London International Animation Festival

LIAF 2025: Judges’ Award Statements

Mandy — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:20:17 +0000

Our esteemed Panel of Judges watched, assessed and debated the finer points of every single one of the films selected for competition. Read on to find out more about why each of our LIAF 2025 winners were awarded their accolades. Best Film of the Festival Award: On Weary Wings Go By – Anu-Laura Tuttelberg The winning film captivated us […]

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LIAF 2025: AND THE WINNER IS…

Mandy — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:23:53 +0000

Best Film of the Festival Award: On Weary Wings Go By – Anu-Laura Tuttelberg Best British Film Award: Film Film – Arturs Voblikovs Best Sound Design Award: Ploo – Thies Mynther & Peter Brokhøj (Dir. by Jon Frickey) Best Original Score Award: Dog Alone – Grilo (Dir. Marta Reis Andrade) Best Abstract Film Award: Deluge – Meejin Hong Best Late Night Bizarre […]

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LIAF 2025 ARTICLE: LONG SHORTS

Mandy — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:13:13 +0000

An Immersion in the Mise-En-Scenery: The Gentle Art of Giving A Frame We’ve probably had some version of this chat before, but just to recap – and for the sake of those new to the shenanigans – there are a number of reasons for a ‘Long Shorts’ programme. Some have to do with aesthetics, some […]

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LIAF 2025 ARTICLE: ANIMATED DOCUMENTARIES

Mandy — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:14:44 +0000

Genre to Medium – You Heard if from an Expert It’s hard to get a decent bead on the current state of health of the broader documentary form. Perhaps somebody should make a documentary about it. On balance, there seems to be a kind of ‘best of times, worst of times’ sense among the commentariat […]

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LIAF ARTICLE: INTO THE DARK

Mandy — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:08:05 +0000

Salon des Disturbance – Teraphobia Stalks The Mindscape The fear of the monster, the threat of the ‘other’ and a brain hardwired to pivot towards alarm and peril as a priority in times of doubt to help kick the ol’ fight-or-flight engine into top gear straight away is as old as we are; whatever that […]

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LIAF 2025 ARTICLE: STOP MOTION PANORAMA

Mandy — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:08:00 +0000

The Truly LIVING Artform Back in the mid 1990’s when Adam Elliot was studying animation at the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne he was told more than once that stop motion animation was a ‘dying artform’ and perhaps he might want to reconsider some of his choices. Luckily (for us) that’s not really Adam’s […]

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LIAF 2025 Article: BEING HUMAN

Mandy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:58:10 +0000

Time to talk about time “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow is the future but today is a gift. That’s why they call it the present” Bill Keane: Cartoonist (The Family Circus) Time! It’s a uniquely human edifice. It’s a uniquely human concept. It is one of the most potent and one of the few truly universal […]

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LIAF 2025 ARTICLE: FROM ABSURD TO ZANY

Mandy — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:35:47 +0000

Watching Watchers Watch Us As We Watch Ourselves – Absurd AND Zany Anatidaephobia the irrational fear of being watched by one or more ducks Believe it or believe it not (but believe it), this is actually a thing! It’s a pretty crazy thing but it’s a thing. For the most part though, if you’ve heard […]

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LIAF 2025 ARTICLE: PLAYING WITH EMOTION

Mandy — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:21:07 +0000

Play What You Can’t Say: Scribbled Words From A Desperate Moment of Real-Time Inspiration “I went home with a waitress, the way I always do…..” Ohhh, wait….. right song, wrong verse. “I’m hiding in Honduras, I’m a desperate man, send lawyers guns and money, the shit has hit the fan” Ahhh, Warren Zevon, how we […]

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LIAF 2025 ARTICLE: FIGURES IN FOCUS – SKIN SHOWS

Mandy — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:15:11 +0000

With this edition of Figures in Focus, the title ‘Skin Shows’ is a nod to Jack Halberstam’s excellent book of the same name; a work that explores gothic horror, monstrousness, corporeality, otherness, and its representation in contemporary film. In this programme the perspective of the female body as grotesque, abject, and perverse is interrogated. These […]

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