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Aesthetica Short Film Festival
StatusActive
GenreFilm Festival
Date(s)6–30 November 2024
FrequencyAnnually
VenueVarious, across York
Location(s)York
CountryUK
Inaugurated2011 (2011)
Websitehttp://www.asff.co.uk

The Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) is an international film festival which takes place annually in York, England, at the beginning of November. Founded in 2011, it is a celebration of independent film from around the world, and an outlet for supporting and championing filmmaking.

ASFF is also a BAFTA-Qualifying festival, meaning short films that are screened may be eligible for a BAFTA award.

The festival is hosted by art and culture magazine Aesthetica Magazine, and is supported by York St John University, London College of Communication and the British Film Institute.[1]

History

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ASFF is hosted by Aesthetica, a British art and culture magazine. Initially launched as the Aesthetica Short Film Competition,[2] winning films were included on a DVD released with the December/January edition of Aesthetica. The competition received a significant number of entries, and it developed into the Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

2011

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The first edition took place in 2011.[2] The festival brought filmmakers and audiences from locations including South Africa, New Zealand, the US and from across Europe, to the city of York.[3] Among those delivering masterclasses were Mark Herman (Screenwriter, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas), Ivana Mackinnon (Executive Producer, Slumdog Millionaire) and the Senior Commissioner for Channel 4.[4]

ASFF 2011 received positive feedback and was covered in The Guardian.[5][6]

2012

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ASFF 2012 screened over 200 films across 15 different locations.[7] Masterclasses were held by Danny Cohen (BAFTA-nominated cinematographer of The King’s Speech, The Boat That Rocked and Glorious 39), Barry Ryan the head of Warp Films (Dead Man’s Shoes, Four Lions, This is England and Submarine) and Matt Greenhalgh (BAFTA winning screenwriter of Control and Nowhere Boy).[8] The festival also included screenings, panel discussions, special events and parties.[9][10]

2013

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The third edition expanded the Official Programme, screening over 300 films.[11] Saera Jin, director of the comedy Konnichiwa Brick Lane was in attendance, alongside Curt Apduhan who discussed the making of his drama Anniversary. Manjinder Virk received the Festival Winner award for her short Out of Darkness, which the Observer's Chief Film Critic Mark Kermode described as "intriguing and thought provoking."[12][13]

Events included a series of masterclasses from Joakim Sundström (Seven Psychopaths), Craig McNeil from Beggars Group, Warp Films, Film4, Channel 4, Alice Lowe (Sightseers, Hot Fuzz) and more.[14] There were also special programmes from BAFTA, Yorkshire Film Archive, and Screen Bandita.[15]

2014

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ASFF received BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Recognised status in 2014.[16] The festival was also awarded Festival of the Year by York Press.[17]

Notable films include Alan Holly's Coda, shortlisted for the 87th Academy Awards and nominated for the 42nd Annual Annie Awards, starring Brian Gleeson and Orla Fitgerald.[18] Actors starring in some of the short films also included Adeel Akhtar, Hugo Weaving, Maxine Peake and model Lily Cole.

Guest programmes from screened by Creative England iShorts, Yorkshire Film Archive, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.[19] The festival continued to showcase films in all genres and expanded its programme to include fashion and advertising.[20][21] ASFF's fashion strand was supported by London College of Fashion and screened films from brands such as Vivienne Westwood, Swarovski, Louis Vuitton, Trager Delaney, Topshop, River Island, Karen Millen, Triwa watches and Hub Footwear.[22]

New events included Meet the Film Festivals, which created a place for filmmakers to network with programmers from across the world. Festivals in attendance included Raindance; London Short Film Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival; Garden State Film Festival and more.[23]

2015

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ASFF celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2015. The festival ran from 5 to 8 November and attracted 20,000 admissions.[24][25]

The festival's Masterclass series included sessions from BAFTA-winning Warp Films' Head of Production Barry Ryan (71, Berberian Sound Studio, Four Lions and This is England); Stephen Whelan, Executive Producer and founder at White Lodge; and Price James, who worked previously at Ridley Scott Associates and is a director at BAFTA-winning production company Agile Films. Organisations also included Association of Camera Operators, Rankin Film, Shooting People, National Theatre, British Society of Cinematographers, Studio AKA, Channel 4, Framestore and more. ASFF 2015 also hosted the festival's first Videotheque, enabling festival goers the opportunity to watch all films from the Official Selection.[26]

