A Friend of Dorothy
Lee Knight
New Renaissance Film Festival · London · 2016–2025Past
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A decade of distinctive films, fearless storytelling and emerging voices.
NRFF London · Edition archive
2025
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2025 festival.
Tusky
Steven Boyle
The Stained Stainlessman
McKenzie Alexander
A Matter of Minutes
Hannah Beach
And In Its Place, Another
Anca Radu
Screening Room
Abdullah Khan
Tusky
Steven Boyle
Happy as Larry
Hugo André
Three Infallible Rules
Marco Gianfreda
Lujuria
Iñaki Aguilar
Expressing the Earth
Glenda Frances Rome
The Last Dance
Hayden McLean
Omni
Eva Rini May Cragg
Holding On
Emma Croft
In the Clouds
Alexandra Bahiyyih Wain
The Second Time Around
Jack Howard
113 Words for You Today
Bo Qing Tang & Lan Zeng
The Metronome
Laura Jean Healey
A Sisyphean Task
B. Flind-Henry & G. Malcher
Path
Ian Eastwood
The Yellow Sponge Is the Dish Sponge
Michele Noble
Albert
Joshua Fletcher
Skin Deep
Hector Bell
Joe
Tom Brittney
Mihi: At the Center of Our Gaze
Cyril Durand-Gasselin
The Sea
Douglas P. Rosenberg
Hi From a Mayfly
Myles Wheeler
The Pearl Comb
Ali Cook
Dorians
Robyn Grace Dili
Defenders of the Tyrrhenian Sea
Jack Shanks
Cry Like a Guy
Anthony Rubinstein
The Stained Stainlessman
McKenzie Alexander
Ovary-Acting
Ida Melum
Mr. Shakespeare’s Plays
Christena Alcorn
My Little Utopia
Jamal Cole-Dickson
Emetophobe
Gemma Burnand
NRFF London · Edition archive
2024
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2024 festival.
Sherbet
Danny Gibbons
First Sight & The Edenbound
Andrew McGee
A Warrior’s Dance
Steven Olugbenga Eniraiyetan
Better
Zoe Hunter Gordon
Malinda Kaur
Emerging Talent recipient
Fishing
Josie Charles & Esme Allen
Satu — Year of the Rabbit
Joshua Trigg
Brando With a Glass Eye
Antonis Tsonis
What We Wished We Could Be
Luke Shelley
Dark Cell
Jean-Michel Tari
Spirit of Place
Pip White
The Debt
Celine Buckens
Hard Times
Elliott Gonzo & Elliot Warren
Sherbet
India Brown
Open
Richard Paris Wilson
Aracne
Tommy Creagh
Read to Me
Christopher Sherwood
First Sight
Andrew McGee
Read to Me
Dan Horrigan
Cherry Teeth
Izzy Aghahowa
Lucienne in a World Without Solitude
Geordy Couturiau
Smokescreen
Nathan Hubble
Sin Eater
Hogarth Coote
What We Wished We Could Be
Slick Films
He’s the One
Lewis Simpson
Crave
Lois Norman
Maria Chiara Argirò — Closer
Raoul Paulet
Ballet Black — Burn From the Inside
Mthuthuzeli November
Temporary
Anna Guseva
Elixir
Marcus Mills
Happy as Larry
Hugo André
Calathea
Louise Monaghan
NRFF London · Edition archive
2023
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2023 festival.
The Cunning
Alexandra Maher
Sugar Babies
Harry Shaw
Lambing
Katie McNeice
X to X
Lily Gwynne-Thomas
Bona Vacantia
Shezah Salam
Fred
Bjorn Franklin & Johnny Marchetta
By Any Other Name
Daniel Deville
Hard to Reach
Darryl Foster
Inertia
Sheridan Seraphim
Man Made
Plum Stupple-Harris
Echo
Jo Southwell
Kindling
Connor O’Hara
Passing Through
David Walter Hall
All Is Vanity
Marcos Mereles
Passing Through
Mark Little
Dosh
Renu Razdan
Fred
Bjorn Franklin & Johnny Marchetta
A Love Letter to You
Chileya Mwampulo
All Is Vanity
Marcos Mereles
Dividing Line
Viktoria Szemerédy
In Too Deep
Chris Overton
The Stevie Project
Arlo Taylor-Osmond
The Mourning Bird
George Somner
Requiem
Emma Gilbertson
The Hustle
Olivia Rutherford
Man Made
Plum Stupple-Harris
Loyalty
Ben Samuel Annang
Hello, Muscles
Marnie Baxter
Mars Falling
Michael Zammit & Michael Ryan Satria
Parasite
Jordan James Bridge
Oiche
David Anthony Curley
The Storm
Clemente Lohr
Stavropol
Irina Kononova
Weightless
Lois Norman
A Killing in the Park (at 2:47pm)
Ryan Goldsher
Static
Tom Hadrill
Obsolescence
Caviar to the General
Demon in the Bottle
Evan Preston
By the Water
Marta Mojal Fusté
The Walker
Joseph Walker
The Midwife
Anne-Sophie Bailly
Life of a Stranger
Roman Daniel Rutten
Lies on the Line
Nicole Sarah Fry
Caretaker
Sam Finney
Brotherly Love
Archie Dalziel
Thurlow Road
Claire Lewis
Life, Love and Dying in the Alps
Karin Delapena Collison
El Vals (The Waltz)
Alycya Magafa
NRFF London · Edition archive
2022
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2022 festival.
