UK Film Council

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: January 2024

    Haunting winter traditions, insightful tales of immigrants and West African hair salons feature in our Best of the Month picks for January 2024.

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    Dark Comedy Evan DeRushie

    Birdlime

    A bird who barely manages to escape the exotic pet trade remains trapped in a cage and surrounded by unfamiliar sounds and un-birdlike creatures.

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    Drama Thea Gajic

    The Importance of Skin

    Joy beams down on a South London community until a blissful young couple are suddenly faced with a damaging blow.

  • SOTW

    S/W collaboration with Bertha DocHouse Cinema

    Short of the Week has partnered with the UK's first cinema dedicated solely to documentary to offer a programme of some of our favourite short docs from around the world.

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    Adventure Meghana Bisineer

    A Journey Across Grandmother

    Simple ink animation of a child's imaginative journey across the surreal landscape of her grandmother.

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    Experimental Tom Senior

    One Nice Family Photo

    This student work captures the fluidity and vibrancy of the artist's own family in conversation through a unique sketch and watercolor animation style.

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    Documentary Daniel Ifans

    (The Lost Found) Boy Man Bunny

    What happens when you take an abandoned Brazilian street kid from the favelas of Salvador, and drop him into privileged English society? Three decades later, Pablo is still trying to figure things out.

  • News

    Oscar Short Films in Theaters Today

    If you live in the US, UK or Canada, you may be able to see the live-action, animated and documentary Oscar-nominated short film programs in a theater near you starting today. Shorts International is again the driving force behind this great series.

  • SOTW

    S/W 2017 - By the Numbers

     SITENumber of Featured  Films on the Site in 2017: 300Number of News Pieces + Articles: 51Total Hours of Programming: 59 hours 35 minNumber of Paid Submissions: 3254Accepted Films: 141, a 5.6% Acceptance Rate CREATORS + CONTENTAvg.

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