Official Selection 2017
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| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| A Vision Through Sounds | Brazil | Danilo Godoy |
| Atonement | UK | Jameela Khan |
| New Neighbours | Germany | Constanze Klaue |
| Ruby Fashion Film | Germany | Ersin Cilesiz & David Onuora |
| Santa Forgot | UK | Asa Lucander, Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew & James Fentiman |
| The Nordic Sound | Norway | Christian Holm-Glad |
| Trailblazers | Germany | Tim Hahne |
| #WeBelieveInThePowerOfLove | Italy | Luca Finotti |
Animation
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Ayny | Germany | Ahmad Saleh |
| Being Ernest | UK | Victoria Fistes |
| Catherine | Belgium | Britt Raes |
| Construction Lines | UK | Max Colson |
| Corky | USA | Ty Primosch |
| Cradle | USA | Devon Manney |
| Dark, Dark Woods | Denmark | Emile Gignoux |
| Die Brücke Über Den Fluss | Switzerland | Jadwiga Kowalska |
| Don't Think of a Pink Elephant | UK | Suraya Raja |
| Fire in Cardboard City | New Zealand | Phil Brough |
| Johnno's Dead | UK | Chris Shepherd |
| Lethe | UK | Kat Michaelides |
| Life Cycles | UK | Ross Hogg |
| Life Smartphone | China | Chenglin Xie |
| Nachsaison (Late Season) | Austria | Daniela Leitner |
| Nachthexen | Denmark | Julie Herdichek Baltzer |
| Not the End of the World | UK | Jack Bennett |
| Panic Attack! | USA | Eileen O'Meara |
| Perched | UK | Liam Harris |
| Revolting Rhymes | UK | Jakob Schuh & Jan Lachauer |
| Second to None | Ireland | Vincent Gallagher |
| Shrink | UK | Matthew Lee |
| Squirrel Island | UK | Astrid Goldsmith |
| ST(R)AY | Taiwan | Chiang Yao |
| Tall Tales Part 3 | UK | Jon Turner |
| Tête à Tête | UK | Natasha Tonkin |
| The Durnhams' Drizzle | UK | Ella Trudgeon & Lois Bryant |
| The Full Story | UK | Daisy Jacobs & Chris Wilder |
| The Storm | Bulgaria | Ina Georgieva |
| The Sunshine Boy | UK | Naaman Azhari |
| Denver Jackson | Canada | Denver Jackson |
| Wednesday with Goddard | UK | Nicholas Menard |
| Whale Heart | Denmark | Robert Allen |
| Where Have The Flowers Gone | Hong Kong | Sin-hong Chan |
| Wishing Box | USA | Wenli Zhang & Nan Li |
Artists' Film
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| 1000 Smiles Per Hour | Germany | Fabian Altenried |
| Annabelle, Barbra, Becky, Alexis, Krystle, Ellen, Olive, Eve and Kirsten, Not Stumbling, Sliding, Sinking, Falling or Oblivious | UK | Marloes ten Bhömer, Noam Toran |
| Boneshaker | UK | Mark Lyken & Emma Dove |
| Book Report | - | Jeanne C. Finley & John Muse |
| Comet Perfume | UK | Jack Friswell |
| Creature of the Estuary | UK | Eelyn Lee |
| Dust on Paper | UK | Emilie Flower |
| E11_X | UK | Tessa Garland |
| For Real Tho | France | Baptist Penetticobra |
| Forever | UK | Tony Plant |
| Fragments | UK | Chiemi Shimada |
| Henry | UK | Rhea Storr |
| Hôtel de la Comète | France | Harald Hutter |
| Janchi Guksu (Banquet Noodles) | South Korea/United Kingdom | Ellie Kyungran Heo |
| KLIPPERTY KLÖPP | UK | Ellie Kyungran Heo |
| Methane Momma | France | Alain Rimbert |
| Nyo Vweta Nafta | Portugal | Ico Costa |
| Out in the Open | Australia | Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine |
| People Say It's Fireworks | UK/td> | Tim Bowditch, Sybella Perry & Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau |
| Seeds | Kenya | Philippa Ndisi-Hermann |
