2026 FILMMAKING CHALLENGE
This Year's Filmmaking Challenge
In this new challenge, to celebrate 135 years since Prokofiev’s birth, we’re calling on filmmakers worldwide: choose a passage of his music and make a short film set to it. Winning entries will be played at SIFFA 2026! Deadline is 10 September.
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That’s a Wrap on SIFFA 2025
Our 15th edition and 10th anniversary: nine days of independent cinema across Vue Piccadilly and Mayfair. Thank you to the whole SIFFA family.
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A Masterclass with Richard Belfield
An exclusive masterclass on filming a great composer with documentary filmmaker Richard Belfield, closing with an intimate concert from Gabriel Prokofiev.
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Edition 16 of the Film Awards
Save the date. Our tenth-anniversary edition wrapped in 2025, and now the festival returns for its 16th edition in 2026. Submissions and full details coming soon.
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Some of SIFFA's honoured guests
SIFFA 2025
Celebrating a Decade of the Festival
SIFFA’s 15th edition and 10th anniversary ran from 20–28 November 2025 at Vue Cinema Piccadilly, with the Closing Ceremony and Awards Gala in Mayfair. That’s a wrap on SIFFA 2025, thank you for being such an essential part of the SIFFA family. Your trust, creativity, and belief in independent cinema of higher values are what make this journey possible.
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The SIFFA Award
The IRIDA Golden Statuette
Awarded at SIFFA, the IRIDA Golden Statuette honours excellence in storytelling and artistic achievement. Representing the Greek goddess of communication, it symbolises cinema’s power to connect, share stories and promote peace across cultures.
