Oxford Shorts 2025: Film Festival
- Date 3 April 2025 - 6 April 2025
- Location Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College
About the Festival
Oxford Shorts is a film festival celebrating the diversity and creativity of short films. We believe short films are an art form in themselves, ideally one which should be experienced together. We celebrate great stories with strong characters, unique voices, or evocative worlds that are designed to stir emotions. 2025 is the sixth time the festival has run and we will be playing 97 new short films as well as one full length feature film.
Watch the 2025 festival trailer here:
Programme Details
Feature Corner
This year's festival will begin with a free screening of The Commandant's Shadow (2024) followed by a Q&A with the director Daniela Völker, executive producers Gloria Abramoff and Wendy Robins and Production Manager Laura Jones. The documentary follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the son of Rudolf Höss, the Camp Commandant of Auschwitz, as he confronts his father's involvement in the murder of over a million Jews during the Holocaust.
Free tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Thursday 3 April, 7.30 - 9.30 PM. (Doors close at 7.15 PM)
The Main Festival
The main festival runs from Friday 4 April to Sunday 6 April. All films will be screened in the Auditorium at St John's, many of which will be followed by Q&As. The full programme is available to download here.
Tickets for the festival are available here. Please note that you must be over 18 to attend the screenings and tickets are non-refundable.
St John's members can attend the festival for free. (Please bring your university card as proof of membership.)
We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford Shorts at St John's!
If you have any questions about the festival, contact the organisers at info@oxfordshorts.co.uk
