The Smalls Film Festival 2023
Winning Films
BEST ANIMATION
LIFE IS A PARTICLE TIME IS A WAVE, Daniel Zvereff
A widowed watchmaker spends his remaining days in solitude distracting himself with chores and pastimes. Like a prisoner, alone in his cell, he looks for meaning in the memories of the past.
BEST CHANGE
YOUNG LOURDES COLLECTIVE, Jazmin Garcia
Sumaya Bouhbal is the founder and creative director of a group of young artists, activists, and friends who live and breathe collective youth empowerment. “Climate justice is racial justice”, they proclaim as they radically imagine an alternative vision of a sustainable New York.
BEST COMEDY
FAIRPLAY, Zoel Aeschbacher
A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot, a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove to himself that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing speed on the competition highway…
BEST DRAMA
LAY ME BY THE SHORE, David Findlay
A week in the life of Noah, a high school senior in his final days of school as he comes to terms with his best friend’s passing.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME, Shuli Huang
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
SQUID - THE BLADES, Kasper Häggström
An institutional waiting room descends into an absurd, Kafkaesque nightmare. One woman’s patience, imagination and sense of reality are tested in the face of the most mundane of circumstances.
BEST STUDENT FILM
THIS WILL NOT BE A FESTIVAL FILM, Julia Orlik
An animated short about a film school student who is working on her graduation piece, or, a tale of a girl who studied animation and spent four years without a day of vacation.
With Thanks To Our Judges
Anna Wetherell - Loco Film Festival
Ayesha Aleem - One World Media
Brent Kado - Chicago Comedy Film Festival
Damian Spandley - Curzon
Dan Beck - UK Green Film Festival
Gregoire Thomas - Avery Dennison
Lainy Black
Malvina Wong - Vice
Nathan Geyer - FLAMIN (Film London Artists' Moving Image Network)
Nellie Alston - Into Film
Robbie Janda
Steve Blyth - Engage Works
Sylvia Bednarz - The Grierson Trust
Official Programme 2023
Take me to: Animation Change Comedy Documentary Drama Music Video Student Film