Winners from each category, plus Best of Fest, People's Choice Award and the York Youth Vote were announced at the ASFF Awards Ceremony on Sunday 8 November.[27]

2016

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ASFF 2016 ran 3 from 6 November, taking place in 18 venues. Masterclasses were led by industry representatives from organisations including the BBC, Industrial Light & Magic, and Jagex. BBC Commissioning Editor, Kristian Smith, joined writer of Raised by Wolves Caroline Moran to discuss development and pitching, while actress and writer Alice Lowe (The World’s End, Sightseers) spoke about how to bring a character to life. Events also included new daily Morning Coffee hours at According to McGee art gallery. There were Showcase Screenings curated by cultural organisations throughout the UK, including London College of Fashion University of the Arts London, Plymouth College of Art, University of York, Creative England and Northern Ireland Screen among others.[28]

New for 2016, ASFF partnered with the Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University to present an award for Best Screenplay in the Official Selection.[29]

The Jury of industry professionals who selected the winners included representatives from BAFTA, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Encounters Film Festival.[30]

2017

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Extending to five days, the seventh edition of ASFF screened over 300 films across 18 venues throughout the city of York. The programme featured works from 41 countries.[31] Audiences were given a chance to see several UK premieres with performances from film and TV figures including Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, Idris Elba and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Masterclasses, networking sessions and panel discussions featured industry representatives from i-D, BBC and the British Film Institute.

ASFF held a collection of exclusive screenings supported by Iris Prize, British Urban Film Festival and Kraków Film Festival.

Best of Fest winners were Benjamin Cleary and TJ O’Grady Peyton for Wave, the story of a man who wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognisable language, which also went on to win the Best Drama Award. Cleary was also awarded the Best of Fest in 2015 for Stutterer, which received Best Live Action Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards.[32]

Chris Overton's The Silent Child, a film inspired by real life events, that told the story of a deaf four-year-old girl whose social worker teaches her to communicate through sign language, took home the Youth Award and the People's Choice Award. It went on to win Best Live Action Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards.[33]

2018

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ASFF 2018 took place from 7 to 11 November. The programme combined industry-led events with screenings. The line-up included industry representatives from Aardman Studios, Film4, British Vogue, StudioCanal, BBC, Industrial Light & Magic, Dazed, Baby Cow, Pinewood Studios and more.

The eighth edition also included Narrative and Documentary Feature Films for the first time, as a result of many festival alumni progressing to features since first screening at ASFF, most notably director Francis Lee (God’s Own Country).[34] Feature films in competition for the 2018 festival included Akram Khan's Giselle (As part of the English National Ballet), Mark Cousins' The Eyes of Orson Welles and Benjamin Wigley's Paa Joe & The Lion.

ASFF also launched the Screen School VR Lab in partnership with London College of Communication. Screenings were complemented by a series of panel discussions on making and realising VR and 360 film and its ethics, production and storytelling.

Best of Fest was awarded to Ed Perkins for his film Black Sheep, which told the story of Cornelius Walker and the murder of Damilola Taylor, in what became one of the UK's most high-profile cases. The film also received Best Documentary and the Northern Film School Award for Best Screenplay.

2019

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The 2019 Aesthetica Short Film Festival ran 6 to 10 November. With over 400 films and 100 industry events programmed, it was the largest edition to date. For 2019, Masterclasses included representatives from British Vogue, i-D and Rankin, as well as Emmy- and Oscar-nominated producers, directors, sound designers, editors and cinematographers such as Simon Chinn, Dick Pope, Tracey Granger and Mick Audsley. Industry insights were also given by Framestore, SKY VR, Baby Cow, Bluezoo, BFI NETWORK, Aardman, Industrial Light & Magic, and the BBC.

Additional events included the launch of ASFF's Industry Marketplace. Over 40 exhibitors were included, from BFI NETWORK, Locarno Film Festival, Creative England, to Edinburgh Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hijack Post, London College of Communication and Festival Formula. The event was a platform for attendees and delegates to engage with organisations from across the sector, including international film festivals, screen agencies, sales agents, global distributors and universities.

