contains the films selected to be put forward for consideration by the Selection Panel for  the Official Selection (the films selected for screening).  Please note: The Long List is NOT the Official Selection.

Films selected for the WFF_2024/25 Official Selection (screened at the festival and eligible for laurels) will be published on 30th November 2024. 

The Award Winners and Special Mentions of each category will be announced during Part 2 of the festival, which will take place in November 2025.  (dates to be confirmed). Part 1 of the Festival will take palve in March 2025.

Please note that only films included in the WFF_2024/25 Official Selection are eligible for festival laurels

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If your film or a film you represent is included in this Long List and the title or director’s name are not correct, please contact us at myfilm@winchesterfilmfestival.com (using as subject matter: Correction to Short List 2024/25 + 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 Long List

Feature Film Award

Satu – Year of the Rabbit | Joshua Trigg

Red Monet | Halder Gomes

The Kingdom By The Sea | Richard John Taylor

Travelling through my mind | Matthew Peter littlechild, Sam Eadalani

Signs of Life  | Joseph Millson

Angels Don’t Buzz | Aleksandr Seliverstov

My Native America | Jim Warne

Sound of Love  | Ayuta Yoshikawa 

There and Back | Oleg Asadulin

The Four Seasons | Maxim Shabalin

All This Time | Rob Worsey

 

Best Foreign Short Film

154 Andrea Sbarbaro, Riccardo Copreni

Blue river zitong

3.400KG | Atefeh Nafari

A Good Day Will Come | Amir Zargara

A street view | Loreto Saiz, Alfonso Villanueva García

A Summer’s End Poem | Lam Can-zhao

A Walk with Kate | Gaia Mitting

Bluatstilln- To Remind Me of Life | Julia Rosa Peer, Roland Silbernagl

Broken Hearts | Julie Magnaudet

Call me Lala | Zuzanna Sorówka

Childhood Friends | Jana Filzhuth

Crease | Demitri Zujew

CUT | Saba Amiri, Peyman Ezzati

Dig | Jandro

Divine accounts | Eulàlia Ramon

Dreamfinity | Monika Grzybowska

Encore | Noam Buchbinder

Entropy | Anna Fam

Fairytales are for Losers | Nick Page

Gentle Wind | Marta Arjona, Maite Blasco

Good t’see ya | Nüll García

Gritty Eyes | Juraj Janiš

Happy Place: Jedda | Titas Miciulis

Have a Good Day | Lisa Soper

Icetea | Alessia Buiatti

Jalopy  | Sal Ardongde (he/him)

