The 25^th Raindance Film Festival (Sept 21 -Oct 2) has revealed the majority of its line-up and jury members.

The international premiere of Atsuko Hirayanagi’s Oh Lucy! (USA), starring Josh Hartnett, is the opening night film of the London-based event. The closing night film will be announced later this month.

The competition jury includes ex-BIFA director Johanna Von Fischer, Spanish producer Rosa Bosch and actors Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken), Sean Bean (Game Of Thrones), Christopher Eccleston (Dr Who), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting), Celia Imrie (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Training Day), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Hotel Rwanda), Josh Whitehouse (Northern Soul), Neil Marshall (Game Of Thrones) and Rachel Portman (Chocolat).

They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the European premiere of Koichiro Miki’s Noise and the world premiere of Evald Johnson’s High & Outside: A Baseball Noir.

Among the UK premieres playing in competition are Maya Dardel, directed by Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak and starring Rosanna Arquette, and Tom Gustafson’s Hello Again!, which explores 10 fleeting love affairs across different periods of time in New York and stars Rumer Willis.

The categories announced today (15 August) were the competition films in its UK features, documentaries, shorts, web series and virtual reality categories.

The newly established virtual reality strand, which runs from September 28 - October 1 will feature the Raindance VRX Awards, VRX Summit, VRX Market and the VR Arcade and will recognise virtual reality experiences in 10 categories (see below).

The festival’s third co-production forum will focus on the relationship between the UK and Italian film industries.

The Live! Ammunition! ‘pitching’ event returns. This year’s panellists include Dean Cross from Vue Entertainment and Tara Barnett, sales manager from 20th Century Fox.

Last week the festival revealed that Guy Ritchie would receive the Raindance Film Festival auteur award.

Competition line-up

IN COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS

• Maya Dardel, Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak, USA
• Mukoku, Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, Japan, UK Premiere
• Noise, Koichiro Miki, Japan, European Premiere
• The Constitution, Rajko Grlc, Croatia, UK Premiere
• Hello Again! Tom Gustafson, USA, UK Premiere
• The Traveller, Hadi Ghandour, France / Lebanon, UK Premiere
• Swaying Mariko, Koji Segawa, Japan, International Premiere
• High & Outside: A Baseball Noir, Evald Johnson, USA, World Premiere
• Black Hollow Cage, Sadrac González-Perellón, Spain, UK Premiere
• Djam, Tony Gatlif, France

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• The Family I Had, Katie Green and Carlyle Rubin, USA, UK Premiere
• RiverBlue: Can Fashion Save the Planet? David McIlvride and Roger Williams, Canada, UK Premiere
• On Yoga The Architecture of Peace, Heitor Dhalia, Brazil / USA, UK Premiere
• Bluefin, John Hopkins, Canada, European Premiere
• Speak Up, Stéphane de Freitas and Ladj Ly, France, UK Premiere

BEST DEBUT – DISCOVERY AWARD

• A Trip to the Moon, Joaquin Cambre, Argentina, UK Premiere
• I Still Hide To Smoke, Rayhana Obermeyer, France
• Scaffolding, Matan Yair, Israel / Poland, UK Premiere
• Children of the Night, Andrea De Sica, Italy, UK Premiere
• The Story of a Satellite, Sonia Albert-Sobrinoa and Miriam Albert-Sobrino, Spain, European Premiere

BEST UK FEATURE

• In Another Life, Jason Wingard, World Premiere
• Stooge, Madeleine Farley, World Premiere
• The Dark Mile, Gary Love, UK Premiere
• Edie, Simon Hunter
• Isolani, R. Paul Wilson, World Premiere

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM

• Game, Jeannie Donohoe, USA, UK Premiere
• Goddess, Karishma Dube, India / USA
• Lethe, Dea Kulumbegahsvili, France / Georgia
• Mixtape Marauders, Peter Edlund, USA, International Premiere
• Viola, Franca, Marta Savina, Italy, UK Premiere

BEST UK SHORT FILM

• Work, Aneil Karia
• CLA’AM, Nathaniel Martello-White, European Premiere
• Wild Horses, Rory Alexander Stewart
• 46, Joseph A. Adesunloye, World Premiere