| So Cheerio for Now | UK | Sally Waterman |
| The Town That Blew Away | USA | Sarah Jones |
| Under Green Waves | Canada | Julia Hendrickson |
| We R The World/Mold | Canada | Dawn George |
Comedy
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| After The Volcano | France | Léo Favier |
| Belle and Bamber | UK | Alex Forbes |
| Best Man | UK | Freddie Hall |
| Chicken/Egg | UK | James D'Arcy |
| Clanker Man | UK | Ben Steiner |
| Cul-de-Sac | UK | Nick Flügge |
| Custom Love | UK | Jonathan Kebe |
| Deux Dollars | France | Emmanuel Tenenbaum |
| Einstein Rosen | Spain | Olga Osorio |
| Ewww | UK | Alexei Slater |
| Flake! | UK | James Dethick |
| Flushed | UK | Grace June Cleere |
| Fucking Bunnies | Finland | Teemu Niukkanen |
| Hell's Bells | UK | Luke Jeffery |
| Jack and Jill | UK | Nicholas Hearst |
| Lovebirds | France | Martin Garde Abildgaard |
| Marky's Bad Week | Ireland | Daniel Holmwood |
| Mordechai | UK | Benjamin Bee |
| Mouse | USA | Celine Held & Logan George |
| Mrs McCutcheon | Australia | John Sheedy |
| My Best Friend is Stuck on the Ceiling | Australia | Matt Vesely |
| NeckFace | UK | Jacqueline Wright |
| Ouija Sex | UK | Mondo Ghulam |
| Paint | Australia | Graeme Robertson |
| Plaza | UK | Hannah Hill |
| Polly, Ig and Me | UK | Ben Mallaby |
| Pregnant Pause | UK | Alice Seabright |
| Rated | USA | John Fortson |
| Roger | UK | Brendan Cleaves |
| Salon Shuffle | UK | Ross Jameson |
| Smear | UK | Kate Herron |
| Social Networking Socially - Society Through Technology | UK | Paul Murphy |
| The Dead Dog | UK | Helen Bolter |
| The Honeymoon | UK | Ruth Pickett |
| Une Affaire de Famille (A Family Affair) | France | Marius Azokpota |
| Varken | UK | Rory Bentley |
Dance
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Abandon | UK | Georgia Parris |
| Asafo | UK | Lola Ogunrinde |
| Dark Matter | UK | Amy Watson & Dennis Keighron Foster |
| For a Moment | France | Clémence Poésy |
| Haud Close Tae Me | UK | Eve McConnachie |
| Intrinsic Moral Evil | Netherlands | Harm Weistra |
| Lil Buck with Icons of Modern Art | UK | Andrew Margetson |
| Nurse Me | New Zealand | Kezia Barnett |
| Pilgrimage | Canada | Marlene Millar |
| Send me a Bigger Butterfly | Germany | Rain Kencana |
| Sonder | Romania | Simona Deaconescu |
| Thought Loops | USA | Samuel Laubscher |
Documentary
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| A Million Waves | UK | Daniel Ali & Louis Leeson |
| Agents of Change | UK | Alice Russell |
| BOI | UK | Dionne Rayner |
| Deighties | Australia | Mason Fleming |
| Dial-A-Ride | Australia | Tom Huntingford & George Cowie |
| Drag Kings | Australia | Elizabeth Valentina Sutton |
| El Cisne (The Swan) | USA | Daniel Chávez Ontiveros |
| Emily Mason: A Painting Experience | USA | Rafael Salazar & Ava Wiland |
| Flight | UK | Laura Wadha |
| Homeland | Belgium | Sam Peeters |
| I Am Vader | UK | Lachezar Lachezarov Dimitrov |
| Inhale | UK | Sean Mullan |
| Ink, Cocks & Rock n Roll | UK | Matthew Harlock |
| Ins Holz | Switzerland | Thomas Horat & Corina Schwingruber Ili? |
| Land of the Wild | UK | Laura Belinky |
| Little Bucharest | Belgium | Sam Geyskens |
| Memes - The Final Blow | UK | Richard Heap |
| Only My Voice | UK | Myriam Rey |
| Piotr | UK | Zuzanna Kopacka |
| Prysia's Garden | Slovakia | Mišo Suchý |
| SAFSTOR | USA | Adam Diller |
