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Friday 11th
January
2019
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Fri 11 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
The calling cards of the decades' graduating class.
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Fri 11 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA Theatre
An old school Scratch Video affair for our festival opener.
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Fri 11 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Our traditional festival opener of laughing matter.
Sold out
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Saturday 12th
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Surreal scenarios and minute marvels.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
The characters in these films must pool their inner strength to overcome life’s myriad obstacles.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
The best of what happens when a minimal budget meets the (un)healthy imagination of a short filmmaker.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Non-fiction asking questions of class identity and documentary’s legacy of ‘poverty porn’.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Air Draft
A musical and visual journey into the unruly depths of sploshing.
Sold out
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Spooky goings on and stories with a twist.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Grow, Hackney
A portrait of inflatable art practice in the Sixties and Seventies.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
From Mendieta to Campion, Another Gaze interrogate sexual violence through the lenses of female filmmakers.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
These moving shorts lay bare their character's scars.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Air Draft
Artist film delving into the manipulation of the human body.
Sold out
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Grow, Hackney
Belgium’s Knokke Film Festival defined the modern film festival away from the red carpet of Cannes.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Exploring shared experience, collective memory and mass movement.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Surrealist gems to stay with you long after you’ve left the cinema.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Air Draft
A musical and visual journey into the unruly depths of sploshing.
Sold out
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Grow, Hackney
A music video jukebox from the pre-broadband golden age of punk rock and emo.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Delving into the earth beneath our feet.
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
A second chance to see our traditional festival opener of laughing matter.
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Sunday 13th
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Montage, manipulations and soundscapes made of satellites.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Challenging notions of nice guys, healthy relationships and modern romance.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
Rio Cinema
Syrupy shorts offer up big romances and littler dalliances.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
These characters buffer against odds stacked against them.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
LSFF’s returning programme of experiments flirting with celluloid.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Air Draft
Belgium’s Knokke Film Festival defined the modern film festival away from the red carpet of Cannes.
Limited capacity
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Beautiful and unexpected pictures of the world we live in that only animation mavericks could conjure up.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Our fair city in all its glory.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Meditating anxiety in the 21st century.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Grow, Hackney
Quick hit shorts and live comedy to thaw out your wintry soul.
Sold out
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Air Draft
Nick Jordan and Clara Casian's documentary portrait of the Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Short films marrying vision with sound, featuring Years & Years and the Beyoncé-blessed R&B of Chloe X Halle.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Grow, Hackney
Air Draft
Artist film delving into the manipulation of the human body.
Limited capacity
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Unique, urgent explorations of the now, filtered through a darker ideological past.
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
One Super 8 cartridge. No edits. 20 years of history.
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Monday 14th
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Get stuck into the function and capital of the short film with our panellists.
Sold out
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Exploring shared experience, collective memory and mass movement.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Oska Bright are back for their fourth year with a laid back screening for audiences on the autism spectrum.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
A masterclass in production with BAFTA-nominated LFS alumni Olivier Kaempfer.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.
Free entry
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Bad day? That’s nothing in comparison to this lot.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
A psychosomatic workout of animation, moving image, prose and performance.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Looking to the resulting female gaze when illuminatrix's cinematographers helm the camera.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
We ask questions of national identity and the Brexiter's rural idyll.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
These shorts probe gothic in all it’s conceptions.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
The Noughties generation of working class male filmmakers emerged redefining the cinematic landscape of the urban inner city.
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
A trippy, fantastical tribute to the existential relationship between man and beast.
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Tuesday 15th
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
A step-by-step guide to programming bringing together programmers from all niches of the industry.
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Post-MTV and into the era of the ‘concept album’, what is the cultural capital of the music video?
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.
Free entry
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Testing the tempestuous and at times misguided relationship between generations.
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
These characters buffer against odds stacked against them.
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
Mulling collective memory and nostalgia in a world that makes forgetting all too easy.
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Short docs consider 'home' and what it means to leave and lose it, willingly or not.
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
T A P E examine women’s vulnerability within public spaces, why catcalling still happens and if there’s more we can be doing.
