Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus]] || Neo Sora || Japan|-| colspan="2"| Swan Song || Chelsea McMullan || Canada|-| They Shot the Piano Player || Dispararon al pianista || Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal || Spain, France, Netherlands|-| colspan="2"| This Is Going to Be Big || Thomas Charles Hyland || Australia|-| colspan="2"| You Can Call Me Bill || Alexandre O. Philippe || United States|-|}Experimenta
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Lost Art of the Future | | Canada | A Radical Duet | Onyeka Igwe | United Kingdom | Speech for a Melting Statue | Collectif Faire-Part | Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo | Wells of Despair | Sata Taas | Netherlands | The Archive: Queer Nigerians | Simisolaoluwa Akande | United Kingdom | Everything Worthwhile Is Done with Other People | Rehana Zaman | Night Fishing with Ancestors | Elizabeth Povinelli | Australia | Minevissam (I Am Writing) | Niki Kohandel | United Kingdom | Notes from Gog Magog | Riar Rizaldi | Indonesia | Coders | Anastasia Sosunova | Lithuania | Platform Ghosts – Turker, Farmer, Bot | Aarti Sunder | India | Onset | Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich | United Kingdom, Poland | Gush | Fox Maxy | United States | Pacific Club | Valentin Noujaïm | France, Qatar | It Can't Be That Nothing That Can Be Returned | Dana Kavelina | Ukraine | Timekeepers of the Anthropocene | Federico Cuatlacuatl | Mexico, United States | Tristxtotl | Mădălina Zaharia | United Kingdom | Mangosteen | Tulapop Saenjaroen | Thailand | The Goose's Excuse | Mahdy Abo Bahat, Abdo Zin Eldin | Egypt, United Kingdom | Room in a Crowd | John Torres | Philippines | Tempo | Yu Araki | Japan | All the Days of May | | Canada | Wood for the Trees | Rob Crosse | Germany | Sunflower Siege Engine | Sky Hopinka | United States | A Throwing Forth | Xiao Zhang | United States, China | Levitate | Iván Argote | Italy, Spain, France | Desert Dreaming | Abdul Halik Azeez | Sri Lanka | Khabur | Nafis Fathollahzadeh | Germany, Iran | |
Family
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Dancing Queen | Aurora Gossé | Norway | Deep Sea (3D) | Xiaopeng Tian | China | Kensuke's Kingdom | Kirk Hendry, Neil Boyle | United Kingdom, Luxembourg, France | The Sacred Cave | Daniel Minlo | Cameroon, Burkina Faso, France | |
Treasures
Shorts
The short film programme was divided into the following nine sections.
Dialogues Between Past, Present and Future
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Archive: Queer Nigerians | Simisolaoluwa Akande | United Kingdom | The Lost Art of the Future | | Canada | A Radical Duet | Onyeka Igwe | United Kingdom | Speech for a Melting Statue | Collectif Faire-Part | Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo | Wells of Despair | Sata Taas | Netherlands | |
Stories We Tell
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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All the Lights Still Burning | Dominic Leclerc | United Kingdom | Essex Girls | Yero Timi-Biu | Festival of Slaps | Abdou Cissé | Only Yourself to Blame | Noomi Yates | The Scottish Play | James Soldan | The Singer | Cora Bissett | Smoking Dolphins | Sean Lyons | |
What Makes Us
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Area Boy | Iggy London | United Kingdom | Blood | Vathana Suganya Suppiah | United Kingdom, Australia | Gorka | Joe Weiland | United Kingdom | Making Babies | Faire un enfant | | Canada | Mother of Mine | Jesse Lewis Reece | United Kingdom | Sound & Colour | Emma Foley | Ireland | |
Right Here, Right Now
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Boat People | | Canada | Graveyard of Horses | Xiao Xuan Jiang | China | I Am More Dangerous Dead | Majiye Uchibeke | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Waking Up in Silence | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi | Ukraine, Germany | The Walk | Michael Jobling | United Kingdom | Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area | Solmund MacPherson | Canada | |
For the Haunted and Possessed