Kazhal | Ali Azhari

Matterhorn | Anne Madeleine Mancosu

Memorable Night | Romain Fleury

Missing Verses | Jiaxin Wang

Mum | Julia Patey

Padre | Giulia Cafagna

Pick its Name | Parinaz Kabiri

Portions for Foxes | Dominic Vaughey

Queens | Sara Bustamante-Drozdek

Shift Change | Mark Hensley

Speaker | Alan Hamwan

Spectre | Ze Hu

Strangers Like Us | Pipi Frostl, Felix Krisai

Sucker’s Death | Krzysztof Grudziński

The Bloody Family | Amir Karami

The Pain of Being | Jes Pace

The Trunk | Tony Susi

The Voice Of Dogs | Mohammad Reza Nazi

The Yellow Wallpaper | Jen Cale, Hannah Snowden

Tribu | Carlos Gómez-Trigo

Uplift | David García Díaz, Rut García Díaz

Warsaw Story | Jan Kuźnik

Zum See | Federico Fasulo

Best British Short Film

16 | Ryan Kochberg

A Different Path | Jericho Reid, Isaiah Berra

A Sunday In the Vale of Tears | Maxine Sibanda

Art | Ben Kernow

Autumn of Life | Emma Heal

Better the Neville You Know | Paul Stainthorpe

Black of my Eye | Mitch Kalisa

Bone Dry | James Crafford

Caged | Anastasia Marshall

Caterpillar | Dorny Sunday

Chugger | Rizan Fateema

Conflict | Sasha Dulerayn

Dear Departed |Lauren Sims

Dirty Talk | Nico Rao Pimparé

Dissimulation | Sam Weeks

Don’r Even Know You | Anna Volosnik

Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite | Kelly Diapère

Exchange Rate | Emma Stansfield

Goodbye Train | Chioma Ejimofo

Grey Mare | Jack Fielder

Hard Times | Elliott Gonzo, Elliot Warren

Helen of Troy’s | Nick Flügge

Horse | Oliver Woolridge

Hungry Like The Wolf | Kieran Dee

I came up here to clear my head | Thor Klein

I Don’t Like Shitting in Public | Ken Abalos

In This Moment | Andrew Fitzgerald

Indigo Blues | Milton Gibney

Jujuman | Tony Ogunyinka

Just Be Awesome  | Ed Kear, Cringo Williamson

Keep The Faith | Charlene Jones

Lequando | Roxanne Rapp, Eric James Gravolin

Mafia | James Cleave

Making Up | Ryan Paige

Marrow | Stephen Smart

Mouse! | Max Fisher

Mr & Mrs Wilcox | Donovan Wardroper

Mr Apple | Ian D. Fleming

Murder For Dummies (Episode 01: Victim) | J.W. Roberts

National Treasures | Will Wright

On The Corner Of Nowhere | Finn O’Toole

PATIENCE | Louis Chan

Pee Fright | Matt Colin Evans

Red Sky at Night | Kieran Stringfellow

Remains | Robert Duncan

Resonance | Lincoln Waldron

Safe | Debbie Howard

Sage | Max Blustin

SELL SELL SELL SALES | Jack Trowbridge

Shade | Thomas Nangle

Shortbread | Andy S. McEwan

Sweet Potatoes | Jake Meniani Meniani

The Barn | Jonathan Paul Brooker, Chichester Filmmakers

The Carrot | Joakim Benum

The First Time I Never Met You | Eric Kole

The Future Can Be Yours | Simon Ball

The Gift of Life | Amirhossein Hatami

The Goods | Thomas Nangle

The Nun Slayer | Ben Bovington-Key

The Other Woman | Cameron Lee Horace, Sophie Colquhoun

The Promise Goblin | James Atkins

The RedRoom | Sophie Cohen, Michael Lindsay

The Vampire Theory | Dominic Grose

Tunnels | Paul Bloomfield

Two Lifetimes | Aaron Singh

Verrucaway | Magnus McCullagh, Charlie Brafman

What Men Do For Love | Sai Karan Talwar

What We Wished We Could Be | Luke Shelley

Where’s Mum? | Rachel Stephens

Winter Song | Kate Graham

Work Order | Dayle Saunders

Best Short Documentary

30s are (NOT) the new 20s | Juan Vicente Castillejo

Arena | Khalil Charif

Britain’s Naked Christians | James Dunlop

Gods of Clay | Amit Bhattacharya 

Hallelujah Forever | Odveig Klyve

Memory | Riyadh Haque

Reign / Herrschaft | David Graudenz

THE CIRCLE | Evgeniy Bakirov

The Influence of Ping Pong is Big | Caleb Yule

The People’s Phoenix | Christopher Linton

‘UK – Ukraine Together’ documentary | Helen Popova

Best Animated Short

A Christmas Tale | Natalie A. Evans

A pleasure | Sonia Estevez

And don’t call me crazy | Dorota Skupniewicz

Are You Home? | Megan Cork

Bright White Light | Henna Välkky, Eesu Lehtola

Cave | Jan Zhou

Fall | Demeter Dykes

Feferle | Alica Khaet

Metal Flower | Seoyun Kim

MoMo & LuLu | Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi

Monsieur Marcels Very Unlucky day | Frankie William Robert Baxter

Pepper Tongue | Alex Benbow-Carter

Piano Hand | Emi Yining Sun

Sun Scream | Amar Dusanjh

Undertow | Justin Taylor

Wild Eye Pub | Filip Nerold

Best Foreign New Director

Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite | Kelly Diapère

Fairytales are for Losers | Nick Page

The Yellow Wallpaper | Jen Cale, Hannah Snowden

Best British New Director

Crocodile | Liam Steers, Frankie Lipman

Hello Again, Nice To Meet You | Finn O’Toole 

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