# British Independent Film Award for Best British Short Film

The British Independent Film Award for British Short Film is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best British short film. The award was first presented in the 2003 ceremony.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2003 (6th) | Dad's Dead | Chris Shepherd, Maria Manton |
| 2003 (6th) | 72 Faced Liar | Mark Waites |
| 2003 (6th) | Extn. 21 | Lizzie Oxby |
| 2003 (6th) | Perfect | Rankin, Simon Ashdown |
| 2003 (6th) | Salaryman 6 | Jake Knight, Ryoko Tanaka |
| 2004 (7th) | School of Life | Jake Polonsky, Malachi Smyth |
| 2004 (7th) | 6.6.04 | Simon Hook, Jayne Kirkham |
| 2004 (7th) | Brand Spanking | John-Paul Harney, Neil Jaworski |
| 2004 (7th) | London Skies are Blue | Brendan Grant |
| 2004 (7th) | Wasp | Andrea Arnold, Natasha Marsh |
| 2005 (8th) | Six Shooter | Martin McDonagh, Kenton Allen, Mia Bays |
| 2005 (8th) | Can't Stop Breathing | Amy Neil |
| 2005 (8th) | Dupe | Chris Waitt, Henry Trotter |
| 2005 (8th) | Pitch Perfect | J Blakeson |
| 2006 (9th) | Cubs | Tom Harper |
| 2006 (9th) | At the End of the Sentence | Marisa Zanotti, David Greig |
| 2006 (9th) | Ex Mmemoria | Josh Appignanesi |
| 2006 (9th) | The 10th Man | Sam Leifer |
| 2006 (9th) | Who I Am and What I Want | Chris Shepherd, David Shrigley, Maria Manton |
| 2007 (10th) | Dog Altogether | Paddy Considine, Diarmid Scrimshaw |
| 2007 (10th) | Cherries | Tom Harper, Fiona Kissane |
| 2007 (10th) | The Girls | Sebastian Godwin |
| 2007 (10th) | What Does Your Daddy Do? | Martin Stitt |
| 2007 (10th) | À bout de truffe | Tom Tagholm |
| 2008 (11th) | Soft | Simon Ellis |
| 2008 (11th) | Alex and Her Arse Truck | Sean Conway |
| 2008 (11th) | Gone Fishing | Chris Jones, Ivan Francis Clements |
| 2008 (11th) | Love Does Grow on Trees | Bevan Walsh, Geraldine Patten |
| 2008 (11th) | Red Sands | David Procter, Geoff Bellhouse, Tom Turley, Andrea Farrena |
| 2009 (12th) | Love You More | Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber, Caroline Harvey, Anthony Minghella, Adrian Sturges |
| 2009 (12th) | Christmas with Dad | Conor McCormack |
| 2009 (12th) | Leaving | Sam Hearn, Richard Penfold |
| 2009 (12th) | Sidney Turtlebaum | Tristram Shapeero, Raphael Smith |
| 2009 (12th) | Washdays | Simon Neal, Graham Lester-George |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2010 (13th) | Baby | Daniel Mulloy, Ohna Falby |
| 2010 (13th) | Photograph of Jesus | Laurie Hill |
| 2010 (13th) | Sign Language | Oscar Sharp, Stephen Follows |
| 2010 (13th) | Sis | Deborah Haywood |
| 2010 (13th) | The Road Home | Rahul Gandotra, Milja Fenger |
| 2011 (14th) | Chalk | Martina Amati, Ilaria Bernardini |
| 2011 (14th) | 507 | Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine |
| 2011 (14th) | Rough Skin | Laura Lomas, Cathy Brady |
| 2011 (14th) | Love at First Sight | Michael Davies, Julian Unthank |
| 2011 (14th) | Rite | Michael Pearce |
| 2012 (15th) | Volume | Mahalia Belo, Anna Ingeborg Topsøe |
| 2012 (15th) | Friday | Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Anna Symon |
| 2012 (15th) | Junk | Kirk Hendry |
| 2012 (15th) | Skyborn | Jamie Magnus Stone |
| 2012 (15th) | Swimmer | Lynne Ramsay |
| 2013 (16th) | Z1 | Gabriel Gauchet, Rungano Nyoni |
| 2013 (16th) | Dr. Easy | Jason Groves, Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy |
| 2013 (16th) | Dylan's Room | Layke Anderson |
| 2013 (16th) | Jonah | Kibwe Tavares, Jack Thorne |
| 2013 (16th) | L'Assenza | Jonathan Romney |
| 2014 (17th) | The Kárman Line | Oscar Sharp, Dawn King |
| 2014 (17th) | Crocodile | Gaëlle Denis, Robin French |
| 2014 (17th) | Emotional Fusebox | Rachel Tunnard |
