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THE SPACE
ICA
BFI SOUTHBANK
RIO CINEMA
RICH MIX
CURZON SOHO
GARDEN CINEMA
ACTONE
THE LEXI CINEMA
THE PHOENIX CINEMA
FOLD
TBC
DOWNSTAIRS AT THE DEPARTMENT STORE
GENESIS CINEMA
SPECIAL EVENTS
NEW SHORTS
INDUSTRY
ORBITAL
CAPTIONED
DOCUMENTARY
COMPETITION
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Venue
Category

FRIDAY 19TH JANUARY

i like my body when it is with your body

With Q&A. The 21st LSFF opens at ICA with a programme of repertory and new short film that focuses on desire, touch and relationships, made by British filmmakers.

Start Time:
19th Jan 18:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
101 min
Info Book

Brixton Community Cinema x Air Afrique

Brixton Community Cinema have invited Parisian collective Air Afrique and their ciné-club for an evening of films and discussion around the Afro-diasporic experience.

Start Time:
19th Jan 19:00
Location:
Downstairs at the Department Store
Runtime:
100 min
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LSFF x Four Chambers and Zodiac Film Club: The Address of the Eye

Four Chambers, Zodiac Film Club and LSFF welcome you into the ICA theatre on opening night for a multi-screen, multi-format screening of films that mirror and speak to each other.

Start Time:
19th Jan 20:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
180 min
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Funny Shit

It wouldn't be opening night without LSFF's annual comedy extravaganza, from dry to slapstick, ponderous to nonsensical, and acerbic to heartfelt.

Start Time:
19th Jan 21:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
100 min
Info Book

SATURDAY 20TH JANUARY

The Short Films of Cartoon Saloon

With Cartoon Saloon team Q&A. To celebrate the Irish animation studio's 25th anniversary, this special programme shines a light on their rarely-screened short films

Start Time:
20th Jan 11:30
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
100 min
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Animation Variety Show

Capturing surreal flights of fancy is only possible via the medium of animation, and our annual selection of films takes in every tool and technique you can imagine.

Start Time:
20th Jan 13:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
91 min
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WTF!

With Q&A. Sensibilities will be challenged and conventions will be broken with LSFF's annual, chaotic variety show of mind-melting, genre-defying short form cinema.

Start Time:
20th Jan 13:30
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
96 min
Info Book

My Eye Is My Ear

Now an annual programme staple, LSFF presents new short films exploring Deaf lives, culture and language, submitted from across the world.

Start Time:
20th Jan 13:50
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
84 min
Info Book

Rhythms of Revolution: The Sara Gómez Shorts

A rarely-seen series of shorts (some screening for the first time in London) directed by Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez between the early 1960s and 1970s.

Start Time:
20th Jan 15:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
TBC min
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Romantic Matinee

Is there a theme more eternal than love? We fall for each other, our hearts flutter. We taste jealousy, cry over breakups, and yet we are rejuvenated by another encounter.

Start Time:
20th Jan 15:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
89 min
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Power Dynamics

These sharp, creative, and poignant observations challenge various manifestations of influence.

Start Time:
20th Jan 15:00
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
93 min
Info Book

Hi, How Are You?

Shouting in the playground, drifting off into imaginary worlds, or facing the fears inside our heads - these short films cross the world to hear stories of survival, friendship and family.

Start Time:
20th Jan 15:00
Location:
The Lexi Cinema
Runtime:
65 min
Info Book

The Space Belongs To Them

Everything is cyclical. What does it mean for films to be in conversation with each other, through different periods of time? If films could speak and interact, what would they say to each other?

Start Time:
20th Jan 17:30
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
74 min
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Shasha Movies: Films from Palestine

Shasha Movies is delighted to present a special screening of artist films from Palestine.

Start Time:
20th Jan 17:45
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
66 min
Info

T A P E Collective presents: Am I The Villain?

The ever-popular redemption arc has us wondering if every person portrayed as a villain is really just misunderstood. Whose side are we really on anyway?

Start Time:
20th Jan 18:00
Location:
Genesis Cinema
Runtime:
69 min
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Documentary: Time will say nothing but I told you so

“Time is a measure of an idea, it does not exist.” Join us in acts of remembrance and intimate reckonings with the past in this selection of international documentary shorts.

