Best of Festival Award & Best Documentary

Hanging On

Alfie Barker

A docu-drama spotlighting the strength of community in a neighbourhood that unite when they are forced to the edge of extinction. This is what it means to be hanging on.

Hijack Visionary Filmmaker Award & Best Editing Award

One Thousand and One Attempts to be an Ocean

Wang Yuyan

If you don’t want to drown, be an ocean. One Thousand… reflects on the experience of being unable to see the world with the depth perception.

The North Face x Gucci presented by Highsnobiety

Fiona Jane Burgess

A new generation of birdwatching enthusiasts are breaking the stereotypes of what outdoor recreation looks like and who it is for.

Best Animation

The Chimney Swift

Frédéric Schuld

19th century Europe. A child climbs up a chimney whilst a bird sails down into it to build a nest. An encounter with no way back. A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routines.

Best Artists’ Film

Centarium

Aleksander Johan Andreassen

Staged and filmed in shopping centres during mostly normal opening hours, a chain of events is sparked by a mannequin coming to life. The film follows two characters’ movements.

Best Comedy

Taj Mahal Presents… A Short Film

David Dearlove

A short film for people who don’t like short films. A hilarious swipe at a genre that often seems longer than it is short. Starring Bafta-nominated actor and director Phil Davis.

Best Dance

Blast

Joshua Ben-Tovim & Roseanna Anderson

BLAST takes its cue from the growth of radical ideologies and modern art in London, 1914. From hereon, we consider the ways in which we “progress” as a species.

Best Drama

See You Garbage!

Romain Dumont

For Christmas, three garbage collectors, Élie, Nino and Belz, are surprised to be received for dinner at the house of the Prime Minister and the First Lady. A dramatic comedy.

Best Experimental

The Bang Straws

Michelle Williams Gamaker

The Bang Straws considers the violent mechanisms of 20th century Studio Films and takes Anna May Wong as its starting point to revisit the casting discrimination that she experienced.

Best Fashion Film

Rejoice Resist

Elisha Smith-Leverock

Rejoice Resist is a film that celebrates and shows Black pleasure as the ultimate form of resistance. It highlights the importance of allowing yourself to feel joy in the face of adversity.

Best Music Video

Tesfay

Leah Vlemmiks

Tesfay uses dance, narrative and documentary to tell the story of Witch Prophet’s late grandfather, Tesfay, who raised five daughters as a single father.

Best Thriller, Best Cinematography Award & Best Director Award

Such Small Hands

Maria Martinez Bayona

At a girls’ orphanage, an unchecked pack mentality alienates a new arrival. To swing the power balance, she invents a manipulative game.

Best 360 Film

Meet Mortaza

Joséphine Derobe

At the age of 24, Mortaza had to flee Afghanistan because he was sentenced to death by the religious authorities. Forced into exile, Mortaza will reach Europe to join France to ask for asylum.

Best Documentary Feature

Bank Job

Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell

An unlikely team, seemingly insurmountable odds, even explosions… taking steps towards a future in which money works for us all. This mischievous feature follows a community making a currency.

Best Narrative Feature & Best Screenplay Award

The Cleaner

Ta Pu Chen

Yan-Ting is a death-scene cleaner. Yan-Ting, ex-convict Ah-Chun, and En-Ya, who was born with a silver spoon, team up to not only scrub the places but also clear uneasiness and grudges.