London International Animation Festival 2025

London International Animation Festival remains open for entries until July 31. Details here：

Entries

Recommended Animation screenings in London:

Edge of Frame/Collision 2 at Close-Up Cinema, London

Collision is an ongoing screening series presenting original, daring and sensorially revitalising animation from around the world. This programme features eleven new and recent films from some of the most exciting independent animators working today. Featuring science fiction narratives, Gene Wilder, a quest for comfy shoes, Soviet mirrors, Spanish trompe l’oeils, the invisible pleasure of wind on skin and much more. Details here

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2025/edge-of-frame-collision-2-introduced-by-edwin-rostron/

Bar Shorts at the Garden Cinema – Wednesday May 7th

The brilliant Bar Shorts team has a screening of animated shorts at the Garden Cinema coming up on Wednesday May 7th. To celebrate the launch of their new book Intimate Animation, Skwigly Editor in Chief Ben Mitchell and Dr. Laura-Beth Cowley have curated a programme of animated films that explore the sensitive, sensual – and sometimes saucy – side of animation. Details here.

Bar Shorts presents Intimate Animation. With Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley

Opportunities for filmmakers

FLAMIN ANIMATIONS

FLAMIN Animations is a £3,500 commissioning programme for early-career Black and global majority animators living in England. This year, the scheme is presented in  partnership with the award winning London-based animation studio Blinkink, who will be providing focused support to the selected animators throughout the development and production process alongside the FLAMIN team.

DEADLINE IS 27 MAY

Details here

https://filmlondon.org.uk/resource/apply-to-flamin-animations

LIAF/CENTRAL ST MARTINS STING TRAVELLING TO ANNECY FESTIVAL

We are really excited to say that a one-minute sting made exclusively for LIAF 2024 by Central St Martins student Isolda Milenkovic has been selected to screen in competition in the ‘Commissioned Film’s’ programme at this year’s Annecy Festival.

SUBSTACK RECOMMENDATIONS

For those of you who want to take a deeper dive into reading about independent animated film, here are two highly recommended substacks –

Edge of Frame – for new interviews, articles and more, covering experimental animation from around the world.

https://edgeofframe.substack.com/

Move Madly – by acclaimed journalist Alex Dudok de Wit – thoughtful, informed essays on short-form independent animation (the stuff we all love)

https://movemadly.substack.com/

RECOMMENDED BLU-RAY

27 essential Polish animated films from the 1950s to the 1980s from pioneering filmmakers such as Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica, Zbigniew Rybczyński and many more award-winning filmmakers. Pre-order available now.

Essential Polish Animation (LE)

AND FINALLY….

One of our fave films which screened at LIAF 2023 is now online for viewing. We love this film and we think you will too…

The Estonian film ‘Eeva’ – by Morten Tšinakov & Lucija Mrzljak