Official Selection 2016
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| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| By The Way | UK | John Wright |
| Full ANL | USA | Joe Burrascano |
| Morning Rituals | Spain | Bruno Simões |
| SEMAINE - Introducing Mr Poilâne | UK | Cloé Bailly |
| Toyota Corolla Hybrid | China | Remo Camerota |
| Racing For A Reason | Germany | Tim Hahne |
| From Lancome With Love | UK | John Wright |
| Never Ending Story | France | Metz+Racine |
| Robo-Trumble | UK | John Wright |
Animation
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| About Death | South Korea | Eunjae Lee |
| Apocalypse Rhyme | UK | Oliver Harrison |
| Bound | UK | Dann Parry |
| City of Roses | Ireland | Andrew Kavanagh |
| Dave | UK | Garry J. Marshall & Chris Watson |
| Fall | UK | Ollie Magee |
| Gnome | Singapore | Sacha Goedegebure |
| Hobart | Hungary | Hajnalka Harsanyi |
| Iktsuarpok | UK | Rachael Olga Lloyd |
| Known Unto God | UK | Suzie Hanna |
| Little Elephant | UK | Kate Jessop |
| Machine | Denmark | Sunit Parekh-Gaihede |
| Mr Madila | UK | Rory Waudby-Tolley |
| Neck & Neck | UK | Shaun Clark |
| Needle Town | UK | Kaspar Synnevag & Henrik Hylland Uhlving |
| No Place Like Home | UK | Cat Bruce |
| One Bright Dot | France | Clément Morin |
| (Otto) | Netherlands | Job, Joris & Marieke |
| Puzzle | Israel | Stav Levi |
| Riflesso | UK | Alice Guzzo & Mateusz Borkowski |
| Seven Seven | UK | Georgina Ferguson & Eduarda Lima |
| Shmeat | New Zealand | Matasila Freshwater |
| The Beach Boy | Germany | Hannes Rall |
| The Inverted Peak | UK | The Brothers Mcleod & Tom Angell |
| The Journey Never Starts. The Journey Never Ends. | UK | Michelle Brand |
| The Last Fairy | UK | Ben Gratton |
| The Sedate Escape | UK | Joe Dearman |
| The Wisdom of Pessimism | UK | Claudio Salas |
| Themes & Variations | USA | Ziye Liu |
| There Is Still Life | Canada | Thibault Houdon & Maxime Roz |
| To Build a Fire | France | Fx Goby |
| Trial & Error | Germany | Antje Heyn |
| Under the Apple Tree | The Netherlands / Belgium | Erik van Schaaik |
| Violet | Ireland | Maurice Joyce |
| Vocabulary 1 | USA | Becky James |
| Yùl and the snake | France | Gabriel Harel |
Artists' Film
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| A Moment Twice Lived | Ireland | Martin Healy |
| After the Crow Flies | UK | Sonal Kantaria |
| Carnival Talk: An Adequate Language | UK | Rhea Storr |
| Death in a Day | USA | Lin Wang |
| Figures in a Landscape | UK | Rory Menage |
| Headshots | Australia | Sarah Catherine Firth |
| Human Installation 1: Gender Obsolescence | Italy | Kyrahm & Julius Kaiser |
| In One Piece | UK | Karolina Nieduza |
| It Is All About Listening | UK | Danila Luppino |
| Migration | USA | Daphna Mero |
| No Body | Israel | Aya Ben Ron |
| Poem and Stone | UK | Maryam Tafakory |
| Seven | UK | Clare Baybutt |
| Shoreline | Canada | Yalitsa Riden |
| Simpanssi | Germany | Saana Inari |
| Simulacra | UK | Theo Tagholm |
| Solo Damas | UK | Callum Hill |
| The Toby Tatum Guide to Grottoes & Groves | UK | Toby Tatum |
| True Songs | UK | Francesca Allfrey |
