The backbone of the whole LIAF mission. Somehow we’ve emerged from under the pile of 2,550 entries with enough strength and wits intact to put together a series of programmes that showcase the best 100 or so new films. Six ‘general’ International Competition Programmes, our ever popular Abstract Showcase and Long Shorts programmes, plus the British Showcase. The films come in from every corner, they use every technique, they can be funny, dramatic, eye-popping, subdued, documentary or autobiographical. The one thing they have in common is that we think they’re the pick of the crop.
At Barbican book tickets
Grace Under Water (Anthony Lawrence, Australia)
Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace, when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy afternoon at the local pool.
8’10
Lake (Steven Subotnick, US)
A burial on a frozen lake.
2013, 4’10
The Key (Kim Noce & Shaun Clark, UK)
When the residents awake to find the key to the Town gate missing, frustration soon sets in. But this key does not want to be found.
2014, 6’50
Winter And Lizard (Julia Gromskaya, Italy)
Returning as an adult, a woman embarks on an imaginary flight through the best memories of a house she knew as a child.
2013, 3’30
Long Bridge of Desired Direction ( Ivan Maximov, Russia)
The story of a lonely man who lives with his pet on a small island and longs to get to other people.
2012, 8’50
Hair (Delphine Hermans, Belgium)
An exhilarating journey into the minds of hair lovers. Fantasies and seductions.
8’40
Snow Hut (Yoriko Mizushiri, Japan)
A snow hut in the middle of the rice paddy. What to do in a space full of quiet and white until the spring comes?
2013, 5’25
Dipendenza (Panna Horváth-Molnár & Virág Zomborácz, Hungary)
Bubu works at the fish market. He is slavishly in love with his colleague Angela, a woman of ever-changing artistic ambitions. They live in harmony until one day a handsome stranger appears.
2013, 10’35
Bendito Machine IV – Fuel The Machines (Jossie Malis, Spain)
A superbly crafted journey of fascinating intricacy leads us – eventually – to a vision of our near future which should not be ignored.
2012, 10’00
Betty’s Blues (Remi Vandenitte, France)
One night in the Boogie Woogie Club down on Jackson, a small group of jaded barflies get a lesson in the origin of the Blues.
2013, 11’45
Pifuskin (Tan Wei Keong, Singapore)
A man scratches the skin he lives in.
2014, 4’25
