One of LSFF’s most popular annual programmes returns with a cracking collection of oddities, hand-crafted from the confines of our empty wallets and our mortal bodies.

These filmmakers pull off everything from suspense dramas delving into the limits of friendship to road movies chronicling the mishaps of modern love. Here, a second-hand iPhone becomes a window into a stranger's unraveling, puppets juggle notions of language and meaning, a driver's fatal choice spirals into an ocean of regret, an ex-bus driver stages a chaotic heavenly jailbreak through purgatory, and on a mini golf course, someone learns that winning really isn't everything.

Alien Boys Club, dir. Fe E Fi, UK 2025, 6mins

Glass Spider, dir. Michael Demetriou, UK 2025, 5mins

Girls Night Out, dir. Ashley Sengstaken, US 2025, 3mins

Remember Gretel Land, dir. gretel le gleud, UK 2025, 7mins

BUS!, dir. Asta Azopardi, UK 2025, 2mins

Crude Poetry, dir. Mara Helena Frampton, UK 2025, 2mins

Sleep, dir. Cos Mandis, Jay McNeil, Greece, UK 2025, 10mins

Ascended, dir. Jacopo Iebba, Italy 2025, 8mins

Leaf Peeper, dir. Vito A. Rowlands, US 2025, 3mins

Upper Current, dir. Gregory O'Reilly, Ireland 2024, 6mins

Birthday Ticket, dir. Ademola Osinowo, UK 2025, 10mins

Sticky Notes, dir. Trim Lamba, UK 2025, 7mins

Keeping Kenneth Quiet, dir. Neasa Ellen O'Brien, Ireland 2025, 4mins

Waves, dir. Kosar Ali, UK 2025, 4mins

It's Not The Winning It's The Taking Part That Counts, dir. Hannah Beach, UK 2025, 3mins

I want to know what love is, dir. Hanna Järgenstedt, Sweden 2024, 6mins

Contains themes of suicide and self-harm, and scenes of drug use, graphic violence and injury.