| Sally | UK | Charlotte Wolf |
| Sand Men | UK | Tal Amiran |
| Shame and Soul | Italy | Marco Pavan |
| Spelliasmous | UK | Ben Garfield |
| Street of Death | Germany | Karam Ghossein |
| Swan | UK | Lindsay Brown |
| Tern | UK | Alex Ayre |
| The Abbey | UK | Sean Parnell |
| The Colour of His Hair | UK | Sam Ashby |
| The Fourth Kingdom | Spain | Adan Aliaga & Alex Lora |
| The Ghost in the Machine | Australia | Sophie Hexter & Poppy Walker |
| The Secret World of Foley | UK | Daniel Jewel |
| The Wildtuin | USA | Rebecca Panovka |
| This is the War Room! | Germany | Boris Hars-Tschachotin |
| Urban Cowboys | Poland | Pawe? Ziemilski |
Drama
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| 14.74 or The Pursuit of Mediocrity | Germany | Antoine Dengler |
| A Simply Fracture | UK | Jonny Phillips |
| A Winter's Tale | UK | Carl Hunter |
| About the Boy Who Ate an Oakwood Chair | Belgium | Pieter Goethals |
| Addy | UK | Matty Crawford |
| Adult | Australia | Jamieson Peace |
| All That You Love Will Be Carried Away | UK | Tom Barbor-Might |
| All the Rest is the Work of Man | France | Doria Achour |
| Anniversary | UK | Hyesung Jeon |
| Aqua Mamas | Denmark | Zara Zerny |
| Árborg | France | Antoine Delelis |
| As Long As It Takes | Canada | Abeille Tard |
| Backstory | Germany | Joschka Laukeninks |
| Calamity | Belgium | Séverine De Streyker & Maxime Feyers |
| Creswick | Australia | Natalie Erika James |
| Dance of Lust and Calculus | USA | Christian Flashman |
| Die Besonderen Fahigkeiten Des Herrn Mahler (The Peculiar Abilities of Mr Mahler) | Germany | Paul Philipp |
| Die Überstellung (The Transfer) | Germany, Israel, Austria | Michael Grudsky |
| Eaglehawk | Australia | Shannon Murphy |
| Elegy (Elegía) | Spain | Alba Tejero |
| Euna | Germany | Seung-Hyun Chong |
| Firecracker | UK | Jonathan Harris |
| Five By Five | UK | Kate Herron |
| Game | USA | Jeannie Donohoe |
| Gone | Ireland | Patrick Maxwell |
| Hit & Run | UK | Hannah Pike |
| Hymenee (Hymen) | France | Violaine Bellet |
| I See You | USA | Manjari Makijany |
| Icebox | France | Daniel Sawka |
| In the Land of the Blind | Taiwan | Keyun Chen |
| It Is Our Home | Russia | George Danielyants |
| Just Go! | Latvia | Pavels Gumennikovs |
| Kopstoot | Netherlands | Daan Bunnik |
| La Manzana | Belgium | Henry Disotuar |
| Listen | France | Niko Mikadze |
| Little Bird | UK | Georgia Oakley |
| Lux | UK | Issy Snailham |
| Mamie | Switzerland | Benoît Monney |
| Matka (Mother) | Poland | Piotrek Golebiowski |
| Mia | UK | Maria Martinez Bayona |
| Mine | UK | Matthew Jacobs Morgan |
| Miranda's Letter | UK | Teresa Griffiths |
| Munda | Iceland | Tinna Hrafnsdóttir |
| Natalie | UK | Mikey Murray |
| Neon | UK | Mark J. Blackman |
| Never Land | UK | Anna Hoghton |
| Nicole's Cage | Germany | Josef Brandl |
| Night | USA | Joosje Duk |
| No Pain Whatsoever | UK | Alex Kendall |
| Pushing Night Away | Norway | Jade Aksnes |
| Real Men Don't Cry | Spain | Lucas Castán |
| Respirando | Spain | Mar Olid |
| Saturday | UK | Mike Forshaw |
| Soldier Bee | UK | Alex Hardy |
| Spaceman | UK | Adam Spinks |
| Sparte (Sparta) | Belgium | Noëmie Nicolas |
| Spiritus Lepus | Sweden | Kristofer Kiggs Carlsson |
| Switch | UK | Aneil Karia |
| The Butcher | Netherlands | Caspar Muller |
| The Catch | Canada | Holly Brace-Lavoie |
