THE AWARD WINNERS SINCE CPIFF BEGAN!

CPIFF Winners 2025

Best Feature Film: The Man Who Saved The Internet with a Sunflower
Best Short Film: Sister Wives
Best Comedy: Teen Mary
Best International Film: Demons
Best Animation: In Half
Best Student Film: Out Like a Lamb
Best Sci-Fi Film: First Sight
Best Horror Film: The Pearl Comb
Best Documentary: King Putt
Best Music Video: The Future Soon

CPIFF Winners 2024

Best Feature Film: Lore
Best Short Film: Love Language
Best Comedy: The Snip
Best International Film: Rise
Best Animation: Boom
Best Student Film: The Myth
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: In Your Hands
Best Documentary: Your Hundred Year Life
Best Music Video: Intrance

CPIFF Winners 2023

Best Feature Film: Publish or Perish
Best Short Film: Hamlet, NW5
Best Comedy: Julia
Best International Film: Suicide Club
Best Animation: Candlelight
Best Student Film: Raja’s Had Enough
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: I XXXX My Sex Doll
Best Documentary: Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichenstein and the Art of Appropriation
Best Music Video: Hahahaha (Don’t You Just Know It)

CPIFF Winners 2022

Best Feature Film: Among The Living
Best Short Film: Baby Boy
Best Comedy: Ecstasy
Best International Film: Squish (Sprotch)
Best Animation: Memento Mori
Best Student Film: Fields of Anfield Road
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: Princesses Do As They Please
Best Documentary: Oleg
Best Music Video: These Are The Special Times

CPIFF Winners 2021

Best Feature Film: Bombs & Pecan Pie
Best Short Film: Ladykiller
Best Comedy: Tyresome
Best International Film: The Final Stand
Best Animation: Something Borrowed
Best Student Film: Sent Away
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: Ghillie
Best Documentary: Last Call For Tomorrow
Best Music Video: Brr

CPIFF Winners 2020

Best Feature Film: Max Winslow: House of Secrets
Best Short Film: Starboy
Best Animation: Black Earth Rising
Best Student Film: Red
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: Chronos
Best Documentary: Mosley
Best Music Video: Agoria – Call of the Wild
Best International Film: The Silent War
Best Comedy: Quiet Carriage
Croydon Rising Star Award: A Filthy Habit

CPIFF Winners 2019

Best Feature Film: The Bromley Boys
Best Short Film: Ralph Styles Ultra
Best Animation: Bavure
Best Student Film: The Border
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: Ingenium
Best Documentary: Tales From Tin Pan Alley
Best Music Video: Scandal
Best International Film: Hawaii
Best Comedy: Kill Ben Lyk
Croydon Rising Star Award: Just A Stranger

What screened in 2019?

CPIFF Winners 2017

Best Documentary: Through My Father’s Eyes – The Ronda Rousey Story
Best Animation: Johnno’s Dead
Best Student Film: A Place for Everything
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: Hada
Best Music Video: Temple Cache – Be Able
Best Short Film: Free Period
Best Feature Film: Lovers
Best International Film: Black Ring
Best Comedy: Ewww

CPIFF Winners 2016

Best Documentary: A Life behind a Lens
Best Animation: Nudinits – Tickled Pink
Best Student Film: Knob
Best Horror/Sci-Fi: The Barber’s Cut
Best Music Video: Call Me in the Afternoon
Best Short Film: The Last Laugh
Best Feature Film: Pop-Up
Best International Film: My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan
Best Comedy: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

CPIFF Winners 2015

Best Animation – Remember
Best Music Video – Fåån; Valsaland
Best Student Film – Jewish Blind Date
Best International Film – Magic World
Best Documentary – Black Roses, the Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Best Short Film – Beverley
Best Horror/Sci-Fi – Crazy For You
Best Comedy – SuperBob
Best Feature Film – Two Down

CPIFF Winners 2014

Best Short Film – Cowboy Ben
Best Animation ‘Captain Fish’
Best Horror/Sci-Fi ‘Time Lapse’
Best Documentary ‘Come on Eileen’
Best International Film ‘Just Before Blooming Time’
Best Student Film ‘Mo Joe’
Best Comedy ‘SOS: Save Our Skins’
Best Music Video ‘Seduction’

CPIFF Winners 2013

Best in Festival ‘Agnus Dei’ (Lamb of God)
Best Feature Film ‘City Slacker’
Best Short Film ‘David’s Fine’
Best Animation ‘The Lion’
Best Horror/Sci-Fi ‘Silence’
Best Documentary ‘A Terrible Beauty’
Best International Film ‘Lapsus’
Best Student Film ‘Annalyn’
Best Comedy ‘Division Azul’
Best Music Video ‘The Lion’

CPIFF Winners 2012

Best in Festival ‘STAG’
Best Feature Film ‘Dimensions’
Best Short Film ’82’
Best Animation ‘Cedric & Hope’
Best Horror/Sci-Fi ‘Nostalgic Z’
Best Documentary ‘Resonance’
Best International Film ‘Robyn O. (14)’
Best Student Film ‘Abraham’s Daughter’
Best Comedy ‘Charity’
Best Music Video ‘Vucciria’

CPIFF Winners 2011

Best in Festival ‘The Killage’
Best Feature Film ‘Boy Wonder’
Best Short Film ‘Nancy, Sid and Sergio’
Best Animation ‘The Jockstrap Raiders’
Best Horror/Sci-Fi ‘An Evening With My Comatose Mother’
Best Documentary ‘A Balloon For Allah’
Best International Film ‘Taita Boves’
Best Student Film ‘Small Hours’
Best Comedy ‘The Healing Game’
Best Music Video ‘Candid’

CPIFF Winners 2010

Best in Festival – Bad Company
Best Feature Film – Bad Company
Best Comedy Feature – Bitterness
Best Comedy Short – King Jeff
Best Sci-fi/Horror – Frank Dancoolo – Paranormal Drug Dealer
Best International Film – Guven Bana (Trust Me)
Best Music Video – Lay Down and Die – The Monday Club
Best Documentary – The Last Anchorite
Best Short Film – Taylor’s Trophy
Best Animated Film – Skylight