Canned
Clemente Lohr
Treasure
Sean Patrick Healy
Uncle
Michelle Jones
We Are Bleach
Zoé Greenbaum
Taylor
Isaac Tomczek
7 Bananas
Daisy Moore
A Bird Flew In
Kirsty Bell
Treasure
Sean Patrick Healy
Hold
Alex Rollins Berg
Agile King
Tristan Holmes
Avi
Ishtvan Nekrasov
When She Was Good
Margarita Milne
Eightfold
Cassa Pancho & Mark Donne
The Stench
Won Jang
The Rock
Niall
Black Tea
Reneque Samuels
For Herself
Nick Willis
Build Me Up
Steve Lawson
Muddy Shoes
Patrik Krivanek & Laurie Weltz Rupert
NRFF London · Edition archive
2021
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2021 festival.
Ma’am
Joy Wilkinson
Cocoa Butter Kisses
Joel Kandekore
Birthday
Margarita Milne
Petrichor
Louis-Jack
Blood Kin
Miroslav Bambusek
Persistence of the Past
Joseph Cassidy
Feeling Through
Doug Roland
Officer Down
Simon Pearce
Venus
Andrew McGee
Jump
Rosa Crompton
Nowhere
Sian Astor-Lewis
Snow Shelter
Robertas Nevecka
In Isolation
Edmund C. Short
All That Glitters
Sophia Myles
Officer Down
Martin Delaney
Three Stones
Nicholas Ho
Life Outside
Niamh Dann
NRFF London · Edition archive
2020
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2020 festival.
Lugar Algum (No Place)
Gabriel Amaral
Dance for It
Anna Vinokur
Love Is Not Love
Stephen Keep Mills
Alina
Rami Kodeih
Ganef
Mark Rosenblatt
Opeka
Cam Cowan
Anish Kapoor
Martina Margaux Cozzi
Love Is Not Love
Alejandra Gollas
The Bird Room
Noemi D’Ursel
Bernarda
Ivan Abujamfa
Progeny
Justin Daering
Talk to Me
Dan Henshaw
Love From Santiago
Inti Rowland
Trusty
Alex Deitsch
Bus Stop
Vanessa Bailey
Goalkeeper
Screenplay winner
NRFF London · Edition archive
2019
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2019 festival.
The Sea
Cameron Richards
Dreamstate
Asger K. Bartels
Nothing Important
Tara Fitzgerald
Ashmina
Dekel Berenson
Swivel
Lois Norman
Ella
Anne Weigel
The Cunning Man
Zoe Dobson
Hapless Hans
Rena Dumont
Silenced
Gavin McCaig & Joseph Haskey
NRFF London · Edition archive
2018
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2018 festival.
Robin
The Schmutzler Brothers
Cotton Wool
Nicholas Connor
You Go to My Head
Dimitri de Clercq
The Burying Party
Richard Weston
O.I.
N’Cee van Heerden
The Ghost
Garrick L. Hamm
Into the Mirror
Lois Stevenson
Dogs of War
Mark J. Rigby
Pale Blue Me
Theresa Haas
The Overcoat
Patrick Myles
NRFF London · Edition archive
2017
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2017 festival.
In White
Dania Bdeir
The Silent Child
Chris Overton
Sweet Maddie Stone
Brady Hood
Palace
Marcus C. W. Chan
Infinite
Connor O’Hara · George MacKay
Flying to Ground
Aram Bedrossian
Curing Albrecht
J. Wright & M. Runacre
Counterlight
Maya Zack
Padlock
Ben Hyland
The Peculiar Abilities of Mr Mahler
Minh Tam
NRFF London · Edition archive
2016
Award-winning films, filmmakers, performers and screenwriters from the 2016 festival.
Heavy Weight
Jonny Ruff
London Locks
Aaron Christian
Smoke
Kyla Briet
The Waldgeist & Me
Joe Bichard
The Pigeon
Anna Smirnova
3000
Antonis Tsonis
Laika Stardust
Antonin Bobo
Minh Tam
Leanna Chea
Ministry of Guilt
Detsky Graffam
Scrap
Joey Knox