LSFF2019
The 16ᵗʰ London Short Film Festival
11th—20th January 2019
We’re back for #LSFF2019.
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Friday 11th January 2019
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Fri 11 Jan 2019
ICA
OPENING NIGHT: Now! That's What I Call '80s Short Film
The calling cards of the decades' graduating class. -
Fri 11 Jan 2019
ICA Theatre
OPENING NIGHT: All That Scratching Is Making Me Itch
An old school Scratch Video affair for our festival opener. -
Fri 11 Jan 2019
ICA
NEW SHORTS: Funny Shit (at ICA)
Our traditional festival opener of laughing matter.Sold out -
Saturday 12th
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
NEW SHORTS: Surreal Worlds
Surreal scenarios and minute marvels. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
COMPETITION: Blue Monday (at Rich Mix)
The characters in these films must pool their inner strength to overcome life’s myriad obstacles. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Lo-Budget Mayhem
The best of what happens when a minimal budget meets the (un)healthy imagination of a short filmmaker. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
THE ART OF INDUSTRY
Non-fiction asking questions of class identity and documentary’s legacy of ‘poverty porn’. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Air Draft
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: Lone Taxidermist Performs Trifle (Early)
A musical and visual journey into the unruly depths of sploshing.Sold out -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Tales Of The Unexpected
Spooky goings on and stories with a twist. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
ACTION SPACE
A portrait of inflatable art practice in the Sixties and Seventies. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
UNVICTIMING: Women Filmmakers Reframe Sexual Violence
From Mendieta to Campion, Another Gaze interrogate sexual violence through the lenses of female filmmakers. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: How The Light Gets In
These moving shorts lay bare their character's scars. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Air Draft
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: A Beautiful Body Horror Video Show
Artist film delving into the manipulation of the human body.Sold out -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
EXPRMNTL
Belgium’s Knokke Film Festival defined the modern film festival away from the red carpet of Cannes. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: En Masse
Exploring shared experience, collective memory and mass movement. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: WTF!: Outside the Box
Surrealist gems to stay with you long after you’ve left the cinema. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Air Draft
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: Lone Taxidermist Performs Trifle (Late)
A musical and visual journey into the unruly depths of sploshing.Sold out -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
EMO VIDEO JUKEBOX
A music video jukebox from the pre-broadband golden age of punk rock and emo. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: Unearthed
Delving into the earth beneath our feet. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Funny Shit (at Regent St)
A second chance to see our traditional festival opener of laughing matter. -
Sunday 13th
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
EXPERIMENTS: Leftfield & Luscious
Montage, manipulations and soundscapes made of satellites. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Loves Me Not
Challenging notions of nice guys, healthy relationships and modern romance. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
NEW SHORTS: A Winter's Matinee Of Romantic Films
Syrupy shorts offer up big romances and littler dalliances. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
COMPETITION: Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (at Rich Mix)
These characters buffer against odds stacked against them. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
EXPERIMENTS: Celluloid Traces
LSFF’s returning programme of experiments flirting with celluloid. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Air Draft
AIR DRAFT: EXPRMNTL
Belgium’s Knokke Film Festival defined the modern film festival away from the red carpet of Cannes.Limited capacity -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Animation Variety Showcase
Beautiful and unexpected pictures of the world we live in that only animation mavericks could conjure up. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: London Lives
Our fair city in all its glory. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: A State Of Anxiety
Meditating anxiety in the 21st century. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
NEW SHORTS: Sketch Night & Live Comedy
Quick hit shorts and live comedy to thaw out your wintry soul.Sold out -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Air Draft
AIR DRAFT: Intentional Community
Nick Jordan and Clara Casian's documentary portrait of the Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Music & Video
Short films marrying vision with sound, featuring Years & Years and the Beyoncé-blessed R&B of Chloe X Halle. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Air Draft
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: A Beautiful Body Horror Video Show
Artist film delving into the manipulation of the human body.Limited capacity -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: Out Of History
Unique, urgent explorations of the now, filtered through a darker ideological past. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
STRAIGHT8EST HITS VOL. I
One Super 8 cartridge. No edits. 20 years of history. -
Monday 14th
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Short Form: More Than a Calling Card?
