We are 9 weeks away until the UK’s largest, longest-running animation festival returns, screening at cinemas across London and online. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve got in store this year – a veritable feast of the world’s best, grooviest, cooler-than-cool indie animation.
From Friday November 28, over 10 days, we will be screening in-cinema at our regular venues: The Barbican, The Garden Cinema, Horse Hospital, The Puppet Theatre Barge and Close-Up Cinema. And for those unable to venture out to London, we’ll be repeating most screenings online on our streaming platform.
Most of our 27 programmes will be available to watch worldwide PLUS we will present 8 FREE industry talks and discussions from the worlds’ leading practitioners giving insider access to the hottest animation-related topics of the year.
Our programmers have been sifting through the 2,400 films that have come our way this year and after much deliberation, head-scratching and tired eyes we have hand-picked 77 films from 30 countries to screen in the 8 international competition programmes, many of them premieres, plus an extra 12 films in the British Showcase. There will be a healthy mix of returning master animators with their latest gems alongside many newcomers to the scene.
Outside of the international competition programmes we will also be screening our ever-popular and returning programmes such as Late Night Bizarre, Edge of Frame, Figures in Focus, Disrupting the Narrative, Are You OK?, Best of the Next (student films), kids and families programmes plus several other programmes for 2025 alongside special guests, a very special feature film and 2 days of free online industry talks. Full line-ups to be announced VERY soon, along with stills, synopses, trailers and ticketing information.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be drip-feeding more information.
Stay tuned! But for now here’s the main competitive line-ups:
LIAF 2025 – International Competition Programme Films List
Atomik Tour – Bruno Collet (Czech Republic, France)
Autokar – Sylwia Szkiladz (Poland)
Azkena – Ane Inés Landeta, Lorea Lyons (Spain)
Balconada – Iva Tokmakchieva (France, Bulgaria)
Because Today is Saturday – Alice Eça Guimarães (Portugal, France, Spain)
Better Man – Eliška Jirásková (Czech Republic)
Biting the Hand that Feeds You – Chantal Peten (Belgium, France)
Can you Hear Me? – Anastazja Naumenko (Poland)
Dark Globe – Donato Sansone (Italy)
Deluge – Meejin Hong (USA)
Dog Alone – Marta Reis Andrade (Portugal, France)
Dollhouse Elephant – Jenny Jokela (Finland)
Double or Nothing – Tokay Sirin (Switzerland)
Eating Time – Mari Kivi (Estonia)
Facuk – Maida Srabovic (Croatia, Slovenia)
Fia – Luciana Martinez (Argentina)
How – Marko Mestrovic (Croatia)
Hypersensitive – Martine Frossard (Canada)
I am a Rebel – Martin Pickles (UK)
I’m Not Sure – Luisa Zürcher (Switzerland)
Imprint – Duncan Major (Canada)
Jazz Emu: Fun Kitai Furai Dei – Hunter Allen (UK)
Kepler – 891c – Kwan Yau Tse (Hong Kong)
La Vie avec un idiot – Theodore Ushev (France)
Lost Touch – Justine Klaiber (Switzerland)
Mealitancy – Marie Royer, Zinia Scorier (Belgium)
Murmuration – Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger (Netherlands, Belgium)
No Vacancy – Miguel Rodrick (Colombia)
On Hannah Fields – Lewis Heriz (UK)
On Weary Wings Go By – Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (Estonia)
Ordinary Life – Yoriko Mizushiri (Japan)
Ostrich – Marie Kenov (Switzerland)
Ovary-Acting – Ida Melum (UK)
Overture – Jakub Hronský (Czech Republic)
Pear Garden – Shadab Shayegan (Germany, Iran)
Peter Hair – Arthur Studholme, Cosmo Wellings (UK)
Play – Sabrina Schmid (Australia)
Ploo – Jon Frickey (Germany)
Polio – Klára Kubenková (Czech Republic)
Poppy Flowers – Evridiki Papaiakovou (Estonia)
Praying Mantis – Joe Hsieh (Taiwan)
Psychonauts – Niko Radas (Croatia)
Quota – Job, Joris and Marieke (Netherlands)
Retirement Plan – John Kelly (Ireland)
S the Wolf – Sameh Alaa (France)
Shadows – Rand Beiruty (France, Jordan)
Signal – Emma Carré, Mathilde Parquet (Belgium, France)
Simple Random Walks – Larry Cuba (USA)
Speeding, Of Course – Anni Sairio, Joonatan Turkki (Finland)
States of Matter – Marvin Hauck (Netherlands)
Steen – Chin Yiu Mane Cheung, Pui Yu Sammi Tsui (Hong Kong)
Stone of Destiny – Julie Cerna (Czech Republic)
Strange Teen Spirit – Frank Ternier (France)
Strokes of Wildflowers – Livvy Seabrook-Wilkins (UK)
Tethered – Alessandro Cino Zolfaneli (UK)
The 12 inch Pianist – Lucas Ansel (USA)
The Devil Room – Duban Pinzón (Colombia)
The Exploding Girl – Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel (France)
The Garden of Electric Delights – Billy Roisz (Austria)
The Golden Donkey – Anne Verbeure (Belgium)
The Mustached Clown Circus – Ana Comes, Tomas Alzogaray Vanella, Paz Bloj (Argentina)
The Pool or Death of a Goldfish – Daria Kopiec (Poland)
The Right to be Forgotten – Tue Sanggaard (Denmark)
The Self and the Other – Chen Ma (UK)
The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry – Cat Johnston, Joseph Wallace (UK)
Tiny Film about Rape – Tereza Nebe Motýlová (Czech Republic)
Toil and Spin – Maureen Zent (USA)
Turbulence – Christopher Rutledge, Magnus Igland Møller (Denmark, USA)
Two Black Boys in Paradise – Baz Sells (UK)
Um – Nieto (France)
Underground Invaders – Shera Courtalhac, Ines Molinier, Victor Lesaffre, Maëlle Metaireau, Dana Guyot, Ines Dolivet, Meggie Bernier (France)
Wanderers – Muhammad Mustefa Bukhari (Hong Kong)
Warp and Weft – Isolda Milenkovic (UK)
We The Water – Noah Lüthi (Switzerland)
Where Blue Meets Red – Tamás Patrovits (Hungary)
Winter in March – Natalia Mirzoyan (Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, France)
Wish You Were Ear – Mirjana Balogh (Hungary)
LIAF 2025 – British Showcase film list
Angry Cars – Shaun Clark
Another Foggy Day – Mingqi Yang
Existential Greg – Will Anderson
Film Film – Arturs Voblikovs
Flang meets Darwin – Dog & Rabbit Animation
Fried! – Lizzie Watts
How to Build a Sand Castle – Nour Khamis
Statue in the Garden – Qianhui Yu
Steeping – Eilidh Nicoll
The Dog in the Long Grass – Seb Cox
The Eating of an Orange – May Kindred-Boothby
The Last Gammon – Elmaz Ekrem Littlewood
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