A ‘festival within a festival’. Three diverse back-to-back programmes looking at the next generation of indie animators from a variety of angles. Here's the first of the three programmes, showing the best international student films drawn from more than 60 different schools in 25 countries. The … [Read more...] about Best of the Next: Programme 1 – Tokyo University of the Arts (15)
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Music Video Session (15) – SOLD OUT
Animation is an integral element in many of the best music videos. Producing them also provides a commercially viable way for animators to earn a living and produce work they can be proud of. Here are nineteen of the world’s best and most innovative music videos produced in the last 12 months, … [Read more...] about Music Video Session (15) – SOLD OUT
Late Night Bizarre (18) – SOLD OUT
LIAF’s annual, ever popular, irresistible, train-wreck of a programme - you wanna’ turn away but you know you can’t. Expect meat in all the wrong places, drunk babies, slimy politicians, Siamese twins, deranged zombies and Yoko Ono! This programme takes place at The Horse Hospital Your ticket also … [Read more...] about Late Night Bizarre (18) – SOLD OUT
The Best of the Festival (15)
This is it, the ‘Big One,’ the end of the road… The Best Of The Best! This programme screens the highlights of LIAF as selected by our judging panels and audience. Awards are given for the best film in each session, ‘Best British Film’ and the overall ‘Best Of The Festival’. This joyously … [Read more...] about The Best of the Festival (15)
Koji Yamamura Retrospective + Q&A (15)
Koji Yamamura is recognised as one of the masters of animation worldwide and undoubtedly the most influential and international Japanese independent animator of his generation. Breathtaking in their beauty, the free-spirited and surreal animation work of Koji Yamamura has garnered much acclaim … [Read more...] about Koji Yamamura Retrospective + Q&A (15)
Koji Yamamura Masterclass
Animation filmmaker Koji Yamamura is arguably the greatest short-form, auteur animator in Japan today. He is certainly the most internationally successful. Yamamuras’s animated worlds are in constant flux, characterised by dazzling visual images that shift and change in the blink of an eye. Over … [Read more...] about Koji Yamamura Masterclass