London Short Film Festival 2025

UK Competition: Panoramics

+ Q&A

A programme of exceptional short filmmaking talent from the UK.

This programme contains flash photography which may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

In this anthology of UK Competition films, selected from across this year’s LSFF programme, immerse yourself in desolate terrains, unearthed archival memories, eerie provincial conspiracies and the sheer uncertainty of our place in the cosmos.

Including rarely seen archive footage of Palestinian wildflowers; emotional repression in isolated rural Ireland; the sensual and fluid landscape of sexuality; the parallel nature of analogue film and peatland bogs; mysterious big cat sightings in the Welsh countryside; and musical communication with the otherworldly.

Featuring LSFF alumni Federico Barni (Asha) and Theo Panagopoulos (My Own Personal Lebanon).

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
UK 2024. Director Theo Panagopoulos. 17min

Out of the Peat
UK 2024 Directors Tabitha Carless-Frost, Theo Rollason. 12min

Have You Seen The Beast?
UK 2024. Directors Will Hewitt, Austen McCowan. 7min

Arctic Diva
UK 2024. Director Federico Barni. 17min

The Eating of an Orange
UK 2024. Director May Kindred-Boothby. 8min

Farmers!?
UK 2024. Director Freddie Leyden. 15 min

Content warnings

This programme contains real images of fossilised human remains, mild body horror, animated nudity and suggestive imagery and depictions of suicide.