| The Dog with the Woman | UK | Phoebe Arnstein & Stephen Ledger-Lomas |
| The Entertainer | UK | Jonathan Schey |
| The Fox and the Rabbit | UK | Garry Crystal |
| The Fuzz | UK | Grant Alexander King |
| The Nightmare On Deskteeth Street | UK | Dylan Holmes Williams |
| The Plague | USA | Federico Torrado Tobón |
| The Silent Child | UK | Chris Overton |
| The Usual | Spain | David Lara |
| The Waste Land | USA | Brian Brooks II |
| Tobey | UK | Adrien Cothier |
| Ulysse | France | Nabil Senhaji |
| Void and Method | UK | Remy Bazerque |
| Wave | Ireland | Benjamin Cleary & TJ O'Grady Peyton |
| What If | Germany | Linda Gasser |
| Whoever Was Using This Bed | Australia | Andrew Kotatko |
| Wild Horses | UK | Rory Alexander Stewart |
| Zarpazo | Spain | Nerea Castro Andreu |
| Zoya | India | Sahirr Sethhi |
Experimental
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Absent Wound | Iran | Maryam Tafakory |
| Afloat | UK | Riffy Ahmed |
| Alexithymia | UK | Duncan Cowles |
| And If In A Thousand Years | UK | Patrick Hough |
| Apophenia | UK | Prosper Unger-Hamilton |
| Borderhole | Mexico | Amber Bemak & Nadia Granados |
| Di Tre Re | UK | Shen Wei |
| Gothic Boy | UK | Martin Allison |
| Gravity's Law | UK | Matt McDermott |
| HIWA | Greece | Jacqueline Lentzou |
| Iconoclast | USA | Alex Haney |
| John Marr | France | Camila Beltrán |
| Leisure | Australia | Mia Forrest |
| Lifespan | UK | Jessica Bishopp |
| LUCIA | Spain | Emil Kahr |
| Noche | Spain | Alexis Delgado Burdalo |
| Plasma Vista | UK | Sarah Cockings & Harriet Fleuriot |
| Reverie | UK | Stella Scott |
| Rhythm of Being | UK | Giada Ghiringhelli |
| Rope | Germany | Katja Pratschke & Gusztáv Hámos |
| Sensations | France | Régine Cirotteau |
| Sleeping with the Devil | USA | Alisa Yang |
| Sound X Sound | Denmark | Anders Morre, Joachim Morre, Søren Kahr & Thomas Dyrholm |
| Surfing | UK | Luke Rollason & Silas Elliott |
| The Baths | UK | Sofia Pancucci-McQueen & Anouska Samms |
| The Belt | Canada | Toby Andris |
| The Boxer | Netherlands | Ruben van Leer |
| The Fortress of Utopia | Croatia | Sandra Sterle |
| The Happiest Barrack | Hungary | Noémi Varga |
| The Luring | New Zealand | Alex Plumb |
| The Superhost | Germany | Britta Thie |
| Tower XYZ | UK | Ayo Akingbade |
| Transitions | Switzerland | Aurèle Ferrier |
| Turtles Are Always Home | Qatar | Rawane Nassif |
| Who's Who in Mycology | Czech Republic | Marie Dvorakova |
| Yasmine | Canada | Raghed Charabaty |
Family Friendly
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Being Ernest | UK | Victoria Fistes |
| Catherine | Belgium | Britt Raes |
| Corky | USA | Ty Primosch |
| Dark, Dark Woods | Denmark | Emile Gignoux |
| Flight | UK | Laura Wadha |
| Lil Buck with Icons of Modern Art | UK | Andrew Margetson |
| Listen | France | Niko Mikadze |
| Mrs McCutcheon | Australia | John Sheedy |
| Never Land | UK | Anna Hoghton |
| Never Land | UK | Anna Hoghton |
| Perched | UK | Liam Harris |
| Rated | USA | John Fortson |
| Sand Men | UK | Tal Amiran |
| Tall Tales Part 3 | UK | Jon Turner |
| The Durnhams' Drizzle | UK | Ella Trudgeon & Lois Bryant |
| The Nightmare on Deskteeth Street | UK | Dylan Holmes Williams |
| The Silent Child | UK | Chris Overton |
| The Wishing Jar | Canada | Denver Jackson |
| Wishing Box | USA | Wenli Zhang & Nan Li |
Fashion