Guest Programme screenings from The Guardian, Studio AKA, and BBC Arabic Festival also took place across the festival's run, as well as the return of the Screen School VR Lab, created in partnership with London College of Communication.

Best of Festival was awarded to Sasha Rainbow for her film Kofi and Lartey,. The 2019 festival also included the presentation of the Hijack Visionary Filmmaker Award, which was awarded to Ellie Rogers for her film They Found Her in a Field. The award recognises directors with exceptional vision and a unique cinematic voice, with the winner receiving a post production package for their next short film.

2020

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ASFF's 10th edition ran 3–8 November in an accessible online space for 2020. From 9–30 November, the content was available on demand as part of ASFF's virtual platform. The programme included over 450 films and more than 100 live industry events, all available virtually.

Guest speakers include Andrea Arnold (Wasp, Fish Tank, American Honey), Sarah Gavron (This Little Life, Suffragette, Rocks), Jeanie Finlay(Seahorse, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, Game of Thrones: The Last Watch), Sam Feder (DISCLOSURE, Boy I Am), Glenn Freemantle (Gravity, Annihilation), Paul Franklin (Inception, Interstellar), as well as animators, cinematographers, editors, production designers and representatives from Film4, BBC Films, and Framestore..

Films in competition were released in 6 Strands from 3–8 November, with 10 programmes per day. The strand titles included: Just Another Day on Earth, Humans and their Environment, Connections: People, Places and Identity, Breaking Down Barriers and Keep on the Sunny Side of Life.

Guest programmes for 2020 included: Indigenous Cinema: Celebrating Visual Narrative Sovereignty (Native Spirit FF), Cinesisters: A Platform for Female Voices (Cinesisters), Tales from Isolation (Short of the Week), TransFormation, TransAction (Transgender Media Portal), BFI Doc Society Presents: Documenting Modern Britain (Doc Society), Hanoi Stories (Scottish Documentary Institute), Fresh Perspectives: Making Space for Disability (OSKA BRIGHT), The True Glory: Remembering WWII (IWM), I Still Can't Breathe (Directors Notes, Can We Talk DXB), The Future of AI: People and Data (DC LABS), Iris Prize Presents: LGBT+ Shorts (Iris Prize), Short Films from Brazil (São Paulo Short Film Festival), Perspectives from the Arctic Circle: Norway on Film (Norwegian Short Film Festival).

2021

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The 11th edition of the Aesthetica Film Festival ran 2–30 November and incorporated both live and virtual events in a hybrid approach. It featured over 300 films, 100 industry events and 100 speakers. The programme was curated into six conceptual strands: How it was, How it is, How it will be?, Humanity on the Edge, When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade, Pleased to Meet You, Mirror, Mirror and Nobody's Free Until Everybody is Free.

The programme included a focus on diversity, with industry events and screenings centred on LGBTQ+, communities, Black Lives Matter, women, gender and identity. The ASFF Guest Programmes included focus on 9/11, commemorating 20 years since the terrorist attack. Complementary programmes featured works from Ireland, China, Kenya and North Africa, including Scottish Documentary Institute, Iris Prize, Imperial War Museum, We Are Parable, and Girls in Film South Africa.

The 2021 industry programme included VFX, animation and cinematography, editing, screenwriting and virtual reality. Industry representatives included Sally Potter, Maxine Peake, Gamba Cole, Craig Roberts, Framestore, ILM, Film4, Channel 4, and BBC Film. The festival featured Aesthetic alumni Alice Seabright, Francis Lee and Prano Bailey-Bond. The festival included networking and connection opportunities, and opportunities to pitch projects to Film 4, BBC Film, Guardian Documentaries, StudioCanal and DocSociety.[35]

2022

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In 2022, the Aesthetica Film Festival took place in-person in the centre of York from 1–6 November. It continued virtually through the festival's online platform until 30 November. A programme of 300 films was categorised into six thematic strands: Life As We Know It, The Bigger Picture, We'll Cross That Bridge When We Come To It, Who Do You Do?, Be Yourself, Everybody Else Is Taken and The Present Was Their Idea Of The Future. Guest Programmes included shorts from We Are Parable, Queer East Film Festival, Iris Prize, and Scottish Documentary Institute. Showcases from Regents University, York St John University and London College of Fashion focused on filmmaking, authenticity in storytelling and fashion.

