London International Animation Festival
The London International Animation Festival is Britain's premier showcase for independent animation screening one of the largest collections of auteur independent animation gathered at any festival in the world.
LIAF aims to challenge and inspire audiences with thematic, aesthetic and technical diversity from award winners, outstanding industry veterans and those wonderful newcomers who are exploring their talent on screen for the very first time.
2nd edition
2005 | 23 - 28 August
Best Film of the Festival
The Regulator
France | 2004 | 16:00
Director: Philippe Grammaticopoulos
6
Best Film - Session 1 - Jury Award
Canada | 2004 | 13:54
Director: Chris Landreth
54
Best Film - Session 4 - Jury Award
Australia | 2004 | 9:18
Director: Sejong Park
15
Best Film - Session 6 - Jury Award
The Regulator
France | 2004 | 16:00
Director: Philippe Grammaticopoulos
6
Best British Film - Jury Award
United Kingdom | 2004 | 5:58
Director: Gaëlle Denis
28
Best Computer/Digital Film - Jury Award
France | 2004 | 4:55
Directors: Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrié
15
Best Film - Session 1 - Audience Award
United Kingdom | 2004 | 11:00
Director: Daniel Greaves
13
Best Film - Session 2 - Audience Award
The Crab Revolution
France | 2004 | 4:50
Director: Arthur de Pins
13
Best Film - Session 6 - Audience Award
Insomnia
Latvia | 2004 | 7:00
Director: Vladimir Lesciov
7
Best Computer/Digital Film - Audience Award
France | 2004 | 4:55
Directors: Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrié, Oury Atlan
15
Insomnia
Latvia | 2004 | 7:00
Director: Vladimir Lesciov
She comes at night quiet like a cat until he feeds her. All she needs from him is milk found somewhere between sleep and reality. Her name is Insomnia...
7
Australia | 2004 | 9:18
Director: Sejong Park
During the Korean War, little Manuk plays on the streets of his village and dreams of life on the front. When he returns home, he finds a birthday pre...
15
United Kingdom | 2004 | 5:58
Director: Gaëlle Denis
When Tomoko arrives in London, she has no idea that soon she will discover a mysterious secret hidden beneath the city.
28
France | Apr 2005 | 4:00
Director: Édouard Salier
The Pax Americana takes care on our peace, ensures our comfort, guarantees our prosperity…
An idyllic postcard of the new Empire.
4
Falling
Germany | 2004 | 5:53
Director: Peter Kaboth
A split second is suspended in time as both the falling pair and onlookers consider the meaning of life.
1
Poland | Sep 2004 | 5:50
Director: Tomek Baginski
In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity.
11
United Kingdom | 2000 | 8:00
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She be...
17
United States | 2004 | 4:00
Director: Jeff Fowler
A hungry gopher devises a scheme that he hopes will provide him with a tasty snack.
6
United States | 2004 | 5:00
Director: Bill Plympton
Why do dogs bark at pigeons and squirrels? Perhaps the answer lies in canine psychology...
12
The Man Without a Shadow
Canada | 2004 | 9:35
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
What bother dragging around one's shadow? A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence o...
14
Nibbles
The Meaning of Life
Welcome to Kentucky
Une Histoire Vertebrale (Backbone Tale)
Bezmiegs (Insomnia)
Le Régulateur (The Regulator)
Overtime
Fallen (Falling)
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Vent
Father and Daughter
Empire
Obras
Short film types screened

Fiction / Live action

Animation

Documentary

Experimental

Music video
Competition and rewards

International competition

No cash awards

No screening fees