Wimbledon Shorts is a festival dedicated to showcasing new and innovative work from filmmakers from across the world.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2026 OFFICIAL SELECTION!
The below 11 films have been selected to screen at this years festival:
Full Fat – Director Louisa Connolly-Burnham
CORE – Director Isabella Vassallo
SIGNAL – Director Zak Jarvis
Rule, Britannia – Director Max Fisher
Starboy – Director AR Ugas
MEAT – Director Jacob Hopewell
Among the Smoke – Director Austin Salt-Cowell
Too Disgusting To Be Confused – Director Maya Avidov
Small Hours – Director Oscar Wyndham Lewis
DOUBLE OR NOTHING – Director Tokay
Descendant – Director Lily Blunsom
To watch these films, join us at our Awards Night! – On 26th September 2026, held @ Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Find out more About Us
How to Enter Your Film – Submissions for 2026 are now closed. Please check back later in the year for details of 2027 submissions.
How to Get Involved – Contact us if you’d like to volunteer at the festival
OUR AWARD WINNERS FROM LAST YEAR’S FESTIVAL:
Winner of Best International Film
‘L’Acquario’ – dir. Gianluca Zonta
Winner of Best Young Filmmaker
‘Paper Boat’ – dir. Yeobin Park
Winner of Best Documentary
‘Uhuru’ – dir. Olz McCoy
Winner of Best Animation
‘For Moments’ – dir. Keion Ing
Winner of Best UK Film and Audience Choice
‘Alt Jay’ – dir. Stefan Pollak
Winner of Best London Filmmaker
‘The Pie Den’ – dir. Eren Kaplan
Winner of Best Environmental Film
‘Swimming in it’ – dir. Chris Parton
OUR 2025 TRAILER
‘Beautiful festival, which I had the pleasure of attending. A truly excellent selection and wonderful hospitality, with a full cinema and an engaged, enthusiastic audience.’ Capetown SRL
‘Amazing festival! Run by some passionate people who love independent film. Good comms, easy submission and it was a pleasure to be part of it.’ Jonny Durgan – filmmaker
‘Great Festival ! Great films ! Very nice event organized and hosted by very friendly people. Really enjoyed my time at the festival’ Come Ferre filmmaker
‘A cosy festival with a tight programme to cater for all. We were delighted to screen THE HEARTS OF BWINDI with their audiences in 2024.’ Festival Formula Ltd
‘It was an honour to be a part of your festival with Love Bubbles.
Good contact, good communication…thank you very much!’ Marcel Hobi filmmaker
‘Absolutely delighted to be a part of the official Selection. Really communicative and lovely team behind it and such great quality across the programme. Definitely submitting to it again!’ Archie Sinclair filmmaker
‘The quality of films at the festival was outstanding, and it was a fantastic evening,’ Tom McNeish producer
‘An intimate festival with a great display of high quality and hand crafted films from across the world. The standards were uncompromising and I left both inspired and reflective about what I had seen.’ Olivia Smart director of Black Stroke
‘The quality of films has always been very high and once again I was not disappointed.’ Fiona Clark-Hackston judge
‘Ruthless are utterly thrilled to take home 2 awards last night @WimbledonShorts for Best UK film and The Audience Award! A real pleasure to screen at such a great fest and congrats to the other winners. GET IT ON! ‘ Kate Perry screenwriter of Ruthless
”Top night watching the outstanding finalists of the Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival awards @polkatheatre It was emotional, poignant, scary, intriguing, engaging, beautiful, funny, sad, captivating. Everything you could want from good short films.’ Lucy Kane MD Time & Leisure
‘The Wimbledon Festival is something special. A fantastic evening was had in the newly refurbished Polka Theatre for the 2021 awards night. My film CANDLE COPS could not have premiered at a better run event. A big THANK-YOU to the dedicated team who make this festival happen year after year!’ Tony Collingwood director of Candle Cops
‘WSIFF is a charming grassroots festival with a focus on uncovering resourceful new filmmakers around the world. The organisers do a fantastic job curating a quality range of up and coming talent, across various genres, and I’m very grateful to have taken part in this festival and won.’ Chris Shenkman director of Copper and Nickel
Huge thank you to BIFA, and our friends at the Polka Theatre, Roehampton University and Kingston College of Art










