Friday 12th
January
2018
19:00
Fri 12 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
An anniversary screening of the best of the fest across our 15 years, featuring early works from Francis Lee and Hope Dickson Leach.
19:30
Fri 12 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
A Krautrock-inspired showcase of sound and vision, with music from an evolving set of guest musicians (Faust, Wire, Boredoms) and live projections from Daisy Dickinson.
Saturday 13th
12:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
A triple bill premiere of With Teeth's three commissioned moving image pieces, accompanied on screen by their influences and inspirations.
13:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Home is where the heart is, but isn't necessarily our happiest place as this powerful selection of our competition-worthy short films illustrate.
13:30
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Rio Cinema, Dalston
A showcase of UCLA's LA Rebellion filmmakers, putting the lives and lived experiences of Black communities to film in the late '60s.
14:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Experts from across the industry will meet with filmmakers to answer their questions about everything from funding to festival strategy.
14:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Deep dive into the lives of those strange and wonderful people all around us in this powerful and intelligent selection of short docs.
15:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
A programme mulling memories - collective, rose-tinted, repressed. Watch out for small screen turns from Toby Jones and God's Own Country's Josh O’Connor.
16:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Radical softness and the works of pioneer feminist filmmakers, Barbara Hammer and Chick Strand, accompanied by Skype Q&A with Hammer.
16:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
From the camps of Calais to the 256 bus route, a programme of trials and tribulations.
18:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Is forward thinking looking forward? Touching stories about queer characters dealing with ups, downs and those balmy moments in between.
18:00
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Tense real time dramas to meditative, languid panoramas, from Columbia to Canada.
18:30
Sat 13 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Dangerous fixations and unfathomable delusions, these shorts veer from boy band worship to obsessive parental love.
20:30
Sat 13 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
The masks we build ourselves prove essential in these short films, with turns from Broadchurch's Jodie Whittaker and Top Boy's Ashley Walter.
Sunday 14th
13:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
An immersive programme of analogue experiments plentifully serving niche and nostalgia.
13:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Cross the threshold between fantasy and reality to discover secret lives, dreamscapes and hidden worlds.
14:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
Rio Cinema, Dalston
A selection of sweet shorts and left-field rom-coms to melt your wintry heart. Watch out for Jack O’Connell and Holliday Grainger as star-crossed lovers.
15:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Dramas toying with convention, choreographed dance pieces and manipulated found video footage, a programme of the best short film experiments.
16:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Kylie Minogue, Björk, The Streets, Sugababes: a retrospective of one of music video’s most quietly prolific auteurs, Dawn Shadforth.
16:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
From Greece to Mozambique, this programme traverses the globe inquiring into the meaning of leisure and entertainment at the start of the 21st Century.
17:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
This selection of beautifully observed documentaries explores the complexities and hidden communities of the British Isles.
18:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
The best in animation from the UK and around the world, exploring worldly concerns in a variety of otherworldly, kaleidoscopic ways.
18:30
Sun 14 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Julie Dash's critically acclaimed portrait of the Black women of Gullah, Daughters of the Dust.
19:00
Sun 14 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Short dramas from The Guardian and Headlong Theatre highlighting our nation's growing divisions post-EU referendum, pre-Brexit.
Monday 15th
14:00
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Funding can be a minefield, and our panel are here to bust myths and tell you the facts.
16:00
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Your chance to ask the gatekeepers what they look for when commissioning film. Our panel will discuss how best to pitch and get your ideas heard.
18:30
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
The Final Girls present an evening of Seventies witchsploitation docs probing our continuing cultural obsession with witchcraft and the occult.
18:30
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
We’re more hyper-connected and isolated than ever. These shorts probe human interaction, complex in real life and lost to the ether.
19:00
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
A returning LSFF fixture, WTF brings the possibilities of short-filmmaking without convention or constriction to screen.
20:30
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
What can DIY filmmakers achieve with minimal cash and a genius idea?
20:30
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
These short dramas deal in survival - from violent city streets to brutal Scottish Highlands to beauty pageants.
20:40
Mon 15 Jan 2018
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
Political and thought-provoking short films taking us on a provocative global journey exploring alienation and displacement.
Tuesday 16th
14:00
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Our panel goes beyond the spectacle to explore how new AR technologies are being used to drive stories and create emotional responses in the viewer.
14:30
Tue 16 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
LSFF and Oska Bright team up once more to present an autism friendly screening of docs, dance and drama.
16:00
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
The cinematic landscape is ever evolving, and with young filmmakers now needing more inventive ways to get their films seen, we take a look at how millennials are changing the game.
18:30
Tue 16 Jan 2018
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
LSFF present their first screening exclusively for D/deaf audiences, curated by LSFF's young Deaf programmer Zoe McWhinney. Save the date!
18:30
Tue 16 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Bechdel Test Fest celebrate the work of Senagalese-French filmmaker and Claire Denis's leading lady, Mati Diop
18:30
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
A programme of shorts indulging the dirt, drama, grit and glamour of this city of smoke we call home.
19:00
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
What happened to Taqwacore, and how is class, race, and gender tied in with Muslim resistance to Trump and Brexit?
20:30
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
Home is where the heart is, but isn't necessarily our happiest place as this powerful selection of our competition-worthy short films illustrate.
20:30
Tue 16 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
One night or two. Solo or extra-marital. With or without the preceding Netflix. A programme of shorts about getting hot and heavy.
