LIAF 2022 is just under 10 weeks away and we can’t wait to get back into cinemas and share with you the amazing films we’ve been watching all year long. This years’ festival will take place across London at 5 wonderful venues but for those who are unable to join us in the flesh from November 25 to December 4 we will also have an extensive online programme made available for everyone.
Our programmers have been sifting through the 2,400 films that came our way this year and after much deliberation, head-scratching and tired eyes we have hand-picked 86 films from 30 countries to screen in the 8 international competition programmes, many of them premieres.
In this, our 19th festival, there will be a healthy mix of returning master animators to LIAF with their latest gems alongside many newcomers to the scene. Previous LIAF audience members will recognise names such as Emma Calder, Atsushi Wada, Andreas Hykade, Ainslie Henderson, Reka Bucsi, Steven Woloshen, Joseph Wallace, Joseph Pierce, Liz Hobbs, Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby and Priit Tender returning with their latest films. And we are also very excited to give a platform to many first-time filmmakers and graduate animators. Our mission, as ever, is to show that animation is the most imaginative of all art forms and when the handbrake is off anything can happen.
The competition films will screen in 8 themed programmes such as the Abstract Showcase, Into the Dark, Animated Documentaries and From Absurd to Zany. Subject matter is as varied as ever but LIAF wouldn’t be LIAF without a healthy dose of surreality and general all-round bonkers-ness to mash up your brain.
Outside of the international competition programmes we will also be screening our ever-popular and returning programmes the British Showcase, Music Videos, Late Night Bizarre, Best of the Next (student films), Edge of Frame, Figures in Focus and kids and families programmes alongside special guests, two feature films and two days of free online industry talks. Full line-ups to be announced soon, along with stills, synopses and trailers. Stay tuned!
International Competition Programme Films List
& More Tsz-wing Ho, Hong Kong
A Taste for Music Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan, UK
Above the Clouds Vivien Hárshegyi, Hungary
Airborne Andrzej Jobczyk, Poland
Amok Balázs Turai, Romania/Hungary
Another Presence Simon Ball, UK
backflip Nikita Diakur, Germany/France
Beneath Beth Walker, UK
Bestia Hugo Covarrubias, Chile
Beware of Trains Emma Calder, UK
Bird in the Peninsula Atsushi Wada, Japan
Blessing in Disguise Emma Holzapfel, Onur Can Kargin & Kevin Koch, Germany
Celebrating Stephen Hawking Matthew Simon Cruickshank, USA
Clockwise Toni Mitjanit, Spain
Dealing with War Andreas Hykade, Germany
Doomer Diaries Eve Riddle, UK
Drone Sean Buckelew, USA
Eat Your Carrots Laura Stewart, Canada
Finding Home Maria Stanisheva, France/Bulgaria/USA
Fury Julia Siuda, Poland
Garisani Jin Woo, South Korea
Girls Talk about Football Paola Sorrentino, Italy
Hi! How Are You? Gaïa Grandin-Mendzylewski, France
Holes Birgitta Hosea, UK
Hotel Kalura Sophie Koko Gate, UK
Hysteresis Robert Seidel, Germany
Ice Merchants João Gonzalez, Portugal
Iizuna Fair Sumito Sakakibara, Japan
Imagination Blind: Aphantasia Explained George Lee, UK
In His Mercy Christoph Büttner, Germany
Intermission Reka Bucsi, Hungary
Intersextion Richard Roger Reeves, Canada
Jefe Byron Miller, Australia
Juice Mona Keil, Germany
Krasue Ryo Hirano, Japan
Learning Disabilities in Primary Care Ivyy Chen, UK
Letter to a Pig Tal Kantor, Israel
Luce and the Rock Britt Raes, Belgium/France/Netherlands
Magnified City Isaku Kaneko, Japan
Meta Antje Heyn, Germany
Modo de Vida – A Goan Sketchbook Rohit Karandadi, India
My Father’s Damn Camera Milos Tomic, Slovenia
Ninety-Five Senses Jerusha Hess & Jared Hess, USA
Nobody Stands Nowhere Emily Downe, UK
Occurro Vadim Epstein
Of Wood Owen Klatte, USA
On the Bottom of the Laundry Bag Adele Razkövi, Austria
Once there was a sea… Joanna Kozuch, Slovakia/Poland
Pachyderm Stéphanie Clement, France
Perf Dance Steven Woloshen, Canada
Persona Sujin Moon, South Korea
Pests Juliette Laboria, France
Prosopagnosia Steven Fraser, UK
Protostase Tiberio Suppressa, France
Red Giant Anne Verbeure, Belgium
Rest in Piece Antoine Antabi, Germany
Retinal Activation Shusaku Kaji, Japan
Return Marcos Sanchez, Chile
Ruled Surface Pete McPartlan, UK
Sacred Clockworks Moritz Schuchmann, Germany
Salvation Has No Name Joseph Wallace, UK
Scale Joseph Pierce, UK
Sensory Itch Roel van Beek, Netherlands
Seven Grams Karim Ben Khelifa & TT Hernandez, France
Shackle Ainslie Henderson, UK
Sierra Sander Joon, Estonia
Slow Light Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski, Poland
Something Out of Nothing Marcus Armitage, UK
Sphere Wataru Iwata, Japan
Spheres Anais Scheeck, France
Still up There Joe Loftus, Ireland
The Debutante Elizabeth Hobbs, UK
The Dog Apartment Priit Tender, Estonia
The Flying Sailor Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby, Canada
The Garbage Man Laura Gonçalves, Portugal
The Greatest Poem Elyse Kelly, USA
The House of Loss Jinkyu Jeon, Japan
The Law of the Jungle Gym Yoon Hei Cho, USA
The Queen of the Foxes Marina Rosset, Switzerland
The Record Jonathan Laskar, Switzerland
Under the Endless Sky Alexandra Dzhiganskaya, Ukraine/Austria
Unreal Central Junien Cho, Qingmei Melody Li & Yung Ka Valerie Mak, Hong Kong
What Dying Feels Like Philip Ullman, Netherlands
When I am Sad Lilit Altunyan, Armenia
Your Mountain is Waiting Hannah Jacobs, UK
Zoon Jonatan Schwenk, Germany
