The London International Animation Festival 2025
LIAF 2025: BEST OF THE NEXT (Part 3) [15+]
Still from ‘Chair Cemetery’ Dir: Alicia Lévy 3'35
Doors: 9.30pm
This is the third of 3 hour-long student programmes on this night. You can buy tickets for all 3 programmes at a reduced price: Triple Screening Special Offer: Best of the Next 1, 2 & 3
This is the third part of our 3 student programmes.
Lights, Camera, Animation! This is LIAF’s annual showcase of the most dazzling animated student films selected from the best animation and film schools from all around the world. This is the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Stop-motion, drawn animation, collage, cut-out, CGI, clay, ink and almost every other technique these animators can dream up are all on display here. 33 wondrous films in 3 hour-long programmes from the future stars of our animation universe.
Several of the filmmakers will be in attendance. Come along and help us celebrate this incredible work and to gain insights into their creative processes, inspirations, and the challenges they faced while bringing their visions to life.
Total running time: 65 mins
Films:
Arachnophobia
A seemingly harmless prank turns into a delirious nightmare revolving around spiders.
Slovenia 2024 Dir: Melita Sandrin 2'50
University of Nova Gorica School of Arts
Urban Duo
In the bustling noise of Shanghai, a father experiences a peaceful slow life where neighbours live in harmony. His son, on the other hand, is caught up in the fast pace of the city day after day. Their lives are parallel yet starkly different...
China 2024 Dir: Hongyu Yue 6'20
Tongji University
Growth Project
Set in the year 2034, a film inspired by real life technologies that try to solve climate change.
Czech Republic 2025 Dir: Anna Podskalská, Matěj Podskalský 9'00
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU)
Going Places
An adaptation of the poem 'Going Places' by Lemn Sissay. The film follows a man's mundane evening, as he rattles around his flat, shadowed by a painted owl living on his walls. As he grows bored of the lack of direction in his own life, his resentment towards the owl grows.
UK 2025 Dir: Safira Lewis 2'40
Middlesex University
Space Dan
Dan, a space billionaire, celebrates his birthday in his private space station when a cake accident ruins the party. After aiming for the stars, it’s hard to come back down to earth.
France 2024 Dir: Adrien Blanchard, Théophile Farant, Matéo Grossi, Pablo Jegado, Lucas Rougé 8'00
ECOLE MoPA
Cannot Sleep!
Sleep in the same state as before. A wonderful and magical economic experiment where one's head changes and one's head falls.
Japan 2024 Dir: Yingjie Zhou 2'30
Kobe Design University
Cold Home
A portrait of a complex family relationship, where emotions hide between gestures and silence.
Poland 2025 Dir: Alicja Liss 8'20
University of Arts in Poznań
A Stray
Even a little slap from a parent can send a small child into an emotional spiral. A young boy runs away from home and goes to explore a frightening city behind the train rails.
Czech Republic 2024 Dir: Mikuláš Fišer 9'00
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU)
Hello, Headquarters
Mirek dials the phone, greeted by a curt “Hello, Headquarters.” But he’s already adrift - he only wants to report his wife, the Great Orange, missing. Instead, he finds himself ensnared in the cold machinery of office bureaucracy, while outside, relentless rain batters the world around him.
Poland 2025 Dir: Zuzanna Zofia Heller 4'55
Lodz Film School
Morning Glory
A child is like a morning glory, blossoming within the tender yet binding embrace of maternal love.
China 2025 Dir: Rongyu Han 5'20
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts
Two Point Five Stars
Robin works the reception desk of a hostel, passing time with online chess to the lobby’s monotonous music. But her quiet routine unravels as eccentric guests gather, drawing her into a spiral of increasingly absurd events.
Switzerland 2024 Dir: Sina Lerf, Dario Boger, Dario Marti 5'25
Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts
Still from ‘Space Dan’ Dir: Adrien Blanchard, Théophile Farant, Matéo Grossi, Pablo Jegado, Lucas Rougé 8'00
The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2025) - the UK’s largest and longest-running animation festival is back with 10 days of amazing screenings, talks, discussions and events from November 28 to December 7. We are delighted that LIAF is once again returning to the Horse Hospital for 4 nights and 9 extra special screenings - with several visiting local and international animators attending to talk and introduce their films.
The full festival programme is available at https://liaf.org.uk/
