
Narrative Contexts: In Animation & Architecture is a warm-up event for LIAF 2016 The Bank Gallery, Central House where a panel of authors, animators and architects will be discussing the significance of 'context' on shaping the development of visual cultural narratives in animation and architectural space, and the crossover between the two disciplines. The event will ...

Help us celebrate the opening of LIAF 2016 with a cracking selection of highlights from right across the festival programme. We’ll take some of the hottest films from competition, mix them with some gems from the specially curated programmes and give you a chance to meet some special festival guests. This is the essential LIAF showbag to whet your ...

A comprehensive screening of the very best recently released British animation, including several world premieres. Check the pulse of the British animation scene, meet many of the filmmakers and see the films that will take British animation to the world. This is an exceptional opportunity to see what British animators are doing, how they’re doing ...

Like childhood, animation is full of wonder and simple pleasures. This carefully chosen programme for our littlest and most special audience delivers a programme of wonderful films, full of joy. There’ll be talking animals, seriously fun adventures, and tales that spark all those little imaginations. Adults are allowed in if they have permission from their ...

The classic animation that poured from the Walt Disney Studio during the 1930s and 1940s defined the very history of animation. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and other Disney characters endure to this day and the way Disney made them move was a revelation to audiences of all ages.
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Our annual survey of abstract and experimental animation. Animators working in this field employ every technique from hand-drawn ‘musical scores’ all the way across the scale to high definition, computer assisted image making. In common, these films share a pure love of animated movement and an artist’s eye for filling the screen, harnessing colour and ...