Semi-finalist Short Films 2019
Short Films
Best Narrative / Fiction UK Short Film 53
| Night Walk | 2018 | Alexander Nicolaou | United Kingdom |
| Dessert | 2018 | Martim David Gomes | United Kingdom |
| The Girl Of The Bridge | 2019 | Amor Aditya | United Kingdom |
| Beautified | 2018 | Emily Haigh | United Kingdom |
| Alison | 2018 | Eliad Lienhardt | United Kingdom |
| Ilford Lane | 2018 | Niki Simone | United Kingdom |
| The Dam | 2018 | Frode Gjerlow | United Kingdom |
| For Want of a Nail | 2018 | Lucy Joan Barnes | United Kingdom |
| The Dog Walker | 2017 | Peter Mckeirnon | United Kingdom |
| The Code | 2018 | Patrick Ryder | United Kingdom |
| Heaven’s Rage | 2017 | Mark Crane | United Kingdom |
| Situation | 2016 | Adam Baird | United Kingdom |
| Standby | 2018 | Ethan Evans, Sean Toshach | United Kingdom |
| Entrance No Exit | 2018 | Jo Southwell | United Kingdom |
| Like Glass | 2018 | Adam Spinks | United Kingdom |
| A Cure for Violence | 2018 | James O’Halloran | United Kingdom |
| ELI | 2018 | Colin Gerrard | United Kingdom |
| The Idiot | 2010 | Arturo M. Merelo, Simon Shaw | United Kingdom |
| Sublime | 2018 | Enrique Saunders, Genevieve Sanders | United Kingdom |
| Under The Jericho Sun | 2018 | Marc Pearce | United Kingdom |
| Oath Bound | 2018 | Ola Laniyan | United Kingdom |
| Web | 2018 | Dan Daniel | United Kingdom |
| T.I.M: Trapped In Me – Short / Teaser [4K] [UHD] | 2018 | Director Peter Heppelthwaite – Co Director Philip L Moore | United Kingdom |
| STAG DO | 2017 | velton j lishke | United Kingdom |
| Mountain | 2018 | Johnny Herbin | United Kingdom |
| It Follows | 2017 | Eresha Sale | United Kingdom |
| A Quiet Room in Walthamstow | 2017 | Tiago Teixeira | United Kingdom |
| Chopsticks!! | 2018 | Aeddan Sussex | United Kingdom |
| Belfast Calibre 9 | 2018 | Thomas Pollock | United Kingdom |
| Apostate | 2018 | Tom Patient | United Kingdom |
| The Negotiator | 2018 | Jehan Bokhari | United Kingdom |
| Scene from the Men’s Toilets at a Ceilidh | 2018 | Louis Norris | United Kingdom |
| No Man’s Land | 2019 | Daniel L Martin | United Kingdom |
| His Hands | 2018 | Arron Blake, Darius Shu | United Kingdom |
| Grounding | 2018 | R.M. Moses | United Kingdom |
| The Date | 2018 | Emmalie El Fadli | United Kingdom |
| Dearly Departed | 2018 | Elise Martin | United Kingdom |
| Misty | 2019 | Seb Body | United Kingdom |
| Reality 101 | 2018 | Nathan Rawlings | United Kingdom |
| Supper for Civilised Girls | 2019 | Ella Robertson | United Kingdom |
| Pianist in a Brothel | 2018 | Ciaran Crudden | United Kingdom |
| BITTER SEA (dir. F. Ahmadi) | 2017 | Fateme Ahmadi | United Kingdom |
| Men Don’t Cry | 2019 | Matt Hackney | United Kingdom |
| Penumbra | 2019 | Oscar Knott | United Kingdom |
| Little | 2019 | Kris Williams | United Kingdom |
| Huntington Gardens | 2018 | Paul Wade, Simon Wade | United Kingdom |
| I LOVE TENNIS | 2018 | Sam W. Buffery | United Kingdom |
| Overkill | 2019 | Ross Donald | United Kingdom |
| FAULT | 2018 | Frank Berry | United Kingdom |
| Bedtime | 2019 | John Fuller | United Kingdom |
| They Never Lie | 2019 | Rafael P. Basáñez | United Kingdom |
| Unliving | 2019 | Terry Silvester | United Kingdom |
| I. | 2019 | Larissa Saldarini | United Kingdom |
Best Documentary UK Short Film 13
| Against All Odds | 2018 | James Evans, Elliott Humbles | United Kingdom |
| Regular (Normal) | 2018 | Yuxuan Ju | United Kingdom |
