Odyssey is a UK base festival engaging Greater China on a specific topic annually.

Theme for 2024: "Food and Travel".

Awards & Prizes for 2024

The Jury Panel will decide for the following award categories this year:

THE BEST FEATURE
THE BEST SHORT
THE BEST UK-CHINA COLLABORATION
THE BEST MADE IN HONG KONG PRODUCTION
THE BEST MADE IN UK PRODUCTION
THE BEST MADE IN CHINA PRODUCTION
THE BEST FILM FOR INTERNATIONAL CONVERSATION
THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR FOOD
THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR TRAVEL

Odyssey Sustainability Film Awards

THE BEST SDGs CAMPAIGN
THE BEST SDGs CONTRIBUTION

Are you a rising filmmaker?

Do you have a film to share with an international audience? This is a curatorial announcement of the 2024 edition of Odyssey, our annual film festival, responding to the theme of “Food and Travel”.

Odyssey is the biggest film festival of its kind in the UK, as en engagement space to encourage conversation and constructive debate with Chinese communities worldwide and Greater China. The festival is accredited by the British Council and recently recommended by Screen International, as one of the festivals to look forward to in 2024 in the UK.

Now in its 4th edition, Odyssey showcased 72 films in 2023 online and offline across the UK in 6 cities. The 2024 edition will expand and cover more cities and independent cinemas

Theme of 2024: Food and Travel

We now call for film submissions from around the world, if they meet the following criteria:

Any short of feature film that focuses on food or cooking (from Greater China, diaspora communities or international co-productions)

Any short or feature film that focuses on travel (from Greater China or to Greater China; open to all regions)

Any short or feature film with a meaningful scene of Chinese food, cooking or restaurant (open to all regions)

Any short of feature film that proposes solutions to food waster reduction (from Greater China, diaspora communities or international co-production)

Any short or feature film that proposes solutions to carbon footprint reduction (from Greater China, diaspora communities or international co-productions)

Any short or feature film that raises awareness of eating disorder (from Greater China, diaspora communities or international co-productions)

THE CORPORATE PROGRAMME

- Films to compete for the Sustainable Corporate Culture Film Awards. A short film that captures a company's effort in contributing to the UN's 17 SDGs and ESGs.