Start Time:
20th Jan 20:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
83 min
Info Book

Competition: This Must Be The Place

This collection of competition films, selected from across the LSFF programme, traverse time and space and the spectrum of human emotion.

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

SUNDAY 21ST JANUARY

Documentary: The house shelters daydreaming

There are many ways we can define a space: its location, its contents, its purpose, or our relationship with it; our subjective experience of 'space' and 'self' interwoven.

Start Time:
21st Jan 13:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
69 min
Info Book

Acre After Acre, Mile After Mile: Isle Of Dogs Social History Walk and Film Screening

An on-location guided walk and short film programme tracing the on-screen history of London's Isle of Dogs, from the 1960s heyday to early noughties Brutalism.

Start Time:
21st Jan 13:00
Location:
The Space
Runtime:
112 min
Info Book

Nowness China Short Film Awards Programme

Start Time:
21st Jan 15:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
81 min
Info Book

Fantastic Fictions

Genre cinema is so much more than the usual suspects - we present to you an eclectic feast of this year's finest, hard-to-pigeonhole, genre shorts.

Start Time:
21st Jan 15:00
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
101 min
Info Book

Documentary: Journey To Earth

It doesn’t matter where you’re watching from - a film can tell you when you’ve left the comfort of home and crossed a threshold into the strange and remote.

Start Time:
21st Jan 15:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
97 min
Info Book

straight 8: best of 2023

See the best 25 super 8 shorts made for Straight 8’s 2023 competition. Each film is made on just one cartridge of super 8, without any editing or post-production.

Start Time:
21st Jan 15:30
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
75 min
Info Book

I Am Not A Real Person Yet

In the age of our formative years growing pains are inevitable. Our twenties are a decade of finding forks in the road and flirting with possibilities - where will they take us?

Start Time:
21st Jan 17:30
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
99 min
Info Book

Animals

Non-human and human creatures alike feature in this selection of new documentary, animation and drama from Scottish rivers, the French alps, wild Icelandic coasts and Toronto suburbs.

Start Time:
21st Jan 17:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
104 min
Info Book

MONDAY 22ND JANUARY

T A P E Collective presents: Bonded 3.0

With Q&A. In this third iteration of the Bonded programme, T A P E Collectives dig deeper into excavating the meaning and significance of familial and parental bonds.

Start Time:
22nd Jan 18:00
Location:
Garden Cinema
Runtime:
88 min
Info Book

In Conversation: Ngozi Onwurah and Film Screening

We present the latest short film from acclaimed British director Ngozi Onwurah, followed by a discussion

Start Time:
22nd Jan 18:00
Location:
Genesis Cinema
Runtime:
90 min
Info Book

Present Artefacts

This programme reminds us that every narrative has a narrator. Who are the ghosts that haunt us, waiting for us to find them, to tell their story?

Start Time:
22nd Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

TUESDAY 23RD JANUARY

Very Online

With Q&A. It’s too late to #touchgrass, because the grass has turned to pixels. A programme of terminally online shorts that go down the wormhole and into the doomscroll.

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

The Arts Foundation Short Documentary Film Award Screening

With Q&A. A special partnership screening featuring the extraordinary shortlisted filmmakers of The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024 for Short Documentary Film.

Start Time:
23rd Jan 18:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
82 min
Info Book

T A P E Collective presents: Unforgotten

With Q&A. In today’s interconnected world where everything leave a footprint, how much control do we have over being perceived, or remembered?

Start Time:
23rd Jan 20:45
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
76 min
Info Book

Romantic Matinee (captioned/BSL screening)

Is there a theme more eternal than love? We fall for each other, our hearts flutter. We taste jealousy, cry over breakups, and yet we are rejuvenated by another encounter.

Start Time:
23rd Jan 20:45
Location:
The Phoenix Cinema
Runtime:
89 min
Info Book

WEDNESDAY 24TH JANUARY

Oska Bright Presents: Other Worlds

A collection of enigmatic, mind-bending films hand-picked from the Oska Bright Film Festival, made by filmmakers with learning disabilities, autism and aspergers.

Start Time:
24th Jan 18:00
Location:
Garden Cinema
Runtime:
45 min
Info Book

Gothic

Light a lantern and wander through thick fog and haunted barren moors to experience the uncanny, inexplicable, folkloric and mythical with our returning anthology of Gothic shorts.

