 A record number of audiences attended the festival, with 3,422 festival delegates and 27,917 members of the public.148 films were shown, of which a record breaking 31 were world premieres, including Sean McAllister's hotly anticipated "A Syrian Love Story", Brian Hill's "The Confessions of Thomas Quick", and Jake Witzenfeld's "Oriented", 41 UK premieres, 13 international premieres, and 19 European premieres.Nearly 50% of the film programming was headed up by female filmmakers, with 73 of the films either produced or directed by women filmmakers.