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Viennese filmmaker Antoinette Zwirchmayr tackles the complexities of a baroque family history.
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Wednesday 16th
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Our always popular panel of the industry’s gatekeepers discuss short film funding and commissioning.
Sold out
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Delving into the earth beneath our feet.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
We look to shed light on the alternative routes into getting your short film funded.
Sold out
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.
Free entry
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
The good and the bad of millennial connection.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
A psychosomatic workout of animation, moving image, prose and performance.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Existential trials, tragedies and silver linings.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Shining lights on the hostile, dangerous worlds we occupy.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Examining obsessive tendencies, whether for something or someone.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
A retrospective of Derek Jarman's oft-forgotten but era-defining music videos.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Looking to those refusing to fit into the margins and navigating an unhomely world.
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Thursday 17th
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
We look into the ethics of representation and ethics of production in documentary as an inextricable cycle.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Meditating anxiety in the 21st century.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
We interrogate the legality and ethics of making film with digital and analogue archive footage.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.
Free entry
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
Soho Hotel
Bumble screens its five Female Film Force commissions.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
Aesthetics are pushed to their chromatic extremes in these neon-drenched shorts.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Altered versions of the news we see everyday.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Mulling collective memory and nostalgia in a world that makes forgetting all too easy.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Offbeat thrillers and adrenaline-fuelled docs to quicken the pulse.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
Looking to how D/deaf people shape themselves to the world around them.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
New Queer Visions return to London with short gems and docs of the queer variety from the world afar.
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
A screening and roundtable revisiting and reflecting on academic and activist Stuart Hall’s 1979 televisual essay.
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Friday 18th
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
This event looks to take stock of the #MeToo movement, and the potential it has to effect change.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Unique, urgent explorations of the now, filtered through a darker ideological past.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
A workshop in partnership with gal-dem looking to nurture the next generation of women and non binary people of colour critics.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital
Complimentary drinks, casual networking.
Free entry
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Over some forty years, Cosey Fanny Tutti has explored the extremities of sonic and visual language.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Behind the masks we hide behind and personas we build ourselves.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
A retrospective of the curious horrors of Prano Bailey-Bond.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
The visual history of underground electronic label, Hyperdub.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
John Lurie's ode to friendship, danger and reckless fishing.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
Prano Bailey-Bond has curated a personal favourite from the home video archive, screened on original 35mm for maximum scares.
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
Rio Cinema
Bite-sized horrors served up as is LSFF tradition: at (just about!) midnight.
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Saturday 19th
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
Rio
Rio Cinema
These short works remind us another world is possible and that queer filmmakers have always been at the forefront of the struggle.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Animation creates a unique safe space for women to visualise desire, reshape sexuality and say the unsayable.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
Rio Cinema
A kaleidoscopic offering of Afrofuturist short works that take us into the orbits of the Cosmic Queens.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Tactile documentaries with more to perceive than to understand.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
Short films about the little things left unsaid.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
A mini retrospective of GDR documentarian Jürgen Böttcher, celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Exploring the therapeutic value of documentary.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
NQV return to London with short gems and docs of the queer variety from the world afar.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
Rich Mix
Rich Mix
The black women artists of London synthesising Afrofuturism through their electronic experiments.
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
Regent Street Cinema
Regent Street Cinema
A special time-hopping, short film edition of SUPAKINO's turban-themed programming.
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Sunday 20th
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Sun 20 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
East German filmmakers explore the ephemeral and the forgotten.
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Sun 20 Jan 2019
Rio Cinema
Rio Cinema
A chance to see all the winning films from this year’s LSFF in one programme.
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Sun 20 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
The short films of the Ex Oriente Lux, the Berlin archive of GDR filmmaker's 8mm experimental works.
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Sun 20 Jan 2019
Curzon Soho
Curzon Soho
A chance to see all the winning films from this year’s LSFF in one programme.
Sold out
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Sun 20 Jan 2019
ICA
ICA
Africa Is A Country and the London Migration Film Festival present short films tracing the self-authored black British cinematic presence.