St Andrews Film Festival

Yes, it would be okay! Submit now! SAFF 2022 Call for Submissions is open and we warmly look forward to receiving your films. Submit @: filmfreeway.com/saff

Man of God directed by Yelena Popovic, UK Premiere, Best Director & Audience Award Winner at SAFF 2021, is now screening theatrically across the UK. Tonight at Odeon Edinburgh. 7.45pm. Book your tickets and discover the great film on the big screen: odeon.co.uk/films/man-of-g…

Discover "Tell the Truth!": A View into Yugoslav Cinema, the DAMSLab panel with our director Mina Radović and film historian Sergio M. Grmek Germani from Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna this year. youtube.com/watch?v=MB3chD… Full Programme: festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/sezione/dit…

THE AWARDS HAVE ARRIVED! We would like to congratulate all our Winners and thank all our Participants of the St Andrews Film Festival 2021! Thank you for your wonderful films & sharing with our filmmaking community. We look forward to welcoming you to the Festival in future!

The Essay Film Festival 2022 programme is now LIVE! The festival will take place between 19 March and 23 April across London as well as online via our dedicated Screening Room. To book your place and explore this year's programme visit: essayfilmfestival.com

For a film that captures the intimacy of a family with a close and sensitive touch we give an Honourable Mention for Best Documentary to Ningning Song for Red Coral (China, 2020).

The Young Scottish Filmmakers Prize closes for applications today! There's still time to submit your short film - get it in before 5pm! 👇 @glasgowfilm @EdenCourt @GMACFilm glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-l…

For a beautiful, poetical and imaginative ode to radio sound and for offering a sensorial experience of one of the oldest European radio stations we award The Saint Andrew Award for Best Film to Marija Stojnić for her film Speak So I Can See You (Serbia, 2019)!

For the authentic and novel approach in creating a cinema of poetry we award The Živojin Pavlović Award for Best Director to Yelena Popovic for her masterpiece Man of God (Greece, 2021).

For a deeply personal and highly entertaining journey and for a rarely seen Italian perspective on the last days of Ceaușescu's Romania we give The Suso Cecchi d'Amico Award for Best Dramaturgy to Antonio Pisu for the film EST (Italy, 2020).

For a portrayal of great empathy and an eye for character growth we give The Ralph Richardson Award for Best Actor jointly to Jacopo Costantini, Matteo Gatta and Lodo Guenzi as the male ensemble of Antonio Pisu's EST (Italy, 2020).

For magnificently carrying the core of the plot by offering up her internal world The Rosaura Revueltas Award for Best Actress goes to Sarina Yousefi for Metamorphosis in the Slaughterhouse (Javad Darei, Canada/Germany/ Iran/USA, 2021).

For the immersive camerawork that drags us into the river of the poetic stories about the word Tamaran we award Kosuke Kuramoto with The Witold Sobociński Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Tadasuke Kotani's Tamaran Hill (Japan, 2019)!

For rendering poetry unto prayer and for enabling us to share in the deeply personal experience of a poet whose spirit prevailed in the darkest of times The Antonio Ripoll Award for Best Editing goes to Emily Felder for Who Will Remain? (Emily Felder, Christa Whitney, USA, 2021).

For layered composition and the unique soundscape that doubles up as a love letter to Radio Belgrade we award The Winston Ryder Award for Best Sound to Ivan Zelić for his incredible work on Marija Stojnić's Speak So I Can See You (Serbia, 2019)!

For her well rounded work imbued with beautiful and poetic imagery we award The Saint Andrew Award for Best Film to Yang Yudan's The Back-Flow Rain (China, 2021). Congratulations to Yang and thank you to all our directors who participated in this year's international competition!

For the excellent execution, captivating vision, and dreamy cinematography we award Yang Yudan with The Alexander Mackendrick Award for Best Director for her film The Back-Flow Rain (China, 2021).

For the captivating story, relatable characters and metaphorical journey we award The Jorge Sanjinés Award for Best Dramaturgy to David Borchkhadze and Zaza Koshkadze for Neighbour (Georgia, 2021).

For his tense yet light hearted role in Svilen Slavov's Muse (Bulgaria, 2020) we award The Sean Connery Award for Best Actor to Kitodar Todorov!

For her compelling performance and captivating expressions, we award The Nevena Kokanova Award for Best Actress to Anastasia Davidson for her performance in David Borchkhadze's Neighbour (Georgia, 2021).