Start Time:
24th Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
106 min
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

In this programme, ranging from travelogues to pornography, from fast food commercials to dictators‘ executions on live TV, six films capture the first encounter with the newly rediscovered ‘other’.

Start Time:
24th Jan 18:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
85 min
Info

Sine Screen presents: Dreaming In Mother Tongue

This collection features five short films by female contemporary Chinese ethnic minority directors, highlighting distinctive filmmaking voices from the periphery.

Start Time:
24th Jan 20:30
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
105 min
Info Book

Competition: There Are New Suns

Filmmaking and watching offer us a way to imagine new horizons, or alternate worlds that are already out there. What planes and dimensions exist alongside our own??

Start Time:
24th Jan 20:30
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
88 min
Info Book

Cinema Mentiré presents: Señ@r Internet

What does the internet mean for us? How has it changed us? And what does the future hold? Who is the internet?

Start Time:
24th Jan 20:45
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
63 min
Info Book

THURSDAY 25TH JANUARY

LCC presents: Sick Jazz

With live performance. From the performance halls of Havana to the lofts of New York and the back streets of Milan, Sick Jazz is a dynamic and experimental screening and performance event.

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

Minute Shorts presents: Everyone Has a Story to Tell

We're not here to conform; what you witness in this film screening event reflects our culture, our vision of a genreless, unlabelled, unapologetic, and unpolished new wave.

Start Time:
25th Jan 18:00
Location:
Genesis Cinema
Runtime:
120 min
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LCC presents: Álà Black Joy

ÁLÀ, translated from Yoruba to mean Dreams, is an ode to Black heritage through film, fashion, music and photography that aims to challenge conventional narratives.

Start Time:
25th Jan 18:15
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
54 min
Info Book

London Lives

London's vastness beckons to those looking for something different, somewhere to think and speculate, someplace to retreat and take refuge.

Start Time:
25th Jan 18:20
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
92 min
Info Book

Touch Me Free

A special programme presented as part of FOLD London's futur.shock series for 2024 that understands touch and physical contact as the ultimate avenue to establish a connection.

Start Time:
25th Jan 19:00
Location:
FOLD
Runtime:
min
Info Book

Dammi: Yann Mounir Demange In Conversation

Start Time:
25th Jan 19:15
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
70 min
Info Book

The Ordinary Instant

When a loved one leaves us, how do we cope with the void they leave behind? Five shorts exploring loss and grief show us that the one thing we cannot do is escape it.

Start Time:
25th Jan 20:30
Location:
Rich Mix
Runtime:
92 min
Info Book

T A P E Collective: Black Country 3.0

With Q&A. In this third instalment, T A P E Collective once again look beyond the London borders to stories centring the Black British experience outside of the capital.

Start Time:
25th Jan 20:45
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
69 min
Info Book

Competition: Growing Up In Public

Coming of age is far from easy, as these competition-nominated films demonstrate.

Start Time:
25th Jan 20:45
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
91 min
Info Book

FRIDAY 26TH JANUARY

LCC presents: The Southall Shift

This program delves into the profound struggles and triumphs of the West London community, showcasing its transformative journey in the past 70 years.

Start Time:
26th Jan 16:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
69 min
Info Book

LCC presents: What Hides In Your Mind

Join us if you dare to explore the eerie abyss of cyberspace, where only the most cryptic and uncommercialised content has remained concealed, until now...

Start Time:
26th Jan 18:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
48 min
Info Book

British Short Films On Film

A selection of the best British short films ever made. From the canon of essential cinema to experimental and rarely seen, all screen on original 35mm and 16mm prints.

Start Time:
26th Jan 18:15
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
96 min
Info Book

British Lives

This anthology of shorts from filmmakers outside of the capital attempts to reflect the nation and its people in all of their complicated, idiosyncratic, multitudinous glory.

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

Zimmers: From Southall To Venice

Born from an ongoing photography project of the same name, this series by British Punjabi documentary photographer Hark1Karan celebrates the Indian car community that thrives in Southhall.

Start Time:
26th Jan 18:45
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
TBC min
Info Book

Rave Cinema

Everybody in the place, make some noise. LSFF throws it back in the ICA Theatre to the heyday of 90s club culture with a selection of short films from that iconic era.

