LSFF Competition: This Must Be The Place

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

  • Total running time 86min

Places that we arrive at, leave from, and end up. Places that conjure up a memory that knocks you sideways, makes you laugh, evokes a yearning for something that can never return. This collection of competition films, selected from across the LSFF programme, traverse time and space and the spectrum of human emotion. Secrets, grief, the time you felt happiest, the place that feels like home. From the bustling streets of Tehran to sleepy suburban Scotland, these films invite you to peek into communal and deeply personal histories and spaces.

Duncan Cowles (Scary Adult Things for BBC, Taking Stock) returns to LSFF with his latest personal documentary, Outlets, about his grandmother. Also featuring Sundance 2023 alumni Shalini Adnani’s White Ant, and Animafest Zagreb jury winner Garden of Heart, and May Ziadé’s Neo Nadha, exploring the hidden history of Cairo’s cross-dressing women.

White Ant
Director Shalini Adnani, UK 2023, 14min

Three Sisters
Director Iman Behrouzi, Iran-Germany 2022, 12min

Neo Nahda
Director May Ziadé, UK 2023, 13min

Outlets
Director Duncan Cowles, UK 2022, 19min

A lullaby for yellow roses
Director Rahul Roye, India 2023, 18min

The Garden of Heart
Director Olivér Hegyi, Hungary 2022, 10min