| Oregu | 2018 | Marina Ivaniceva | United Kingdom |
| Rose | 2018 | Edwin Miles | United Kingdom |
| Hell’s Valley | 2014 | William Allum | United Kingdom |
| Big Data | 2018 | Adam Pietrzyk | United Kingdom |
| 125/hr | 2018 | Andrew Owens | United Kingdom |
| Winter Hill | 2018 | Lee Gray | United Kingdom |
| STRANGE STORMS AND SYMPHONIES THE LIFE OF GEORGE LLOYD CORNISH COMPOSER | 2017 | diana taylor | United Kingdom |
| MASHA AND DASHA TWO HEARTS IN ONE | 2018 | DIANA TAYLOR | United Kingdom |
| Spotter-Spotters | 2018 | Ben Plumb | United Kingdom |
| See Our Voices | Sign Language Matters | 2019 | Daniel Haywood | United Kingdom |
| Gwyr: Reflections | 2019 | Georgios Dimitropoulos | United Kingdom |
Best Animation UK Short Film 9
| SnaBIRtle circus | 2018 | Shuk Yee Tsang | United Kingdom |
| METEORLIGHT | 2018 | Jonny Eveson | United Kingdom |
| The Masque of Blackness | 2018 | Epoh Beech | United Kingdom |
| Fishboy | 2018 | Anita Bruvere | United Kingdom |
| Togetherness | 2018 | Shaun Clark, Kim Noce | United Kingdom |
| Pieceful Bodies | 2018 | Phoebe Morrison | United Kingdom |
| Down The Pub | 2019 | Ciara Kerr | United Kingdom |
| When The Silence Comes | 2018 | Liang-Hsin Huang | United Kingdom |
Best Experimental UK Short Film 14
| Bust of the young man | 2018 | Slawomir Milewski | United Kingdom |
| smart dress is absolutely essential | 2015 | Slawomir Milewski | United Kingdom |
| Conventions in western art favor portraits that position theface slightly offcenter to avoid disturbing symmetrical compositions | 2016 | United Kingdom | |
| Seclusion | 2018 | George Turner, Lee Reynolds | United Kingdom |
| Tunnel | 2018 | James Coe | United Kingdom |
| Amelia Rose | 2018 | Philip Anthony Gable | United Kingdom |
| The House That Henry Built | 2018 | Peter Mckeirnon | United Kingdom |
| Special Delivery | 2018 | John Galliano | United Kingdom |
| Becoming Me | 2018 | Stefano Pasotti | United Kingdom |
| CHILDREN | 2018 | Stewart Giles | United Kingdom |
| “At Dawn the Flowers Open the Gates of Paradise” | 2017 | Elzbieta Piekacz | United Kingdom |
| Tango Shoes | 2015 | Elzbieta Piekacz | United Kingdom |
| Embrace | 2015 | Elzbieta Piekacz | United Kingdom |
| The entropy of all things | 2019 | tony hickson | United Kingdom |
Best Narrative / Fiction International Short Film 40
| Death of the Father | 2018 | Vasileios Douskos | Greece |
| Mírame | 2019 | Juan Andres Mateos | Spain |
| This happened to you ..? / Esto le pasó a Usted..? | 2018 | Ana Maria Estrada | Peru / USA |
| Actually | 2018 | Mart Sander | Estonia |
| #Actor | 2018 | John Lindquist | Sweden |
| Sobre mi sombra | 2017 | Alejandro Fetecua Bernal | Colombia |
| La Sellada | 2017 | Hernan Bentancor | Uruguay |
| El jardín de las flores desaparecidas | 2016 | Vicente Canales Aedo | Chile |
| El Cuarto Cuerpo | 2017 | Agustina Grillo & Manuela Gamboa | Argentina |
| MEMORÁNDUM | 2016 | Jennifer Lara | Chile |
| SIKLUS | 2018 | Louis Minnaar | South Africa |
| DIE FREUNDIN (The homegirl) | 2016 | Iván Sáinz-Pardo | Germany |
| Top 10 Places to Visit in São Paulo | 2018 | Akira Kamiki | Brazil |
| The Noise of the Light | 2018 | Valentin Petit | France |
| Intrinsic Moral Evil | 2013 | Harm Weistra | Netherlands |
| Adam Can’t Breathe | 2018 | Dániel Füzes | Hungary |
| The Dam | 2018 | Frode Gjerlow | Not Specified |
