With its annual celebration of emerging filmmakers and the art of short filmmaking, the London Short Film Festival (LSFF) returns for its 22nd edition, taking place 17th – 26th January 2025 across London’s most iconic screens and venues, alongside arts and community spaces and a community-hopping mobile cinema bus. Continuing its legacy as the UK’s leading short film festival, LSFF will once again bring together the best of independent, boundary-pushing short films and new voices in cinema from around the globe. This year’s festival includes an eclectic line-up of 30+ programmes showing over 200 new short films from the UK and across the world, plus 30 more cutting-edge Special Events, a full Industry offer, and more. This year’s festival theme, Spaces, will explore the creative, social, and political landscapes of the spaces we inhabit and the cost of their loss – from cinemas and social hubs to social and political third spaces, those vital gathering places that define our collective experience and foster community.

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