From 10 Jan 2025, we're kicking off an online screening of The BAFTA 2024 shorts programme, our touring film programme in collaboration with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). The programme includes a selection of live action and animation short film nominees, and the winners in each category, from the 2024 BAFTA awards. They represent storytelling that reveals the breadth and diversity of UK society, together with world class artistic and technical flair, and feature some of the UK’s finest acting talents. 

This year's programme includes titles such as Crab Day directed by Ross Stringer, winner of the BAFTA for Best Short Animation in 2024, which tells a story of a young boy in the fishing community and the father-son relationship in the manhood growing up. It also includes Jellyfish and Lobster directed by Yasmin Afifi, which tells the story of two elderly care home residents who serendipitously form an unlikely relationship when they make an enchanted discovery. Jellyfish and Lobster received the BAFTA for Best Short Live Action this year.

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2024 BAFTA Shorts Animations
2024 BAFTA Shorts Live Action 

Animation

Crab Day

Winner of Best Short Animation

Director: Ross Stringer

Writer: Aleksandra Sykulak

Producer: Bartosz Stanislawek

UK 2023, 11 min

As part of a fishing community’s annual ritual, a young boy must kill his first crab in order to become a man and gain his father’s approval.

Visible Mending

Director: Samantha Moore

Producer: Tilley Bancroft

UK 2023, 9 min

Emotional repair through wool.

Wild Summon

Writer/Director: Karni Arieli, Saul Freed

Producer: Jay Woolley

UK 2023, 15 min

BE FISH! Narrated by Marianne Faithfull, this is a natural history fantasy film unlike any others, following the dramatic lifecycle of the wild salmon in human form.

Live Action

Jellyfish and Lobster

Winner of Best Short Live Action

Writer/director: Yasmin Afifi

Producer: Elizabeth Rufai, UK 2023, 20 min

Brought together serendipitously in a moment  of mischief, two elderly care home residents  form an unlikely relationship when they make  an enchanted discovery.

Festival of Slaps 

Writer/Director: Abdou Cissé

Producer: Cheri Darbon, George Telfer

UK 2023, 12 min

A celebratory dinner is flipped on its head, when an enraged Nigerian Mum serves her son a set of slaps so powerful that it will change his life forever.

Gorka 

Writer/Director: Joe Weiland

Producer: Alex Jefferson

UK 2023, 18 min

A French exchange student visits England for the first time and finds himself at the centre of a British family dynamic.

Such a Lovely Day

Writer/Director: Simon Woods

Producer: Polly Stokes Emma Norton,

Kate Phibbs, UK 2023, 17 min

Against the backdrop of a perfect summer’s day, eleven-year-old Sam navigates the complex world of his parents’ marriage.

Yellow

Writer/Director: Elham Ehsas

Producer: Dina Mousawi, Azeem Bhati

Yiannis Manolopoulos, UK 2023, 12 min

Following a new decree in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper, and face a new future.

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The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. We do this through our work in arts and culture, education and the English language. We work with people in over 200 countries and territories and are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2022–23 we reached 600 million people.

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a world-leading independent arts charity. In addition to its Awards ceremonies, BAFTA has a year-round, international programme of learning events and initiatives that offers unique access to some of the world’s most inspiring talent through workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes in the UK, USA and Asia.

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