Masterclasses included sessions on funding, sustainability, cinematography, and making the transition from short to feature filmmaking. The line-up featured directors, actors and producers including Philip Barantini (Boiling Point), Lizzie Franck (Aftersun) and Claire Oakley (Makeup), and organisations such as Ubisoft, BFI, Framestore, Guardian Documentaries, BBC Writersroom, Ridley Scott Creative Group, and Film4. The industry programme included workshops on VR, 360 film and writing from London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Gal-dem, and Canon. The festival's Kids' Workshops gave young people the opportunity to direct, edit and make their own films. 2022 marked the first year of Aesthetica Fringe events, including art exhibition Unite. Transform. Create. held at Streetlife York.

2023

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The 2023 ASFF took place in York from 8–12 November, across 15 venues. The programme including screenings of films by Ricky Gervais, Maxine Peake, Ben Whishaw and Oscar-winner Tim Webber. There were 300 films in competition spanning 12 genres, organised into five thematic strands: Now, In This Very Moment; Standing at the Threshold of Change; A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With One Step; Be Free From Yourself; It’s Nice to Meet You.

For the 2023 event, Aesthetica developed a Games Lab with 40 new indie-developed games to play. It also hosted 20 VR projects in the Screen School VR Lab.

Festival attendees included directors and cinematographers such as Sarah Gavron (Rocks), Mark Jenkin (Bait), Nicolas Brown (1917), Diana Olifirova (Heartstopper) and Kathryn Ferguson (NOTHING COMPARES), to give sessions on their experience working in the industry. The programme of 60 masterclasses and panel sessions included Aardman, BBC Film, Film4, Framestore, Guardian, Industrial Light and Magic, Studio AKA and Ridley Scott Associates.

The Aesthetica Fringe event included a sound installation and film premiere in collaboration with Audible; a photography exhibition celebrating women behind the lens; a display of contemporary film posters; and workshops in printmaking, gaming and film for kids and adults.

Call for entries

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The Aesthetica Short Film Festival opens for entries in December and closes on 31 May. The festival accepts submissions from emerging and established filmmakers from around the world. Short films with a maximum running time of 30 minutes are accepted across the following genres: advertising, animation, artists' film, comedy, dance, documentary, drama, experimental, fashion, music video, thriller and VR.[36] Feature films are also accepted across Narrative and Documentary genres, running over 60 minutes.

In 2023, the festival introduced the Games Lab. At the Aesthetica Games Lab, the festival exhibits up to 50 projects. The Lab is a celebration of game culture, design and production, in addition to panels and talks.

Awards

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All films in the Official Selection are in competition to receive a number of awards. These awards recognise outstanding talent in filmmaking practice. The winning films are selected by a jury of industry experts, and are presented at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony. ASFF is also a BAFTA-Qualifying festival, meaning short films that are screened may be eligible for a BAFTA award.

Sponsored by BFI NETWORK and Film Hub North, the Polaris Award celebrates the achievements of a filmmaker based in the North of England.

Beginning in 2019, the Hijack Visionary Filmmaker Award recognises directors with exceptional vision and a unique cinematic voice. The winner receives a post production package for their next short film.

Previous winners have gone on to achieve further award success, including Oscar wins (The Silent Child, Chris Overton in 2017 and Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary, in 2016).