Get stuck into the function and capital of the short film with our panellists.Sold out -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: En Masse
Exploring shared experience, collective memory and mass movement. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
NEW SHORTS: Autism-Friendly Screening
Oska Bright are back for their fourth year with a laid back screening for audiences on the autism spectrum. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: London Film School Masterclass with Olivier Kaempfer
A masterclass in production with BAFTA-nominated LFS alumni Olivier Kaempfer. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Happy Hour: British Council x BFI NETWORK
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.Free entry -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
COMPETITION: Blue Monday (at Curzon Soho)
Bad day? That’s nothing in comparison to this lot. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
COMPETITION: It Takes A Muscle (at Rich Mix)
A psychosomatic workout of animation, moving image, prose and performance. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
THE FEMALE LENS: An Illuminatrix Showcase
Looking to the resulting female gaze when illuminatrix's cinematographers helm the camera. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
ENGLISH PASTORAL: Better In Your Day
We ask questions of national identity and the Brexiter's rural idyll. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
NEW SHORTS: Gothic!
These shorts probe gothic in all it’s conceptions. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
TOP BOYS
The Noughties generation of working class male filmmakers emerged redefining the cinematic landscape of the urban inner city. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
INTERNATIONAL: Creature Comforts
A trippy, fantastical tribute to the existential relationship between man and beast. -
Tuesday 15th
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: The Mechanics of Programming
A step-by-step guide to programming bringing together programmers from all niches of the industry. -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: The Currency of the Music Video
Post-MTV and into the era of the ‘concept album’, what is the cultural capital of the music video? -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Happy Hour: The Video Show
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.Free entry -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
INTERNATIONAL: Generation Gap
Testing the tempestuous and at times misguided relationship between generations. -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
COMPETITION: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (at Curzon Soho)
These characters buffer against odds stacked against them. -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
COMPETITION: Fade To Grey (at Rich Mix)
Mulling collective memory and nostalgia in a world that makes forgetting all too easy. -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
ICA
DOCUMENTARY: Losing Home/Leaving Home
Short docs consider 'home' and what it means to leave and lose it, willingly or not. -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
"HEY BABY, SMILE FOR ME!"
T A P E examine women’s vulnerability within public spaces, why catcalling still happens and if there’s more we can be doing. -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
ICA
WHAT I REMEMBER: 3 Films by Antoinette Zwirchmayr with Q&A
Viennese filmmaker Antoinette Zwirchmayr tackles the complexities of a baroque family history. -
Wednesday 16th
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Big Fishes: Getting Your Short Film Funded
Our always popular panel of the industry’s gatekeepers discuss short film funding and commissioning.Sold out -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: Unearthed
Delving into the earth beneath our feet. -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Roads Less Travelled: Alternative Short Film Funding
We look to shed light on the alternative routes into getting your short film funded.Sold out -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Happy Hour: Sheffield Doc/Fest
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.Free entry -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
NEW SHORTS: IRL
The good and the bad of millennial connection. -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
COMPETITION: It Takes a Muscle (at Curzon Soho)
A psychosomatic workout of animation, moving image, prose and performance. -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
ICA
NEW SHORTS: Death Is Not the End
Existential trials, tragedies and silver linings. -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
INTERNATIONAL: A Hostile World
Shining lights on the hostile, dangerous worlds we occupy. -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
ICA
NEW SHORTS: Obsessions
Examining obsessive tendencies, whether for something or someone. -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
DEREK JARMAN: The Music Videos
A retrospective of Derek Jarman's oft-forgotten but era-defining music videos. -
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Hiding In Plain Sight
Looking to those refusing to fit into the margins and navigating an unhomely world. -
Thursday 17th
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Who Goes Where? The Ethics of Representation in Documentary
We look into the ethics of representation and ethics of production in documentary as an inextricable cycle. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: A State Of Anxiety
Meditating anxiety in the 21st century. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Masterclass: Finding (Found) Footage
We interrogate the legality and ethics of making film with digital and analogue archive footage. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Happy Hour: London Film School
