London Short Film Festival

This event has expired.

New Shorts #15 Family Affairs

Wed 11 Jan 20:45 ICA Cinema 1

You can choose your friends but not your family. These powerful dramas show family bonds as both a hindrance and a blessing, as mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and all other combinations try to get by. Includes Roger Lloyd Pack and Being Human’s Michael Soca in The Good Men of Leicester. 

Tickets for this event are available on the ICA website, or by calling 020 7930 3647.

Films listed below are in alphabetical order.

• BEING BRADFORD DILLMAN

  Emma Burch 11 mins

  A tale of a Mother and daughter relationship, shadowed by alcohol, loneliness and a dislike of boys.

• COMMUNION

  Andrea Harkin 17 mins

  Set in Northern Ireland during the 1970s "Troubles," family man Michael feuds with his wayward and rebellious brother on the day of his little daughter's Holy Communion.

• MY LIFE IN CAT YEARS

  Bertie Telezynski 13 mins

  An intimate portrait of an estranged family reveals confrontations with life, death and alienation

• NOT NOW PET

  John Jencks 6 mins

  Emma is about to spend a boring Christmas with her grandparents while her parents holiday in the Galapagos. At the last minute she begs Father Christmas to make her parents take her with them instead. Little does she know, her Gramps and Granky have plans of their own…

• PAPA

  Carolina Giammetta 11 mins

  Sophia goes to work with her stern emotionally distant father. Tony, a bitter factory worker comes between them and challenges their loyalty for one another.

• PLAYING NURSE

  Miranda Howard-Williams 9 mins

  When a young girl wants to help her sick father she thinks she has found the perfect person to call, but this nurse gives a different kind of medicine.

• SHADES OF BEIGE

  Aimee Powell 15 mins

  Jodie and her brother Brian have shared an unusually close bond since their infancy but when he is convicted of child abuse it begins to unravel.

• THE GOOD MEN OF LEICESTER

  Neale Craston/Al Mackay 11 mins

  Tired of looking for inspiration, Simon spends the day helping out at his grandfathers market stall where he finds it, through a common bond in poetry.

• WINGS

  Esther Richardson 13 mins

  Sixteen-year-old Ellie is on the way to achieving her dream. She has a confirmed place in the RAF training cadets. All she needs is her Mum’s permission to let her go.

• Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre

  17-25 Inn Yard
  EC21 3EA

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• BAFTA

  195 Piccadilly
  W1J 9LN

  0207 292 5801

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• BFI Southbank

  Belvedere Road, South Bank
  SE1 8XT

  020 7928 3232

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Ciné Lumière

  17 Queensberry Place
  SW7 2DT

  020 7073 1350

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Curzon Soho

  99 Shaftesbury Avenue
  W1D 5DY

  0871 703 3988

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Greenwich Picturehouse

  180 Greenwich High Road
  SE10 8NN

  0871 902 5732

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Hackney Picturehouse

  270 Mare Street
  E8 1HE

  0871 902 5734

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Horse Hospital

  Colonnade, Bloomsbury
  WC1N 1JD

  020 7833 3644

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• ICA

  The Mall
  SW1Y 5AH

  020 7930 3647

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Lomography Gallery Store East London

  117 Commercial Street
  E1 6BG

  0207 426 0999

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Museum of London Docklands

  West India Quay, Canary Wharf
  E14 4AL

  020 7001 9844

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Occupy London Stock Exchange

  Outside St Paul's Cathedral
  EC4M 8AD

  0845 299 6175

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Rich Mix

  35-47 Bethnal Green Road
  E1 6LA

  020 7613 7498

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Rio

  107 Kingsland High Street
  E8

  0207 241 9410

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton

  Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane
  SW2 1JG

  0871 902 5739

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Riverside Studios

  Crisp Road
  W6 9RL

  020 8237 1111

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Roxy Bar & Screen

  128-132 Borough High Street
  SE1 1LB

  020 7403 4423

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Shortwave Cinema

  10 Bermondsey Square
  SE1 3UN

  020 7357 6845

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Stratford Picturehouse

  Salway Road
  E15 1BX

  0871 902 5740

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• The Hospital Club

  24 Endell Steet
  WC2H 9HQ

  020 7170 9100

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• The Lexington

  96-98 Pentonville Road
  N1 9JB

  0207 837 5371

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• The Phoenix Arts Centre

  104-110 Charing Cross Road
  WC2H 0JN

  020 7836 1077

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• The Screen @ RADA

  62-64 Gower St
  WC1E 6ED

  020 7636 7076

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps

• Vibe Live

  The Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane
  E1 6QL

  0207 247 3479

  Visit website

  Find on Google Maps