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Opening Night: This Time It's Personal

23rd Jan 18:20
Curzon Soho

London Lives (+ filmmakers intro)

23rd Jan 21:20
Curzon Soho

Trans Sister Seventies! (+ panel discussion)

24th Jan 15:00
ICA

Wildest Grief (+ collective remembrance ceremony)

24th Jan 15:00
Metroland Studios

Can You Imagine A World? (screening only)

24th Jan 15:00
Lexi Cinema

The Colonial Present in Cinema and Sound (+ reflective listening soundscape)

24th Jan 18:00
ICA

Gothic

24th Jan 18:20
Curzon Soho

My Eye Is My Ear (+ filmmakers Q&A | BSL & DS)

24th Jan 18:20
BFI Southbank

British Lives (+ filmmakers Q&A)

24th Jan 20:40
BFI Southbank

A CoreCore Mixtape (+ pre-recorded Q&A)

24th Jan 21:00
ICA

Can You Imagine A World? (+ filmmakers intro)

25th Jan 14:20
Garden Cinema

the silent image of a woman (+ filmmakers Q&A)

25th Jan 15:00
ICA

Fantastic Fictions

25th Jan 15:00
Curzon Soho

A Raised Voice, Amplified (+ panel discussion | BSL & DS)

25th Jan 16:00
Garden Cinema

This Is a Switchboard for Conjuring Dimensions (+ filmmakers Q&A)

25th Jan 17:45
ICA

Everybody’s Darling: Melodrama in 80s & 90s Punk Cinema (+ extended intro)

25th Jan 18:20
BFI Southbank

Paving Paradise (+ filmmakers Q&A)

26th Jan 18:20
Curzon Soho

Lo-Budget Mayhem (+ filmmakers intro)

26th Jan 18:30
Rio Cinema

UK Competition: Drifting Towards Dreamsource (+ filmmakers Q&A)

26th Jan 20:40
BFI Southbank

Trans Sister Seventies! (screening only)

27th Jan 16:00
Toynbee Hall

Not Her First Rodeo (+ music performance)

27th Jan 18:00
Rich Mix

Forms of Truth: Rising Non-Fiction Filmmakers (+ Q&A)

27th Jan 18:30
ICA

UK Competition: Memories of the Earth (+ filmmakers Q&A)

27th Jan 20:45
BFI Southbank

Wonders and Disasters: Nature, Architecture, and Colonialism in Central Asia (+ panel discussion)

27th Jan 20:50
ICA

Funny Shit (+ filmmakers intro)

27th Jan 21:00
Curzon Soho

British Lives (screening only)

28th Jan 14:30
ActOne Cinema

Looking Through the Square Window (+ filmmakers Q&A)

28th Jan 18:20
Curzon Soho

International Competition: Visions and Voices (+ filmmakers Q&A)

28th Jan 18:30
ICA

Uncanny Sally (+ 80's horror themed quiz)

28th Jan 18:30
Rio Cinema

A Raised Voice, Amplified (screening only)

28th Jan 19:30
Newington Green Meeting House

East London, Bangladesh & Tales of Becoming (+ extended intro)

28th Jan 20:45
Rich Mix

International Competition: Talk About The Passion (+ filmmakers Q&A)

28th Jan 20:50
ICA

London Lives (screening only | DS)

28th Jan 20:50
Lexi Cinema

Vision On: New UK Animation (+ filmmakers Q&A)

29th Jan 18:00
Blinkink

So Long To The Valleys, So Long To The Seas (+ filmmakers Q&A)

29th Jan 18:20
Curzon Soho

In Order Not To Be Here (+ Q&A)

29th Jan 18:30
ICA

London Lives (screening only)

29th Jan 19:00
Metroland Studios

Paving Paradise (screening only)

29th Jan 19:30
Good Shepherd Studios

Palestine Looks Back (+ spoken word performance)

29th Jan 20:45
Rio Cinema

It’s Probably Fine (We Tried Our Best) [+ filmmakers Q&A]

29th Jan 20:45
Rich Mix

Emo Tapes (+ panel discussion)

29th Jan 21:00
ICA

You're A Red Flag (+ filmmakers Q&A)

30th Jan 18:20
Curzon Soho

British Lives (screening only)

30th Jan 18:30
Social Cinema Bromley

Express Yourself (+ filmmakers Q&A)

30th Jan 18:30
ICA

Wonders and Disasters: Nature, Architecture, and Colonialism in Central Asia (screening only)

30th Jan 19:30
Zoroastrian Centre

Palestine Looks Back (screening only)

30th Jan 20:30
Riverside Studios

Animation Variety Show (+ filmmakers Q&A)

30th Jan 20:45
Rich Mix

Eye to Eye (+ filmmakers Q&A)

