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
The Missing Scarf (Eoin Duffy, Ireland)
On a quest to find his missing scarf, Albert the squirrel unearths problems far beyond his own.
2013, 6’35
Thirst (Michèle Cournoyer, Canada)
A woman drinks away her youth, drowning in the floods of her foolish love. A moving, subtle depiction of alcoholism.
2014, 8’50
And Then We Were Jumping (Jordan Bruner, US)
The story of a daughter who takes on her father’s depression as her own – based on a poem by Eve Ensler promoting justice for all victims of gender violence.
2014, 4’20
Darling (Izabela Plucinska, Poland)
How can such a beautiful light shine on such a nightmarish experience? A young life turned upside behind a door nobody knows to open.
2013, 6’55
Cyclope (Marine Duchet, France)
A boy opens a door to his girlfriend’s mind and gets lost inside.
12’00
Impostor (Elie Chapuis, Switzerland/France)
Sure, people change. We all do. But we don’t always grow manes or paws. But sometimes it can be for the best.
2013, 6’30
No Fish Where To Go (Nicola Lemay & Janice Nadeau, Canada)
A friendship unites two little girls from opposing clans in a village where tensions are mounting.
2014, 12’30
Resistant Soul (Simone Massi, Italy)
Early May 1944. On Mt. St. Angelo there is a house which is filled with sleep and the dreams of peasants, partisans and a child.
2013, 4’40
Anomalies (Atsushi Wada, UK/Japan)
We believe in the existence of ‘anomalies’, such as unknowable and uncontrollable monsters. But can such beliefs advance us?
2013, 3’00
Non Euclidean Geometry (Skirmanta Jakaite & Solveiga Masteikaite, Lithuania)
A consistent system of definitions, assumptions, and proofs that describe such objects as points, lines and planes. It is also beautiful to look at.
2013, 9’30
Hunger (Petra Zlonoga, Croatia)
Everything that is alive is hungry; a seed is hungry for light, a bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.
2014, 6’00
Marilyn Myller (Mikey Please, UK)
An overlooked female sculptor becomes a sensation when she begins destroying her world. Migrating this paradoxical approach to her personal life delivers mixed results though.
6’05
