Archives for 2024

This year we were so honoured to welcome our esteemed judging panel. They watched, assessed and debated the finer points of every single one of the films selected for competition. Below you’ll find out a little more about their decisions and why each of our LIAF 2024 winners … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024: Judges’ Award Statements

Best Film of the Festival Award: Beautiful Men - Nicolas Keppens Best British Film Award: And Granny Would Dance - Maryam Mohajer Best Sound Design Award: Earth Coal - Pierre Caillet & Yan Volsy (Dir. by Bastien Dupriez) Best Original Score … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024: AND THE WINNER IS…

"Men of good fortune often cause empires to fall,While men of poor beginnings often can’t do anything at all" Lou Reed: 'Men Of Good Fortune' "Black is black, I want my baby backGrey is grey, since she went away"                                          George EliGene Pitney: 'Black Is … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: INTO THE DARK

Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player. Great album really. A good while prior, Reggie Dwight had been down to the Births, Deaths & Marriages office to hand in the paperwork for his name change to Elton John. 'Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player' was the initial jet-boost to a career … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: BEING HUMAN

“All Nature is but art, unknown to thee, all chance, direction, which thou canst not see; discord harmony not understood, all partial evil universal … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: FROM ABSURD TO ZANY

“Reality is for people who can’t cope with art.” It’s hard to be precise about who originally coined that phrase and in truth (truth, of course, being by definition a form of reality) it’s the kind of phrase that was probably organically hatched by multiple scribes and oracles. Artist, sculptor, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: PLAYING WITH EMOTION