Like childhood, animation is full of wonder and simple pleasures. This carefully chosen programme for our littlest and most special audience contains 14 of the best, most recent wonderful short animated films, full of joy, from all around the world. There’ll be talking animals, seriously fun … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Family Film Club: Amazing Animations for 0-7 year-olds (U)
2022
LIAF 2023: Disrupting the Narrative 2: Changing Mindsets, Expanding Voices (15) + Screentalk
From award winning shorts (including this year’s Student Academy Award) to innovative breakthrough new talent, this year’s programme focuses on exciting British and international filmmakers who use a diverse range of live action and animation techniques to explore black, ethnically-diverse themes … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Disrupting the Narrative 2: Changing Mindsets, Expanding Voices (15) + Screentalk
LIAF 2023: Marvellous Animations for 8-15 year-olds (PG)
These 9 films from 7 different countries have been chosen especially for children aged 8 and upwards and include themes such as otherness, friendship and tolerance. They are films for the young but also the young at heart with several laugh-out-loud moments alongside tales that tug at the … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Marvellous Animations for 8-15 year-olds (PG)
LIAF 2023: Figures in Focus: Apocalyptic (15) + Screentalk
This cathartic selection of artists' animations includes films that delve into our darkest fears and our greatest hopes. Whilst we're living through a time that feels eerily as though we are enduring characters in an unfolding disaster movie, and with the climate crisis ever present in our media and … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Figures in Focus: Apocalyptic (15) + Screentalk
LIAF 2023: British Showcase (15) + Filmmaker Introductions
A comprehensive screening of the very best recently released British animation, including several premieres. Check the pulse of the British animation scene, meet many of the filmmakers and see the films that will take British animation to the world. Nobody screens more British animation than LIAF … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: British Showcase (15) + Filmmaker Introductions
LIAF 2023: Opening Night – 20 Years Celebration and a Tribute to Paul Bush (15)
Wow – we made it to our 20th anniversary!! Who would have thought it? From very humble beginnings – our first festival in 2004 screened at the now-defunct Rupert Street Cinema in Piccadilly – to LIAF 2023, 10 days at 4 venues across London and online for a worldwide audience, we have survived! … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: Opening Night – 20 Years Celebration and a Tribute to Paul Bush (15)