| Twelve | UK | Melanie Manchot |
| Un Chat Andalou | UK | Nick Abrahams |
| Wrecking Machine | UK | Robert Francis Müller |
Comedy
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| 90 Grad Nord | Germany | Detsky Graffam |
| A Done Deal | Canada | Pierre-Marc Drouin & Simon Lamarre-Ledoux |
| A Town Called Theocracy | USA | Jehad N Al-Khateeb |
| Afrobeat(s) | UK | Will Webb |
| Allhallowtide | UK | Tia Salisbury |
| Amy | UK | Oliver Kember |
| Aquabike | France | Jean-Baptiste Saurel |
| Atmos | Spain | Ana Fesser |
| Big Boy | USA | Bryan Campbell |
| Check Please | Israel / USA | Daniel Sorochkin |
| City Lights | UK | Ed Wiles |
| Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness | Finland | Miia Tervo |
| Cropped | UK | Chris Thomas |
| Den Sniffe | UK | Matthew Nesbeth |
| Drawcard | Australia | Antonio Oreña Barlin |
| Egg | UK | Alice Trueman |
| Fan Girl | UK | Kate Herron |
| Games Night | UK | Martin Morrison |
| Headless: The Ed Shales Story | UK | Yousef |
| Help! I'm Trapped In A Movie | UK | Riley Madincea |
| Jake The Magnificent | UK | Paul Wade |
| Kissy Lips Man | UK | Will Webb |
| Litterbugs | UK | Peter Stanley-Ward |
| Little Big House | UK | Cat Jones |
| Lovequake | UK | Stephen Glass |
| Madam Black | New Zealand | Ivan Barge |
| Mark Gets Coffee | UK | Richard Starkey |
| More Than God | Ireland | Kev Cahill |
| Mosquito | UK | Ben Mallaby |
| Nachspielzeit | Germany | David N. Koch |
| One-Minute Time Machine | UK | Devon Avery |
| Paco | USA | Catalina Jordan Alvarez |
| Point and Shoot | USA | Thomas Leisten Schneider |
| Retrosexe | France | Jean-Baptiste Saurel |
| Rhonna & Donna | UK | Daina O.Pusic |
| Shabes Morgen | Israel | Or Dotan |
| Slingshot | Australia | David Hansrn |
| Stalkers | UK | Fred Tilby-Jones |
| Standing Still | UK | Chris Mcgill |
| The Chop | UK | Lewis Rose |
| The Driving Seat | UK | Phil Lowe |
| The Final Scene | UK | Mark Pressdee |
| The Last Post | UK | Adam Preston |
| The National Facility for the Regulation of Regret | UK | Rachel Genn |
| Venice | Australia | Venetia Taylor |
| Vuilwasgoed | South Africa | Bennie Fourie |
| We Are Happy | UK | Matt Winn |
| Wingman | UK | Will Herbert |
Dance
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Above the light | UK | Heike Salzer & Jack Laidlaw |
| Aquarius | Russia | Timo Zhalnin |
| Bird | The Netherlands / Serbia | Dunja Jocic & Marinus Groothof |
| Bound | USA | Monica Thomas |
| Dominio | Chilé | Patricio Soto Aguilar |
| Intrusion | UK | Nick White |
| Landing | Portugal | Filipe Martins |
| Lay Me Low | Canada | Marlene Millar |
| Motus | Slovenia | Oton Bacar |
| She/Her | The Netherlands | Sonja Wyss |
| Shift | USA | Rachael Lincoln & Amelia Rudolph |
| This Idea Of Us | UK | Geej Ower |
Documentary
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| A Long Walk to Grimethorpe | UK | Ismar Badzic |
| Back to the Fjords | France | Sebastien Montaz-Rosset |
| Bacon & God's Wrath | Canada | Sol Friedman |
| Barbie Beach | USA | Courtney Dixon |
| Better Days | UK | Joseph Driscoll |
| Camrex | UK | Mark Chapman |
| Claire's Jigsaw | UK | Leo Rytina |
