NEW SHORTS: Funny Shit

15/01/21, 20:30

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From ASMR for white liberals to homoerotic rivalries at the badminton club, these quick-fire comedies might just prove 2020 gave us something to laugh about after all.

NEW SHORTS: Midnight Movies

15/01/21, 23:59

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A visceral, fluid-splattered ride through sinister cults, nightmarish microdosing, human taxidermy and more. Horrors to be consumed, as is tradition, at the witching hour.

NEW SHORTS: Screen On Screen

16/01/21, 13:00

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Artists’ film and video works abstract and interpret a chaotic world, from the diarising of Barbara Hammer to Noël Carroll’s theories on horror.

NEW SHORTS: Animation Variety Show

16/01/21, 14:00

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Plasticine, sexed up washing machines and a cruise ship sinking in style illuminate this staple animation programme, featuring LSFF 2020 Best Animation winner Astrid Goldsmith.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Things To Come

16/01/21, 20:30

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Otherworldly phenomena and an incarcerated anthropomorphic cow feature in this panorama of a world in stasis. With new animated fables from Wong Ping, Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki.

NEW SHORTS: London Lives

17/01/21, 13:00

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Life in the capital has shaped up differently of late. These affectionate works survey the highs and lows of pre-pandemic and locked down London.

NEW SHORTS: A Winter's Matinee of Romantic Films

17/01/21, 14:30

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To bolster hearts in trying times, our LSFF staple of modern romances (and some old school meet-cutes) is back.

NEW SHORTS: Science Fictions

18/01/21, 16:00

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Visions of cosmic presents and imagined futures. With existential gems from artist filmmakers Jacqueline Lentzou and Linh Duong.

NEW SHORTS: Pulp Fictions

18/01/21, 16:00

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Assassinations, family feuds, vampiric seductions and tough crooks are the order of the day in this hard-boiled selection of short stories, starring Downton’s Jessica Brown-Findlay and Game of Thrones’ Joe Dempsie.

UK COMPETITION: I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know

18/01/21, 19:00

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From the afrofuturist currents of carnival in the Bahamas to the mellower cadences of Patrick Cowley’s San Francisco, these short works offer evocations and elegies of past lives and shared legacies.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: On Body And Soul

18/01/21, 20:30

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Expressions of love, vulnerability and solidarity. Featuring personal excavations of family archive and inner worlds from Sohrab Hura and Sylvia Schedelbauer.

NEW SHORTS: This Is Me Trying

19/01/21, 16:00

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Half truths and white lies come to the surface in these tenderly handled domestic dramas, including new work from LSFF 2020 Best British Short winner Lucy Bridger.

DOCUMENTARY: Who Speaks For A Space?

19/01/21, 18:30

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Tripoli, London, virtual reality: for whom are the spaces we inhabit daily built? These incisive non-fictions consider occupation and ownership.

UK COMPETITION: The Double Life Of...

19/01/21, 19:00

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Who we present to the real world often isn't the person we really are. This eclectic batch of interior fictions digs into true selves, concealment and catharsis.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: The Greatest Show On Earth

19/01/21, 20:30

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Alligator wrestling, Poké Balls and the sentience of our microbiomes converge in this programme of performance, character and the intimacy of confession. 

DOCUMENTARY: System Failure

20/01/21, 18:30

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How many people end up collateral damage in a world where the odds are against them? These global documentaries centre individual testimonies of failed systems.

UK COMPETITION: Close Quarters

20/01/21, 19:00

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Compulsions, crushes and cravings come to a head in these portraits of social dysfunction and bad company kept, with new work from Daniel Kaluuya and Sophia Di Martino.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Heaven Knows What

20/01/21, 20:30

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How do we try to organise a disorganised world? Spanning intergalactic warfare, conjoined twins and poetic nonfiction, these works try to find meaning in the confusion.

NEW SHORTS: A Rural Gothic

20/01/21, 21:00

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Unrested spirits, supernatural stalkings and the Devil’s Dyke: for a dark winter’s night, a macabre dose of folk horror and dark deeds out in the sticks.

NEW SHORTS: Root Thy Native Oak

21/01/21, 16:00

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Satires, social realism and short documentary take to task the British establishment, with a (literally) rotten Queen’s Speech and Carol Salter’s affecting look at the real face of the breadline.