LSFF2020
The 17th London Short Film Festival
10th—19th January 2020
We’re back for #LSFF2020.
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Friday 10th January 2020
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Fri 10 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
NEW SHORTS: Funny Shit (at ICA)
Kicking off the 17th edition of LSFF, we’re packing comedies of a darker hue and more Lynchian leaning. -
Saturday 11th
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Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
NEW SHORTS: In My Skin
Ruminations on struggling to fit in and feeling uncomfortable in your own skin. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Houses in Motion
Space, the physical self, and emotional states all metamorphosize in these multiform ruminations on territory, death and desire. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: A Winter's Matinee of Romantic Films
From strange corners and hopeless places, a programme of uncynical and unconventional love stories. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Lo-Budget Mayhem
A returning crowd-pleaser, LSFF brings you the short and the strange of frugal filmmaking. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Oscillations
Wikihow texts, Nina Simone and Citebeur pornography intersect in this programme of cinematic juxtapositions. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank NFT1
UK COMPETITION: A Little Tenderness
These sensitively handled works look to spaces for retreat and the power in softness. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Animation Variety Show
Flavours from across the animation landscape. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
NEW SHORTS: Peripheral Visions
An international compendium of experimental short film. -
Sunday 12th
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Sun 12 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
NEW SHORTS: Uncanny Valley
This eclectic selection delves into the emotional and physical relationships that people build, for better or worse, with their immediate surroundings. -
Sun 12 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Fantasies of young love, the parodic horror of dental surgery and sublime hymnal singing all feature in this competition programme. -
Sun 12 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Visions of Albion
From the ‘listening ears’ of Dungeness, through the industrial districts of Manchester, and back down to the Essex coastline, these shorts survey the state of our small island. -
Sun 12 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Remake/Remodel
Veering between found footage, home movies, YouTube snippets and music video aesthetics. -
Monday 13th
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Mon 13 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: WTF: Outside the Box
Our gift to you each LSFF, a programme of WTF wonders both irreverently baffling and irrevocably brain-melting. -
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Outer Limits
A generous helping of twists and turns, paranormal activity and the phantasmagorical. -
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Funny Shit (at Regent Street)
We’re packing comedies of a darker hue and more Lynchian leaning, with belly laughs and bittersweet chuckles. -
Mon 13 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank NFT1
UK COMPETITION: Concealment Feeds the Fear
Amidst nostalgia, grief and generational secrets, the duality of absence and presence is felt. -
Tuesday 14th
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Tue 14 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 2
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Houses in Motion (REPEAT)
Space, the physical self, and emotional states all metamorphosize in these multiform ruminations on territory, death and desire. -
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: In Motion
The destination falls into obscurity with this programme of journeys: sometimes poignant, sometimes thrilling, and sometimes dangerous. -
Tue 14 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
DOCUMENTARY: The Measure of a Moment
To help combat the constant tug of productivity anxiety, these shorts present quietude and the joy of play. -
Wednesday 15th
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Wed 15 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank NFT3
NEW SHORTS: Relaxed Screening
In partnership with Oska Bright Film Festival and British Film Institute, LSFF presents a choice selection of shorts from this year’s festival. -
Wed 15 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 2
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Oscillations (REPEAT)
Wikihow texts, Nina Simone and Citebeur pornography intersect in this programme of cinematic juxtapositions. -
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Up to and Including Her Limits
The female characters at the centre of these shorts contend with a loss of control, processing the resulting emotional scars and spiralling selfhoods. -
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: London Lives
Fiction bleeds into biography as we find ourselves behind the closed doors of London’s cultural melting pot. -
Wed 15 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
DOCUMENTARY: Common Vulnerabilities
This programme questions the ways we look at events happening somewhere else, to someone else. -
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Fringe! Lovers and Fighters
Queer and questioning visions of desire, identity and summoning the power within. Curated by Fringe! Queer Arts & Film Fest. -
Wed 15 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank NFT1
UK COMPETITION: In Living Colour
Pigment and pixels coalesce in this programme of chromatically infused artists’ film. -
Thursday 16th
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Thu 16 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 2
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (REPEAT)
Fantasies of young love, the parodic horror of dental surgery and sublime hymnal singing all feature in this competition programme. -
Thu 16 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
DOCUMENTARY: Relating to Each Other, Communing with Ourselves
As intimate as a family, as expansive as the internet and as lengthy as decades. -
Thu 16 Jan 2020
BFI Southbank NFT1
UK COMPETITION: Joyful & Triumphant
For our cynical times, a celebration of human connection and good intentions. -
Thu 16 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
NEW SHORTS: Abrasions
Unafraid to challenge audience limits, these works wantonly disregard both convention and pleasantries. -
Friday 17th
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Fri 17 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 2
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Remake/Remodel (REPEAT)
Unpacking the role of archive and artefact in memory-making. -
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: We'll Never Be Those Kids Again
Caught in the messy throes of adolescence, these shorts retread the thorny steps from teendom to adulthood. -
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Gothic!
These macabre shorts toy with that unsettling, exciting possibility of something ominous in the shadows. -
Fri 17 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
DOCUMENTARY: Heterosexual Social Contract
How does the influence of normative structures affect our intimate relationships? -
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Midnight Movies
Thrills, chills and spills screened, as is LSFF tradition, at the witching hour. -
Saturday 18th
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Sat 18 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Fringe! B-Movie Resistance
When the going gets tough, the queers grab their cameras and make B-movies. Curated by Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Sketch Night
LSFF's classic variety show of comedy shorts and live sketches. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
NEW SHORTS: U OK hun?
A cross-section of the tricksy dynamics of subcultures and the various lives pulsating through Web 2.0. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Music Videos
An overhauled LSFF 2020 offering of diverse music videos from across the globe. -
Sunday 19th
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Sun 19 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema
NEW SHORTS: Award Winners (at Rio Cinema)
All the award winners from LSFF 2020 in one programme. -
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Curzon Soho
NEW SHORTS: Award Winners (at Curzon Soho)
All the award winners from LSFF 2020 in one programme. -
Sun 19 Jan 2020
ICA Cinema 1
NEW SHORTS: Award Winners (at ICA)
All the award winners from LSFF 2020 in one programme.