Festival Dates

The 2025 festival will run 4-5 April 2025.

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Tickets are not yet available for 2025. We will annouce more nearer the time

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Oxford Shorts

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.
 

2024 Festival Trailer

2024 Festival Screenings

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Tracey Curtis

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Jane Richards

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Festival Programme

Download the 2024 Programme

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 (Please note the programme will be periodically updated.
Last updated: 29 July 2024)

volunteer

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

2024 Award Nominees

Festival Team Award:
Sister Wives

 

Best Local Film:
Overpowered

Nominees:
Black Hole Barry, Curlew River, Horse, Overpowered, Wine Club

Best Film:
Travel Socks

Nominees:
George, I Promise You Paradise, Isla Soledad, Sister Wives, Travel Socks

Best Documentary:
Stud Country

Nominees:
Cranes And Ships, Duckworthy, Stud Country, Unstoppable Beat, Working Classical Heroes

Best Director:
Debbie Howard (Safe)

Nominees:
Debbie Howard (Safe), Gregg Chilingirian (George), Louisa Connolly-Burnham (Sister Wives), Margo Roe (Monitor), Omar Deneb Juárez (Isla Soledad)

Best Actor:
Jake Hart (Big George)

Nominees:
Jake Hart (Big George), Keith David (Don't Pick Up), Meysam Mojaveri (Blood Snow), Richard Glover (Bully), Sten Ljunggren (Sunday Roast)

Best Actress:
Leidi Gutiérrez (Isla Soledad)

Nominees:
Alice Mann (Travel Socks), Laura Bayston (Safe), Laura Coover (As Easy As Closing Your Eyes), Leidi Gutiérrez (Isla Soledad), Mia Threapleton (Barton Turf)

Best Young Performer:
Oliver Krantz-Mikaelsen (Nøkkelbarn)

Nominees:
Ayhan Nikour (Hafez Poems), Beatrix Hart (Big George), Oliver Krantz-Mikaelsen (Nøkkelbarn), Serene Masoud (Moon Mountain), Stella Dickens Cederkvist (The Last Cupcake)

Best Early Career Filmmaker:
Elizabeth Peace (The Golden Boy)

Nominees:
Alice Harding (Barton Turf), Annie Hammond (Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye), Amirali Mahboub Jahanian (Hafez Poems), Elizabeth Peace (The Golden Boy), Sizhuo Li (The Last Butterfly)

Best Cinematography:
Crash

Nominees:
Crash, Forsaken, I Promise You Paradise, Seven Sisters, The Last Butterfly

Best Editing:
George

Nominees:
Catacombs, George, Seven Sisters, The Golden Boy, Travel Socks

Best Music or Score:
The Future Soon

Nominees:
As Easy As Closing Your Eyes, Cakes!, Hunky Dory, Return To Skye, The Future Soon

Best Sound:
Black Dragon

Nominees:
Black Dragon, Blood Snow, Crash, Pay Back, Torii

Best Production Design:
Seven Sisters

Nominees:
Black Dragon, Nøkkelbarn, Seven Sisters, Sister Wives, The Sea

Best Screenplay:
Monitor

Nominees:
As Easy As Closing Your Eyes, Don't Pick Up, Monitor, Safe, Travel Socks

Best Animation:
Soft Toys

Nominees:
Delivery For Mr. Frogula, Howl If You Love Me, Pump, Soft Toys, Unstoppable Beat

Best Comedy:
How To Break Up

Nominees:
Big George, Help...Is On The Way?, How To Break Up, Lady Brently's End, Simon

Best Experimental/Microshort Film:
Seeking Thomas

Nominees:
Cakes!, Crash, Forgotten In Time, Seeking Thomas, This Prison I Built You

Best Horror/Thriller:
Sunday Roast

Nominees:
Boys Like You, Bully, Catacombs, Pay Back, Sunday Roast

Best Online Film:
Midnight Whispers

Nominees:
Catchers, Dolphin Dilemma, Midnight Whispers, Untitled Studio Film, Wild Sea

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy:
As Easy As Closing Your Eyes

Nominees:
As Easy As Closing Your Eyes, Black Dragon, Cosmic Travelers, Monitor, The Future Soon


festival organisers

See below for a list of festival organisers:

  • Andrew Carslaw

    Festival Director

  • Laura Jones

    Festival Business Director

  • Olivia Chappell

    Director of Awards

  • Emma Faraone

    Event Coordinator

friends and sponsors

A huge shout-out to our partners, sponsors and supporters:

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 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.

address

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

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