Awards and Juries

We only show a tiny handful of the hundreds of wonderful films we get submitted each year, so all the films included in this programme are worthy of highest praise.

But still, we have raised a group of the great and the good and they will watch, marvel, and reveal their choices at our Closing Night Awards Party.

  • Best International Short

    Winner: AUGUST 15TH directed by Jiang Xuan and SOLITARIO ANONIMO directed by Debora Diniz 

    Presented by: Andrea Riseborough

    Jury: Andrea Riseborough (actor, Love You More, Happy Go Lucky), Jesse Vile (DailyMotion), Natasha Braier (cinematographer Somers Town, XXY), Asif Kapadia (Director The Warrior, Far North)

     

  • Best Documentary

    Winner: AGE OF STUPID directed by Franny Armstrong

    Presented by: Zina Saro-Wiwa

    Jury: Libby Brooks (The Guardian), Heather Croall (Sheffield Documentary Film Festival), Daisy Asquith (Director, Clowns), Andy Glynne (One World Broadcasting Trust)

     

  • Best Feature

    Winner: SNOW directed by Aida Begic

    Presented by: Sally Philips

    Jury: Stephen Woolley (producer Sounds Like Teen Spirit, Interview With a Vampire, Fever Pitch) , Larushka Ivan Zadeh (Metro), Pippa Cross (producer Vanity Fair, Bloody Sunday), Catherine Johnson (writer, Mamma Mia)

     

  • Best UK Short

    Winner: LOVE YOU MORE directed by Sam Taylor-Wood

    Presented by: Janet Ellis

    Jury: Jan Younghusband (C4 arts commissioning editor), Natalie Press (Actor, Red Road, My Summer of Love), Jody Pope (Universal Pictures), Sarah Gavron (Director, Brick Lane).