| Aux battements du parloir (Jail quarters) | 2016 | Pascal Marc | France |
| Blessed Days | 2017 | France | |
| Exist | 2018 | payam | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Waldwölfe (Forest Wolves) | 2018 | Peter W. Allen | Australia |
| Wasteland | 2017 | Latifa Said | France |
| ÇEMBER | 2018 | Subutay KIRKPINAR | Turkey |
| My Liberation | 2018 | Tom Pluijmaekers | Netherlands |
| A Leaf | 2018 | Bishara Shoukry | Egypt |
| Mother’s Day | 2018 | Greg Powell | Australia |
| Next time! | 2018 | Thomas Deshays | France |
| The Crossing | 2018 | Jaak Erasmus | South Africa |
| Before Night Comes – Antigone Speech | 2017 | JOAQUIM PAVÃO | Portugal |
| A Loft in Paradise | 2017 | Alexandre Lança | France |
| Conversation With A Cigarette | 2014 | Russell Brown | Not Specified |
| Danny and May | 2018 | Andrew Moodie | Canada |
| CNMI – WOOLMARK | 2018 | Matteo Grimaldi | Italy |
| Be Ready | 2018 | Giacomo Boeri e Matteo Grimaldi | Italy |
| Rasam | 2019 | Arif Afzal | United Arab Emirates |
| Hush-a-Bye | 2018 | Taromi Lourdes Joseph | Trinidad and Tobago |
| At Sea | 2018 | Anne Madeleine Mancosu | Switzerland |
| 2 by 2 | 2017 | Mark Playne | Turkey |
| Session no. 78 | 2018 | Bridget O’Driscoll | France |
| Continental Breakfast | 2018 | Alec Liddle | Ireland |
Best Documentary International Short Film 22
| The Barre | 2018 | hyuk-rho LEE | South Korea |
| With Love From Holmfirth | 2018 | Will Wintercross | United Kingdom |
| Vignette | 2018 | Gabriella Grinwald-Alves | USA |
| Silent Death on a Silent Journey | 2017 | Mouhssine Ennaimi | France |
| Syria’s Slaughterhouses | 2018 | Mouhssine Ennaimi | France |
| Let me dance | 2018 | Camilla Skagerstrom | Sweden |
| Welcome to Malabon | 2018 | Ted McDonnell | Australia |
| Hearts of Blue | 2018 | Shane Williamson | USA |
| Panama Mundial | 2018 | Dan Faber | United Kingdom |
| Plague Dogs | 2018 | August Anderson | United States |
| Fighting Two Wars: The Story of Thalia Jane Ainsley | 2018 | Aaron Curtis | United States |
| SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION IN PUERTO ESCONDIDO | 2018 | camilla daldoss | Italy |
| Closure | 2017 | Mariana França de Lima, Gildo Antonio | Brazil |
| New Faustian World | 2018 | Piero Passaro | Italy |
| A Gift of Wings: The Pilots of Sebring | 2018 | Ted Snow | United States |
| Say yes to happiness ! | 2018 | Elvis Bilalic | Croatia |
| The suicide game | 2018 | Lojika | Sri Lanka |
| The Four Loves | 2018 | Stefan Meylaers | Belgium |
| The Saviour Of The World Memory | 2016 | Andi Burhamzah | Indonesia |
| Turban Fever | 2017 | Monisha Dey | United States |
| We Have a Dream: Women’s Hopes & Conflicts | 2018 | Zlila Helman | Israel |
| “Fuera de foco” | 2013 | Adrián Arce | México |
Best Animation International Short Film 21
| Olympics | 2018 | Alice Aires | Portugal |
| Anacronte | 2018 | Raúl Koler | Argentina |
| Chiaroscuro | 2018 | David Perry | USA |
| Home Grown | 2017 | William Reynish | Denmark |
| Is This Real? | 2018 | Stefano Cassini | Kenya |
| Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle & the Millionaires’ Conspiracy | 2017 | Akihiro Hino | Japan |
| From so far I couldn´t make my self understood. | 2018 | Julian Thomas Sierra | Colombia |
| My Heart Flies | 2018 | Faith Butterfield, Matt Jackson | United States |
| A strange trial | 2018 | Marcel Barelli | Switzerland |
| The Elevator | 2018 | United States | |
