Friday, August 21st, 2020
Norwich Film Festival is proud to announce its largest ever line-up of 132 short films in competition for its 10th edition in November 2020. The selection represents some of the most exciting narrative, documentary and animated filmmaking around.
This year’s shorts programme includes an outstanding selection of regional, national and international films, curated from a record 1268 submissions – a massive increase of 56% on last year’s total. Additionally, 43% of the selected films were directed by filmmakers identifying as female or non-binary, with 30% of the selection also coming from first-time filmmakers.
Kellen Playford (Founder & Lead Consultant) said:
“Norwich Film Festival continues to grow year on year, and we as a team have been blown away by the number – and the quality – of films which we have been lucky enough to watch this year. Our wonderful volunteers have watched through over 250 hours worth of short films and we’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve been scared, and we’ve been reminded about all the good in the world that still exists despite the struggles that we have all dealt with recently. We’ve put together our strongest ever line up of films which will be presented this November, and we can’t wait to share this with our audiences in what will be our tenth anniversary year.”
The selection features a wide range of bold and innovative stories from around the world, from an extravagant dance-based retelling of Cinderella as a competitive game show, to a documentary consisting entirely of LiDAR imagery. Also included within the Official Selection are several films produced entirely within the lockdown period.
The festival continues to celebrate and embrace international storytelling, with this year seeing the introduction of a specific award for Best International Short Film. A total of 33 countries are represented within the Official Selection, including France, Germany, Australia, China, South Africa, Greece, Vietnam, Peru, Taiwan, and the United States.
This year’s Official Selection features a range of famous faces from the world of film & television, including Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development), Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), Alice Lowe (Sightseers), John Simm (Doctor Who), Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Derry Girls), Steve Oram (Sightseers), Jane Horrocks (Absolutely Fabulous), Tim Key (Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa), and Ruth Madely (Years and Years).
Norwich Film Festival hosts six competitive categories including; British Short, International Short, Animated Short, Documentary Short, Student Short and East Anglian Short, with prizes being awarded for each. There is also an out-of-competition One Minute Film category.
Nominees for the festival’s prestigious awards will be announced in the coming months and will be judged by a world-class panel of Industry Judges, including Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher and Missing Link producer Arianne Sutner.
This year’s festival is set to take place in November, with exact details of when and how audiences will be able to watch the Official Selection to be announced in the coming weeks.
Click here to view the full Official Selection.
British Short Films
12th Man (dir. Caitlin Black)
3 Minutes of Silence (dir. Ben Price)
A Glimpse (dir. Tom Turner)
Adnan (dir. Steven Chatterton & Mark Arrigo)
Anna (dir. Dekel Berenson)
Appreciation (dir. Tomisin Adepeju)
Arena (dir. Helen Warner)
Born Again (dir. Candice Onyeama)
Cinderella Games (dir. Jessica Wright & Morgann Runacre-Temple)
Dad Was (dir. Barnaby Blackburn)
Dawn in the Dark (dir. Runyararo Mapfumo)
End-O (dir. Alice Seabright)
Ganef (dir. Mark Rosenblatt)
Ghillie (dir. Mike Marriage)
Hate (dir. Humza Arshad & Mustapha Kseibati)
His Name Was Gerry (dir. Peter Lee Scott)
Hungry Joe (dir. Paul Nicholas Holbrook & Sam Dawe)
I Am Pilate (dir. Femi Oyeniran)
Innocence (dir. Ben Reid)
It’s Me (dir. Helen Randag)
Joey (dir. Andrew Knott & William Ash)
Leopard (dir. James Arden)
Liverpool Ferry (dir. Lee Armstrong)
