Oxford Shorts 2026: Film Festival
- Date 9 April 2026 - 12 April 2026
- Location Garden Quad Auditorium
About the festival
Oxford Shorts is a film festival celebrating the diversity and creativity of short films. The festival celebrates great stories with strong characters, unique voices, or evocative worlds that are designed to stir emotions. In particular the festival like to champion new upcoming talent with over a third of this year’s entries coming from new, student, or early career filmmakers. 2026 is the seventh edition, the festival will be playing 90 new short films as well as one full length feature film.
Watch the 2026 festival trailer here:
Feature film
This year's festival will begin with a screening of the feature documentary Dogspiracy (2025) followed by a Q&A with Dr Marc Abraham OBE. The documentary follows Marc (vet and animal welfare campaigner) as he investigates the US puppy mill pipeline, canine fertility clinics and puppy smuggling.
Free tickets to the screening are available here.
Thursday 9 April, 7-9PM. (Doors close at 7.15 PM)
Programme details
The main festival runs from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 April.
All films will be screened in the Auditorium at St John's, which includes several Q&As panels.
The full programme is available to download here.
All screenings and Q&A panels at this year’s festival are free.
You can get your free festival pass here. Please note that you must be over 18 to attend the screenings.
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