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Shorts Block 8 - LIFF
Shorts Block 8 - LIFF

Shorts Block 8 - LIFF

Running time: 75 mins

Genre:

Release Date: 10/10/2025

Films featured:

Blade Runners by Matthew Rowney, 23 mins
The Skin I'm in by Elena Vialykh, 15 mins
Timeless : A Symphony in Motion by Susan Lim, Tom Ball, Christina Teenz Tan, 4 mins
Headhunter by Spike Curtis, 13 mins
Seeking Thomas by Julia Lisa Zlotnick, 3 mins
First Time by Kieran Freemantle, 9 mins
Waiting by Aleksandra Bucevac, 8 mins

About the festival:

The London Independent Film Festival (LIFF) is devoted to the advancement of first- and second-time filmmakers telling amazing stories with limited budgets. Hosted every October at the Genesis cinema – repeatedly voted the best cinema in the UK – the October 2025 London Independent Film Festival will screen the work of approximately 100 filmmakers from around the world. Stretching over 10 days with numerous industry events, LIFF offers an unmissable opportunity for networking and building collaborations for future projects. It's little wonder that Time Out Magazine has called LIFF "a treasure trove of undiscovered cinematic gems, one of Europe's top indie film fests".

With a reputable support system for emerging filmmakers, LIFF includes popular training programs run by industry professionals who understand the ins and outs of moving a filmmaker's career to the next level.

Please follow the festival on Instagram @londoniff and on Facebook.

10 October

Film Festival

What's On

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The 400 Blows- Classics Presented in 35mm

Genesis Writers Group

Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

Under The Open Sky + Q&A

It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This- Halloween at Genesis

The Night of the Living Dead- Halloween at Genesis

Halloween Extended Version- Halloween at Genesis

Sudan, Remember Us + Q&A

D(e)ad + Q&A

ANIMATION: Fragments of Becoming - BUFF

Heavyweight - BUFF

Confined Spaces, BIG Revelations - BUFF

Grit & Glory featuring London Premiere of “Skategoat” - BUFF

Digital Age & Future Worlds: From Today to the End - BUFF

Shoot the People (London Premiere) - BUFF

Home Is… - BUFF

Hope & How to Sue the Klan - BUFF

Not Just A Western Thing - BUFF

Shorts Block 11 - LIFF

LIFF Mini-Market (invitation only)

Never Had A Chance + Q&A - LIFF

Shorts Block 10 - LIFF

Shorts Block 9 - LIFF

Big Picture Film Club presents: The Film Production Surgery

Mercy + Q&A - LIFF

Shorts Block 8 - LIFF

Shorts Block 7 - LIFF

Shorts Block 6 - LIFF

Shorts Block 5 - LIFF

Shorts Block 4 - LIFF

The Business of Storytelling: How filmmakers can win with marketing - LIFF

Shorts Block 3 - LIFF

Shorts Block 2 - LIFF

Shorts Block 1 - LIFF

SMASH pitching workshop - LIFF

Unlicensed + Q&A - LIFF

Opening Night Party - LIFF

The Fisherman - BUFF

Fathers and Grandads: What We Carry and Let Go - BUFF

The Banjo Boys & Under The Gun - BUFF

Tibet Film Festival London Short Film Competition and UK Premiere of My Sweet Pala

African Djembe Drumming Workshop - 16+ Session

African Djembe Drumming Workshop - Family Session (all ages welcome)

48 Resisting the big settlement + Where the Wind Blows - London Palestine Film Festival

SkatePal Double Bill: Epicly Palestine'd + EXIST - London Palestine Film Festival

The Palestine Exception - London Palestine Film Festival

BUFF Awards 2025 : British Urban Film Festival (London) 

KUCH SAPNEY APNE (Dreams Such As Ours) + Q&A

The Run Interactive Film

Far From Heaven - Seasonal Affective Cinema 

Films that F*ck 2: Californian Gay Pornotragedies

Sonderhaus Film Club

The Shadow’s Edge - Drunken Scorpion Presents …. The Return of Kung Fu Cinema

Bar Trash: MYSTERY HORROR FILM? with Geremi So

Bar Trash: THE TWILIGHT PEOPLE (1972)

Bar Trash: DR. BLACK, MR HYDE (1976)

Bar Trash: Trans Rights Fundraiser — MUTANT HUNT (1987) with Loose Willis & Avery McNeilly

Water Girl (UK Premiere) - BUFF

Closing Night Party - lIFF

Breakwater + Q&A - LIFF

Cat Video Fest 2025

Hellraiser Presented by Cult Classic Collective- Halloween at Genesis

One Battle After Another

Silents Synced - R.E.M. X Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.

Silents Synced - Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror- Halloween at Genesis

Some Like it Swing

Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl

The Roses

The Smashing Machine

Urchin

Weapons