An epic celebration of new filmmaking talent
We love short films at LIFF! So much so that we have a whole section dedicated to them, Leeds Short Film Awards, with 110 shorts from 50 countries screening in seven competitions this year. We also present documentary shorts in our Cinema Versa section and fantasy shorts in Fanomenon, and in addition this year we are screening selections of shorts by African women and by Jamaican filmmakers.
On this page we list the full selection of short films selected for LIFF 2022. You can find more information about each short film selected for the Leeds Short Film Awards 2022 by clicking on this link.
Leeds International Short Film Competition
Are You Still There? (Dirs. Rayka Zehtabchi, Sam Davis / United States of America)
Blue Note (Dir. Pavel Andonov / Finland)
Cherries (Uogos / Dir. Vytautas Katkus / Lithuania)
FAIRPLAY (Dir. Zoel Aeschbacher / France)
Fire at the Lake (Le Feu au lac / Dir. Pierre Menahem / France)
Honey (Madhu / Dirs. Tanmay Chowdhary, Tanvi Chowdhary / India)
Islands in the City (Die geheimnisvollen Inseln / Dir. Marian Freistühler / Germany)
The Headhunter's Daughter (Dir. Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan / Philippines)
The Invisible Border (Die unsichtbare Grenze / Dir. Mark Gerstorfer / Austria)
Joutel (Dir. Alexa-Jeanne Dubé / Canada)
Khadiga (Dir. Morad Mostafa / Egypt)
LIVE (Na żywo / Dir. Mara Tamkovich / Poland)
Nest (Dir. Hlynur Pálmason / Denmark)
Not Today (Dir. Yagmur Misirlioglu / Turkey, Brazil)
The Patient and the Undersigned (Patient och undertecknad / Dir. Elin Övergaard / Germany)
Please Hold the Line (Dir. Tan Ce Ding / Malaysia)
The Water Murmurs (Dir. Story Chen / China)
Saboteur (Le Saboteur / Dir. Anssi Kasitonni / Finland)
Swan in the Centre (Swan dans le centre / Dir. Iris Chassaigne / France)
Tremor (Beben / Dir. Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard / France)
Tsutsué (Tsutsuɛ / Dir. Amartei Armar / France)
The Voice Actress (Dir. Anna J. Takayama / Japan)
What Remains (O Que Resta / Dir. Daniel Soares / Portugal)
Why Does Helen Koch Commit Serious Vehicle Theft? (Warum Begeht Helen Koch Schweren Kraftwagendiebstahl? / Dir. Moritz Geiser / Germany)
World Animation Competition:
Above the Clouds (Felhők felett / Dir. Vivien Hárshegyi / Hungary)
Bear Hug (Dir. Margrethe Danielson / Norway, France)
The Bones (Los Huesos / Dirs. Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña / Chile)
Carnivorous Bean Sprout (Dir. SeO / South Korea)
Christopher at Sea (Dir. Tom CJ Brown / France)
A Coconut Tree (Dir. Joshy Benedict / India)
Ice Merchants (Dir. João Gonzalez / Portugal)
IDODO (Dir. Ursula Ulmi / Switzerland, Papa New Guinea)
Iizuna Fair (Dir. Sumito Sakakibara, Japan)
It's Nice in Here (Dir. Robert-Jonathan Koeyers / The Netherlands)
Once More With Feeling (Dir. Pallavi Agarwala / United Kingdom)
The Queen of the Foxes (La Reine des Renards / Dir. Marina Rosset / Switzerland)
RIM (Dir. Hagar Faibish / Germany)
Sisters (Sestry / Dir. Andrea Szelesová / Czechia)
Steakhouse (Dir. Špela Čadež / Slovenia, France, Germany)
