BFI London Film Festival Shorts

Local community lies at the heart of this programme. From a late-night Ugandan town, New Orleans hair salon and musically-oriented Brazilian delivery culture to the bricks and mortar of British housing and the cruel nature of unbridled capitalism, we witness everyday lives.

Marriage as an institution can be suffocating and the works here explore the more negative side to the vows taken between two people, particularly around how individuals can control and bully.

From home to the back of a taxi and back again, these stories encompass self-exploration and negotiating the importance of identity, while choosing a path to be proud of.

Filmmakers showcase the strange in this selection that veers between the weirdness of folk horror to a wonderful celebration of Afro-futurism.

This selection of shorts shows how varied and impressive new British filmmaking is, through stories of community, love and personal acceptance.

Life isn’t always a well-choreographed montage and the stumbles are often why we reflect on it. It’s how personalities are made and that makes for the richest of dramas.

In 1959 filmmaking polymath Edric Connor returned to the Caribbean to direct, producing seven films in quick succession. A proud West Indian nationalist, Connor documents nation-building, focusing on flourishing commerce, reverently capturing the people and terrain.

Specially selected from the BFI Flare short film programme, the #GenerationNow films explore what it means to be a young adult in the world today, showcasing some of the brightest emerging LGBTQIA+ filmmakers.

Revived and restored from the world’s archives

Films by artists that revolutionise and reshape our vision of cinema.

Films for the young... and young at heart.