🏆 In collaboration with Doc Film Council, our inaugural Docs Jury have selected our winners Winner of the Best Documentary Short Film - And Still, It Remains dir. Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah Special Mention Documentary Short Film The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing dir. Theo Panagopoulos

⛓️ DARK FANTASIES ⛓️ Join us for an evening of queer, orgiastic and violent delights curated and presented by @contentwarning_ aka Helena Whittingham and Harlan Whittingham. 🎬 screening 23rd January at the @riocinema

Gentrification and unregulated landlordism are fracturing communities, while social housing disintegrates and profits soar. However, the films in 'Housing Problems' constantly underline we can and should resist. 🎬 ‘Housing Problems’ showing 25th January at the ICA Cinema

This years programme of intimate and radical documentary short films spans four events at the ICA Cinema. 🎥: Lost In Time dir. Maryam Hassanein Grandmamauntsistercat dir. Zuza Banasinska The Poem We Sang dir. Annie Sakkab Damp Moss dir. Christopher Thompson

It’s the final day of the ’12 Shorts’ 🥲 and last but certainly not least… Angels May Cry dir. Quinton Dominguez Showing as part of our programme ‘Intimacy is much more (and much less)’ 🎬 Screening on the 24th January at ICA Cinema

It’s the penultimate day of our ’12 Shorts’ 💥 Made in Thamesmead dir. Mary Martins a British-Nigerian documentary animator and experimental filmmaker from London. 🎬 Screening TWICE!! First on the 23.01 at Curzon Soho + again on the 24.01 at ActOne Cinema for a Carers & Babies Screening.

Today’s short is 16mm gem Dear F... dir. Hannan Jones A hybrid documentary, the film navigates the intricate dynamics between personal and collective histories, intertwining stories of Algerian migrants and their diaspora 🇩🇿 🎬 24.01 @ Curzon Soho

Day 9 ‼️ +++ today the spotlight is on Farang dir. Mina Heydari-Waite - an artists' moving image work that traces a semi-fictional journey across Iran. 🎬 Screening on the 19th January at ICA Cinema

HNY! It’s the first ’12 Shorts’ of 2025 ✨ Today’s pick is here to soothe that fragile head of yours - The Green Country dir. Silvia Rossi Two friends’ bougie self-care weekend trip to a sterling-haunted forest 🌿 🎬 Screening on the 19th January at Curzon Soho

It’s the last ’12 Shorts’ of the year! And we truly are going out with a bang💥 with a hilarious short directed by Marissa Losoya. Beyond Failure documents one woman’s quest for the perfect ass 🍑 and is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is poignant. 🎬 Screening on the 20th January at Rio Cinema

We are half way through the 12 Shorts of Christmas ‼️ today’s pick is A Brighter Summer Day For The Lady Avengers dir. Birdy Wei-Ting Hung 🎬 Screening as part of Fantastic Fictions on 19.01 @ Curzon Soho + as part of our International Competition: Echoes of the Unseen on 22.01 @ BFI Southbank

Day 5 of the 12 Shorts of Christmas ⭐️🌲 Today’s short is a dreamlike journey, a disintegration into a fluid Human-animal-plant-machine consciousness… 🌿 Pirouette dir. Ann Oren 🎬 Documentary: Everything has a pulse at ICA 🎬 International Competition: Echoes of the Unseen at BFI Southbank

12 Shorts of Christmas ⭐️🌲 and we’re on day number 4!! Today’s pick is Daughter of the Nile dir. Akelo Costa The film employs poetry and minimalist imagery, with the visual elements of the film becoming trance-like. 🎬 Showing as part of ‘For The Nile Is My Genesis’ on the 18th January at ICA

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me… experimental 3D animation and hybrid film formats. The Sunset Special 2 dir. Nicolas Gebbe follows two families on a luxury cruise where psychedelic dreamworlds unfold and the reality beyond superficial comfort is unveiled. 🎬 @ Rio Cinema

Day 2 of our 12 Shorts of Christmas ⭐️ Today’s spotlight is on Arctic Diva dir. Federico Barni Sitting somewhere between Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière and The Thing, all Barni’s experiences of existential hopelessness and working with scientists in extreme environments went into making the film.

Merry Christmas from LSFF ⭐️🌲to celebrate the season we are kicking off our '12 Shorts of Christmas' where each day we'll spotlight a film from our programme with some inside scoop from the filmmakers themselves!! First up... Faye Tsakas' short Christmas, Every Day

🌍✨ Everywhere We Are Islands is a cinematic journey across the Caribbean & its diaspora—where islands are both places of isolation and connection. From Martinique to New York, these shorts explore the relationship that people across the Caribbean diaspora have to their identities and one another.

🕸️ From abstract eeriness to haunting dramas, our returning anthology of Gothic shorts calls you into the dark and surreal… Full of painterly animation, gothic psycho-drama and visceral body horror 🩸 Saturday 18th January, 6:20pm Curzon Soho

🪐 Are we alone? 🪐 Join LSFF and Nelly Ben Hayoun Stépanian Studios on a journey through space and time 🛸 as we explore genderfluid and pluralistic futures and confront ideas of extraction, colonisation and profiteering that have wrought so much damage on Planet Earth @ Rio Cinema on 19th Jan 👽

Very happy to announce that public tickets for our screenings at @curzon.soho and @britishfilminstitute are now on sale 🎟️ Here’s a little selection of stills from our programmes London Lives, Funny Shit, Animation Variety Show, The Last Invention and Fantastic Fictions 🎬

Congrats to all the Short Com alumni selected for @londonshortfilm.bsky.social And all the other filmmakers for that matter.

Thank you so much for all the love on our LSFF2025 programme so far ♥️ Here’s a few more snapshots of what’s in store come January 📸 and the link to our full programme is our bio! Stills from Pirouette, Bergamot, Exit Through The Cuckoos Nest, Robert and Georgie + POPS