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| A Landscape of Me | Austria | Georg Eckmayr |
| AAA - Fermi Paradox | Belgium | Corentin Kopp & Aaron Arnoldt |
| Anfractuous Distortion | Germany | Laura Mahlberg, Alexandra Rilli & David Münch |
| Better Fed Than Taught | UK | Carlo Zambon & Jon Revell |
| Bleu Reine | France | Akim Laouar Aronsen |
| Cinecitta On Wheels | Italy | Inti Carboni |
| Cry of the City | UK | Boldizsar CR |
| Desert | Italy | Greg Ferro |
| Detour | UK | Anna Radchenko |
| (dis)connect | UK | Lies Scheps |
| Emma Brewin Spring Summer 2017 | UK | "beNANNAS" Anna Peftieva & Ben Higgs |
| Fallen | USA | Tak Kuroha |
| Hugo Boss 'Who Will You Be Next' | UK | Emmanuel Adjei |
| In Conversation with Vogue Arabia | UK | Elisa Sednaoui Dellal |
| Industrial Revolution | UK | Mario Hamad & Chensy Guan |
| Inner City Voyeurism | UK | Imogen Smith |
| It's Been a Long Time | Germany | Esteban & Manuel Iljitsch |
| La Gata | USA | Pietro Coppolecchia |
| Mind(e)scape | Russia | Anna Zandman & Yulia Lebedeva |
| Rosegold | UK | Jam Patel |
| Shaped By The Sea | Italy | Lamyna |
| Somnium | France | Jaïr Sfez |
| Susanna | USA | Michel Jaumin |
| The 3rd Woman | France | Benjamin Nicolas |
| The Flower of Life | France | Ronan Gali & Damien Krisl |
| The Full Moon in Gemini | USA | Amber Moelter |
| The Future Is Not What It Used Io Be | Australia | Stanton Cornish-Ward |
| The Sleeping Field | UK | That Jam |
| The Tensile Force of Time | China | Tian Chen |
Music Video
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| Addison Groove - Changa | UK | Vector Meldrew |
| Anvil | UK | GERIKO |
| Black Bird | USA | Haonan Wang |
| James - Dear John | UK | Peter Vacz |
| Jil - All Your Words | UK | Anton Tammi |
| KEØMA - Gone | Germany | Dirk Rauscher |
| Kool Keith X MF Doom - Super Hero | USA | Kris Merc |
| Looper - Farfisa Song (introducing Mustard & Ketchup) | UK | Iain Gardner |
| Mark Pritchard - Give It Your Choir | USA | Emmanuel Adjei |
| MaxFuture - Till You Let Go | France | Akim Laouar Aronsen |
| Metaxas - Sirens | UK | Savvas Stavrou |
| Pooma - Soldier | Germany | Harun Güler |
| Sean Hayes - Boom Boom Baby | USA | Staci DeGagne |
| Sevdaliza - Human | UK | Emmanuel Adjei |
| Siyyu - Stop Us | UK | This is Felo |
| Stellar | - | Laura Hoejberg Kunov |
| The Last Skeptik - Splinters | UK | George Allen |
| Tropical Mannshaft - Love Operator | France | David Freymond |
| Tulipomania - Who Let You Know? | USA | Cheryl Gelover & Tom Murray |
| U.N.K.L.E. - The Road | UK | Norbert Schoerner |
| Ultrasound - Kon-Tiki | UK | Andrew Rutter |
| Xiu Long | Taiwan | Yuen Hsieh |
| Yul - Minigme | UK | Louis Lagayette |
Thriller
| Film | Country | Filmmaker |
| 280KM | Lebanon | Zaher Jureidini |
| Amber | UK | Andi Osho |
| Baby Mine | UK | Nour Wazzi |
| Eclissi | USA | Tygh Runyan |
| Gridlock | Ireland | Ian Hunt Duffy |
| Malefaction | UK | Adam Price |
| Man Is Hunter | Lebanon | Leila Basma |
| Modern Houses | USA | Matthew Dixon |
| Safe Haven | UK | Marty Stalker |
| Salt | Brazil | Diego Freitas |
| Seeds | UK | Guillaume Fradin |
| Soup | Israel | Sharon Chetrit |
| Strangers On The Road | Spain | Carlos Solano |
| The Choke | UK | Chris Fowles |
| The Distant Sea | UK | Nic Wassell |
| Traces | France | Thanassis Vassiliou |
| Wash Club | UK | Simon Dymond |
| When the Howls Find Us | UK | Andrew Rose |