Cardiff Mini Film Festival has been taking over unusual venues to screen film since 2012. To ensure any newcomers to the industry aren't obliterated by any high budget production companies we separate our fiction programming into high budget and low budget, so please ensure you tell us what your budget was for the actual making of the film (marketing and distribution excluded).

All British films accepted into the 2024 Cardiff Mini Film Festival are eligible to be entered into the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).

You can expect to watch a film in a coffee shop vault, a shopping centre basement, an antiques market, themed bars and any other fantastic unusual venues we can get our hands on. This is a festival for those that like to mingle with a drink throughout the day whilst enjoying the best up and coming short films.

All kinds of people come to our festival, from actors to musicians, as well as special guests from within the industry which in the past have included Boyd Clack (Twin Town, Satellite City, High Hopes), Kirsten Jones (Satellite City, High Hopes), Philip John (Being Human, Downton Abbey), Kevin Allen (Twin Town), Ryan Eddleston (Prevenge), S4C, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Creative Skillset, Festival Formula, Cult Cymru and many more people to meet to discuss your career in the industry.

We also screen many special under distributed films for those film lovers out there, in underused spaces such as bars and empty shops.

Cardiff Mini Film Festival is brought to you by Bulldozer Films Ltd.

Awards & Prizes

Best Low Budget Fiction

Best Big Spender Fiction

Best Documentary

Best Twisted Tale

Best Animation

Best One Minute Wonder

Best Welsh Film

Best British Student Film

Rules & Terms

Films must have been made after January 2022.

Our panel comprises of industry judges who are not connected with the festival. Their decision is the final decision.

We may use a short clip of your film in our festival trailer. By submitting you are allowing us to also screen your film at the festival.

There will be no refunds to those who have not read the rules for entry and find out they are not eligible to be considered.

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  • Théo BEAUDÉAN

    We're so glad Mantra won the Twisted Tales award! This gave the film a nice visibility! They sent us the award as we couldn't attend, and communication was lovely. We definitely recommend Cardiff Mini Film Festival and will submit our next films in the future.

    August 2024
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  • Sean Wainsteim

    Thank you SO MUCH for including my very personal and experimental meta film DEMON BOX at your incredible festival. I truly was so crushed when I was unable to attend. I'm so honoured to have had it featured and to receive an award. Thanks so much for all you do to share cinema and build community. It's so wonderful. Looking forward to attending in the future!

    August 2024
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  • Jess Kelly

    We're gutted we couldn't attend this lovely looking festival but despite that we had a great communication with the organisers and they even sent us our Student Award via post. Lovely folk and a lovely festival!

    August 2024
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  • Sunita Soliar & Statten Roeg

    We had a great time in Cardiff. It is an intimate and fun festival with lots of cool films and we met some very interesting people. They were very prompt with all replies and lovely all around. Thank you so much for screening Spoor!

    February 2024
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    Response from festival:

    We are so pleased you had a good time. Thanks for reviewing us.

  • Mike Dietz

    I was unfortunately unable to attend the in-person event, but I'm honored to have had my film selected for the festival. Communication and organization were great. Thank you so much!

    January 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated.