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Winning films at Tolpuddle RFF 2017
Jury Selection
BUNKERS Anne-Claire Adet – Switzerland Best Documentary
The Sandman Lauren Knapp – United States Best Documentary by a Student Filmmaker
The Interview Marc Gurung – France Best Fiction Short
iRony Jay Jay Jegathesan – Australia Best Fiction Short by a Student Filmmaker
Audience Award
ASSHOLIO Nathan Erasmus – Ireland Best Fiction Short
Champions Anastasija Bräuniger – Germany Best Fiction Short by a Student Filmmaker
Dare to Dream: Cuba’s Latin American Medical School Jennifer Wager – United States Best Documentary
Fight! Ayala Guy – Germany Best Documentary by a Student Filmmaker
Films that were screened at Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival 2017 in the Small Axe Competition Programme.
Official Selection
| Project Title | Directors | Duration | Country of Origin | Project Type | |
| ASSHOLIO | Nathan Erasmus | 00:03:15 | Ireland | Animation, Music Video | |
| BUNKERS | Anne-Claire Adet | 00:14:03 | Switzerland | Documentary, | |
| C.O.D. | Onur Doğan | 00:04:44 | Turkey | Experimental, | |
| Champions | Anastasija Bräuniger | 00:08:00 | Germany | Documentary, Student | |
| Colorado Bboy Roots | Jackson Xia | 00:16:30 | United States | Documentary, Student, | |
| Commodity Trading: Election Day | M. Woods | 00:14:55 | United States | Documentary, Experimental | |
| Dare to Dream: Cuba’s Latin American Medical School | Jennifer Wager | 00:30:00 | United States | Documentary | |
| Destroy Madrid | Joseba Alfaro | 00:09:29 | Spain | Fiction | |
| FEDRA | Malo Bara | 00:13:31 | Belgium | Student | |
| Fight or Freeze | Lucinda Broadbent | 00:01:05 | United Kingdom | Animation | |
| Fight! | Ayala Guy | 00:19:30 | Germany | Documentary, Experimental, Student | |
| God hates Finland | Johan Karrento | 00:10:30 | Finland | Fiction | |
| Here Still | Alyssa Michener | 00:23:37 | United States | Documentary, Student | |
| Hopefully (“Ojalá”) | Marie-Stéphane Cattaneo | 00:01:00 | France | Fiction | |
| Immigration | Jan BEYEN | 00:05:37 | Belgium | Animation, Student, | |
| iRony | Jay Jay Jegathesan | 00:07:53 | Australia | Animation, Experimental, Student | |
| Korean Dog Meat Exposé | James Hyams, AJ Garcia, Taehoon Lee | 00:21:32 | S Korea | Documentary, Experimental | |
| Little Jerusalem | Zena Agha | 00:06:56 | United Kingdom | Documentary, Student | |
| Mayor | Moritz Adlon | 00:15:00 | Germany | Fiction, Student | |
| Miami Five Freedom Tour | Chris Reeves | 00:20:00 | United Kingdom | Documentary | |
| Slowville | Alex Meunier | 00:03:24 | Canada | Animation, | |
| Tachinahare | Aljoscha Seuss | 00:02:42 | Germany | Animation, Experimental, Student | |
| The Bard’s Wife | Roy Delaney | 00:12:00 | United Kingdom | Documentary, Student | |
| The Bus Trip | Sarah Gampel | 00:13:40 | Sweden | Animation, Documentary, Student | |
| The Interview | Marc GURUNG | 00:17:38 | France | Fiction | |
| The Sandman | Lauren Knapp | 00:18:54 | United States | Documentary, Student | |
| User History | Coalfather Industries | 00:06:02 | United States | Animation, Experimental, | |
| Where is home? | Asad Nazari | 00:01:02 | Sweden | Animation, | |
| Who the hell is Satan | Leo Ferri | 00:10:51 | Iran | Documentary, | |
| You’re a Guy! | Sylvain Certain | 00:02:14 | France | Fiction | |
These films were long listed in our competition but did not make it into the final selection. They deserve recognition and celebration. If we had a longer festival we’d show them all.
