Welcome to the 13th Parish

Jersey International Film Festival

Welcome to Jersey’s International Film Festival

The 13th Parish is Jersey’s International Film Festival will take place from May 22^nd to 25^th 2025. We bring the very best of contemporary film to the island – new work from all over the world, in every genre, carefully curated for your entertainment and amazement.

2024 was a very successful year for us, which saw a steady growth in audience numbers and submissions from local and international film-makers. Our Kino film-making project attracted more participants (and made more films) than before, and the ‘Wall is a Screen’ cinematic tour of St Helier was once again a big hit.

We have to thank our international partners, Off-Courts Kino (Trouville) and A Wall is a Screen (Hamburg) for their enormous contributions to our project and we are delighted to say that both projects return for our 2025 Festival!

Partnership is a very important and organic way of working for us. We thank our steadfast programme partners: Jersey Film Society, Alliance Francaise de Jersey and Soroptimist Jersey International, who all partner in the presentation of some amazing new feature films this year.

Do check out and download our programme at the link above, and make sure you join us for a very exciting few days and nights.

Our venue partner is the excellent Jersey Arts Centre and we are especially grateful for the continued support of the Government of Jersey through the Creative Island Partnership.

Additionally in 2025, the development of the festival has been hugely boosted through the support of the Jersey Community Foundation, which has allowed us to recruit our first and wonderful Festival Producer, Noémie Alexandre.

Festivals are important catalysts for local filmmakers and production and we’re very encouraged to this year present an additional programme of Jersey films in competition, as we had more entries than ever before from local filmmakers. To us this proves that having a platform to showcase and promote filmmaking, really helps to stimulate activity. On this note, we are hosting an Industry event ‘Screen Jersey – imagining and creating a film culture in Jersey’ with some international speakers and industry experts.

Each year the reputation for this ambitious festival grows, both at home and on the international festival stage. You are most welcome to join us on this adventure.

We look forward to seeing you very soon!

À bientôt

The 13th Parish makes two awards each year, both the result of deliberations by expert juries. These are for the best International Short Film and the best Jersey and Channel Islands film.

These awards recognise the very best of dozens of films that are shown at the festival, and such commendations can make a big difference to the careers of early film professionals. Awards also make a statement about the quality and artistic vision of the festival itself, and the 13th parish is very grateful to the hard-working jury members who came to these conclusions.

The results are as follows:

Prix d’Honneur of the 13th Parish Festival Mar Mama by Majdi El Omari

Jersey and Channel Islands Award For Best Film: Usurp The Destroyer by Patrick Swan and Edward Palmer (Jersey)

Full details of the awards and jury statements are available here.