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For this year’s ‘Figures in Focus’ programme, we are going on an adventure. The selected films examine the urge to explore the world, to travel, to feel the delight to roam. Hand in hand with this sense of wanderlust is the restlessness felt by some, the need to escape their situation, or to return … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 article: Figures in Focus: Wanderlust

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 November … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024: The 21st London International Animation Festival is on its way

Each year we search for the finest panel of judges: educators, independent animators, producers, authors, curators and more. All are experts in their field and all possess an informed and exploratory eye for excellence in the animation world. This year we were honoured to welcome a carefully … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: JUDGES’ AWARD STATEMENTS

Best Film of the Festival Award: 27 - Flóra Anna Buda Best British Film Award: Crab Day - Ross Stringer Best Abstract Film Award: Overheating - Jiin Chung, Lizzy Bovee, Yuna Tang & Nathan Yeom Best Sound Design Award: Misaligned - Michał Fojcik (Dir. Marta … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: AND THE WINNER IS…

MA Directing Animation students at the National Film & Television School have been the magicians behind our official festival trailers for the past 13 years! During that time, we've been delighted by hand-drawn, stop-motion, pixilation, claymation, puppet, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: OFFICIAL TRAILER