OPENING NIGHT: Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: an Opera

15/01/21, 19:00

Online

From collective HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican?, a transportive visual opera of spoken, sung and screamed libretto, exploring racial strife and the multiplicity of black selfhood.

NEW SHORTS: Funny Shit

15/01/21, 20:30

Online

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

Online

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

Online

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

Online

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.

MOTION SUSPENDED: Outdoor Projections

16/01/21, 17:00

BFI Southbank

In the absence of gigs, LSFF presents a free AV installation of performance visuals and sonic futurism on the Southbank.

ONLINE TOGETHER: Keiken In Conversation

16/01/21, 18:00

Online

Cross-dimensional digital arts collective Keiken (Augmented Empathy) will be hosted in open conversation on their collaborative creative and working process.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Things To Come

16/01/21, 20:30

Online

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

Online

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

Online

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

WITH WARMTH AND ECSTATIC SOLIDARITY

17/01/21, 16:30

Online

This curation of short documentaries interrogates the form itself as a politically useful tool for marginalised and displaced peoples and cultures.

RADICAL TV: Videofreex

17/01/21, 18:30

Online

Collective television-makers Videofreex revolutionised citizen journalism in the late ‘60s, documenting protests and profiles of activists like Black Panther Party Deputy Chairman, Fred Hampton.

NEW SHORTS: Pulp Fictions

18/01/21, 16:00

Online

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.

NEW SHORTS: Science Fictions

18/01/21, 16:00

Online

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

MY EYE IS MY EAR

18/01/21, 18:00

Online

Connecting on a level with D/deaf identity, culture and language makes each film unique and allows for audience engagement whether D/deaf or hearing.

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

18/01/21, 19:00

Online

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

Online

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

Online

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.

INTERMISSION YOUTH: Shakespeare On Smartphone

19/01/21, 18:00

Online

Intermission Youth’s smartphone filmmakers talk with industry producers on first short films, first steps into the industry and Shakespeare as inspiration.

DOCUMENTARY: Who Speaks For A Space?

19/01/21, 18:30

Online

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