Independent Film Festival

Schedule

April 18, 2025

Best of the London International Animation Festival 2024

7:00 PM @ Riverside Arts Center - Theater

The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) is the UK’s largest, longest-running animation festival, screening annually since 2003. This programme is a snapshot of the most recent festival - 8 short films that promise to inspire, delight and challenge the notion that animation is merely for the 3D CGI blockbuster genre or cute cartoons for kids. Independent animation is an art form that continues to thrive and develop as a breathtaking medley of styles, materials, techniques and production - from hand drawn, paint on glass, collage, sculpture, cut outs, puppets, abstract, sand/salt, to some of the more interesting developments in CGI – all of which can be seen in this programme. For more information about LIAF please visit our website at www.liaf.org.uk

Mee and Burd

A post operative existential crisis inspires an animator to make a film about a post operative existential crisis.

Tennis, Oranges

In a pandemic-era hospital, a robotic vacuum, bored by its repetition, decides to quit. Seeking a more meaningful existence, it ventures to a quiet Chinatown street. There, it encounters two solitary rabbits, each trapped in their own repetitive routines. As the vacuum befriends one of these characters, it finds a sense of community and begins to explore a broader purpose beyond its programmed tasks of cleaning. A dance ensues and for a time things are good. But all good things in life can't last.

Noggin

No sugarcoatin' it, you've got brain damage from multiple sclerosis. Your memories are fading so gather everything left in that noggin, like paper and ink and photos and love of course. Start with the foundation and don't give up. Soon you'll have a palace.

(S)

An immersive loop of organic forms, reflecting on the entangled nature of life and art.

Bunnyhood

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?

Humanity

Life is hard even without having to tolerate other people's annoying habits. The problem is you can't kill somebody just because they chew too loudly. But in this animated world, you can make all your dark visions of fatal revenge a reality.

I Am A Robot

An autonomous vacuum cleaner, a self-driving car and a supercomputer confess their innermost thoughts as they go about their day.

Missed Connections

‘Missed Connections’ is an online forum where anyone can post their story, in hopes of reconnecting with someone they shared a passing moment with.

Body Betrays Itself

9:00 PM @ Riverside Arts Center - Theater

a collection of short horror and suspense films examining the vengeful, obsessive, and cathartic ways we relate to gender and the body.

A Fermenting Woman

On the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau (Sook-Yin Lee) develops an incendiary new dish with a bewitching ingredient she’s convinced will save her career.

Belly Belly

A tongue-in-cheek LGBTQ+ body-horror satire about connection, compulsion, and, belly-obsession in the tiktok epoch. Body Dysmorphia's a hell of a drug. But you can't ignore the hunger forever

Dirty Bad Wrong

Desperate to keep her promise to host the best superhero party for her 6 year old, young mother Sid, a sex worker, takes extreme measures and books a last-minute client with a dark fetish.

Izzy

Izzy slowly realises that she doesn’t want to admit to societal expectations anymore.

Mauled By a Dog

After his girlfriend is viciously attacked by a dog, a lowly call center worker ventures on a surreal mission for vengeance through the dark underbelly of the South Wales Valleys. ‍

Shadow

A young mother's shadow takes on a life of its own and terrorizes her and her daughter over the course of one night.

Stuck

A man gets stuck in his sex doll.

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Date: April 17-19, 2025