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.

A programme of artists’ films exploring the impact and legacy of colonisation.

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

Recent work by MA students from the Experimental Film programme at Kingston School of Art.

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

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.

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

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

A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.

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.

Genre veteran Akiko Ohku plays with our expectations of rom-com conventions in his adaptation eponym Risa Wataya’s novel.

A rare opportunity to see one of the great directors Heinosuke Gosho’s masterpiece of post-war marriage and family life.

Director Yoshida Daihachi studies the human condition in his adaptation of a thriller manga by the maestro team of Yamagami Tatsuhiko and Igarashi Mikio.

Spectacular live-action adaptation of a bestselling fantasy manga series set in old-town Kamakura.

A newly divorced father (Toshimi Watanabe) finds himself out of depth when faced with the unfamiliar challenge of preparing his daughter’s daily lunchbox.

Using a heartrending diagnosis as a catalyst, this internationally-acclaimed drama charts the race of a terminally ill woman to mend her family in the time she has left.

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.

A programme of artists’ films exploring the impact and legacy of colonisation.

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

Recent work by MA students from the Experimental Film programme at Kingston School of Art.

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

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.

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

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

A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.

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.

Genre veteran Akiko Ohku plays with our expectations of rom-com conventions in his adaptation eponym Risa Wataya’s novel.

A rare opportunity to see one of the great directors Heinosuke Gosho’s masterpiece of post-war marriage and family life.

Director Yoshida Daihachi studies the human condition in his adaptation of a thriller manga by the maestro team of Yamagami Tatsuhiko and Igarashi Mikio.

Spectacular live-action adaptation of a bestselling fantasy manga series set in old-town Kamakura.

A newly divorced father (Toshimi Watanabe) finds himself out of depth when faced with the unfamiliar challenge of preparing his daughter’s daily lunchbox.

Using a heartrending diagnosis as a catalyst, this internationally-acclaimed drama charts the race of a terminally ill woman to mend her family in the time she has left.