The British Independent Film Award for British Short Film is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best British short film.
The award was first presented in the 2003 ceremony. The film Dad's Dead was the first recipient of the award, directed by Chris Shepherd and Maria Manton.
Winners and nominees 2000s YearFilmRecipient(s) 2003 Dad's Dead Chris Shepherd and Maria Manton 72 Faced Liar Mark Waites Extn. 21 Lizzie Oxby Perfect Rankin and Simon Ashdown Salaryman 6 Jake Knight and Ryoko Tanaka 2004 School of Life Jake Polonsky and Malachi Smyth 6.6.04 Simon Hook and Jayne Kirkham Brand Spanking John-Paul Harney and Neil Jaworski London Skies are Blue Brendan Grant Wasp Andrea Arnold and Natasha Marsh 2005 Six Shooter Martin McDonagh, Kenton Allen and Mia Bays Can't Stop Breathing Amy Neil Dupe Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter Pitch Perfect J Blakeson 2006 Cubs Tom Harper At the End of the Sentence Marisa Zanotti and David Greig Ex Mmemoria Josh Appignanesi The 10th Man Sam Leifer Who I Am and What I Want Chris Shepherd, David Shrigley and Maria Manton 2007 Dog Altogether Paddy Considine and Diarmid Scrimshaw Cherries Tom Harper and Fiona Kissane The Girls Sebastian Godwin What Does Your Daddy Do? Martin Stitt À bout de truffe Tom Tagholm 2008 Soft Simon Ellis Alex and Her Arse Truck Sean Conway Gone Fishing Chris Jones and Ivan Francis Clements Love Does Grow on Trees Bevan Walsh and Geraldine Patten Red Sands David Procter, Geoff Bellhouse, Tom Turley and Andrea Farrena 2009 Love You More Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber, Caroline Harvey, Anthony Minghella and Adrian Sturges Christmas with Dad Conor McCormack Leaving Sam Hearn and Richard Penfold Sidney Turtlebaum Tristram Shapeero and Raphael Smith Washdays Simon Neal and Graham Lester-George
2010s YearFilmRecipient(s) 2010 Baby Daniel Mulloy and Ohna Falby Photograph of Jesus Laurie Hill Sign Language Oscar Sharp and Stephen Follows Sis Deborah Haywood The Road Home Rahul Gandotra and Milja Fenger 2011 Chalk Martina Amati and Ilaria Bernardini 507 Ben Blaine and Chris Blaine Rough Skin Laura Lomas and Cathy Brady Love at First Sight Michael Davies and Julian Unthank Rite Michael Pearce 2012 Volume Mahalia Belo and Anna Ingeborg Topsøe Friday Sebastian Rice-Edwards and Anna Symon Junk Kirk Hendry Skyborn Jamie Magnus Stone Swimmer Lynne Ramsay 2013 Z1 Gabriel Gauchet and Rungano Nyoni Dr. Easy Jason Groves, Chris Harding and Richard Kenworthy Dylan's Room Layke Anderson Jonah Kibwe Tavares and Jack Thorne L'Assenza Jonathan Romney 2014 The Kárman Line Oscar Sharp, Dawn King Crocodile Gaëlle Denis and Robin French Emotional Fusebox Rachel Tunnard Keeping Up with the Joneses Michael Pearce, Selina Lim and Megan Rubens Slap Nick Rowland and Islay Bell-Webb 2015 Edmond Nina Gantz Balcony Toby Fell-Holden Crack Peter King Love Is Blind Dan Hodgson Manoman Simon Cartwright 2016 Jacked Rene van Pannevis and Ashish Ghadiali Mother Leo Leigh Over Jörn Threlfall Rate Me Fyzal Boulifa The Wrong End of the Stick Terri Matthews and Chris Cornwell 2017 Fish Story Charlie Shackleton 1745 Gordon Napier and Morayo Akandé The Entertainer Jonathan Schey Work Aneil Karia Wren Boys Harry Lighton and John Fitzpatrick 2018 The Big Day Dawn Shadforth, Kellie Smith, Michelle Stein Bitter Sea Fateme Ahmadi and Emma Parsons The Field Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay and Thomas Bidegain Pommel Paris Zarcilla, Sebastian Brown and Ivan Kelava To Know Him Ted Evans, Kellie Smith, Jennifer Monks and Michelle Stein 2019 Anna Dekel Berenson, Merlin Merton and Olga Beskhmelnitsyna Boiling Point Bart Ruspoli, Philip Barantini, Grace Nelder, Gabriella Callea and James Cummings Goldfish Hector Dockrill, Laura Dockrill, Benedict Turnbull and Harri Kamalanathan The Devil's Harmony Dylan Holmes Williams, Jess O'Kane and Nathan Craig Serious Tingz Abdou Cisse and Kieran Kenlock
2020s YearFilmRecipient(s) 2020 The Long Goodbye Aneil Karia, Riz Ahmed and Tom Gardner Filipiñana Rafael Manuel and Naomi Pacifique Mandem John Ogunmuyiwa and Emily Everdee Sudden Light Sophie Littman and Tom Wood The Forgotten C Molly Manning Walker and Jessi Gutch 2021 Femme Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams and Rienkje Attoh Egúngún (Masquerade) Olive Nwosu and Alex Polunin Night of the Living Dead Ida Melum, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso and Danielle Goff Play It Safe Mitch Kalisa and Chris Toumazou Precious Hair & Beauty John Ognmuyiwa, Sophia Gibber, Tony Longe and Lene Basager 2022 Too Rough Sean Lìonadh, Ross McKenzie and Alfredo Covelli A Fox in the Night Keeran Anwar Blessie and Benjamin Jacob Smith Honesty Roxy Rezvany, Emily Renée and Elly Camisa Sandstorm Seemab Gul and Abid Aziz Merchant Scale Joseph Pierce and Hélène Mitjavile 2023 Festival of Slaps Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon and George Telfer Christopher at Sea Tom CJ Brown, Amanda Miller, Hanna Stolarski, Emily-Jane Brown, Nick Read, Pierre Boivin, Constance Le Scouarnec and Laure Desmazières Lions Beru Tessema and Ama Ampadu Muna Warda Mohamed, Angela Moneke and Simon Hatton The Talent Thomas May Bailey, Emma D'Arcy and Ellen Spence 2024 Wander to Wonder Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Daan Bakker and Maarten Swart Housewarming Liam White and Guy Lindley Meat Puppet Eros V, Masha Thorpe and Leah Draws A Move Elahe Esmaili and Hossein Behboudi Rad Delivery Ben Lankester, Bophanie Lun and Joe Binks
See also BAFTA Award for Best Short Film Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
References
External links Official website