30th Jan 21:00
ICA

Midnight Movies (+ filmmakers intro)

30th Jan 23:30
Rio Cinema

Am I Still Young? Can I Dream A Few Months More? (+ filmmakers Q&A)

31st Jan 12:00
BFI Southbank

My Eye Is My Ear (screening only)

31st Jan 15:00
Rich Mix

WTF?! (+ filmmakers Q&A)

31st Jan 15:00
Rio Cinema

Romantic Matinee (+ filmmakers Q&A)

31st Jan 15:00
Curzon Soho

Documentary: Tracing What We Inherit (+ filmmakers Q&A)

31st Jan 15:00
ICA

Society Is A Hole

31st Jan 17:30
Rich Mix

Documentary: Then, Now, Becoming

31st Jan 18:00
ICA

British Lives (screening only)

31st Jan 18:30
Kiln Theatre

London Lives (screening only)

31st Jan 19:30
Nunhead Community Cinema

Documentary: Fragile Landscapes

1st Feb 12:00
ICA

Awards Ceremony & Screening

1st Feb 14:00
Curzon Soho

The Colonial Present in Cinema and Sound (+ reflective listening soundscape)

1st Feb 14:30
ActOne Cinema
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FRIDAY 23RD JANUARY

Opening Night: This Time It's Personal

How contemporary filmmakers investigate their pasts.

Start Time:
23rd Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

London Lives (+ filmmakers intro)

A city symphony of reinvention - exploring how we move through the city, and how the city moves through us.

Start Time:
23rd Jan 21:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
94 min
Info Book

SATURDAY 24TH JANUARY

Trans Sister Seventies! (+ panel discussion)

Strut into history: uncover the fierce, fabulous, and revolutionary trans-feminine stories of the 1970s on newly unearthed archival film!

Start Time:
24th Jan 15:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
82 min
Info Book

Wildest Grief (+ collective remembrance ceremony)

Experimental shorts on grief and ritual, followed by space for collective mournfulness.

Start Time:
24th Jan 15:00
Location:
Metroland Studios
Runtime:
68 min
Info Book

Can You Imagine A World? (screening only)

A programme inviting young audiences to imagine worlds both vast and small, where empathy and curiosity shape what comes next.

Start Time:
24th Jan 15:00
Location:
Lexi Cinema
Runtime:
52 min
Info Book

The Colonial Present in Cinema and Sound (+ reflective listening soundscape)

Stories of national liberation brought to life through film and a shared music listening experience.

Start Time:
24th Jan 18:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
86 min
Info Book

Gothic

The ever popular Gothic programme returns with eerie hauntings and disorientating surrealism.

Start Time:
24th Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
93 min
Info Book

My Eye Is My Ear (+ filmmakers Q&A | BSL & DS)

These films capture the uniqueness and universality of the Deaf experience.

Start Time:
24th Jan 18:20
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
69 min
Info Book

British Lives (+ filmmakers Q&A)

LSFF’s popular showcase of UK short films shining a spotlight on Britain and its myriad of peoples.

Start Time:
24th Jan 20:40
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

A CoreCore Mixtape (+ pre-recorded Q&A)

Come with us on an absurd and eclectic journey into the world of CoreCore - a chaotic, heartfelt, and strangely beautiful reflection of our times.

Start Time:
24th Jan 21:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
77 min
Info Book

SUNDAY 25TH JANUARY

Can You Imagine A World? (+ filmmakers intro)

A programme inviting young audiences to imagine worlds both vast and small, where empathy and curiosity shape what comes next.

Start Time:
25th Jan 14:20
Location:
Garden Cinema
Runtime:
52 min
Info Book

the silent image of a woman (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Reclaiming feminist space, these films project femme identity through TikToks and digital collusions, tracing queer rebellion and oral histories.

Start Time:
25th Jan 15:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
89 min
Info Book

Fantastic Fictions

From spectral seductions to biotech nightmares, this programme celebrates genre cinema’s wildest, weirdest, and most unclassifiable corners.

Start Time:
25th Jan 15:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
82 min
Info Book

A Raised Voice, Amplified (+ panel discussion | BSL & DS)

A curated selection of artists films that explore how language, communication and meaning circulate around disability, deafness, and chronic illness.

Start Time:
25th Jan 16:00
Location:
Garden Cinema
Runtime:
64 min
Info Book

This Is a Switchboard for Conjuring Dimensions (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Six films set their gaze upon possessions that hold the power to possess us in return.

Start Time:
25th Jan 17:45
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
95 min
Info Book

Everybody’s Darling: Melodrama in 80s & 90s Punk Cinema (+ extended intro)

Melodrama meets a trash aesthetic in these short films that have emerged from the underground.

