The 2025 festival will run 4-5 April 2025.
Tickets are not yet available for 2025. We will annouce more nearer the time
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Oxford Shorts 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 500 short films from countries all over the world and organised talks with industry professionals.
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(Please note the programme will be periodically updated.
Last updated: 29 July 2024)
We are looking for volunteers to help with our screenings on 29-30 August. 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. You will also be invited to the Awards Party on the evening of Saturday 31st August!
Apply to volunteer here
Nominees:
Black Hole Barry, Curlew River, Horse, Overpowered, Wine Club
Nominees:
George, I Promise You Paradise, Isla Soledad, Sister Wives, Travel Socks
Nominees:
Cranes And Ships, Duckworthy, Stud Country, Unstoppable Beat, Working Classical Heroes
Nominees:
Debbie Howard (Safe), Gregg Chilingirian (George), Louisa Connolly-Burnham (Sister Wives), Margo Roe (Monitor), Omar Deneb Juárez (Isla Soledad)
Nominees:
Jake Hart (Big George), Keith David (Don't Pick Up), Meysam Mojaveri (Blood Snow), Richard Glover (Bully), Sten Ljunggren (Sunday Roast)
Nominees:
Alice Mann (Travel Socks), Laura Bayston (Safe), Laura Coover (As Easy As Closing Your Eyes), Leidi Gutiérrez (Isla Soledad), Mia Threapleton (Barton Turf)
Nominees:
Ayhan Nikour (Hafez Poems), Beatrix Hart (Big George), Oliver Krantz-Mikaelsen (Nøkkelbarn), Serene Masoud (Moon Mountain), Stella Dickens Cederkvist (The Last Cupcake)
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Alice Harding (Barton Turf), Annie Hammond (Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye), Amirali Mahboub Jahanian (Hafez Poems), Elizabeth Peace (The Golden Boy), Sizhuo Li (The Last Butterfly)
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Crash, Forsaken, I Promise You Paradise, Seven Sisters, The Last Butterfly
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Catacombs, George, Seven Sisters, The Golden Boy, Travel Socks
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As Easy As Closing Your Eyes, Cakes!, Hunky Dory, Return To Skye, The Future Soon
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Black Dragon, Blood Snow, Crash, Pay Back, Torii
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Black Dragon, Nøkkelbarn, Seven Sisters, Sister Wives, The Sea
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As Easy As Closing Your Eyes, Don't Pick Up, Monitor, Safe, Travel Socks
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Delivery For Mr. Frogula, Howl If You Love Me, Pump, Soft Toys, Unstoppable Beat
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Big George, Help...Is On The Way?, How To Break Up, Lady Brently's End, Simon
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Cakes!, Crash, Forgotten In Time, Seeking Thomas, This Prison I Built You
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Boys Like You, Bully, Catacombs, Pay Back, Sunday Roast
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Catchers, Dolphin Dilemma, Midnight Whispers, Untitled Studio Film, Wild Sea
Nominees:
As Easy As Closing Your Eyes, Black Dragon, Cosmic Travelers, Monitor, The Future Soon
See below for a list of festival organisers:
The live festival will take place in the beautiful surroundings of St John's College in the auditorium.
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 10am, and will be open throughout the day. Tickets can be bought at the Registration Desk, subject to availability. If you have bought Festival Passes or tickets online, please make sure you bring along a copy of your ticket.
A fantastic event to be part of. One of the best film festival experiences to have. We were really looking forward to attending their fantastic venue but Covid hit. So they swiftly moved their festival online, had countless great zoom events, a wonderful selection of films from around the world, and they made sure all filmmakers were included and connected. Probably because the fabulous people who run it (Bravo Andy) are talented filmmakers as well. They know films, they understand the process of making them, they appreciate storytelling, they're smart and lovely and make you feel at home.
Joëlle Bentolila, Tibo Travers and the Starboy team
"How to do an online film festival when you're not an online film festival"
Being part of Oxford International Short Film Festival this year was an absolute treat, due to Covid the festival went online and moved to showcasing 3 months via an online platform. Every week, they had Q&As, which were super insightful and we even walked away with Best Editing. Thanks for being awesome, I can't wait to screen with you again.
Nicole Pott (Kaleidoscope)
It's one of the most incredible short film festivals i've ever been to in the UK. I would strongly recommend to any film lovers who want to see all the best and most emotional short films world wide! I definitely attend to OXISFF on their next version!!!
Hai Dao (Infill and Full Set)
It was a great first OXISFF held at the beautiful St John's College in Oxford, England. I was impressed by the auditorium, the awards ceremony and the helpful staff. I would strongly recommend entering this festival for the networking opportunities and friendly vibe.
Gisela Nadasy (En Kyss)
As a filmmaker and writer, I truly must say that the inaugural Oxford International Short Film Festival was a fantastic experience in every possible way in terms of venue and the quality of the films presented, and the festival organizers were an absolute delight! It was far and away the best film festival experience I've had the honor and privilege of traveling to, and I would (and will) gladly submit my work to this festival for consideration without question!
Charles M Kline (Human Resources)