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Coders | Anastasia Sosunova | Lithuania | Notes from Gog Magog | Riar Rizaldi | Indonesia | Onset | Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich | United Kingdom, Poland | Platform Ghosts – Turker, Farmer, Bot | Aarti Sunder | India | |
The Creeps
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Doris | Edem Dotse | Ghana, United States | Foreigners Only | Nuhash Humayun | Bangladesh, United States | The Garden of Heart | Olivér Hegyi | Hungary, Slovakia | Predators | Jack King | United Kingdom | Pu Ekaw Tnod | Rebecca Culverhouse | Strangers | Rob Price | The Test | Olivia Marie Valdez | United States | Yummy Mummy | Gabriela Staniszewska | United Kingdom | |
No Place Called Home
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Hafekasi | Annelise Hickey | Australia | Now and Then | Harris Alvi | United Kingdom | Rizoo | Azadeh Navai | Iran, United States | South Facing | Reneque Samuels | United Kingdom | Torn | Jahfar Muataz | Denmark, Sweden | |
The Land is the Living Witness
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Desert Dreaming | Abdul Halik Azeez | Sri Lanka | Khabur | Nafis Fathollahzadeh | Germany, Iran | Levitate | Iván Argote | Italy, Spain, France | Sunflower Siege Engine | Sky Hopinka | United States | A Throwing Forth | Xiao Zhang | United States, China | |
Animated Shorts for Young Audiences
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Pond | Lena Von Döhren, Eva Rust | Switzerland | Swing to the Moon | Marie Bordessoule, Adriana Bouissie, Nadine De Boer, Elisa Drique, Chloé Lauzu, Vincent Levrero, Solenne Moreau | France | The Day I Became a Bird | Andrew Ruhemann | United Kingdom | The Swineherd | Magnus Igland Møller, Peter Smith | Denmark | Once upon a Studio | Trent Correy, Dan Abraham | United States | Ahru | Leandro Martinez | Argentina | Hooba | Sem Assink | Netherlands | Upside Down | Dace Rīdūze | Latvia | |
LFF for Free: Shorts
The following films were screened during the LFF for Free programme.[12]
Big Little Lives
Star Imagine UK
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Dragon Slayers United | Tom Levinge | United Kingdom | Lionhead | Alvin Yu | Gently | Kevin Morosky | Sleepyhead | Milly Garnier | Nights | Laura Jayne Tunbridge | Space Plug | Marcus Anthony Thomas | |
London Calling: Brave Faces
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Seekers | Josh Feder | United Kingdom | Independence | Karl Jackson | The Girls' Room | Tracey Lopes | My Brudda | Ntando Brown | Snow Falls In The Summer | Ajuán Isaac George | |
London Calling: Being Seen
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Date | Amy Hodge | United Kingdom | Darwin Story | Natasha Tonkin | Better | Zoe Hunter Gordon | Wings | Billy Boyd Cape | The Call | Riffy Ahmed | |
Network@LFF Shorts
For 2023 the Network@LFF short films were split into three programmes.[13]
English Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Programme 1 |
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Up | Greg Francis | United Kingdom | Muna | Warda Mohamed | United Kingdom, Somalia | VHS | Solène Guichard | United Kingdom | The Heritage | Andrew Rutter | France | Programme 2 |
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Oba | Femi Oladigbolu | United Kingdom | High Tide | Johnny Massahi | The Last Days | Dipo Baruwa-Etti | The Mobius Trip | Simone Smith | Seekers | Josh Feder | Programme 3 |
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Malcolm | Caleb J. Roberts | United Kingdom, Ireland | Doss House | Charlotte James | United Kingdom | Alo | Xenia Glen | All The Lights Still Burning | Dominic Leclerc | Salt Water Town | Dan Thorburn | |
4Love
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Dope Fiend | Rosanagh Griffiths | United Kingdom | Battery | Ewan Marshall | Pyramid of Disunion | Ella Glendining, Jessi Gutch | MO <3 KYRA 4EVA | Debbie Hannan | |
Surprise Film
Ferrari, dir. Michael Mann[14]
Awards
Competition
Source:[15]
Audience Awards
Source:
- Best Feature: Gassed Up, dir. George Amponsah
- Best Documentary: The Taste of Mango, dir. Chloe Abrahams
- Best British Film or Work: Festival of Slaps, dir. Abdou Cisse
- Best Immersive/XR: Murals, Lead artists. Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro and Artem Ivanenko
References
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