Lights, Camera, Animation! This is LIAF’s annual showcase of the most dazzling animated student films selected from the best animation and film schools from all around the world. This is the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Stop-motion, drawn animation, collage, cut-out, CGI, clay, ink and almost every other technique these animators can dream up are all on display here. 33 wondrous films in three 1 hour-long programmes from the future stars of our animation universe.
Several of the filmmakers will be in attendance. Come along and help us celebrate this incredible work and to gain insights into their creative processes, inspirations, and the challenges they faced while bringing their visions to life.
This is the third of three 1 hour-long student programmes at The Horse Hospital. Buy venue tickets for all 3 at a reduced price in our Triple Screening Special!
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Arachnophobia – Melita Sandrin, Slovenia
A seemingly harmless prank turns into a delirious nightmare revolving around spiders.
2024 2’50 min
Urban Duo – Hongyu Yue, China
In the bustling noise of Shanghai, a father experiences a peaceful slow life where neighbours live in harmony. His son, on the other hand, is caught up in the fast pace of the city day after day. Their lives are parallel yet starkly different…
2024 6’20 min
Tongji University
Growth Project – Anna Podskalská & Matěj Podskalský, Czech Republic
Set in the year 2034, a film inspired by real life technologies that try to solve climate change.
2025 9’00 min
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU)
Going Places – Safira Lewis, UK
An adaptation of the poem ‘Going Places’ by Lemn Sissay. The film follows a man’s mundane evening, as he rattles around his flat, shadowed by a painted owl living on his walls. As he grows bored of the lack of direction in his own life, his resentment towards the owl grows.
2025 2’40 min
Middlesex University
Space Dan – Adrien Blanchard, Théophile Farant, Matéo Grossi, Pablo Jegado & Lucas Rougé, France
Dan, a space billionaire, celebrates his birthday in his private space station when a cake accident ruins the party.
2024 8’00 min
ECOLE MoPA
Cannot Sleep! – Yingjie Zhou, Japan
Sleep in the same state as before. A wonderful and magical economic experiment where one’s head changes and one’s head falls.
2024 2’30 min
Kobe Design University
Cold Home – Alicja Liss, Poland
A portrait of a complex family relationship, where emotions hide between gestures and silence.
2025 8’20 min
University of Arts in Poznań
A Stray – Mikuláš Fišer, Czech Republic
Even a little slap from a parent can send a small child into an emotional spiral. A young boy runs away from home and goes to explore a frightening city behind the train rails.
2024 9’00 min
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU)
Hello, Headquarters – Zuzanna Zofia Heller, Poland
Mirek dials the phone, greeted by a curt “Hello, Headquarters.” But he’s already adrift – he only wants to report his wife, the Great Orange, missing. Instead, he finds himself ensnared in the cold machinery of office bureaucracy, while outside, relentless rain batters the world around him.
2025 4’55 min
Lodz Film School
Morning Glory – Rongyu Han, China
A child is like a morning glory, blossoming within the tender yet binding embrace of maternal love.
2025 5’20 min
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts
Two Point Five Stars – Sina Lerf, Dario Boger & Dario Marti, Switzerland
Robin works the reception desk of a hostel, passing time with online chess to the lobby’s monotonous music. But her quiet routine unravels as eccentric guests gather, drawing her into a spiral of increasingly absurd events.
2024 5’25 min
Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts
Our Funding Partners
With Special Thanks to The Elf Factory, official sponsor of LIAF 2025.
Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.
Venue
The Horse Hospital is a three tiered progressive arts venue in London providing an encompassing umbrella for the related media of film fashion, music and art. For more information about The Horse Hospital and how to get there, find out more.
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