The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence
Ten feature-length World Premieres run in-competition.
Showcasing today’s emerging talent, the winning filmmaker will be awarded £50,000 to support their future projects. Decided by an audience vote, our 2024 winner has been announced.
The prize is established and supported by The Sean Connery Foundation, an organisation which shares our respect for cinema history and excitement for its future.
An insightful and moving documentary about a thirty-something man and his relationship with the life-size AI doll he lives with, who is animated through an
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A middle-aged man builds a mobile religious shrine to make money in this darkly funny and moving exploration of consequences. Confronted by the success of
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A powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traden between the Kurdish cities and towns of Iran and borders of Iraq. The film follows Hamid
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A richly poetic and moving film about a young person journeying to bury their lover in the heart of the Peruvian jungle. Slow revelations and
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An intricately constructed, lyrical and heartbreaking film about two young men wrestling with their sexuality in the repressive English society of the 1920s. Told in
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A stirring and powerful film about a young mother, recently released from prison and desperate to maintain custody of her two young children. Just when
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A darkly comedic, subversive and uniquely realised road trip film about a monkey, a man and a dead man’s watch. A woman escaping a toxic
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Two migrant workers find themselves thrown together in a quest to bury a body in this hypnotic and visually stunning drama. A fight over stolen
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A modern re-imagining of classic fable Little Red Riding Hood, this tightly calibrated film explores trauma, grief and redemption in a dangerous world. A traumatised
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A delicate portrait of a young Mexican boy who wants to know what happens when we die. The boy forms an unlikely friendship with a
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