LSFF returns to the ICA for its 16th year, with another radical and reactive programme of short films from across the globe.

This year’s programme features a selection of Japanese films centred around the theme of love in its many forms.

Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s second feature follows a teenager searching for a liminal point of non-existence.

An inventive documentary about anthropologist Santiago Genoves' infamous Acali Experiment, dubbed ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’

Director RaMell Ross’ acclaimed study of light, mood, movement and Black life in the US South.

This international selection sifts through the rubble of history, finding new meaning in the aesthetics, ideology and artefacts of the past.

A portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold and his death-defying scale of Yosemite’s three-thousand-foot El Capitan.

A screening of three of Cosey Fanny Tutti’s works that explore the extremities of sonic and visual language.

Queen Anne is the centre of an erotic-political power struggle in this cheerfully obscene twist on period drama.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or winning film depicts a family reliant on theft for survival.

Examining sex, sexuality and desire, not from the view of male gaze but through the lens of female animation.

Documentaries that ask you to trust your senses and fall into these films with more to perceive than to understand.

A mini-retrospective of the work of East German documentarian and painter Jürgen Böttcher.

Documentaries that show the therapeutic release from cinema that comes out of expressing our true feelings.

A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.

Exploring at the ephemeral and forgotten in the GDR, focussing on Judaism, disenfranchised youth and intimate photography.

Bold experimental explorations of the avant-garde and urban decay made in the GDR between 1976 and 1991.

Tracing the self-authored black British presence on screen from Windrush to the present day.

A would-be writer returns to his rural home in director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s richly melancholic mood piece.

A restless married woman embarks on a transformative affair in Olga Chajdas’ accomplished debut.

A disquieting examination of faith, repression and madness from the director of Snow in Paradise.

A disquieting examination of faith, repression and madness from the director of Snow in Paradise.

Ingmar Bergman’s enigmatic psychodrama questions the nature of identity and the nature of cinema itself.

This unsettling family portrait set in Thatcher-era Britain is photographer Richard Billingham’s feature-film debut.

Intimate portraits exploring ideas around filmic memories, family and community in a programme selected by Ben Rivers.

This year’s programme features a selection of Japanese films centred around the theme of love in its many forms.

LSFF returns to the ICA for its 16th year, with another radical and reactive programme of short films from across the globe.

Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s second feature follows a teenager searching for a liminal point of non-existence.

An inventive documentary about anthropologist Santiago Genoves' infamous Acali Experiment, dubbed ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’

Director RaMell Ross’ acclaimed study of light, mood, movement and Black life in the US South.

This international selection sifts through the rubble of history, finding new meaning in the aesthetics, ideology and artefacts of the past.

A portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold and his death-defying scale of Yosemite’s three-thousand-foot El Capitan.

A screening of three of Cosey Fanny Tutti’s works that explore the extremities of sonic and visual language.

Queen Anne is the centre of an erotic-political power struggle in this cheerfully obscene twist on period drama.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or winning film depicts a family reliant on theft for survival.

Examining sex, sexuality and desire, not from the view of male gaze but through the lens of female animation.

Documentaries that ask you to trust your senses and fall into these films with more to perceive than to understand.

A mini-retrospective of the work of East German documentarian and painter Jürgen Böttcher.

Documentaries that show the therapeutic release from cinema that comes out of expressing our true feelings.

A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.

Exploring at the ephemeral and forgotten in the GDR, focussing on Judaism, disenfranchised youth and intimate photography.

Bold experimental explorations of the avant-garde and urban decay made in the GDR between 1976 and 1991.

Tracing the self-authored black British presence on screen from Windrush to the present day.

A would-be writer returns to his rural home in director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s richly melancholic mood piece.

A restless married woman embarks on a transformative affair in Olga Chajdas’ accomplished debut.

A disquieting examination of faith, repression and madness from the director of Snow in Paradise.

A disquieting examination of faith, repression and madness from the director of Snow in Paradise.

Ingmar Bergman’s enigmatic psychodrama questions the nature of identity and the nature of cinema itself.

This unsettling family portrait set in Thatcher-era Britain is photographer Richard Billingham’s feature-film debut.

Intimate portraits exploring ideas around filmic memories, family and community in a programme selected by Ben Rivers.