After another amazing festival this January, we’re officially OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🎬✨ Got a short you want to see on the big screen? Send it our way via FilmFreeway for LSFF 2027. Early Bird deadline is 31st March.

That’s a wrap on LSFF 2026 🎬 This year, shorts popped up in community hubs + creative spaces across #London, carrying short-form cinema to new eyes + new ears. Thank you to all our venues, volunteers + sponsors for making #LSFF26 so special. Cinema remembers what we forget.

Our Industry Programme wrapped yesterday after 5 incredible days of panels, Q&As, screenings + showcases across the city. Across venues at @tiktok_uk, @ICALondon + @ErasedTapes we brought together filmmakers + creatives to help form conversations, connections + collaborations.

What a night 🎬✨ Our @LSFF offline meetup on Monday was a huge success ; packed with inspiring conversations, insightful questions for our incredible panel & speakers, and plenty of fun at the Polaroid photobooth 📸 Big thanks to everyone who joined us to explore how CapCut can

LSFF on #35mm Here's a few snaps from our Opening Night at @CurzonCinemas Soho 📸 There's still plenty of panels, Q&A's, and of course, short films to see over the weekend! Grab your tickets and we'll see you in one of our many venues across #London ✨

We’re proud to sponsor @SydArts_ Film Club's @LSFF event Express Yourself 🎬 Join them tomorrow for bold new voices, great storytelling & local creativity, right here in #Sydenham. 🎟 Tickets: https://t.co/vVHanMeOcf | Programme: https://t.co/Z4UtZD6Q8z #LSFF2026 #SE26

🎬 The LSFF Industry Programme starts today! Over the next 5 days, we're bringing together filmmakers, producers, programmers and creatives for talks, screenings, + opportunities to connect. Kicking off today at @tiktok_uk HQ, then continuing at the @ICALondon + @ErasedTapes

LSFF26 Opening Weekend is underway! ✨ Thank you for a wonderful opening night. It’s so lovely to begin sharing our 2026 programme with you, and see these shorts on the big screen. Over the next 9 days we have #film screenings, panels + industry event all over #London, join us?

🚨 IT’S LIVE 🚨 LSFF 2026 starts today 🎬 Ten days of bold short films, special programmes, talks & events across #London opening the UK film calendar in style. Grab tickets, dive in, and we’ll see you in the cinema 💥

The @LSFF starts today🎞️ Showcasing 300 works from new voices, acclaimed directors, and underground discoveries drawn from the archive, the festival spans the full emotional range of short-form cinema📽️ https://t.co/sGwCfillOT

⏰ One week to go! The LSFF Industry Programme kicks off in 7 days - five packed days of panels, screenings, matchmaking + big conversations shaping filmmaking today. Join us from 26–30 Jan. 🎬 🎟️ Passes via link in bio

The @LSFF is kicking off this week. Excited to see so many BFI NETWORK shorts in this year's programme! Pen Mari For Better Poll Pri Tumtum Cameraman Purebred Deliverance Strands: Gothic, London/British Lives, Romantic Matinee & more https://t.co/rGuwRmfi4f

⏰ 1 WEEK TO GO ⏰ LSFF26 lands across #London 23 Jan–1 Feb 🎬 10 days of screenings + events spotlighting bold new voices alongside acclaimed names. We'll be at @ICALondon @riocinema @RichMixLondon @CurzonCinemas @ActOne_Cinema @MetrolandC + new venues across the city!

London Short Film Festival (@LSFF), returns with a programme inviting young audiences to imagine worlds both vast and small, where empathy and curiosity shape what comes next. Suitable for children aged 7+ 25 Jan https://t.co/ssTsuRSLfs

Very happy to share that my new film, ‘THE GOLDEN SQUACCO HERON’, will have its London Premiere at @LSFF 2026! We’ll be screening twice: Thurs. 29th Jan. 18:20 at @CurzonSoho and Sat. 31st Jan 19:30 at @CinemaMuseum. Hope to see a few mutuals there! 🎟️

📖 New essay alert: "Dreams Made Material: The Cinema of Soviet Infrastructure in Central Asia" by our PhD Kseniia Bespalova about the @LSFF programme 'Wonders and Disasters: Nature, Architecture, and Colonialism in Central Asia', to screen at @ICALondon on 27.01.26

⋆˚｡⭒ A CoreCore Mixtape ⭒˚｡⋆ Found footage for the algorithmic age 📼 A remix of TikToks, internet detritus & doomscroll logic — a cinema of anxiety, nostalgia & burnout. 24 Jan @ICALondon + Q&A. Curated by Immaterial Film Club + essay from @kieranpressreyn #CoreCore

🖤 Emo Tapes dives into early Y2K emo YouTube: DIY vids, teenage bedrooms, music & fashion. Screening + panel, symposium on emo superstars #MyChemicalRomance + emo history. 29 Jan @ICALondon Come cry, cringe & feel seen 🥀 #emo #Y2K #MCR

LSFF centres Deaf & disabled experience, not as access add-ons, but as a creative force. Programmes such as My Eye Is My Ear + A Raised Voice, Amplified interrogate modes of speaking and listening. + BSL/DS, relaxed, free & #PWYC screenings across #London

Head to @BFI Southbank on 25 Jan for Everybody’s Darling: Melodrama in 80s & 90s Punk Cinema, part of @LSFF Platforming women & queer artistes, investigating the legacy of Warhol’s ‘superstars’, John Waters’ trash cinema & the Cinema of Transgression. https://t.co/FRD6k40yaB