Long List
| Project Title | Directors | Duration | Country of Origin | Project Type | Trailer |
| A New Era | Ludwig Reuter | 00:09:00 | Burkina Faso | Documentary | |
| Are You Sleeping (2017) | 00:02:19 | China | Experimental, Fiction | ||
| Beeman – A New Superhero for Young Refugees | Abdullah Nabisadah, Halil Ibrahim Özdogan | 00:14:25 | Germany | Fiction | https://vimeo.com/103918064 |
| Boiling | Camila Gregório | 00:16:33 | Brazil | Fiction, Student | |
| Carols | Thanos Psichogios | 00:15:40 | Greece | Fiction, Other | https://vimeo.com/173284859 |
| Cycle of Change | Sarah Frei | 00:08:46 | United States | Documentary | |
| Fireplace | Muhammad Bayazid, Samah Safi Bayazid | 00:11:42 | Syrian Arab Republic | Fiction, Student | |
| Fomo Sapiens | Viktor Hertz | 00:07:15 | Sweden | Fiction | https://vimeo.com/198822240 |
| Her Voice | Silvia Defrance | 00:11:03 | Belgium | Experimental, Fiction, Other | |
| How to Make Finland Great Again | Jarno Harju | 00:19:11 | Finland | Fiction | |
| Hush Street | Eduardo Colgan | 00:16:00 | Brazil | Fiction | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hda5PsCiwqQ |
| Journey Without a Map | Jill Woodward | 00:16:30 | United States | Documentary | https://youtu.be/v3-wO8HvYDA |
| Kissmud | Mox Mäkelä | 00:06:09 | Finland | Experimental | |
| KNAGGLIG | Amelie Schlögelhofer | 00:02:33 | Austria | Animation, Fiction, Student | |
| Lockdown | Lauren Knapp | 00:05:14 | United States | Documentary, Student | https://vimeo.com/122927171 |
| Lurna | Nani Matos | 00:15:00 | Spain | Fiction | https://vimeo.com/151693486 |
| Madness | Adrian Szczepaniak | 00:06:00 | Poland | Animation, Experimental, Student | https://vimeo.com/160657881 |
| Mellow Yellow – Radio Edit | Neil Wigardt | 00:14:58 | Sweden | Documentary, Experimental, Student | |
| MEMENTO MORI | Nina Schiena | 00:13:15 | Germany | Experimental, Fiction, Student, | https://vimeo.com/167274843 |
| Mother Nature | André Kirchner | 00:15:00 | Germany | Fiction | https://vimeo.com/55207006 |
| NOITULOS EDICIUS | Willie Stewart | 00:03:28 | United States | Experimental, Fiction, Student | https://vimeo.com/222031734 |
| Of huge and small | Artem Funk | 00:25:25 | Germany | Documentary, Experimental, Student | |
| Open Mike | Tobias Erdmann | 00:16:20 | United Kingdom | Fiction, Student | https://vimeo.com/193742842 |
| Pandas Have Got To Go | Harriet Francis Croucher | 00:02:24 | United Kingdom | Animation, Experimental, Fiction, Student | https://vimeo.com/197816170 |
| QUEST for the Crystal | 00:04:10 | United States | Animation, Experimental, Student | ||
| SEEDS | Milo Bennet-Shephard (age 11 at the time) | 00:01:48 | Not Specified | Animation, Experimental, Student | |
| Silence Equals | Olan Montgomery | 00:16:00 | United States | Fiction | |
| So Many Reasons | Lucinda Broadbent | 00:01:01 | United Kingdom | Animation | |
| The Arctic Circus | Connor Johnstone | 00:23:38 | Canada | Documentary, Student | https://vimeo.com/205391105 |
| The Colored Punch: story of efkan beyaz | Yazın Öztürk | 00:12:43 | Turkey | Documentary | https://vimeo.com/195352315 |
| The Greater Evil | William R. Coughlan | 00:07:51 | United States | Fiction | https://vimeo.com/141003728 |
| The Next Stop Is Happiness Where This Bus Terminates | Ka Ki Wong | 00:09:57 | United Kingdom | Fiction, Student | |
| The Rag | Zoe Vitale | 00:11:49 | United States | Student | |
| The Wheels On The Bus | Joshua Long | 00:09:45 | Australia | Fiction, Student | https://vimeo.com/163396159 |
| To Help Us | Paula Durette | 00:01:23 | Not Specified | Animation | |
| Visitor (Preview version) | Stef de Hoog | 00:13:00 | Hungary | Fiction, Student | |
| Where they are expecting us | Gustavo Gómez | 00:21:00 | Spain | Documentary | https://youtu.be/yusdH2EBbSQ |
| Wire | Berkay Hasbay | 00:14:59 | Turkey | Fiction, Student | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tw-OrXrSc0 |