Start Time:
25th Jan 18:20
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
92 min
Info Book

MONDAY 26TH JANUARY

Paving Paradise (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Films that shine a spotlight on the environment, climate and a wider global awareness.

Start Time:
26th Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
90 min
Info Book

Lo-Budget Mayhem (+ filmmakers intro)

This programme celebrates the scrappy, DIY spirit of filmmakers who build entire worlds from whatever's at hand.

Start Time:
26th Jan 18:30
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
86 min
Info Book

UK Competition: Drifting Towards Dreamsource (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Tracing searches for truth, place, and connection in a world where presence flickers and meaning drifts.

Start Time:
26th Jan 20:40
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
85 min
Info Book

TUESDAY 27TH JANUARY

Trans Sister Seventies! (screening only)

Strut into history: uncover the fierce, fabulous, and revolutionary trans-feminine stories of the 1970s on newly unearthed archival film!

Start Time:
27th Jan 16:00
Location:
Toynbee Hall
Runtime:
82 min
Info Book

Not Her First Rodeo (+ music performance)

Women Of The Wild West

Start Time:
27th Jan 18:00
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
71 min
Info Book

Forms of Truth: Rising Non-Fiction Filmmakers (+ Q&A)

Shortlisted filmmakers for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2026 in Film present and discuss their work.

Start Time:
27th Jan 18:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
90 min
Info Book

UK Competition: Memories of the Earth (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Haunting, humorous and rooted in tradition, this UK Competition selection explores buried pasts, urban legends, and the rituals we inherit.

Start Time:
27th Jan 20:45
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
92 min
Info Book

Wonders and Disasters: Nature, Architecture, and Colonialism in Central Asia (+ panel discussion)

Earth, water, air and fire. Experimental, collaboratively made shorts exploring the entanglement of nature, architecture, and colonialism in Central Asia. Each film corresponds to a natural element.

Start Time:
27th Jan 20:50
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
57 min
Info Book

Funny Shit (+ filmmakers intro)

A delirious mix of the ridiculous, the relatable, and the downright unhinged.

Start Time:
27th Jan 21:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
96 min
Info Book

WEDNESDAY 28TH JANUARY

British Lives (screening only)

LSFF’s popular showcase of UK short films shining a spotlight on Britain and its myriad of peoples.

Start Time:
28th Jan 14:30
Location:
ActOne Cinema
Runtime:
91 min
Info

Looking Through the Square Window (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Nostalgia can soothe or unsettle: a reminder that memory is rarely one-sided.

Start Time:
28th Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
97 min
Info Book

International Competition: Visions and Voices (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Rehearse, Resist, Repeat.

Start Time:
28th Jan 18:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
90 min
Info Book

Uncanny Sally (+ 80's horror themed quiz)

They always seem to fine me. A feverish collection of films from a female perspective.

Start Time:
28th Jan 18:30
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
70 min
Info Book

A Raised Voice, Amplified (screening only)

A curated selection of artists films that explore how language, communication and meaning circulate around disability, deafness, and chronic illness.

Start Time:
28th Jan 19:30
Location:
Newington Green Meeting House
Runtime:
64 min
Info Book

East London, Bangladesh & Tales of Becoming (+ extended intro)

Archival and contemporary images of the Bangladeshi land and community are woven together to illuminate the entanglements of native and diasporic histories.

Start Time:
28th Jan 20:45
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
87 min
Info Book

International Competition: Talk About The Passion (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Obsessions and passions unite global stories.

Start Time:
28th Jan 20:50
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
89 min
Info Book

London Lives (screening only | DS)

A city symphony of reinvention - exploring how we move through the city, and how the city moves through us.

Start Time:
28th Jan 20:50
Location:
Lexi Cinema
Runtime:
94 min
Info Book

THURSDAY 29TH JANUARY

Vision On: New UK Animation (+ filmmakers Q&A)

British animators do it best.

Start Time:
29th Jan 18:00
Location:
Blinkink
Runtime:
94 min
Info Book

So Long To The Valleys, So Long To The Seas (+ filmmakers Q&A)

A journey through global storytelling and folkloric landscapes, where traditions can hold stories of both great celebration and lasting pain.

Start Time:
29th Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
98 min
Info Book

In Order Not To Be Here (+ Q&A)

You will be captured by London CCTV cameras up to seventy times today

Start Time:
29th Jan 18:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
65 min
Info Book

London Lives (screening only)

A city symphony of reinvention - exploring how we move through the city, and how the city moves through us.

Start Time:
29th Jan 19:00
Location:
Metroland Studios
Runtime:
94 min
Info Book

Paving Paradise (screening only)

Films that shine a spotlight on the environment, climate and a wider global awareness.