2011 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner River Dog, James Muir/Daniel Hunter
People's Choice Dr Knowgood: The Lion’s Pride, Arnold Zwanenbur
Best Animation Hasan Everywhere, Andrew Kavanagh
Best Artists' Film Wall, Michael Barwise
Best Comedy Tooty’s Wedding, Frederic Casella
Best Documentary River Dog, James Muir/Daniel Hunter
Best Drama LIN, Piers Thompson
Best Experimental Dogged, Jo Shaw
Best Music Video Amatorski: Soldier, Maria de Gier
Best Thriller Cleaning Up, Thomas Guerrier

2012 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner The Sugar Bowl, Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson
People's Choice Hollow, Rob Sorrenti
Best Animation The Jockstrap Raiders, Mark Nelson
Best Artists' Film Reduction Study: Ping Pong, Joanna Tam
Best Comedy Photoshopping, Mark Davenport
Best Documentary The Sugar Bowl, Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson
Best Drama Dylan’s Room, Layke Anderson
Best Experimental To The Sea, Anna Valdez Hanks/Anna Blandford
Best Music Video Let It Go, Ashley Dean
Best Thriller Augenblicke, Martin Bargiel

2013 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner Out of Darkness, Manjinder Virk
People's Choice But Milk Is Important, Anna Mantzaris / Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen
Best Animation Oh Willy…, Emma De Swaef / Marc James Roels
Best Artists' Film Ma, Imran Perretta
Best Comedy This Way Out, Staten Cousins-Roe
Best Documentary Danger Overhead Powerlines, Mia Mullarkey
Best Drama Out of Darkness, Manjinder Virk
Best Experimental Man vs Sand, Prano Bailey-Bond
Best Music Video Call Me in the Afternoon, Czlowiek Kamera
Best Thriller Lapsus, Karim Ouaret

2014 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner Coda, Alan Holly
People's Choice The Wolf, The Ship, And The Little Green Bag, Cullum Carver-Jones
Best Advertising The Directors Project, Ben Marshall
Best Animation Coda, Alan Holly
Best Artists' Film Forgotten Memories From The End of the World, Danilo Godoy
Best Comedy Girl Power, Benjamin Bee
Best Documentary Herd in Iceland, Lindsay Blatt
Best Drama Eine Gute Geschichte (A Good Story), Martin-Christopher Bode
Best Experimental Léthé, Harald Hutter
Best Fashion River Island x Joseph Turvey feat. Justanorm, Alex Turvey.
Best Music Video Public Service Broadcasting: Night Mail, Robert Hackett
Best Thriller Keeping Up with the Joneses, Michael Pearce
York Youth Vote How To Disappear Completely, Tim Woodall / Phil Drinkwater

2015 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner A Confession, Petros Silvestros
People's Choice Acoustic Kitty, Jennifer Sheridan
Best Advertising The Experimenter, Simon Emmerson, Andy Russell, Tim Spence & Phil Robson (Lush Digital)
Best Animation Somewhere Down the Line, Julien Regnard
Best Artists' Film Towards the Possible Film, Shezad Dawood
Best Comedy How I didn't Become a Piano Player, Tommaso Pitta
Best Dance Primitive, Tom Rowland
Best Documentary Across Still Water, Ruth Grimberg
Best Drama Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary
Best Experimental Drifters, Anu Valia
Best Fashion Pinch Me for Ted Baker, White Lodge
Best Music Video We Were Evergreen: Daughters, Dominique Rocher
Best Thriller A Confession, Petros Silvestros
York Youth Award Billy the Kid, Sam Johnson

2016 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner Irregulars, Fabio Palmieri
People's Choice Dust and Resin, Stephen Parker
Best Advertising Robo-Trumbe, John Wright
Best Animation Machine, Sunit Parekh-Gaihede
Best Artists' Film Solo Damas, Callum Hill
Best Comedy 90 Grad Nord, Detsky Graffam
Best Documentary Irregulars, Fabio Palmieri
Best Drama Silence, Dejan Mrkic
Best Experimental Two Signs' Den: Epilogue, Bruno Decc
Best Fashion Breaking Rules, Victor Claramunt
Best Music Video Beardyman - Mountainside, Lewis Rose
Best Thriller Cork Man, Dawn Han
York Youth Vote Litterbugs, Peter Stanley-Ward

