Stafford Film Festival

Eighteen winners and twenty honourable mentions across eighteen categories, chosen by the international jury from the 2026 official selection.

Alfie Beard wins the county award, with honourable mentions for We Chosen Few and How To: Run a Football Club with Zero Budget.

Gentle takes the award and six films earn honourable mentions, the most in any category this year.

Seventeen films across three programmes at the Mitchell Arts Centre, film by film, with the filmmakers who will be in the room.

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.

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.

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.

The private industry screenings in Stockholm have finished. What was shown, who was in the room, and what happens next.

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.

What changed when the festival stopped being a results page and became an evening.