Sunderland Shorts Film Festival 2024
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival is coming to the City from May 8 – 12th 2024 bringing a huge selection of the best new short films from around the World, across the country and from right here in the region.
Join us at The Fire Station, 17Nineteen. and The Royalty Theatre for over 150 short films and music videos as well as industry workshops and masterclasses.
All tickets and festival passes are on sale now at: https://www.thefirestation.org.uk/whats-on/171//sunderland-shorts-film-festival-2024
We had plenty on offer throughout the week, here’s just a few highlights!
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SSFF24 AWARD WINNERS
MUNA (Dir. Warda Mohamed)
Best Drama
WHERE IT ENDS (Dir. Fergal Costello)
Best Comedy
WANDER TO WONDER (Dir. Nina Gantz)
Best Animation
THE CAKES I WOULD BAKE (Dir. Will De Ritter)
Best Art & Experimental
THE SCHOOL ON SEASIDE LANE (Dir. Carl Joyce)
Best Documentary
WHERE WE BELONG – 私の居場所 (Dir. Madoka Belda Yamamoto)
Best Young, Emerging and Student
POBL BACHYN (Dir. Kiri Pritchard McLean)
Best Horror
OWN HOME? (Dir. Bec Evans)
Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy
TV DEATH: SCARECROW (Dir. Lucy R Turner & Benny J Smith)
Best Music Video
16 (Dir. Rachel Flynn)
Best Debut Film
TOAST SOLDIERS (Dir. Paul Stainthorpe)
Judges Recognition Award
FLUFF (Dir. Max Clendaniel)
Audience Choice Award
BONNY CHIP (Dir. Haley Muraleedharan)
North East Recognition Award
BISECTED (Dir. Danny Pineros)
Honourable Mention
KILLING BORIS JOHNSON (Dir. Musa Alderson-Clarke)
Honourable Mention
SKATE (Dir. Kasey-Anais Blondell)
Honourable Mention
NAILS (Dir. Alex Challies)
Honourable Mention
THE SIKH SOLDIER (Dir. Sky Cheema & Joseph Archer)
Honourable Mention
FISHING (Dir. Josie Charles)
Honourable Mention
THE FIRST TIME I NEVER MET YOU (Dir. Eric Kole)
Honourable Mention
LIONHEAD (Dir. Alvin Yu)
Honourable Mention
WEREE (Dir. Tal Amiran)
Honourable Mention
MY WEEK WITH MAISY (Dir. Mika Simmons)
Honourable Mention
- 16
- A Love Affair
- A Reflection
- Amateur Ornithologist: If It Looks Like Magic
- Amateur Trepanning: Moving to a City
- Another Sky: I Never Had Control
- Are You Okay?
- Badger!
- Beautiful Things
- Better the Neville You Know
- Biblionimus Maximus
- Big Moves
- Bird Man
- Bisected
- Black Samphire
- Black Sunflowers
- Blind Spot
- Bloody Mary
- Bonny Chip
- Borrowed Time
- BRICK: You’ll Make it Home
- Burnt Toast and Cigarettes
- BYRON
- Chip Shop Girl
- Circles
- Complications
- Crusts
- Curiosa
- Dale May: Shelter
- Dead Silent
- Dear Vladimir
- Don’t Wake Audrey
- Dream
- Dream Factory
- DROP
- EMBRACE
- Ensouled
- Finger Food
- fishing
- Floppy Toast with Drippy Butter
- Fluff
- For Isaak
- Franklin
- Friday Night Shidduch
- Friends on the Outside
- Good Boy
- Hangers In July
- Harvest
- He’s Dead, Thanks
- Heritage
- Highschool, or:
- I Would Like to Live on the Moon
- In This Foreign Side
- Indisposable
- Infinite Jest
- Je Veux Danser
- Juicy Cat
- Keep the Faith
- Killing Boris Johnson
- Kind of Morning
- Kirsten Ludwig: Sunbeam
- KISS
- Kitty Smith: Daddy Issues
- L Devine: If I Don’t Laugh I’ll Cry
- Learning to Fly
- Light Noise
- Lionhead
- Lost Ones
- Luna in Wonderland
- Meet Me By The Sea
- Memory
- Microwave
- Mother Daughter
- mothercity
- Mouse
- Mr. Rabbit
- Muna
- Munch
- My Week with Maisy
- Nadine Shah: Twenty Things
- Nails
- NE FLOW: Oblivion
- Next in Line
- Nicole Blakk: Run
- Onward Ye Costumed Souls
- Opening Up
- Otvaal Band: Kiss of Spring
- Own Home?
- PATIENCE
- Pillow Talk
- Pipedream
- Pobl Bachyn
- Poppet
- Portrait
- Pressing On My Mothers Bed
- PRICKS
- Progeny
- Putting on the Ritz
- R1C0
- RECALL
- Reflections
- Rickshaw
- RoButler
- RuMaz: Oh Aye [0.i]
- SAFE
- Sandcastles
- Satisfaction
- SAFE
- Sandcastles
- Satisfaction
- Scott Matthews: Wait in the Car
- Seaglass
- Seeing
- Sidewalk Shuffle
- SKATE
- Slalom D: Waltz into Anarchy
- Slay & Prepare
- Soulmate
- Sparks: The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
- Spirit of Place
- Splash!
- Sunderland Isn’t A Real Place
- Surprise, Baby!
- Swine
- The Bloke in the Boot
- The Cakes I Would Bake
- The First Time I Never Met You
- The Friendship of Fish
- The Golden Boy
- The Granny Grommets
- The Hearts of Bwindi
- The Journey Home
- The Last Cowboy in Salford
- The Last Meal
- The Liver
- The Milky Way
- The Oracle
- The School on Seaside Lane
- The Sikh Soldier
- The Sound of the Wind
- The Sun is Up Forever
- To The Dancers
- Toast Soldiers
- Tow Truck
- TV Death: Scarecrow
- Two Minutes
- Two One Two
- Under the Blue
- Unravelling
- Us & In Between
- Vestige
- Vida Marina
- Wander to Wonder
- Weree
- Where It Ends
- Where We Belong
- Whippy
- Wild Animal
- Witchfairy