BEST UK WEB SERIES

• I Gotta Be Me, Steven Bloomer
• Stories of Note, Caleb Yule
• Pls, Like, Tom Kingsley
• Millennial Theory, Hugh O’Shea, Phillip Whiteman

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB SERIES

• The Adventures of A Broken Heart, Ariel Martínez Herrera, Argentina
• High Life, Glen Dolman and Luke Eve, Australia
• The Break Up List, Aaron Khoo, Singapore
• Jezebel, Julien Bittner, France
• Save Me, Fab Filippo and Dylan Pearce, Canada
• Clash of the Narratives, Robin Forestier-Walker

BEST INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE VR EXPERIENCE

• Life Of Us, Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, USA
• Manifest 99, Adam Volker and Bohdon Sayre, USA, World Premiere
• Ray, Rafael Pavón, Spain, World Premiere
• Treehugger: Wawona, Robin McNicholas, Barney Steel and Ersin Han Ersin, UK

BEST MOBILE INTERACTIVE VR EXPERIENCE

• Horizons, Yuli Levtov, UK
• In the Eyes of the Animal, Robin McNicholas, Barney Steel and Ersin Han Ersin, UK
• Virtual Virtual Reality, Samantha Gorman and Adam Veal, USA, UK Premiere

BEST CINEMATIC NARRATIVE VR EXPERIENCE

• Alteration, Jérome Blanquet, France, UK Premiere
• Broken Night, Alon Benari and Tal Zubalsky, USA, UK Premiere
• The Tragic Story of Betty Corrigall, Peter Boyd Maclean, UK, European Premiere
• UTURN, Nathalie Mathe and Ryan Lynch, USA, European Premiere

BEST DOCUMENTARY VR EXPERIENCE

• First Impressions, Francesca Panetta and Nicole Jackson, UK
• Iranian Kurdish Female Fighters, Namak Khoshnaw, Iraq, UK, World Premiere
• Songs of Vine, Maira Clancy and Blake Montgomery, USA, Peru, European Premiere
• ¡Viva La Evolución!, Fifer Garbesi, Cuba, UK Premiere

BEST ANIMATION VR EXPERIENCE

• Arden’s Wake, Eugene Chung, USA, UK Premiere
• Dear Angelica, Wesley Allsbrook and Saschka Unseld, USA, UK Premiere
• Rain or Shine, Felix Massie, UK
• Song of the Sea, Jerrica Cleland and Tomm Moore, Ireland, UK, Denmark, International Premiere

BEST MUSIC VR EXPERIENCE

• Beethoven’s Fifth, Jessica Brillhart, USA
• Mind Enterprises: Chapita, Eran Amir, UK
• Peroration Six, Fabien Coupez, USA, World Premiere
• Reeps One: Does Not Exist, John Hendicott and Gawain Liddiard, UK, USA, UK Premiere

BEST BRANDED VR EXPERIENCE

• Manchester City - Match Day, Adam May, UK, World Premiere
• Snatch VR Heist Experience, Rafael Pavón and Nicolás Alcalá, Spain, USA, UK Premiere
• The Chainsmokers Paris VR, Brynley Gibson and Russell Harding, UK, European Premiere
• Welcome To Laphroaig, Darren Emerson, UK, World Premiere

BEST SENSUAL VR EXPERIENCE

• Come! (Viens!), Michel Reilhac, France
• In My Shoes: Intimacy, Jane Gauntlett and Andrew Somerville, UK
• Second Date, Jennifer Lyon Bell, Netherlands, USA, World Premiere
• Through You, Saschka Unseld and Lily Baldwin, USA

BEST SOCIAL IMPACT VR EXPERIENCE

• 42 Days, Animal Equality, USA, Spain
• Aftershock: Nepal’s Untold Water Story, Catherine Feltham, UK
• Munduruku: The Fight to Defend the Heart of the Amazon, James Manisty and Grace Boyle, UK, Brazil

BEST SOUND DESIGN VR EXPERIENCE

• Life Of Us, Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, USA
• Reeps One: Does Not Exist, John Hendicott and Gawain Liddiard, UK, USA, UK Premiere
• The Resistance of Honey, Peter Boyd Maclean, UK, UK Premiere
• The Tragic Story of Betty Corrigall, Peter Boyd Maclean, UK, European Premiere

Other Festival prizes include:

• Film Of The Festival
• Raindance  Co-Production Forum Winner
• Best Animated Short