| Consumed | UK | Richard John Seymour |
| Continental Drift | UK | Pietro Novello |
| Elders | UK | Glen Milner |
| Fisher of the Tarn | France | Pascal Gaubert |
| Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Year of The Snake | UK | baronxbones |
| Full of Dreams | The Netherlands | Marinka de Jongh |
| Harvest | UK | Antonis Kitsikis |
| Hell on Wheels | UK | Emma Miranda Moore |
| Hunted | UK | Andrea DiNardo |
| Ilia | UK / Iran | Louis Chan & Francois du Chatenet |
| Irregulars | Italy | Fabio Palmieri |
| Kacey Mottet Klein, naissance d'un acteur | Switzerland | Ursula Meier |
| Los Júzcarenos | UK | Diego F. Caicedo-Galindo |
| Marmite And Fruitcakes | UK | Zed Nelson |
| Nobody Dies Here | France | Simon Panay |
| Northbound | Norway | Jørn Nyseth Ranum |
| Northern Soul: This Is Now | UK | Lucy Marshall |
| Off The Grid | UK | Meghna Gupta |
| Out of the Shallow End | USA | Laurie Russman |
| Pepe | Peru | Yfke van Berckelaer |
| Pien de bijenkoningin | The Netherlands | Ellen Vloet |
| Platform 1 | UK | Jessica Bishopp |
| Pobol | UK | Viviane Peoc'h |
| Polish Go Home | UK | Elena Andreicheva |
| Roadliners | UK | Ross Gillespie |
| Sharon | UK | Jessica Bishopp |
| Soul City | USA | Monica Berra, SheRea DelSol, Gini Richards |
| Supporting Film | The Netherlands | Douwe Dijkstra |
| The Artist and the Machine | UK | Reuben Armstrong & Jamie Neale |
| The Battle | Australia | Sophie Hexter & Poppy Walker |
| The Ethics of Dust | UK | Alex Emslie |
| The Making of Latex 101 | UK | Hayley Evans |
| The Tremor | Spain | Oscar Vincentelli |
| War and Cheese | UK | Ben Garfield |
| Wolfhunter | UK | James Morgan |
Drama
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| A Girl and Her Gun | UK | Paul Holbrook & Sam Dawe |
| A New Civilization | USA | Williams Naranjo |
| Allegory of the Jam Jar | Belgium | Boris Kuijpers & Ruth Mellaerts |
| Äralend | Estonia | Carlos Lesmes |
| Beautiful Dreamer | USA | David Gaddie |
| Before the Bomb | USA | Tannaz Hazemi |
| Bird Songs from Amazonia | UK | Harry Bracho |
| Blazing Sun | Belgium | Fred Castadot |
| Boat | UK | David Lumsden |
| Bouquet | UK | David Findlay |
| Breathe | Ireland | James Doherty |
| Breathe | USA | Paul Kowalski |
| Bricks | UK | Neville Pierce |
| Catch | UK | Dominic Rees-Roberts and Paul Cooke |
| Chaste | UK | Mike Jones |
| Cold Call | UK | Nuno Dias |
| Complices | Belgium | Mathieu Mortelmans |
| Dancers | New Zealand | Louise Leitch |
| Dawn | USA | Joseph Longo |
| Dunroamin | UK | Oliver Milburn |
| Dust and Resin | UK | Stephen Parker |
| Edith | UK | Christian Cooke |
| Fata Morgana | USA / China | Amelie Wen |
| Fidel | Spain | Eduardo Casanova |
| Fiesta | Germany | Nancy Camaldo |
| Fire | UK | Christopher Andrews |
| FlySpy | UK | Daniel M Smith |
| For Better or For Worse | Belgium | Rembert Evenepoel |
| Freakwave | Germany | Pennie Hunt |
| Ghosting | UK | Zu Quirke |
| GIRL - Chapter 1 & 2 | Denmark | Mie Skjoldemose |
| God’s Got His Head in the Clouds | Lithuania / Italy | Gianluca Sodaro |
| Guest | Georgia | Nino Shaburishvili |
