LSFF Competition: There Are New Suns

One of four programmes celebrating the latest in short filmmaking talent.

Please note, the film The Möbius Trip contains flashing images.

  • Total running time 88min

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” - Octavia E. Butler

Filmmaking and watching offer us a way to imagine new horizons, or alternate worlds that are already out there. What planes and dimensions exist alongside our own, and what images can we summon from there to here? A speculative fiction that reimagines the London smog through the lens of the climate crisis. Explore a cyberpunk Manila and the true roots of electronic music as memories and histories intertwine with futures and reality blurs. Is that catfish talking to me?

Costa prize-winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson (Open Water, Small Worlds) premieres his debut short film Pray. LSFF alumni Natalie Cubides-Brady (Beyond the Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie) presents her European Film Award 2024 nomination The Veiled City. Vienna Shorts FIDO winner Hito explores a dreamlike Filipino landscape.

Pray
Director Caleb Azumah Nelson, UK 2023, 19min

Treasure by the River
Director manting huang, Hanjie Bao, China 2023, 12min

The Veiled City
Director Natalie Cubides-Brady, UK 2022, 13min

Africans With Mainframes
Director Kima Hibbert, USA 2023, 15min

The distance between the staircase and the sky
Director Katerina Athanasopoulou, UK 2022, 7min

Hito
Director Stephen Lopez, Philippines 2023, 22min