Festival Dates

The 2023 festival runs on 15-16 September.

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Oxford Shorts

Oxford Shorts (formerly known as The Oxford International Short Film Festival or OXISFF) celebrates the diversity and creativity of short films. We are located in the heart of the historic university city.

We believe short films are an art form, ideally one which should be experienced in unique and beautiful surroundings, on a large screen with an enthusiastic audience. The live festival is held in the beautiful grounds of St John's College at The University of Oxford.

We would like to encourage short films from all filmmakers in any genre both fictional and documentary. We're looking for great stories which stir the emotions, have strong characters, and unique voices or evocative worlds. The awards will be judged by a panel of industry filmmakers prior to the event across a range of categories.

Our very first festival ran in March 2019, since then we have played over 300 short films from countries all over the world and organised talks with industry professionals.
 

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2023 Film Screenings

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Tracey Curtis

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Jane Richards

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Festival Programme

Download the 2023 Programme

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 (Please note the programme may still be subject to small changes.
Last updated: 18 August 2023)

volunteer

We are looking for volunteers to help with our screenings on 15-16 September. Do you want to help? Volunteers will be fed and watered, plus get free access to the festival (when not on duty) and a free festival T-shirt. We'll also reward you with a drink at the end of the festival in the College bar on Saturday!

Apply to volunteer here

2023 Award Winners

Judging Panel

Find out more about the 2023 Judging Panel here.

Best Film:
In Too Deep

Nominees: A Few Steps Further, Fireworks, In Too Deep, Leave To Remain, Mask

Best Documentary:
Friday Night Blind

Nominees:
Brotherness, Friday Night Blind, Hazelwood Avenue, Interviewing Dad, The Storm Chaser

Best Director:
Margaret Kane-Rowe (Mask)

Nominees:
Ahmad Alyaseer (Our Males and Females), Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (Tommies), Margaret Kane-Rowe (Mask), Mac Nixon (Jackdaw), Yilmaz Özdil (The Banishment)

Best Actor:
Saman Mustefa (The Banishment)

Nominees:
Bamshad Abedi-Amin (Leave To Remain), Graham Earley (Mask), Keyhan Maleki (A Few Steps Further), Michael Socha (Edicius), Saman Mustefa (The Banishment)

Best Actress:
Teresa Del Olmo (Sola)

Nominees:
Charlotte Riley (Fireworks), Janice Connolly (Linda), Rachel Shenton (In Too Deep), Sarah Winter (Tommies), Teresa Del Olmo (Sola)

Best Young Performer:
Tom Mulheron (Brotherly Love)

Nominees:
Bonga Sizwe Nhlongo (Father's Day), Fatima Haghparast (Za Ra), Joseph Davison (Wuss), Lily Brooks O'Briant (Sharing The Floor), Tom Mulheron (Brotherly Love)

Best Early Career Filmmaker:
Vanessa Stachel (A Bloody Graveyard Story)

Nominees:
Adam Thomas Wright (The End Of A British Summer), Clàudia Orriols (Sola), Connor Maclaren (Brotherly Love), Lily Brooks O'Briant (Sharing The Floor), Vanessa Stachel (A Bloody Graveyard Story)

Best Editing:
Pani Scott (Fireworks)

Nominees:
Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (Tommies), John Smith ACE (Edicius), Julia Elger (Brotherness), Mike Brown and Nicholas Jon Beaubien (Get In), Pani Scott (Fireworks)

Best Cinematography:
Andy Toovey (Jackdaw)

Nominees:
Andy Toovey (Jackdaw), BLOK (A Dishonourable Death), Dilsat Canan (The Banishment), Khoroldorj 'Hogo' Choijoovanchig (Morin Khuur), Will Billany (The Storm Chaser)

Best Music or Score:
Kurt Rosenberg (The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth)

Nominees:
Earthside (All We Knew and Ever Loved), Kurt Rosenberg (The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth), Olaf Taranczewski (Morin Khuur), Sandy Lavallart (King of Sea), Tommy Evans (Wake Up)

Best Sound:
The Storm Chaser

Nominees:
Get In, Jackdaw, Morin Khuur, Our Males and Females, Trigger

Best Production Design:
Tommies

Nominees:
A Dishonourable Death, Edicius, i THINK about KILLING you, Jackdaw, Tommies

Best Animation:
The Well

Nominees:
A Bloody Graveyard Story, All We Knew And Ever Loved: Earthside, King of Sea, The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth, The Well

Best Comedy:
A Dishonourable Death

Nominees:
A Dishonourable Death, Bingo, Bleep, Get In, Linda

Best Experimental Film:
i THINK about KILLING you

Nominees
...And Again The Bombs Fall, BeLly, I Spy With My Little Eye, i THINK about KILLING you, Nėædra

Best Horror, Science Fiction or Thriller:
Edicius

Nominees
Can I Help?, Edicius, Momento Mori, Takbir, The Well

Best Local Film:
Echo

Nominees
A Mosaic of All Possible Greens, Echo, Her Castle, How To Cope With Oliver Pope, The End of a Birtish Summer


festival organisers

See below for a list of festival organisers:

  • Andrew Carslaw

    Festival Director

  • Laura Jones

    Children's Festival Director

  • Olivia Chappell

    Director of Awards

  • Zainab Mirmalek

    Festival Coordinator

  • Maria Murad

    PR and Content Production

  • Danny Mac-Gregor

    Festival Editor/Judge

  • Stephanie Overington

    Social Media

  • Emma Faraone

    Event Coordinator

  • Stanley Mackrell

    Head of Media and Co-founder

  • Annabel Jackson

    PR and Content Production

  • Layla Mirmalek

    Festival Judge/Q&A

  • Toby Fitzpatrick

    Media Content Production

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friends and sponsors

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venue

The live festival will take place in the beautiful surroundings of St John's College in the auditorium.

Please Note:

The Festival Entrance will be venue via the St John's College Front Lodge (Postcode: OX1 3JP). This is located on St Giles on the opposite side to the Ashmolean Museum.

Registration opens at 8.30am, and will be open throughout the day. Please make sure you bring along copies of your tickets. The event is sold out and we will not be offering any tickets on the door.

address

St John's College (Front Lodge)
Parks Road,
Oxford
OX1 3JP

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