The UK Film Festival London (16)

Feature Film
The UK Film Festival welcomes features from all over the world from any genre and budget level.

These films should be over 40 minutes long and completed after 1 January 2022.

The Films will compete for the Best Feature Film Award.

Recent category highlights have included Oscar winners "Ida" from Poland and "The Broken Circle Breakdown" from Belgium as well as "Esio Trot" starring Dustin Hoffman, Judy Dench and James Corden. There have also been many much lower budget features including previous winners "Nocturne" and "Tell Tale Heart."

Short Film
This category welcomes films from the UK and from all over the world including all budgets and genres. It offers the Biggest cash prize for short film in the UK.

These films should be under 40 minutes long and completed after 1 January 2022

Although the UK Film Festival screens the work of established filmmakers it also champions new-comers who may not yet have had the opportunity for a prestigious screening of their work.

The Category awards include Best International Short Film and Best British Short. The jury also grants special awards for excellence.

These films should be under 40 minutes and have been completed after January 2022.

Previous winners have gone on to be Oscar nominees like "Dekalb Elementary" in 2018 and "The Bazkashi Boys" as well as the 2015 Oscar winner "The Phone Call". The 2017 Oscar winner, "Stutterer" was also featured and Bafta winners have included “Boogaloo and Graham” in 2015 BAFTA winner and “Operator” in 2016.

Feature Length Documentary
The UK Film Festival continues to promote great feature documentaries from all over the world.

Accepted entries should be 40 minutes or more in length and be completed after 1 January 2023.

Films will compete for the Best Feature Documentary Award.

The UK Film Festival accepts documentaries from all over the world.

These compete for Best Documentary Short Award, should be under 40 minutes in length and have been completed after 1 January 2022.

Films will compete for the Best Documentary Short Award.

We helped facilitated the broadcast of the documentary “Why don’t we do it in the Road” on Channel 4 – one of the UK’s leading TV broadcasters.

Animations over 40 minutes should be entered into the Feature Film Category. Short Animation entries from the UK and from across the world are welcomed for this prestigious category. Films competing for the Best Animated Short Award should have been completed after January 2023. One of our recent winners was the Oscar nominated - "NEGATIVE SPACE"

The UK Film Festival's main missions is to discover and champion new voices in filmmaking.

The festival accepts entries from students all over the world.

The films should be under 40 minutes in length and completed by 1 January 2022 while the filmmaker was studying full time.

Films will compete for the Best Student Film Award.

Festival highlights have included films from prestigious film schools including; London Film School, NYU and UCLA including the 2019 Oscar Nominee "Dekalb Elementary".

In one of its most exciting screening programmes the UK Film Festival continues to feature cutting edge music videos from around the world.

These films should be under 10 minutes and have been completed after 1 January 2022.

Films will compete for the Best Music Video Award.

A brand new category aiming to support, showcase and award first time filmmakers. We are the first festival to offer feedback (available on request.)

A brand new category aiming to support, showcase and award first time filmmakers. The UK Film Festival welcomes features films made from 1st time filmmakers from all over the world, from any genre and budget level. These films should be over 40 minutes long and completed after January 2023.