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.Free entry -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Soho Hotel
BUMBLE PRESENTS: The Female Film Force
Bumble screens its five Female Film Force commissions. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
NEW SHORTS: Filter
Aesthetics are pushed to their chromatic extremes in these neon-drenched shorts. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
ICA
DOCUMENTARY: World News Revised
Altered versions of the news we see everyday. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
COMPETITION: Fade to Grey (at Curzon Soho)
Mulling collective memory and nostalgia in a world that makes forgetting all too easy. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Thrill of the Chase
Offbeat thrillers and adrenaline-fuelled docs to quicken the pulse. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
THE CONTOURING OF DEAFHOODS
Looking to how D/deaf people shape themselves to the world around them. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW QUEER VISIONS: In The Shadows Of Men
New Queer Visions return to London with short gems and docs of the queer variety from the world afar. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
ICA
IT (STILL) AIN'T HALF RACIST, MUM
A screening and roundtable revisiting and reflecting on academic and activist Stuart Hall’s 1979 televisual essay. -
Friday 18th
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: How to Write Women Post-#MeToo
This event looks to take stock of the #MeToo movement, and the potential it has to effect change. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
ICA
COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL: Out Of History
Unique, urgent explorations of the now, filtered through a darker ideological past. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Meaningful Thoughts: gal-dem Film Criticism Workshop
A workshop in partnership with gal-dem looking to nurture the next generation of women and non binary people of colour critics. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
INDUSTRY: Happy Hour: gal-dem
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.Free entry -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
ICA
COSEY FANNI TUTTI: On Film and In Conversation
Over some forty years, Cosey Fanny Tutti has explored the extremities of sonic and visual language. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Acting the Part
Behind the masks we hide behind and personas we build ourselves. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NASTY STUFF: Prano Bailey-Bond
A retrospective of the curious horrors of Prano Bailey-Bond. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
HISTORY OF HYPERDUB (WITH COOLY G AND OKZHARP LIVE)
The visual history of underground electronic label, Hyperdub. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
FISHING WITH JOHN with John Lurie In Conversation
John Lurie's ode to friendship, danger and reckless fishing. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NASTY STUFF: Basket Case
Prano Bailey-Bond has curated a personal favourite from the home video archive, screened on original 35mm for maximum scares. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Midnight Movies
Bite-sized horrors served up as is LSFF tradition: at (just about!) midnight. -
Saturday 19th
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
CLUB DES FEMMES: I Want A Dyke For President
These short works remind us another world is possible and that queer filmmakers have always been at the forefront of the struggle. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
DRAWN BY DESIRE: Women's Animation On Sex
Animation creates a unique safe space for women to visualise desire, reshape sexuality and say the unsayable. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
A CONSTELLATION OF COSMIC QUEENS
A kaleidoscopic offering of Afrofuturist short works that take us into the orbits of the Cosmic Queens. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
DOCUMENTARY: Seeing, Touching, Living
Tactile documentaries with more to perceive than to understand. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Crossed Wires
Short films about the little things left unsaid. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
BEHIND THE WALL: Jürgen Böttcher
A mini retrospective of GDR documentarian Jürgen Böttcher, celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
DOCUMENTARY: This Feeling Is Brand New
Exploring the therapeutic value of documentary. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
NEW QUEER VISIONS: The Thrill Of The Future
NQV return to London with short gems and docs of the queer variety from the world afar. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
CLOSING NIGHT: No Woman Is An Island
The black women artists of London synthesising Afrofuturism through their electronic experiments. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
SUPAKINO: Turbans Through Time
A special time-hopping, short film edition of SUPAKINO's turban-themed programming. -
Sunday 20th
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Sun 20 Jan 2019
ICA
BEHIND THE WALL: Phantoms
East German filmmakers explore the ephemeral and the forgotten. -
Sun 20 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
COMPETITION: Award Winners (at Rio)
A chance to see all the winning films from this year’s LSFF in one programme. -
Sun 20 Jan 2019
ICA
BEHIND THE WALL: Ex Oriente Lux: 8mm Underground Experiments
The short films of the Ex Oriente Lux, the Berlin archive of GDR filmmaker's 8mm experimental works. -
Sun 20 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
COMPETITION: Award Winners (at Curzon Soho)
A chance to see all the winning films from this year’s LSFF in one programme.Sold out -
Sun 20 Jan 2019
ICA
AT HOME AND NOT AT HOME
Africa Is A Country and the London Migration Film Festival present short films tracing the self-authored black British cinematic presence.