Earl's Court International Film Festival

Now in our twelfth edition, ECIFF has become an annual fixture on the Earl’s Court cultural calendar. In previous festivals, we have shown film shorts to full-capacity audiences at all venues, including the Gala and Awards evening, which has consistently attracted an audience of over 400 people.

Earl’s Court is an incredibly cinematic district with fantastic venues for screening films, and at this year’s Earl’s Court International Film Festival in November 2026, an annual celebration of the short film genre, we will launch the outstanding work of emerging filmmakers to large audiences.

In the beginning we wanted to make films, so we approached emerging films makers from London Film School to tell their stories on our streets and so it all began….

Earl’s Court International Film Festival (ECIFF) continues to support filmmakers with grants, location and production office support, as well as accepting short film entries for screening at ECIFF in Earl’s Court’s wonderful cinematic venues.

Some of our Earl’s Court short films have been selected at other film festivals such as Tribeca, Sundance and BAFTA qualifying festivals and helped launch the careers of talented filmmakers across the globe.

We are open to short films from all genres. This includes drama, comedy, horror & sci-fi, documentary, experimental, animation, music, viral and low-budget work.

Best British Short
Best International Short
Best Animation
Best Short Documentary
Best Short Comedy
Best Charity Film
Best Original Musical Score
Music video Award
Choice Award

The Festival is open to all forms of short film.
The maximum length is 15 minutes.
The film must have been made during the last two years.
We will not post your films on any online sites and will only screen at ECIFF 2026 in November if you are selected and you confirm you wish to be screened.

Only one submission is allowed per filmmaker.
We invite films by independent filmmakers; please only submit if you are part of the filmmaking team. Submissions from film distribution companies will not be considered.
No unfinished work or work in progress is allowed.
If your film is selected we will contact you if another screening format is required.

A judging panel will decide the winners of the awards at our Gala event. Our panel will be made up of respected professionals in the industry.

Overall Rating

Quality

Value

Communication

Hospitality

Networking

Rebecca Rose

Thank you so much Caroline and team for your wonderful hospitality! Fabulous to screen The Removed with you in 2025. What a wonderful group of filmmakers and films. Look forward to screening with you again! Rebecca x

March 2026

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Ben Hyland

I had a great night out at this festival. They had a knock out tournament style event where they pick the best films, live in the room, to screen at the closing night on the Friday. Never seen it done before but it was fun. And the food!! The food!!! It was delicious. And it kept coming. Run by lovely people and well worth submitting to.

January 2026

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Melle Windig

Thank you for selecting our short Stop Motion film Cell Buddies for Earl's Court International Film Festival and even awarding it with Best Animation! A real pity we could not attend in person. Also thank you very much for sending us the beautiful award. The communication with the festival was great and from what we have seen on social media the festival and venue is awesome. Hopefully see you next time!

December 2025

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Will G

A well organised festival where, as self funded film makers, my and my brother felt well supported and cared for. We were honoured to have our short Bleaching shown in such a strong and varied category.

November 2025

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Guy Lindley

A lovely festival hosted by lovely people! I was so pleased to have been able to win the award for best short film with Opening Up this year, My directors Oz Arshad attended the awards and I attended the closing dinner on the following week. The entire team welcomed both of us which such warmth. I will be submitting to this festival again and I would recommend it to anyone.

December 2024

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