LIAF’s annual collection of the hottest music videos from all over the world. 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 several of the … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Music Video Session (15)
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LIAF 2023: Stop-Motion Panorama
Since the dawn of cinema puppet animation has provided some of the most mesmerising films ever made and puppet animators have been among the most revered. Breathing a kind of life into inanimate puppets is a very special form of magic and this programme showcases the continuing vibrancy of this … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Stop-Motion Panorama
LIAF 2023: 10 Best Animated Documentary Films EVER! (15)
We have always had a special passion around here for documentary animation. LIAF probably shows more of this kind of work than any other generalist animation festival. It can be surprising to encounter resistance to the idea that there could even be such a thing as documentary animation. Surprising … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: 10 Best Animated Documentary Films EVER! (15)
LIAF 2023: 10 Best Comedy Films EVER! (15)
Over the 20-year history of LIAF we have screened hundreds of films that fall into the comedy category, mostly in our ‘From Absurd to Zany’ programmes. Half of what most of us dream could easily qualify as absurd or zany. A good percentage of the best stuff that comes out of kids mouths is the same. … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: 10 Best Comedy Films EVER! (15)
LIAF 2023: 10 Best Horror Films EVER! (15)
Horror! At its most profound; it's most clenching and suffocating foundation, horror is fundamentally a state of mind. Experienced at full volume, horror grips the brain and ignites some of the simplest animal-level emotions and responses that have been hardwired into our circuitry since before we … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: 10 Best Horror Films EVER! (15)
LIAF 2023: Best of the Next 2 (15)
Selected from 60 graduate showreels, this is a look at the best student work from all around the world – the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Stop-motion, drawn animation, collage, cut-out, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Best of the Next 2 (15)