| 2014 (17th) | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Michael Pearce, Selina Lim, Megan Rubens |
| 2014 (17th) | Slap | Nick Rowland, Islay Bell-Webb |
| 2015 (18th) | Edmond | Nina Gantz |
| 2015 (18th) | Balcony | Toby Fell-Holden |
| 2015 (18th) | Crack | Peter King |
| 2015 (18th) | Love Is Blind | Dan Hodgson |
| 2015 (18th) | Manoman | Simon Cartwright |
| 2016 (19th) | Jacked | Rene van Pannevis, Ashish Ghadiali |
| 2016 (19th) | Mother | Leo Leigh |
| 2016 (19th) | Over | Jörn Threlfall |
| 2016 (19th) | Rate Me | Fyzal Boulifa |
| 2016 (19th) | The Wrong End of the Stick | Terri Matthews, Chris Cornwell |
| 2017 (20th) | Fish Story | Charlie Shackleton |
| 2017 (20th) | 1745 | Gordon Napier, Morayo Akandé |
| 2017 (20th) | The Entertainer | Jonathan Schey |
| 2017 (20th) | Work | Aneil Karia |
| 2017 (20th) | Wren Boys | Harry Lighton, John Fitzpatrick |
| 2018 (21st) | The Big Day | Dawn Shadforth, Kellie Smith, Michelle Stein |
| 2018 (21st) | Bitter Sea | Fateme Ahmadi, Emma Parsons |
| 2018 (21st) | The Field | Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay, Thomas Bidegain |
| 2018 (21st) | Pommel | Paris Zarcilla, Sebastian Brown, Ivan Kelava |
| 2018 (21st) | To Know Him | Ted Evans, Kellie Smith, Jennifer Monks, Michelle Stein |
| 2019 (22nd) | Anna | Dekel Berenson, Merlin Merton, Olga Beskhmelnitsyna |
| 2019 (22nd) | Boiling Point | Bart Ruspoli, Philip Barantini, Grace Nelder, Gabriella Callea, James Cummings |
| 2019 (22nd) | Goldfish | Hector Dockrill, Laura Dockrill, Benedict Turnbull, Harri Kamalanathan |
| 2019 (22nd) | The Devil's Harmony | Dylan Holmes Williams, Jess O'Kane, Nathan Craig |
| 2019 (22nd) | Serious Tingz | Abdou Cisse, Kieran Kenlock |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2020 (23rd) | The Long Goodbye | Aneil Karia, Riz Ahmed, Tom Gardner |
| 2020 (23rd) | Filipiñana | Rafael Manuel, Naomi Pacifique |
| 2020 (23rd) | Mandem | John Ogunmuyiwa, Emily Everdee |
| 2020 (23rd) | Sudden Light | Sophie Littman, Tom Wood |
| 2020 (23rd) | The Forgotten C | Molly Manning Walker, Jessi Gutch |
| 2021 (24th) | Femme | Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams, Rienkje Attoh |
| 2021 (24th) | Egúngún (Masquerade) | Olive Nwosu, Alex Polunin |
| 2021 (24th) | Night of the Living Dead | Ida Melum, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso, Danielle Goff |
| 2021 (24th) | Play It Safe | Mitch Kalisa, Chris Toumazou |
| 2021 (24th) | Precious Hair & Beauty | John Ognmuyiwa, Sophia Gibber, Tony Longe, Lene Basager |
| 2022 (25th) | Too Rough | Sean Lìonadh, Ross McKenzie, Alfredo Covelli |
| 2022 (25th) | A Fox in the Night | Keeran Anwar Blessie, Benjamin Jacob Smith |
| 2022 (25th) | Honesty | Roxy Rezvany, Emily Renée, Elly Camisa |
| 2022 (25th) | Sandstorm | Seemab Gul, Abid Aziz Merchant |
| 2022 (25th) | Scale | Joseph Pierce, Hélène Mitjavile |
| 2023 (25th) | Festival of Slaps | Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon, and George Telfer |
| 2023 (25th) | Christopher at Sea | Tom CJ Brown, Amanda Miller, Hanna Stolarski, Emily-Jane Brown, Nick Read, Pierre Boivin, Constance Le Scouarnec, and Laure Desmazières |
| 2023 (25th) | Lions | Beru Tessema and Ama Ampadu |
| 2023 (25th) | Muna | Warda Mohamed, Angela Moneke, and Simon Hatton |
| 2023 (25th) | The Talent | Thomas May Bailey, Emma D'Arcy, and Ellen Spence |
| 2024 (27th) | Delivery | Ben Lankester, Bophanie Lun and Joe Binks |
| 2024 (27th) | Housewarming | Liam White and Guy Lindley |
| 2024 (27th) | Meat Puppet | Eros V, Masha Thorpe and Leah Draws |
| 2024 (27th) | A Move | Elahe Esmaili and Hossein Behboudi Rad |
| 2024 (27th) | Wander to Wonder | Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Daan Bakker and Maarten Swart |