Start Time:
26th Jan 20:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
150 min
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Over The Hill and Far Away

Deep within a foggy wood or out in a verdant green field; the countryside holds magic, history and fantastical visions, as this selection of shorts reveals.

Start Time:
26th Jan 21:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
83 min
Info Book

Midnight Movies

Be prepared for some explosive body horrors, steamy erotic entrees, dry-roasted animations, and cultish new bites dressed in a tongue-tingling smorgasbord of visual effects.

Start Time:
26th Jan 23:30
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
100 min
Info Book

SATURDAY 27TH JANUARY

Wasteground Circus Photography and Creative Workshop with Esther May Campbell

The Wasteground Circus is a place where anything can happen - where magic can appear in the most unlikely of spaces, and creativity can spark from abandoned and lost things.

Start Time:
27th Jan 11:00
Location:
ActOne
Runtime:
240 min
Info

Documentary: Only Connect

At the core of all human life is the need for connection; a longing for togetherness and belonging. This programme explores our collective yearning for interdependence.

Start Time:
27th Jan 14:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
90 min
Info Book

Viva Cinema!

Join your fellow cinephiles on-screen and off with this selection of shorts; an ode to old-school technique and community, to construction and care, to time and luck.

Start Time:
27th Jan 15:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
94 min
Info Book

Lo Budget Mayhem

Our annual mix of micro-shorts, animation, horror and comedy amongst other visual ephemera returns to its rightful home at the Rio, so join us and get inspired.

Start Time:
27th Jan 15:00
Location:
Rio Cinema
Runtime:
79 min
Info Book

The Red Balloon + Children's Shorts

As part of our Wasteground Circus activity day with Esther May Campbell, see a rare children's classic short and some new films.

Start Time:
27th Jan 15:30
Location:
ActOne
Runtime:
60 min
Info Book

Ancestral Remembrance

Spanning from documentary to fiction, this programme brings together international perspectives that each sculpt a case of hauntology.

Start Time:
27th Jan 15:30
Location:
Garden Cinema
Runtime:
102 min
Info Book

Documentary: Image//Making

What makes an image? Sifting up close through reels and photographs, some of us become masters of forensics, reconstructing a moment or a person no longer with us.

Start Time:
27th Jan 16:30
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
74 min
Info Book

London Lives (Captioned/BSL Screening)

This brilliant line up of London-centric films captures the widely experienced emotions of anxiety and the unsettling shift into adulthood. Captioned with BSL

Start Time:
27th Jan 18:00
Location:
Garden Cinema
Runtime:
92 min
Info Book

We Need To Talk: Intergenerational Cinema of Asian Diaspora in Germany

This short documentary film programme conceptualizes auto-ethnographic process-oriented collaborations across generations for the ESEA diaspora in Germany.

Start Time:
27th Jan 19:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
88 min
Info Book

Rave Cinema

Everybody in the place, make some noise. LSFF throws it back in the ICA Theatre to the heyday of 90s club culture with a selection of short films from that iconic era.

Start Time:
27th Jan 20:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
150 min
Info Book

Competition: A Trick Of The Light

The films in this competition programme subvert the visual medium, playing tricks on the viewer and manipulating images from decades ago using AI.

Start Time:
27th Jan 20:40
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
87 min
Info Book

SUNDAY 28TH JANUARY

Hi, How Are You?

Shouting in the playground, drifting off into imaginary worlds, or facing the fears inside our heads - these short films cross the world to hear stories of survival, friendship and family.

Start Time:
28th Jan 12:30
Location:
The Phoenix Cinema
Runtime:
65 min
Info Book

The Films of Ian Pons Jewell (+ premiere of Get Well Soon)

Start Time:
28th Jan 13:00
Location:
ICA
Runtime:
78 min
Info Book

T A P E Collective: Around The World I See Myself

A screening and creative workshop for young people that explores new ways of seeing our reflection; through film, through community, through creativity.

Start Time:
28th Jan 14:00
Location:
ActOne
Runtime:
69 min
Info Book

LSFF Award Winners

Join the London Short Film Festival, the filmmakers, our partners and film fans from all over London for our annual awards ceremony.

Start Time:
28th Jan 15:00
Location:
Curzon Soho
Runtime:
TBC min
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