| Hartloop | South Africa | Diaan Lawrenson |
| Hausarrest | Switzerland | Matthias Sahli |
| Horn | USA | Hughes William Thompson |
| Hula | UK | Robin Haig |
| I Am Sami | UK | Kae Bahar |
| I Scream Your Name | Switzerland | Oskar Rosetti |
| I Used to be Famous | UK | Eddie Sternberg |
| Jacked | UK | Rene Pannevis |
| Jim “The Fish” | UK | Andrew Tulloch |
| Joseph’s Reel | UK | Michael Lavers |
| Juliet | France | Marc-Henri Boulier |
| Like a Butterfly | UK | Eitan Pitigliani |
| Love is a Sting | Ireland | Vincent Gallagher |
| Man in Phone | Japan | Mackenzie Sheppard |
| Mast Qalandar | India | Divij Roopchand |
| Mdudu Boy | Kenya | Ella Smith |
| Midnight of My Life | UK | Phil Davis |
| Mikelis | Germany | Marc Bethke |
| Miss Zahra | Finland | Markus Lehmusruusu |
| Mother | UK | Marc Hardman |
| Nachtlicht (Nightlight) | Switzerland | Samuel Flueckiger |
| Nipplejesus | UK | Jake Lushington |
| Normalna | Israel | Noga Bash |
| Our Fallen Heroes | France | Stéphane Landowski |
| Pêcheurs | France | Yoann Garel |
| Pool | Canada | Benjamin Lussier |
| Round Numbers | Colombia | Rafael Martínez Moreno |
| Ruah | Switzerland | Flurin Giger |
| Run | Canada | Elad Tzadok |
| Senses | Sweden | Zanyar Adami |
| Silence | Australia | Dejan Mrkic |
| Sing | Hungary | Kristof Deak |
| Somniloquy | Australia | Darcy Conlan |
| Stalactites | UK | Alison Piper |
| Stay | UK | Ben S. Hyland |
| Take Me to the Moon | Taiwan | Hao Ying Chen & Lee Bang Hao |
| The Arrival | UK | Daniel Montanarini |
| The Boy by the Sea | The Netherlands | Vasily Chuprina |
| The Disappearance of Willie Bingham | Australia | Matthew Richards |
| The Hole | Peru | German Tejada & Daniel Martin Rodriguez |
| The Idyll | UK | Justin Anderson |
| The Lasting Persimmon | Japan | Kei Chikaura |
| The Mausoleum | Estonia | Lauri Randla |
| The Mother | USA | Paolo Monico |
| The Nest Egg | UK | Lucy Patrick Ward |
| The Party | Ireland | Andrea Harkin |
| The Same Life | Spain | Cesar Roldan |
| The Scarecrow | USA | Phillip Rhys |
| The Seed | Greece | Ifigeneia Kotsoni |
| The Sky is Blue Everywhere | Germany | Gina Wenzel |
| The Son | UK | Nikolaj Belzer |
| There’s a Bluebird in My Heart | Australia | Simon Trevorrow |
| Things That Fall From The Sky | UK | Catherine Linstrum |
| Three Kinds of Fear | Brazil | Bruno Bini |
| Time and Again | UK | Aidan Largey |
| Tunisia 2045 | France | Ted Hardy-Carnac |
| Under the Floorboards | UK | Ryan Bloom |
| Underdog | France | Jean-Alain Laban |
Experimental
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| 1919 | Australia | Kerinne Jenkins |
| A Place I've Never Been | Switzerland | Adrian Flury |
| A Tiny Evolution of an Escapee | USA | Makar Ke Ma |
| Apocalypse | Poland | Justyna Mytnik |
| Aymara | UK | Michele Benigna |
| Blackout | UK | Jordan Baseman |
| City Crush | Australia | Mia Forrest |
| Emma, Change the Locks | UK | Julia Hart |
| Fragments of May | UK | Maria Pia Fanigliulo |
| Gallo Rojo | South Africa | Zamo Mkhwanazi & Alejandro Fadel |
| Girl | Norway | Andrea Sand Gustavson |
| Haldernablou - Triptych | France | Tom de Pekin |