Lola (dir. Alexander Vlahos)
Love Spell (dir. Lauren Vevers)
Lucky Break (dir. John Addis)
Ma’am (dir. Joy Wilkinson)
Muse (dir. Azhur Saleem)
My Brother Is A Mermaid (dir. Alfie Dale)
Our Sister (dir. Rosie Westhoff)
Ouzo and Blackcurrant (dir. Nat Luurtsema)
Pavement (dir. Jason Wingard)
Petrichor (dir. Louis-Jack)
PODS (dir. Michael Junior Onafowokan)
Princess (dir. Edem Kelman)
Reappear (dir. Tommy Clarke)
Scrum (dir. Kate Graham)
She (dir. Matt Greenhalgh)
Shoal (dir. Tammes Bernstein)
Square One (dir. Emily Jo Sargent)
Sweet Street (dir. Coz Greenop)
Take Me (dir. Claire Norowzian)
Talk Radio (dir. Ben S. Hyland)
The Act (dir. Thomas Hescott)
The Appointment (dir. Alexandre Singh)
The Blood Bride (dir. Hannah McKibbin & Caspar Leopard)
This Camera Is Broken (dir. Joshua Hext)
Thousand Yesterdays (dir. Robbie Bryant)
Tick Tick Tick (Larry Ketang & Liam White)
Underwater (dir. Michael Keogh)
Verisimilitude (dir. David Proud)
We Met Before (dir. Thalissa Teixeira)
Wicked Friday Night (dir. Mark Jackson)
Wings (dir. Jamie Weston)
International Short Films
37 Things (dir. Zane Roach)
A Head Shorter (dir. Sasha Sivan Bortnik)
A Hole (dir. James Solomon)
A Separation (dir. Yalan Hu)
Alina (dir. Rami Kodeih)
All Inclusive (dir. Teemu Nikki)
Bathtub by the Sea (dir. Ole-André Rønneberg)
Bubble (dir. Haonan Wang)
Crocodile (dir. Jorge Yudice)
Fish Head (dir. Grace Tan)
Hysterical Girl (dir. Kate Novack)
If We Smarten Up (dir. Larisa Faber)
Impermanence (dir. Phạm Gia Quý)
In The Shadow of the Pines (dir. Anne Koizumi)
Instant Doctor (dir. Youth + Diogo Gameiro)
Kata (dir. James Latimer)
Letter of Forgiveness (dir. Alina Serban)
On Air (dir. Bastiaan Rook)
Portraitist (dir. Cyrus Neshvad)
Rangda (dir. E Seul An)
Ride (dir. Tianyang Hou)
Rock Country (dir. Janire Etxabe)
Song Sparrow (dir. Farzaneh Omidvarnia)
Sulphur (dir. Lana Vlady)
Take It and End It (dir. Kirineos Papadimatos)
The Bull (dir. Bojan Labović)
The Flood (dir. Kristijan Krajnčan)
The Last Supper (dir. Michael Risley)
The Lonely Prince (dir. Shivin & Sunny)
The Recordist (dir. Indianna Bell & Josiah Allen)
Two Little Boys (dir. Farbod Khoshtinat)
Animated Short Films
Alex and Mr Fluffkins (dir. Adeena Grubb & Andy Biddle)
Annie and Alistair (dir. Karolina Papp)
Cosmic Fling (dir. Jonathan Langager)
Crunch (dir. Liukaidi Peng)
Flesh (dir. Camila Kater)
Grab My Hand: A letter to my Dad (dir. Camrus Johnson & Pedro Piccinini)
SH_T HAPPENS (dir. Michaela Mihalyi & David Štumpf)
Something Borrowed (dir. Micky Wozny)
The Ribbon (dir. Polla-Ilariya Kozino)
The World Is Thirsty (dir. Isabel de la Torre)
Documentary Short Films
Around The Block (dir. Jonnie Lewis)
Dafa Metti / Difficult (dir. Tal Amiran)
Danielle (dir. Gareth Warland)
My Father The Mover (dir. Julia Jansch)
Opening The Earth – The Potato King (dir. Eric Ebner & Aaron Ebner)
Pampas (dir. Jessica Bishopp)
Project 282 (dir. Paddy Bartram)
The Beekeeper (dir. William McGregor)
Student Short Films
Bird (dir. Wu-Ching Chang)
Brothers Again (dir. Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola)
Chen Chen (dir. Kargo Chen)
Common Molly (dir. Georgie Monica)
Cuckoo (dir. Clare Conway)
Diabla (dir. Ashley George)
Dramatherapy (dir. Philip Monberg Pfeiffer)
Forever (dir. Mitch McGlocklin)
Heartbeat (dir. Chi Wang)
In Her Boots (dir. Kathrin Steinbacher)
Isle of Us (dir. Laura Wadha)
My Mum’s Letters (dir. Antonio Sequeira)
Simulacra (dir. Curry Sicong Tian)
Sweater (dir. Zilai Feng)
The Binding of Itzik (dir. Anika Benkov)
The Cloud Is Still There (dir. Mickey Lai Loke Yee)
The Coral Guardian (dir. David Dincer, co-dir. Marc Donaubauer)
The Flying Gold of Arabuko (dir. John Davies)
The Passing (dir. Nichola Wong)
To The Dusty Sea (dir. Héloïse Ferlay)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (dir. Shiyue Xu)
Umama (dir. Talia Smith)
East Anglian Short Films
Five Days To Say Goodbye (dir. Jak Quartermaine)
Gimcrack (dir. Rona Bradley)
Hold (dir. Jonathan Blagrove)
Patina (dir. Lucas Stones)
Proud To Be Bald (dir. Jade Eagle)
Remember When (dir. Maili Little)
The Snow Maze (dir. Sam Cadman)
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