British City Movie Competition (BUFF) will rejoice its twentieth anniversary this October…
BUFF’s 2025 programme consists of over 70 screenings, highlighting UK premieres throughout documentary, function and brief movie classes. Notable titles embrace:
- Johnny Collins’ Inmates With Expertise (that includes Ice-T).
- Teoman Sayin’s Tapped (starring Elijah Baker and Jessica Impiazzi).
- Letters to Goddo (dir. Harry Bentil).
- Kayla Johnson and Ashly Robinson’s Fatherless No Extra (based mostly on the story of ex-Superbowl champion Tim Johnson).
- Nnamdi Kanaga’s Water Woman (starring Stella Damasus).
- Ugandan-German manufacturing Hope – Past Rape, Homicide and Warfare Crimes (supported by George Clooney’s NGO The Sentry).
- Van Alpert’s Skategoat.
The competition features a devoted business programme at Margery Road Group Corridor, Farringdon, that includes reside script readings and networking occasions designed to assist rising writers and filmmakers.
This yr’s BUFF Awards Ceremony will honour actor and filmmaker Femi Oyeniran with an honorary award introduced by actor Aml Ameen, whereas the Finest Actor Award will commemorate the late Anthony Adjekum, recognising excellent contributions to city cinema.
“Twenty years on, BUFF continues to offer a important platform for city impartial filmmaking within the UK, driving visibility for various voices and connecting expertise with business leaders,” stated Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, BUFF founder and competition director.
Since 2020, the British City Movie Competition has been a qualifying competition for British brief movies and British brief animation movies chosen and screened at BUFF. As of 2025, BUFF is considered one of 86 qualifying festivals (together with 31 British) which permit for movies to be eligible for a BAFTA movie award within the Finest British brief and/or Finest British brief animation class.
The competition opens at Odeon Greenwich on Friday tenth and Saturday eleventh October, earlier than shifting to Wealthy Combine Shoreditch (seventeenth–18th October) and Genesis Cinema, Mile Finish (twentieth–twenty third October). The competition will conclude with the BUFF Awards Ceremony at Genesis Cinema on Friday twenty fourth October.
The competition’s return to a full London programme underscores its place as a major hub for funding, distribution and expertise improvement throughout the UK movie sector.