| Here | USA | Ashley Hillis |
| Heyden | Germany | Philip Specht & Merish Claren |
| Isabella | UK | Ross Hogg & Duncan Cowles |
| Kallocain | Germany / USA | Catalina Alvarez |
| Kaltes Tal | Germany | Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell |
| Limbs of Sun | Poland | Krzysztof Skonieczny & Jacqueline Sobiszewski |
| Machina | France | Apollo Thomas |
| Made of Sugar | USA | Kevin Rios |
| Man on the Hill | UK | Daisy Dickinson |
| Moth Vitals | USA | Nancy Wyllie |
| [molk] | Canada | Terence Chotard & Raphaël J. Dostie |
| Oiche Nollaig na mBan | Ireland | Oonagh Kearney |
| Pollen | UK | Helen Warner |
| Ravages | Canada | Alan Lake |
| Remake | UK | Cecilia Stenbom |
| Rituals | UK | Daisy Moore |
| The Great Moon Hoax | Germany | Alex Simon Klug & Daniel Pitts |
| The Museum of Departures | UK | Gautam Valluri |
| The Tide | UK | Richard Rudy |
| Two Signs' Den: Epilogue | Brazil | Bruno Decc |
| Un Lézard Dans La Peau / A Lizard Under the Skin | Belgium | Maud Neve |
| Waterfall | UK | Tom Lock Griffiths |
| Who Doesn't Have a Dark Side | France | Léo Favier |
| You Are Awake | UK | Pedro Martin-Calero |
Family Friendly
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Ari | Australia | Alex Murawski |
| At-issue | UK | Drew Roper |
| Dobry | Bulgaria | Orlin Milchev |
| Drawn Together | UK | Victoria Howell |
| Fishwitch | UK | Adrienne Dowling |
| Lili | Israel | Hani Dombe, Tom Kouris |
| Lion Dance | USA | Tim Pattinson and Zheng Kang |
| Louis | France | Violaine Pasquet |
| Michi | Canada | Kaho Yoshida |
| My Mums Got a Dodgy Brain | UK | Emma Lazenby |
| No Added Preservatives | UK | Heather Duvalle |
| Significance | UK | Jack Pirie & Alex Hylands-White |
| Vryslag (Freestyle) | South Africa | Marcel Van Heerden |
| Walking Home | Germany | Max Richert |
Fashion
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Any Day Now | USA | Marco Castro |
| Ascensions Highsnobiety featuring Black Rabbit ?? | UK | Jonathan Edwards (Naive) |
| Becco di Rame | Italy | Melany |
| Black Scraptrolley | UK | Anna-Nicole Ziesche |
| Blossom | France | Benjamin Nicolas |
| Breaking Rules | Spain | Victor Claramunt |
| Cycle III | UK | Dan Gianini |
| Diamond | UK | Tash Horton |
| Dynamo | USA | Axel Filip Lindahl |
| Ethetics: AKJP | USA / South Africa | Amber Moelter & Luis Barreto Carrillo |
| Ethetics: Mdingi Coutts | USA / South Africa | Amber Moelter & Luis Barreto Carrillo |
| Gun | Chilé | Javiera Eyzaguirre |
| Gymnast | Greece | Glen MacKay |
| Hustler | UK | Christopher Cunniff |
| Insight | UK | Tanya Ivashko |
| Iris & Ivy | Canada | Joseph Ghaleb |
| Life Drawing I, II & III | UK | Amelie Hegardt & The Sacred Egg |
| Lightness of being | Japan | Ambre Cardinal |
| Lioness And The Hunter | UK | Alex Browning |
| Poetics of Movement | USA | Ehsan Abbasi, Bayan Sardari |
| Reality And Virtual | China | Tian Chen |
| Savile Row Is Rock 'N' Roll | UK | John Wright |
| Sentimental Dream | UK | Norbert Schoerner |
| Shapes | UK | Ozzie Pullin |
| Silver Goddesses | UK | Quentin Hubert & Anna Radchenko |
| Snowbird | USA | Sean Baker |