A Story for 2 Trumpets (Histoire pour 2 trompettes / Dir. Amandine Meyer / France)
Til We Meet Again (Dir. Ülo Pikkov / Estonia)
A Tiny Man (Un Petit Homme / Dirs. Aude David, Mikaël Gaudin / France)
Vitality (Vitalité / Dir. Emilie Mereghetti / France)
Zoon (Dir. Jonatan Schwenk / Germany)
British Short Film Competition
The Barber (Dir. Dhivya Kate Chetty / United Kingdom)
The Bayview (Dir. Daniel Cook / United Kingdom)
Canvas 5 (Dir. Karla Crome / United Kingdom)
The Electricity in Me (Dir. Mat Sheldon / United Kingdom)
Let's Not Do This Tonight (Dir. John Jencks / United Kingdom)
Listen to Mother (Dir. Jamie Gyngell / United Kingdom)
London's Forgotten (Dir. Liam Rogers / United Kingdom)
Look for the Diamonds (Dir. James Slater / United Kingdom)
Love Languages (Dir. Jason Osborne / United Kingdom)
Photo Booth (Dir. Roxy Rezvany / United Kingdom)
A Moral Man (Dir. Paul Wade, Simon Wade / United Kingdom)
Prosopagnosia (Dir. Steven Fraser / United Kingdom)
Shelf Life (Dir. Luke Roulstone / United Kingdom)
Your Mountain Is Waiting (Dir. Hannah Jacobs / United Kingdom)
Yorkshire Short Film Competition
Apron or Hairdryer? (Dir. Ben G. Brown / United Kingdom)
Hope You Fail (Dir. Alison Grasso / United Kingdom)
Incompatible (Dir. Maxine Peake / United Kingdom)
Robin (Dir. Tristan Shepherd / United Kingdom)
Views from Sunk Island (Dir. Michael C Coldwell / United Kingdom)
Warm (Dir. Alfie Barker, Masego Lynia / United Kingdom)
Leeds Queer Short Film Competition
100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu (Dir. Gbenga Komolafe / United States of America)
Borderline (Dir. Eun-sang Ko / South Korea)
Changement (Dir. Sasha Reist / United States of America)
Christian (Cristiano / Dir. Adán Pichardo / Spain)
Eliza (Dir. Amy Pennington / United Kingdom)
The Magentalman and The Gentlemint (Dir. James Crang / United Kingdom)
Mickey or Minnie (Dir. Krissy Mahan / United States of America)
Minutes (Dir. Alix Eve, Olivia Dowd / United Kingdom)
Mom, If I were a Vampire (Dir. Deborah Chuang / Taiwan)
Octopus (Dir. Ella Glendining / United Kingdom)
One like him (Dir. Caitlin McLeod / Jordan, United Kingdom)
Puberty (Dir. Yuen Hsieh / China)
Punch Line (Dir. Becky Cheatle / Ireland)
The Rainbow Dung Beetle (Dir. Ellen Mowat, Cole Dupzyk / United States of America)
Supreme (Dir. Youssef Youssef / Switzerland)
Tank Fairy (Dir. Erich Rettstadt / Taiwan)
Thine Own Self (Dir. Evan Bode / United States of America)
Leeds Screendance Competition
A Body Is (Dir. Jaime Dezcallar / Spain)
A Drifting Up (Dir. Jacob Lee / United Kingdom)
amser/time (Dir. Deborah Light / United Kingdom)
Fragility of Language (Dir. Nefeli Kentoni / Cyrpus, United Kingdom)
Herbarium (Dir. Iwona Pasińska / Poland)
I Fall (Dir. Dan Thorburn / United Kingdom)
Naari (Dir. Arya Kokate / United Kingdom, India)
Porch Light (Dir. Ned Farr / United States of America)
Slit Drift (Dir. Sydney Buchan / Germany)
STAVROPOL (Dir. Andrew Margetson / Russia, United Kingdom)
What Are We Doing (Dirs. Katya Esme Maya Bourvis, Sophie Jane Park / United Kingdom)
Leeds Music Video Competition
