ThE Oxford
international
film festival
OXIFF is a BIFA qualifying event, designed to be an intimate, boutique and eloquent filmmaker festival of discovery where film enthusiasts can get first hand insights from directors, writers, actors and producers from the premiering films, a style which blends well with the beautiful city of Oxford.
OXIFF2024 award winners
Best Director - Colleen McGuinness
Best Feature - Long Haul
Best International Short - Loser
Best UK Short - Cold Mine
Best Documentary - The Bloodline
Best Documentary Short - Ravens
Best Animation - Have I swallowed Your Dreams
Best Performance in a Lead Role (Actress/Actor) - Angourice Rice
Best student - Badge
Best Experimental - The Untranslatable Forest
Best Music Video - Rigmor
Best Screenplay - Burning
OXIFF2025
OXIFF2025 is a BIFA qualifying event, designed to be an intimate, boutique and eloquent filmmaker festival of discovery where film enthusiasts can get first hand insights from directors, writers, actors and producers from the premiering films, a style which blends well with the beautiful city of Oxford.
oxiff2023
official
selection
Award Winners
announced…
Best Feature film - THE TEACHER
Best international short film - THE OLD YOUNG CROW
Best UK short film - FREDERICKS
Best documentary - THE EXCHANGE GIRL
Best Experimental - HALDIIS
Best Student Film - THE PRINCESS’ DILEMAS
Best Animation - REGULAR RABBIT
Best un-commissioned screenplay - MARY MY DEAR
Best Music Video - TELL ME WHERE TO GO
Best Director - FARAH NABULSI
Best Actor - SALEH BAKRI
Best Actress - IMOGEN POOTS
Film of the Festival - THE TEACHER
official
selection
2022
oxiff2022
award winners
Film of the Festival – A Crack in the Mountain
Best Documentary Feature – A Crack in the Mountain
Best Feature film – A Weekend Away
Best international short film - What Really Matters
Best UK short film - Deloping
Best documentary Short - Village hours
Best Experimental - Woman
Best Student Film Lachesism
Best Animation - Stalker
Best un-commissioned screenplay - Red Coats by Gabrielle Canet
Best Music Video – Got to Move
Best Director – Alastair Evans (A Crack in the Mountain)
Best Actor – Michael Grady-Hall (Through the Larkin Glass)
Best Actress - Patricia Fuertes What Really Matters
oxiff2021 award winners…
Best Feature - The Laureate - William L Nunez
Best International Short - One of Us - Adrian Burt
Best UK Short - 22. Anna Matthews - Ben Hector
Best Documentary Feature - Misha - Brian song
Best Documentary Short - Águilas/Eagles - Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre
Best Student Film - Uncle Zsiger - Edit Jakab
Best Experimental Film - If Only - John Behring
Best Music Video - Dawn - Timon Birkhofer
Best Animation - The Winter - Xin Li
Best Uncommissioned Screenplay - Point 88
Best Director - William L Nunez (The Laureate)
Best Actress - Emma Keele (22. Anna Matthews)
Best Actor - Tom Hughes (The Laureate)
Film of the Festival - The Laureate - William L Nunez
Our exciting and eclectic selection for 2021 can be discovered below by clicking the film title and or director…
narrative features
The Catch - Matthew Ya-Hsiung Balzer
The Laureate - William L Nunez
Documentary features
Kiss the Ground - Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell
Ed Asner: On Stage and Off - Kurt Jacobsen, Warren Leming
Eye of the storm - Brooke Harris Wolf
uk narrative short films
The Rebirthing club - Valentina Carrasco Thayer
Conversations at Dusk - Amber Tordoff- Gibson
22. Anna Matthews - Ben Hector
Doughnut - Liam White, Larry Ketang
International narrative short films
A Circle Line Train - Martin Venier
Carl the Exorcist - Jordan McKittrick
A Letter To My Friend In France - Akram elbezzawy
The Fourth Wall - Kelsey Bollig
Rosario - Rogelio Salinas de la Torre
Draped in a Dragon - Jeremias Nussbaum
documentary short films
Right There Part 2 - Florence Buchanan
The Last Vaquita - Ed Harrison
Águilas/Eagles - Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre
California Creole - Abby Berendt Lavoi, Jeremey Lavoi
Running Through Life - Craig Bingham
student films
insomnia - Haerim Yang *also ani
Right Now, I Am - Ciara Kerr *also ani
animation films
insomnia - Haerim Yang *also stu
Right Now, I Am - Ciara Kerr *also stu
experimental films
Les Dieux Changeants - Lucio Arese
The Invisible Mirror - Luigi Rizzo
Phone In Hand (On Balloons With a Sheet Over Dead Belongings) - Matt Whitman
music videos
Open the Blinds - Timm Gillner
Noize MC — League of Legend - Vitaliy Kapitonov
screenplay finalists
A New G - Clarence Simons - USA
Point 88 - Josie Clarke - UK
WiFi - Christopher Wilde - Australia
Happy Birthday to Me - Charlie Cook - Canada
OXIFF2020 AWARD WINNERS
The Oxford International Film Festival 2020 came to a close on Sunday 4th October. Sadly due to the COVID-19 crisis the festival was unable to host the annual awards ceremony but festival is still delighted to announce the winners of this year’s awards!
Official Selection Announcement
The Oxford International Film Festival is delighted to announce the line-up for the 5th annual event, taking place 2nd-4th October both in cinema and online.
Important Update for OXIFF2020
Due to the COVID-19 crisis we wanted to provide a brief update on our plans for OXIFF2020. As everyone reading this will be aware there is no guarantees that cinemas or indeed any other venues will be open at the current re-scheduled date of 2nd-4th October.