Worcester Film Festival
24th - 27th September 2025
1 City
6 Venues
80+ Films
See our packed schedule for this year as well as some of the impressive venues we will be hosting the screenings, galas, networking events and so much more.
An event for everyone.
Here we are! Year 5! Half a decade of enjoying your fantastic films.
Greetings from Worcester Film Festival! We are committed to introducing the best of indie film to the Midlands by championing and nurturing talent both upcoming and established. We’re proud to be a festival for film lovers and filmmakers alike, creating a meaningful film presence right here in the heart of the UK.
There’s a lot in store for this coming festival:
2 screens at ODEON Cinema showing your films TWICE over 3 days, workshops, pitching events, networking film socials, Q&As, podcast interviews, special presentations/preview screenings, awards ceremony and gala.
And much, much more to be announced!
We’re looking forward to welcoming back familiar faces as well as getting to know all those we’ve yet to meet in 2025. We hope to see you there…
Our Awards
Our bespoke trophies, made in conjunction with NHS service New Opportunities Worcestershire and charity Men’s Sheds, will be given at the Awards Gala (Saturday 28th September 2024).
Film Categories
Best British Feature Film
Best International Feature Film
Best British Short Film
Best International Short Film
Best Midlands Film
Best Documentary Film
Best Animated Film
Best Music Video
Best Student Film
Craft Categories
Best Screenplay
Best Performance
Best Director
Best Cinematographer
Best Costume Designer
Best Editor
Best Hair & Make-Up
Best Production Designer
Best Sound Design
Best Composer
The Audience Award
Come enjoy our city and see what we have to offer. We want this to be a festival in every sense of the word with a jam-packed map that will leave you wishing you could be in two places at once.
Join us for this 4-day event and we promise you’ll want to return year after year!
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Day 1 (24th September 2025)
Worcester Film Festival 2025 kicks off with our Opening Night Film & Drinks Reception
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Day 2 (25th September 2025)
Our Officially Selected independent films launch!
Films, Preview Screenings/Special Presentations, Networking Film Socials and Q&As/Workshops
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Day 3 (26th September 2025)
More of our fantastic Officially Selected films!
Films, Preview Screenings/Special Presentations, Networking Film Socials and Q&As/Workshops, Pitch Event
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Day 4 (27th September 2025)
The final day of the festival shows the last of our Officially Selected films!
Films, Preview Screenings/Special Presentations, Q&As/Workshops and The Awards Gala
Winners of 2024
- Best Short Film – Crusts
- Best Feature Film – Froggie
- Best Midlands Film – Ticker
- Best Documentary Film – An Extraordinary Place
- Best Animated Film – Le Charade
- Best Music Video – Cold Eyes
- Best Student Film – Whistling Dixie
- Best Screenplay – Kate Horlor and Andrew David Barker, Laura Living Backwards
- Best Performance – Nick Hendrix, Cope
- Best Director – Alfie Dale, Crusts
- Best Cinematographer – Niall O’Connor, Where The Old Man Lives
- Best Costume Designer – Mekel Bailey, Chairs
- Best Editor – Tom Paul Martin, Where Are All The Gay Superheroes?
- Best Hair & Make-Up – Gaze
- Best Production Designer – Joey Cleghorn, Trust Thy Sister
- Best Sound Design – Kelly Halpin, Stain
- Best Composer – Jackson Steele, Mutual Tides
- Best First-Time Filmmaker – Stir
- Audience Award – From Thailand to Tenbury: Showing Sheep in the Shires