| OCD | 2018 | Xiaotian Mi, Baolin Zhong, Zinan Zhao | China |
| Chasing the Sun | 2018 | Haochen Du | China |
| Hersenspinsels (Figment) | 2018 | Christina Kingma | Netherlands |
| Big Booom | 2016 | Marat Narimanov | Russian Federation |
| Deep Dive | 2018 | Gayatri Ankam | United States |
| The Masterpiece | 2014 | Christopher Satola | United Kingdom |
| Novalis | 2018 | Chris Powell | Not Specified |
Best Experimental International Short Film 22
| 14 | 2018 | Hiroshi Kizu | Japan |
| Nostalgia for Existing Without Delay | 2018 | Slawomir Milewski | Poland |
| FROM LUXURY TO POPULAR: FOREIGN PARALELL WORLDS | 2018 | Cristiane Neder | Brazil |
| Franca | 2017 | Antonella Barbera, Patrizia Fazzi | Italy |
| Nap Time | 2018 | Federico Gáspari | Argentina |
| MONDO LXXV | 2017 | Rei Souza | Brazil |
| All The Same | 2017 | Chan Hon Wa | Hong Kong |
| Tape | 2018 | Vishnu Ravi Raj | India |
| Light as a Feather | 2018 | Aimee Norwich | United States |
| The Wolf | 2018 | Canada | |
| Wanting | 2018 | Robin Gee | United States |
| Last Love | 2017 | Dmitri Frolov | Russian Federation |
| Puntos Suspensivos | 2019 | Dani Ginebroza | Spain |
Best United States Fiction Short Film 24
| Facing the Horizon | 2018 | Elena Santulli | United States |
| Life of FEET | 2018 | Siyao Cheng | United States |
| I’m Good | 2018 | Julia Nejman | United States |
| Definetly Soy | 2018 | Ruben Zaccaroni | United States |
| EVELYN & ELMER | 2018 | Nadia Jordan | United States |
| L’incidente Intimo (The Intimate Incident) | 2018 | Maria DeCotis, Natasha Giliberti | United States |
| Naked | 2019 | Sean Guerrero | United States |
| Before the Dawn | 2018 | Marina Shron | United States |
| Herringbone | 2018 | Gene Du Plessis | United States |
| A Good Son | 2019 | Suzanne Weinert | United States |
| Intrusive Thoughts | 2018 | Daniel Ruczko | United States |
| Change | 2018 | Joe Jennings Jr. | United States |
| Chapter XIV: The Duel | 2012 | Taras Bambaev | United States |
| Everyday Boon | 2018 | JJ House | United States |
| Fated to Repeat | 2017 | Logan J. Freeman | United States |
| The Kaleidoscope Guy at the Market | 2018 | Russell Brown | United States |
| Apple of My Eye | 2018 | Xiaoli Liu | United States |
| Bloodhound Disciple | 2018 | Manuel Del Valle | United States |
| The Audition | 2018 | Dani Bowman | United States |
| Suffocate | 2018 | Cristina Gonzalez | United States |
| Commotion | 2018 | Bryan Wynn Sutton | United States |
| Nine Mile Creek | 2017 | Ian Bagley | United States |
| That Smell | 2017 | Kyle Lavore | United States |
| The Family Robinson | 2017 | Kyle Lavore | United States |
Best Asian Fiction Short Film 14
| A Missing Piece | 2019 | Grace Chang | China/USA |
| A Story | 2018 | Jane Tse | China/USA |
| Pinky Promise | 2018 | Christiana Chang | China |
| bitter light | 2018 | KAZUHITO YOKOMIZO | Japan |
| Mess Tin | 2018 | Lawrence Ong | Singapore |
| Burning | 2018 | V S Sanoj | India |
| Sare Jahan Se Accha | 2018 | Gurprasad Singh | India |
| Adult’s Agony | 2017 | Johanna Johan | Malaysia |
| HINOIRINOKAZE -Wind of sunset- | 2018 | Hideki Oshima | Japan |
| The Great United Nations | 2018 | Soyoung Yang | South Korea |
| Loop of Loneliness | 2018 | Yuyuan Wang | China |
| Sangharsh | 2018 | Satyarth Singh | India |
| GANDHI V/S JUSTICE In-Justice We Believe ( 20 minutes) | 2018 | Pratik Khandhadiya | India |
| GRAY | 2018 | Preet | India |