2017 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner Wave, Benjamin Cleary & TJ O’Grady Peyton
People's Choice The Silent Child, Chris Overton
Northern Film School's Best Screenplay For Real Tho, Baptist Penetticobra
Best Advertising #WeBelieveInThePowerOfLove, Luca Finotti
Best Animation Johnno’s Dead, Chris Shepherd
Best Artists' Film For Real Tho, Baptist Penetticobra
Best Comedy Fucking Bunnies, Teemu Niukkanen
Best Documentary Homeland, Sam Peeters
Best Drama Wave, Benjamin Cleary & TJ O’Grady Peyton
Best Dance Lil Buck with Icons of Modern Art, Andrew Margetson
Best Experimental The Happiest Barrack, Noémi Varga
Best Fashion The Sleeping Field, That Jam
Best Music Video Metaxas – Sirens, Savvas Stavrou
Best Thriller Gridlock, Ian Hunt Duffy
York Youth Vote The Silent Child, Chris Overton

2018 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner Black Sheep, Ed Perkins
People's Choice Turning Table, Andrew Muir
Northern Film School's Best Screenplay Black Sheep, Ed Perkins
Film Hub North Filmmaker's Award Venus, Faye Carr-Wilson
Best Advertising Start the Buzz - Milan Fashion Show, Giacomo Boeri & Matteo Grimaldi
Best Animation Double Portrait, Ian Bruce
Best Artists' Film Author of Expectations, bielecki & bielecka
Best Comedy Sex Ed, Alice Seabright
Best Dance Dances with Circles, Paul McLean
Best Documentary Black Sheep, Ed Perkins
Best Drama In Wonderland, Christopher Haydon
Best Experimental Something Said, Jay Bernard
Best Fashion C41 Magazine x Adidas Originals Prophere, Leone Balduzzu
Best Music Video Alon Eder - I Am Sex, Yuval Haker
Best Thriller Wale, Barnaby Blackburn
Best Narrative Feature You Go to My Head, Dimitri de Clercq
Best Documentary Feature Almost Heaven, Carol Salter
Best VR & Immersive Ashes to Ashes, Ingejan Ligthart Schenk & Jamille van Wijngaarden
York Youth Award Camlo, Andrew Muir

2019 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner Kofi & Lartey, Sasha Rainbow
People's Choice Down, Garry Crystal
Film Hub North Polaris Award Henceforth, Charlene Jones
Hijack Visionary Award They Found Her in a Field, Ellie Rogers
Best Advertising NIKE | L'incredibile, LEONE
Best Animation Roadkill, Leszek Mozga
Best Artists' Film A Protest, A Celebration, A Mixed Message, Rhea Storr
Best Comedy Norteños, Grandmas
Best Dance The Golden Age, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing
Best Documentary Bright Lights, Charby Ibrahim
Best Drama Miss Chazelles, Thomas Vernay
Best Experimental Kindred, Samona Olanipekun
Best Fashion Lola's Manifesto, Gsus Lopez
Best Feature Irene's Ghost, Iain Cunningham
Best Music Video Shahmaran, Emmanuel Adjei
Best Thriller Madame, Garth Jennings
Best VR & Immersive Virtual Viking, Erik Gustavson
York Youth Award Lasagne, Hannah Hill

2020 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner The Fantastic, dir. Maija Blåfield
Hijack Visionary Award Thinking About the Weather, dir. Gardar Thor Thorkelsson
Best Advertising Safe Water, dir. Mario Dahl
Best Animation The Passerby, dir. Pieter Coudyzer
Best Artists' Film Factory Talk, dir. Lucie Rachel and Chrissie Hyde
Best Comedy Maradona's Legs, dir. Firas Khoury
Best Dance The Conversation, dir. Lanre Malaolu
Best Documentary The Fantastic, dir. Maija Blåfield
Best Drama The Present, dir. Farah Nabulsi
Best Experimental Softer, dir. Ayanna Dozier
Best Fashion Baba, dir. Sarah Blok and Lisa Konno
Best Music Video Adventure, dir. Zak Marx
Best Thriller Night Bus, dir. Jessica Ashworth and Henrietta Ashworth
Best VR & Immersive VR Free, dir. Milad Tangshir
Best Feature (Documentary) Neighbors, dir. Tomislav Zaja
Best Feature (Narrative) How to Stop A Recurring Dream, dir. Edward Morris