| Sukeban Control Utility Modern (S.C.U.M) | Australia | Stanton Cornish-Ward |
| Surface | Taiwan | Wei Jen Chen |
| Sustainability and other stories | Germany | Mayya Saliba |
| The Coup - A Small Cleptomanicx Adventure | Germany | Fabian Driehorst, Frédéric Schuld |
| The Dose | UK | Lorenzo Cisi |
| The King And The Crown | USA | Charlotte Neuwels |
| The Ordinary Tasks of The Super Human | UK | João Retorta & Filipe Penajoia |
| The Painting | UK | Boldizsar CR |
| The Seven Voices In Amber | Taiwan | Hung-Chun Wang |
| The Voyage | USA | Formento & Formento |
Music Video
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Alvin & Lyle - So Delicious | Belgium / France | Peter Emmanuilov |
| Anja - Echo | Norway | Aurora Gossé |
| Beardyman - Mountainside | UK | Lewis Rose |
| Bec Sandridge - In The Fog, In The Flame | UK | Rose Hendry |
| Ben Abraham - You And Me | Australia | Darcy Prendergast & Josh Thomas |
| Benjamin Scheuer - Weather The Storm | UK | Peter Baynton |
| Branches of Life | UK | Katerina Athanasopoulou |
| Frog Eyes - Joe with the Jam | UK | Marsha Balaeva |
| It is what it is | China | Xueyang Ni |
| Kill the Noise - Kill it 4 the Kids | UK | Chris Ullens |
| Mantocliff - These Words | Switzerland | Brigitte Faessler |
| Miles de Carteret - Honey | Australia | Jessica Barclay Lawton |
| Modini - The Answer | UK | Yannick Dangin Leconte & Anna Faivre d'Arcier |
| Nao - Bad Blood | UK | Ian Pons Jewell |
| Nicolas Godin - Bach Off | France | Colin Solal Cardo |
| Nigel Thomas - 5476 Miles | UK | Terry Thomas |
| Notion | UK | Hannah Palumbo & Linden Feng |
| Post Louis - Fragility | UK | Sophie Bernberg |
| Raheem Bakare - Ups & Downs | UK | Remi Laudat |
| Ralf Hildenbeutel - Disco | Germany | Boris Seewald |
| Ray Knight - Grapes and Water | France / USA | Alexandra Kaucher |
| Rio Wolta - Through My Street | Switzerland | Piet Baumgartner |
| Scott McFarnon - Crazy Heart | UK / USA | Floyd Russ |
| Sivan Levy - Stand Still | Israel | Sivan Levy & Dan Robert Lahiani |
| Stig of the Dump - Kubrick | UK | Mark J. Blackman |
| Super Girl & Romantic Boys - Shadows | Poland | Roman Przylipiak |
| Tulipomania - Don't Be So Sure | USA | Cheryl Gelover & Tom Murray |
| Victoria+Jean - Härligt Sverige | Belgium | Corentin Kopp |
| Yes Alexander - Fever | USA | Beatriz M Calleja |
Thriller
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Béatrice | France | Christophe Previte |
| Black Woods at Sundown | UK | Tom Oliver |
| Cerberus | UK | Remy Bazerque |
| Cork Man | USA | Dawn Han |
| Eat | UK | Carl Shanahan |
| Fumes | UK | Tom Werber |
| Insomnolence | Australia | Kiefer Findlow |
| Listen To Me | UK | Rob Ayling |
| Lock In | UK | Neville Pierce |
| O - The Movie | Norway | Frank Aron Gårdsø |
| Oh, Morris | UK | Lewis Kyle |
| Panic | UK | James Cookson |
| Prey | UK | Sunny King |
| Severed Garden | UK | Gonçalo Almeida |
| Smile | UK | Carolina Giammetta |
| The Ditch | UK | Sheena Holliday |
| The Kindness of Strangers | UK | Alkin Emirali |
| The Sticks | Ireland | Jamie Delaney & Russell Davidson |
| The Understudy | UK | Morgane Polanski |
| Truck | UK | Rob Curry |