General information
- Dates
- Not available
- Location
- Not available
- Submission deadline
- Not available
- Eligibility
- International
- Subtitles
- Not available
- Official website
- https://www.staffordfilmfestival.com/
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026
News
The 2026 winners and honourable mentions are announced
Eighteen winners and twenty honourable mentions across eighteen categories, chosen by the international jury from the 2026 official selection.
Safety Net takes the 2026 Staffordshire Filmmaker award
Alfie Beard wins the county award, with honourable mentions for We Chosen Few and How To: Run a Football Club with Zero Budget.
AI film drew the deepest field of 2026
Gentle takes the award and six films earn honourable mentions, the most in any category this year.
The full programme for 6 September 2026
Seventeen films across three programmes at the Mitchell Arts Centre, film by film, with the filmmakers who will be in the room.
The running order for the 6 September screening
Sunday 6 September at the Mitchell Arts Centre runs as three separate programmes of short films with two intervals, and one ticket covers the whole afternoon. Here are the times.
Free parking at Tesco for the 6 September screening
Filmmakers and audience coming to the Mitchell Arts Centre on Sunday 6 September can park free at Tesco Extra on Clough Street. Here is exactly what you need to do on arrival.
The 2026 UK screening is confirmed at the Mitchell Arts Centre
Sunday 6 September 2026 at the Mitchell Arts Centre in Stoke-on-Trent, open to the public. How the day will run, and what we are waiting on before the programme is published.
What happened at the Stockholm screenings
The private industry screenings in Stockholm have finished. What was shown, who was in the room, and what happens next.
Inside the room for the Stockholm industry screening
A look at the room in Stockholm where a selection of the festival screens privately this weekend, and why a small room is the right one for this particular job.
The Stafford Gatehouse Theatre and our first in person edition
What changed when the festival stopped being a results page and became an evening.