A comprehensive screening of the very best recently released British animation, including several UK and world premieres. Check the pulse of the British animation scene, and see the films that will take British animation to the world.
The history of British animation is a long and complex story but British filmmakers have a tendency to dig in and continually create visually innovative and often socially incisive animated films, whatever the circumstances and in recent years on ever-diminishing budgets.
This screening is a celebration of these amazing filmmakers and their feverish imaginations featuring many newcomers, promising filmschool graduates and first-time animators. Nobody in the world screens more British animation than LIAF and this snapshot of the state of British animation paints a vibrant picture of a spirited and visionary animation nation.
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The Song of a Lost Boy (Daniel Quirke, UK)
A young choir boy has a crisis of faith after his voice breaks mid-solo, so decides to run away from his community.
2020, 10min
Music Unites: Herbie Hancock & Kamasi Washington in Conversation (Wednesday Studio, UK)
Two musical innovators talk about the power of music to transcend differences, and the importance of collaboration in the creative industry.
World premiere
2020, 2min
Irma (Lisa Cruz, UK)
Hurricane Irma is coming. In the calm before the storm on the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe a little girl is getting excited.
UK premiere
2019, 5min
Cwch Deilen (Efa Blosse-Mason, UK)
Learning to love someone can be scary, but it can also lead to the most marvellous adventure.
2020, 8min
Nadirah: Coal Woman (Negar Elodie Behzadi & Kate Jessop, UK)
An ethnographic portrait of one stigmatised woman coal miner, in the village of Kante, in Tajikistan.
UK premiere
2019, 2min
2.35m (Andi Concha, UK)
A frustrated relationship between a father and daughter who are always 2.35 metres apart from each other.
World premiere
2020, 7min
My Dream, My Taste (Emily Downe, UK)
A young girl, in pursuit of her dreams, ends up detached from others and the world around her.
2020, 3min
Quilted (Cat Baskerville, UK)
An elderly couple and their experience with dementia; one living with the condition and the other witnessing its effects and learning how to accept it.
World premiere
2020, 3min
Chado (Dominica Harrison, UK)
During a long hot summer in an enchanted Russian wilderness, Child is forced to grow up when her world is turned upside down.
2020, 7min
Border/Line (Meg Earls, UK)
The story of the Northern Irish women who have made the journey to England for an abortion.
2020, 3min
The Unknown (Stephanie Marshall, UK)
Sam, a bored accountant, returns home from his workday to meet a strange masked figure who accompanies him on a journey across a surreal landscape.
UK premiere
2020, 10min
Ahead (Ala Nunu Leszyńska, UK/Portugal)
The fear of being overwhelmed by the outside world can literally make you lose your head.
2019, 5min
Mountain (Harrison Fleming, UK)
Four retired mountaineers reminisce about the crippling injuries they sustained attempting to conquer a mythical mountain in their youth.
UK premiere
2020, 5min
Wandaland (Richard Noble, UK)
A fictional animation tycoon slowly becoming untethered from reality builds the ultimate monument to himself – an ill-fated theme park.
UK premiere
2019, 6min
Isle of Chair (Ivyy Chen, Taiwan/UK)
On a secluded Island, a chair has fallen down.
2020, 6min