Start Time:
29th Jan 19:30
Location:
Good Shepherd Studios
Runtime:
90 min
Info Book

Palestine Looks Back (+ spoken word performance)

Palestinian voices who dared to go beyond what was asked, turning their gaze back on the West - its inaction, border regimes, colonial history, but also its solidarity and environment.

Start Time:
29th Jan 20:45
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
79 min
Info Book

It’s Probably Fine (We Tried Our Best) [+ filmmakers Q&A]

Drifting through the gentle absurdity of the end, these films mirror the mood of the moment.

Start Time:
29th Jan 20:45
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
82 min
Info Book

Emo Tapes (+ panel discussion)

I'm not Okay: Investigating emo

Start Time:
29th Jan 21:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
43 min
Info Book

FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY

You're A Red Flag (+ filmmakers Q&A)

In confrontation with the red flags we overlook — exploring power, desire, and dysfunction across romantic, familial, and professional lines.

Start Time:
30th Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

British Lives (screening only)

LSFF’s popular showcase of UK short films shining a spotlight on Britain and its myriad of peoples.

Start Time:
30th Jan 18:30
Location:
Social Cinema Bromley
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

Express Yourself (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Films that put the artists and the creators at the forefront.

Start Time:
30th Jan 18:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

Wonders and Disasters: Nature, Architecture, and Colonialism in Central Asia (screening only)

Earth, water, air and fire. Experimental, collaboratively made shorts exploring the entanglement of nature, architecture, and colonialism in Central Asia. Each film corresponds to a natural element.

Start Time:
30th Jan 19:30
Location:
Zoroastrian Centre
Runtime:
57 min
Info Book

Palestine Looks Back (screening only)

Palestinian voices who dared to go beyond what was asked, turning their gaze back on the West - its inaction, border regimes, colonial history, but also its solidarity and environment.

Start Time:
30th Jan 20:30
Location:
Riverside Studios
Runtime:
105 min
Info Book

Animation Variety Show (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Becoming something, shifting into something.

Start Time:
30th Jan 20:45
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
87 min
Info Book

Eye to Eye (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Observing the hilarity and horror of technology's place in our lives - how deeply our inventions shape the fragile worlds we build around their glow.

Start Time:
30th Jan 21:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
78 min
Info Book

Midnight Movies (+ filmmakers intro)

A gloriously depraved late-night descent into gore, chaos, bodily fluids and pitch-black comedy. Midnight Movies is strictly for freaks.

Start Time:
30th Jan 23:30
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
99 min
Info Book

SATURDAY 31ST JANUARY

Am I Still Young? Can I Dream A Few Months More? (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Teenage dreams and hard truths show what it is to be young in an ever-shifting world.

Start Time:
31st Jan 12:00
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
99 min
Info Book

My Eye Is My Ear (screening only)

These films capture the uniqueness and universality of the Deaf experience.

Start Time:
31st Jan 15:00
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
69 min
Info Book

WTF?! (+ filmmakers Q&A)

From anthropomorphic lemons to wall udders, this taboo-smashing programme tests reason, taste and your ability not to say “WTF?!”

Start Time:
31st Jan 15:00
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
100 min
Info Book

Romantic Matinee (+ filmmakers Q&A)

An exploration of love’s elasticity: the tender pull between desire and the moment of letting go.

Start Time:
31st Jan 15:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
93 min
Info Book

Documentary: Tracing What We Inherit (+ filmmakers Q&A)

How do I see me, when I see you?

Start Time:
31st Jan 15:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
99 min
Info Book

Society Is A Hole

Peering into the cracks of civilization, this programme exposes the rituals, hierarchies, and delusions that bind, and divide, us.

Start Time:
31st Jan 17:30
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
93 min
Info Book

Documentary: Then, Now, Becoming

Celebrating life in all its forms.

Start Time:
31st Jan 18:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
87 min
Info Book

British Lives (screening only)

LSFF’s popular showcase of UK short films shining a spotlight on Britain and its myriad of peoples.

Start Time:
31st Jan 18:30
Location:
Kiln Theatre
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

London Lives (screening only)

A city symphony of reinvention - exploring how we move through the city, and how the city moves through us.

Start Time:
31st Jan 19:30
Location:
Nunhead Community Cinema
Runtime:
94 min
Info Book

SUNDAY 1ST FEBRUARY

Documentary: Fragile Landscapes

The soil and wind are whispering, I'm here, listening.

Start Time:
1st Feb 12:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
76 min
Info Book

Awards Ceremony & Screening

The winning films from the London Short Film Festival category competitions.

Start Time:
1st Feb 14:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
120 min
Info Book

The Colonial Present in Cinema and Sound (+ reflective listening soundscape)

Stories of national liberation brought to life through film and a shared music listening experience.

Start Time:
1st Feb 14:30
Location:
ActOne Cinema
Runtime:
86 min
Info
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