Wednesday 17th
14:00
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Programmers and filmmakers - a harmonious relationship when all is well. But what about when it isn’t?
16:00
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
‘Content’- a lucrative business, but a word that is met with disdain from filmmakers and audience alike. Our panel teach filmmakers about how content can help inform creativity.
18:30
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
From the camps of Calais to the 256 bus route, a programme of trials and tribulations.
18:30
Wed 17 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
The only known film of Iran's greatest 20th Century Poet, Forough Farrokhzad, accompanied by her poetry and a panel on her legacy.
18:30
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Creative England present a mixture of UK and London premiere work awarded from their Emerging Talent Fund.
19:00
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
The always popular Sketch Night returns with an evening of short shorts and live comedy fresh from the Fringe.
20:30
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
A programme mulling memories - collective, rose-tinted, repressed. Watch out for small screen turns from Toby Jones and God's Own Country's Josh O’Connor.
20:30
Wed 17 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
We celebrate pioneer of black British cinema Ngozi Onwurah’s body of work, hosting Onwurah herself on a panel discussing her legacy.
20:30
Wed 17 Jan 2018
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
A premiere of sound documentaries exploring the thin line between freedom and risk, taking the listener to unexpected places.
20:30
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
The sensual, provocative and addictive world of love, lust and desire, explored through filmmaking from across the world.
Thursday 18th
14:00
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Sex and cinema have always gone hand in hand. But what are the implications of making films about getting in on? Our panel explores.
16:00
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
At a time of limitless creative possibilities when making music video, how do filmmakers keep up with the challenge of making something different?
18:30
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
From Greece to Mozambique, this programme traverses the globe inquiring into the meaning of leisure and entertainment at the start of the 21st Century.
18:30
Thu 18 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
A diverse selection of docs from the surreal world of copycat towns in China to the tense last stages of a Balkans refugee route.
19:00
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Know what yer docs were always missing? Pop. The world's first music video-cum-documentary visual album.
19:00
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Showcasing music videos from across the genres, including music from St Etienne, Zed’s Dead, and Douglas McGregor.
20:30
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
Cross the threshold between fantasy and reality to discover secret lives, dreamscapes and hidden worlds.
20:30
Thu 18 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
From feminist readings of Antonin Artaud to Cold War sleeper agents, via dominatrices and crime scenes: the short works of Chris Kraus.
20:30
Thu 18 Jan 2018
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
Ghost stories, lost souls, family secrets and fairy tales abound in these gothic-tinged shorts.
Friday 19th
14:00
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
Following the inaugural With Teeth commissioning fund for artist video, our filmmakers reflect and explore the challenges and successes.
16:00
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
In an industry still saturated with inequality, we speak to the women taking matters into their own hands by celebrating and supporting female-lead cinema.
18:30
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
These short dramas deal in survival - from violent city streets to brutal Scottish Highlands to beauty pageants.
18:30
Fri 19 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Exploring Ballard's preoccupation with the Machine, the body, the human condition and disembodiment through short screen adaptations and panel.
19:00
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Moth Club
Moth Club
15 years creating, curating and sharing an alternative point of view: Domino and LSFF host an evening of film and music.
19:00
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
International filmmaking exploring the intersect and inevitable tension between fact and fiction.
20:30
Fri 19 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
A programme of shorts taking us beyond the veil with drama and black comedy rubbing shoulders.
21:00
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
In a futuristic city, racial tensions explode in the wake of a child's death.
23:00
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Rio Cinema, Dalston
Indulge your inner masochist and come spend the early hours with gratuitous tales of horror.
Saturday 20th
12:30
Sat 20 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
A rare chance to see the short films of our International Juror and French auteur, Lucile Hadzihalilovic with filmmaker Q&A.
13:00
Sat 20 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
A provocative look through documentary form at personal resistance as a radical act.
14:30
Sat 20 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's deliciously dark debut feature follows a year in the life of the girls at a secluded boarding school, starring Marion Cotillard.
15:00
Sat 20 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
These powerful shorts tackle our endemic melancholia, giving us complex characters baring all and attempting to take back control.
17:00
Sat 20 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
By popular demand, a repeat screening of our comedy shorts to wash away the January blues.
18:00
Sat 20 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
19:00
Sat 20 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Hammad Khan's uncomfortable, in-your-face, examination of Pakistan at the close of its 70th anniversary celebrations of independence.
19:30
Sat 20 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Paigey Cakey headlines our Closing Night, celebrating the legacy of female MCs and women in hip hop.
Sunday 21st
13:00
Sun 21 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Video artist William E. Jones re-contextualises police surveillance footage, examining the democratic space carved by cruising gay men in the early '60s.
13:30
Sun 21 Jan 2018
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Examining the intersections of visibility and identity, these shorts hold testament to the persistence and power of the communities coming out and demanding space.
14:00
Sun 21 Jan 2018
Rio Cinema, Dalston
A chance to see all the winning films from this year’s LSFF in one programme. Full programme announced on Sunday 21st January 2018.
15:00
Sun 21 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Philip Trevelyan's pastoral portrait, The Moon and The Sledgehammer, plus Q&A with filmmaker Andrew Kötting and photographer Ingrid Pollard.
16:50
Sun 21 Jan 2018
ICA
ICA
Sometimes it takes more than minutes to get inside the mixed up minds of our youth. New Queer Visions present medium length shorts, on the meaty side.