2021 Winners

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Award Winner
Festival Winner Hanging On, dir. Alfie Barker
Hijack Visionary Award One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean, dir. Wang Yuyan
Best Advertising The North Face X Gucci Presented By Highsnobiety, dir. Fiona Jane Burgess
Best Animation The Chimney Swift, dir. Frédéric Schuld
Best Artists' Film Centarium, dir. Aleksander Johan Andreassen
Best Comedy Taj Mahal Presents… A Short Film, dir. David Dearlove
Best Dance Blast, dir. Joshua Ben-Tovim & Roseanna Anderson
Best Documentary Hanging On, dir. Alfie Barker
Best Drama See You Garbage!, dir. Romain Dumont
Best Experimental The Bang Straws, dir. Michelle Williams Gamaker
Best Fashion Rejoice Resist, dir. Elisha Smith-Leverock
Best Music Video Tesfay, dir. Leah Vlemmiks
Best Thriller Such Small Hands, dir. Maria Martinez Bayona
Best VR & Immersive Meet Mortaza, dir. Joséphine Derobe
Best Feature (Documentary) Bank Job dirs. Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell
Best Feature (Narrative) The Cleaner, dir. Ta Pu Chen
Best Director Such Small Hands, dir. Maria Martinez Bayona
Best Cinematography Such Small Hands, dir. Maria Martinez Bayona
Best Screenplay The Cleaner, dir. Ta Pu Chen
Best Editing One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean, dir. Wang Yuyan

2022 Winners

Award Winner
Festival Winner Until the Tide Creeps In, dir. Jessi Gutch
Best Advertising Dirty Money, dir. Sinan Sevinç and Dominik Ströhle
Best Animation The Clearing, dir. Daniel Hope
Best Artists' Film A Void, dir. Jordy Sank
Best Comedy Doffice, dir. David Leclercq
Best Dance Viscera, dir. Phoebe Davies and Nandi Bhebhe
Best Documentary Until the Tide Creeps In, dir. Jessi Gutch
Best Drama Invisible Border, dir. Mark Gerstorfer
Best Experimental Fireflies, dir. Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke
Best Fashion Replica, dir. Hannah Bon
Best Music Video Mwanjé ft. Samoa the Great – Wildones, dir. Michael Rodrigues & Tarryn Hatchett
Best Thriller O, Glory!, dir. Joe Williams and Charlie Edwards-Moss
Best VR & Immersive Glimpse, dir. Benjamin Cleary and Michael O’Connor
Best Feature (Documentary) The Hermit of Treig, dir. Lizzie MacKenzie
Best Feature (Narrative) I'll Go To Hell, dir. Ismahane Lahmar
Best Director The Hermit of Treig, dir. Lizzie MackEnzie
Best Cinematography Aska, dir. Clara Miro
Best Screenplay Breathless Puppets, dir. Naaman Azhari
Best Editing 39, dir. Martín Delfino Guevara

2023 Winners

Award Winner
Festival Winner The Golden West dirs. Tom Berkeley & Ross White
Best Advertising RNIB | See Differently dir. Jesse Lewis-Reece
Best Animation Letter to a Pig dir. Tal Kantor
Best Artists' Film The Song dir. Bani Abidi
Best Comedy Festival of Slap dir. Abdou Cissé
Best Dance Spicy Pink Tea dir. Aqsa Arif
Best Documentary Nai Năi & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma) dir. Sean Wang
Best Drama The Golden West dirs. Tom Berkeley & Ross White
Best Experimental Thieves dir. Michelle Williams Gamaker
Best Fashion An Ode to Procrastination dir. Aleksandra Kingo
Best Music Video Debbie Feat. Berwyn – Cousin’s Car dir. Relta
Best Thriller Hide Your Crazy dir. Austin Kase
Best VR & Immersive From the Main Square dir. Pedro Harres
Best Game Paper Trail, Newfangled Games
Best Feature (Documentary) After the Bridge dirs. Davide Rizzo & Marzia Toscano
Best Feature (Narrative) Black Moon dir. Tonatiuh García
Best Director Safe dir. Debbie Howard
Best Cinematography The Red Suitcase dir. Cyrus Neshvad
Best Editing Outlets dir. Duncan Cowles
Best Screenplay Safe dir. Debbie Howard

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