Alexandra Alden - Vagabond (Dir. Bruce Micallef Eynaud / Malta)
Alt J - The Actor (Dir. Saskia Dixie / United Kingdom)
Backspace - Six Eyed Dragonfly (Dir. Jingran Damo Yang / China)
Bobby 3lue - Colossus (Dir. Michelle Angela Sastraatmadja / United States of America)
Brodka - Game Change (Dir. Michal Hudzikowski / Poland)
Buen Camino - A New Day (Dir. Sebastian Juszczyk / Poland)
Caterina Barbieri - Broken Melody (Dir. Iacopo Carapell / Italy)
D'Nomada - The Sky Belongs to No-one (Dir. Manuel Del Valle / Mexico)
David Heatley - On Your Side (Dir. David Heatley / United States of America)
Dynoro ft. 24kGoldn - Monsters (Dir. Taisia Deeva / Ukraine)
Far Caspian - Following the Trend (Dir. Andy Little / United Kingdom)
Flavien - Indil Malta (Dir. Flavien Peteul / France)
Gathering Speed - Oliver Earnest (Dir. Sarah Daisy Ellersdorfer / Germany)
JNKYRD - Varsity ft. Ohhyuk (Dir. Gyuri Cloe Lee / South Korea)
Leon Bridges & Khruangbin - Chocolate Hills (Dirs. Cady Buche, Travis Barron / United States of America)
Mykki Blanco ft. Michael Stipe - Family Ties (Dirs. Krishna Muthurangu, Kit Monteith / United Kingdom)
OVERWERK x Pilotpriest - Parallel (Dir. Olaf Blomerus / Canada)
Tulipomania - You Had to Be There (Dirs. Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray / United States of America)
Films Femmes Afrique Shorts: A Sense of Home
Bazigaga (Dir. Jo Ingabire Moys / France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Réunion)
Ethereality (Dir. Gahigiri Kantarama / Swizterland, Rwanada)
My Love, Ethiopia (Ethiopia Yene Fikir / Dir. Gabrielle Tesfaye / Ethiopia)
Masquerade (Egúngún / Dir. Olive Nwosu / Nigeria)
On the Surface (Dir. Fan Sissoko / Iceland, Mali)
Astel (Dir. Ramata Sy / Senegal, France)
One Love from Jamaica: Shorts Selection
Fever Dreams (Dir. Nile Saulter / Jamaica)
Flight (Dirs. Kia Moses, Adrian McDonald / Jamaica)
Hot Gyal (Dirs. Shamara Spencer, Annastazia Chin / Jamaica)
Sink or Swim (Dir. Tony Hendriks, Natalie Thompson / Jamaica)
Sugarcake (Dir. Joshua Paul / Jamaica)
Cinema Versa Documentary Shorts
Belle River (Dir. Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin / Canada)
Blind Spot (Angle Mort / Dir. Lotfi Achour / Tunisia)
The Capacity for Adequate Anger (Dir. Vika Kirchenbauer / Germany)
Light Years (Dir. Monika Proba / Poland)
The Song of the Silenced (Dir. Li Gu, Yuqi Cai / China)
Fanomenon Horror Shorts
Cut (Dir. Min-Zun Son / South Korea)
Deadline (Dir. Shihan Shoukath / United Arab Emirates)
Listen to Mother (Dir. Jamie Gyngell / United Kingdom)
Mantis (Dir. Luigi Sibona / United Kingdom)
Rise & Shine (Dir. Arnaud Pierre Baur / Switzerland)
The Rock of Ages (Dir. Eron Sheean / France, Iceland)
South (Dir. Carl Shanahan / Norway)
Fanomenon Sci-fi Shorts
Heartless (Dir. Haukur Björgvinsson / Iceland)
Aves (Dir. Eli Snyder / United States of America)
Time Tourists (Dir. Ian Sweeney / New Zealand)
Daylight Rules (Dir. Alex Browning / United Kingdom)
Theater (Dir. Yu Sakudo / Japan)
Shorts Screening before features
Cashbag (before The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra)
Let's (before Rewind and Play - Thelonious Monk)