EFF 2023


Ealing Film Festival Awards, 2023 

And it’s a wrap! 

Our 2023 festival reached its climax with a glitzy awards ceremony at the Ealing Project cinema on Saturday 25 November. 

We made awards in twelve categories, with an additional award for Best Film. 

ANIMATION 
Candlelight  
Director: Scott Newton 

COMEDY 
Spag Bol  
Director: Brick 

DOCUMENTARY 
KALU: Growing Up Wild 
Director: Roman Willi & Matteo Clarke 
A thank you from the filmmakers for their award,
Watch here and at the bottom of this page as well

EXPERIMENTAL 
Innocence 
Director: Trudie Shutler 

GREEN PLANET AWARD 
To My Dying Mother 
Director: Johanna von Salmuth 

HOMEGROWN AWARD 
Jalebi Nights 
Director: Ganesh Sharma 

HORROR/SUSPENSE 
Help Point 
Director: Annabella Forbes 

MUSIC VIDEO 
Walk On Water 
Directed by Hynek Gannon 

NARRATIVE DRAMA 

Like a Dog
Director: Hamid Naseri Moghadam 
and 
Little Turtle 
Director: Mingyang Li 

SCI-FI/FANTASY 
Death Date 
Director: Alex Mathieson 

SMARTPHONE 
Paludarium 
Director: Woong Bae Ji 

STUDENT AWARD 
Deep Fake Love 
Director: Otto Shed  

BEST FILM OF THE FESTIVAL 

(Joint Winners) 
Little Turtle 
Director: Mingyang Li 
and  
Candlelight  
Director: Scott Newton 

Many congratulations to all our winners! 

Andrew and the audience.

Bafta-winning director Coky Giedroyc (second right) with previous award winners  

The Official Selections are available to view online on Vimeo through December 29, 2023, so they are accessible to our filmmakers across the world.
And you can be a judge too! Vote for your favouite film on the People’s Choice award. Information here.

And after so long without a High Street cinema, we are proud to be part of a process that has brought film back to the borough of Ealing, where it belongs. 

We hope you will be with us in 2024!