BIFF World Building

Join us this October ‘23 for our most ambitious year of the Birkenhead International Film Festival yet. 

We will bring the world to Birkenhead at the Williamson Art Gallery.Step into the world of the BIFF with our blockbuster 2023 festival! 

We will be hosting the festival on the 21st October. Hot on heels of our SOLD OUT 2022 festival. We are delighted to bring you our 4th festival, this year. 

The BIFF brings together a collective of filmmakers to explore the art of film from a varied range of backgrounds, filmographies and genres. 

Birkenhead International Film Festival is all about bringing the world to Birkenhead and so for our 4th Edition of the BIFF we are exploring the theme of ‘World-building’. Our festival will feature a selection of short films from around the globe, a panel talk from industry leaders such as Northern Fortress Film from Bradford and previous BIFF winning Directors, it will also showcase the next generation of filmmakers with our new partnerships with Wirral MET and Bournemouth University. 

Get excited for the biggest BIFF yet!

Apply here: (Link coming soon!) Festival submissions will open in early June. 

Theme: World Building

World-Building is often described as the process of constructing a world, and often imaginary ones. World-building we feel is a staple tennent of the film industry, as writers and makers create experiences in film that transport us as viewers into new worlds and universes of their making. We want to celebrate this as part of the festival this year. We want filmmakers to let us into their world. We will champion and celebrate these worlds that have been created through film. 

For film submissions we want the term world-building to encompass all genres and is of course free to interpretation of the phrase but to give you an example we have explored some of the following themes, narratives and topics within our definition that we are hoping to discover in the submissions process. 

We would look for films that may explore:

Visions of the past, present or future. 

Films that explore new worlds, visionary landscapes, dystopian and utopian portrayals of life. 

Films could be person centred 

Films could explore class, discrimination, exclusion, global majority, lgbtq+, gender, disability, and underrepresented groups. 

Can explore history, shared memory, folklore and collective past. 

Films can explore realist, surreal and abstract films. 

We are looking for existing works that explore the theme to showcase at our annual festival which will be shown in a heritage location in Birkenhead. We encourage submissions from all genres, and have a run time of up to a maximum of 30 minutes in length. 

Apply here: (Link coming soon!) Festival submissions will open in early June.