After a successful inaugural event with sold-out screenings, short film premieres, and dozens of excellent short films, the London International Short Film Festival returned to Kino Bermondsey for a second year of showcasing the best of short film in the heart of one of the world’s greatest filmmaking cities.
LISFF 2017 ran October 23rd – 26th. Submissions for 2018 will be open soon: follow us on Twitter for announcements.
Award Winners 2017
Short Film
Story To Tell (Sayaka Nakane)
UK Short Film
Living Under Kapatalism (Nia Fausset)
Short Feature
The Energy Within (Samuel de Ceccatty)
Student Short Short
Marianne (Tomisin Adepeju)
Short Documentary
Towards Harmony: A Musical Integration (Phoebe Holman)
Comedy Short
Bread Head (Adam Chamberlain)
Experimental Short
Magical Europe Volume Two (Stan Chang)
Sci-Fi Short
After We Have Left Our Homes (Marc Adamson)
Horror Short
Lovely Creature (Ori Birger, Shira Sznaider)
Animated Short
Johanne (Anna-Ester Volozh)
LGBT Short
Anchovies (Craig Harwood)
Short Short
Spilt Milk (Chris Vernon)
Music Video
Story To Tell (Sayaka Nakane)
Schedule 2o17
Monday, October 23rd
6.00pm
The Energy Within (Samuel de Ceccatty)
Delightful (Anna Haas)
Warm Snow (Xiaoming Ding)
Notice (Joshua Kerr)
Soho Jimbo (Chris Chung)
Core (Meng Zhou)
Silver Lining (Costanza Bongiorni)
7.30pm
No Pain Whatsoever (Alex Kendall)
After We Have Left Our Homes (Marc Adamson)
Only Wanna Party 2016 (Brian Kohne)
The Boat (Caroline Bacle)
Bread Head (Adam Chamberlain)
1% Chance of Sunshine (Anthea Ng)
The Fruit Of Desire (Thierry Pradervand)
The Seedlings (Christina Yianni)
Tuesday, October 24th
6.00pm
Kid Gloves (Julia Hart)
Spilt Milk (Chris Vernon)
The Beats Beneath (Andrew South, Daniel Renwick)
Story To Tell (Sayaka Nakane)
Second Contact (Brian Ernst)
Updating (Caitlin Samuelson-Powell)
Easy: A 3 Minute Love Story (Robert Guthrie)
Towards Harmony: A Musical Integration (Phoebe Holman)
7.30pm
Time – Retrograde (David Ellis)
Love to Remain (Sebastian y Diego Benalcazar)
The Best (Robin Finch)
Marianne (Tomisin Adepeju)
Someone Else (Owain Pennington)
Gascoyne Lives (Derek Smith)
Wednesday, October 25th
6.00pm
Dreams of Giverny (Alice Pennefather)
The Painter (Laura Pedrosa)
Choice. Regret. (Christopher Schonning)
The Music Taken With Her (Chachee Valentine)
Seared (Ben Gustafson)
Johanne (Anna-Ester Volozh)
Sweet Sam (Alyson Connew)
7.30pm
Living Under Kapatalism (Nia Fausset)
Brother Wahab (Ibad Shaikh)
The Nest Egg (Lucy Patrick Ward)
Locked Outside (Ross Richardson)
Nailman (Jack Martin)
The Story (Luke Rothschild)
Anchovies (Craig Harwood)
Thursday, October 26th
6.00pm
A Bone to Pick (Lewis Tan, Marisa Szczepan)
Runcorn (Oliver Brown)
Divest Health (Zoe Steley)
Black Nest (Christopher Linton)
Pricked (Justin Batchelor)
Magical Europe Volume Two (Stan Chang)
Ghost Beats (Brent Barson)
Don’t Ask Me What is Love (Fuli Zheng)
The Hand with a Mind of Its Own (Dave Waldman)
7.30pm: Thriller Night
Lovely Creature (Ori Birger, Shira Sznaider)
Playback (Ruaraidh Urpeth)
Tears (Raphael Halloran)
Fisheye (Dane Winn)
LOAK (Jonathan Mourgue)
Doll’s House (Jim Greayer)
Sunday Morning (Ande Case)
Memento Mori (Scott James Bassett)