LRIFF Winners 2022

BEST 8 / 16mm FILM
“Echo's Voice”
​by Alex Sultoon

BEST FEATURE FILM
​“ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING” by Adam Donen
​Starring Saskia Axten, Steven Berkoff, Carol Clevel, Alan Ford, Vanessa
Redgrave, Sophie Vavasseur and ... Slavoj Žižek
​
French philosophy student Alice falls in love with a boy, Rabbit, at a masked ball in London, and takes him home. The next morning, Rabbit has disappeared, along with any indication that their night together ever occurred. Determined to find him, Alice sets out through a Brexit London that has turned very strange indeed, aided by the psychologist-cum-detective Dr. Cat Pillar as reality, nightmare and cinema blur into each other.

BEST ANIMATION
​​“Hope for Humanity"
​by Black Cat & Adam Neale

BEST ANIMATION
“The Holiday Maker”
​by Harry Mead

BEST COMEDY HORROR
“A HYMN FOR HER”
​by Emma Pitt

BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
“BLUETITS” by Katie Burdon

BEST DRAMA
“Scratching Scars”
​by Elliott Rogers

BEST HORROR
"Strange Waters"
by Andy McLeod & Rowena Amos

BEST FILM MADE IN LONDON
“Tildypops”
by Tiggy Bayley

BEST MICRO MOVIE
“Once Upon a Time”
​by Julia Shlenskaya

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
“Folk +”
by Lisa Maria Canny

BEST STUDENT FILM
“Can the Moon Walk Me Home?”
by Isabelle Tyner

RUNNERS-UP

*16MM / SUPER 8
"Until the End of Time"
Director Daarya Serji
​
ANIMATION
"Cupid Is Not A Terrorist"
by Bellopropello

COMEDY
"Slave to the Page"
Director Ravi Ghelani
*
"Bump!"
Director Andrew Hollingworth

COMEDY HORROR
"A Brush With Death"
by Yuval Sol Boker

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
"A Lost Home"
by Dominic Gilday 

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
"Fat White Family: Moonbathing in February"
by Niall Trask
*
"Still Stoked"
by Paul Surety

DRAMA
"All That Glitters"
by  Dan Bronzite
*
"Elpida"
by Billy Soulis

EXPERIMENTAL FILM
"The Day After"
by Daniel Thomas Freeman
​*
"Stabat Mater"
​by Marina Sagona

​HORROR
"Booklovers"
by Lisa Fulthorpe

LGBTQ+ FILM
"SM9"
by Makon Bessala
*
"The Fight in The Dog"
by Pamela Jikiemi

MADE IN LONDON
"Love"
by Jane Ashmore

MICRO BUDGET MOVIE
"A Dollhouse 2020"
by  Melanie Ekholdt

MICRO MOVIE
"Winner Winner"
by Kalani Gacon

MUSIC VIDEO
"Love Buddy: Thea Hallow"
by Isabel Catherine

STUDENT FILM
"17"
by Lauren L Cissé

BEST COMEDY
“You're Alright Hun”
​by Katie-Ann McDonough

BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
“RIOT IN THE MEADOW"
​by Thomas Harman

BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
“Re: A Pier”
​by Archie Laughlan

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
“Hermit Day”
​by Caroline Dean

BEST LGBTQ+ FILM
“Taylor”
by Isaac Tomiczek

BEST MICRO-BUDGET MOVIE
“The Coronation”
by Emily Penick

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
"Rattling My Chain"
by Gavin Irvine

SPIRIT OF LONDON AWARD
“Don't Cry”
by Linzy Attenborough & Andrea Aviet

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

*VBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Elpida"
Director Billy Soulis

BEST DIRECTOR
Adam Donen
for
“Alice Through the Lookin”

BEST EDITING
"When the Rain Sets In"
Director James Hughes

BEST FILM BY POPULAR VOTE
"The Jabberam"
Director OTTO MAMA

BEST MISE EN SCENE
"Until the End of Time"
Director Daarya Serji

BEST PERFORMANCES
Saskia Axten
in
"Alice, Through the Looking"
​*
Grace Bassett
in
"Can the Moon Walk Me Home?"
*
Jules Robertson
in
"Love"
*
Nicola Peluso
in
"Perdre/Trouver"

BEST SCREENPLAY
"Love"
Director Jane Ashmore

BEST SCORE
"Witch"
Director Jenny Pamela Pill

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
"The Mountain"
Director Clare Macdonald