London Short Film Festival 2018

A one-off audiovisual collaboration with a 360-degree nebulous orb, as musicians perform in-the-round beneath multiple circular projections.

An incredible selection of shorts are being brought back for this very special 15th anniversary screening.

The traditional Friday night of comedy shorts to wash away the January blues.

The LSFF commissioning fund, supported by Arts Council England, premieres three new short works plus influences and inspirations from each artist.

Deep dive into the lives of those strange and wonderful people all around us in all their complex, witty, funny and at times shocking glory.

A combined retrospective of Chick Strand and Barbara Hammer, exploring the idea of 'radical softness': the power in being both abrasively feminine and openly vulnerable.

Shorts that veer from boy band worship to teen crushes, an obsessive parental love to a child's devotion to a treasured animal.

The masks we build ourselves prove essential in these stories of school bullying, macho posturing and online bravado.

An immersive programme of analogue experiments, plentifully serving niche and nostalgia - from found footage manipulations to the crackling of hand-developed Super8 and 16mm.

A showcase of the best in new experimental short film.

A selection of beautifully observed documentaries exploring the complexities and hidden communities of the British Isles.

A screening of nine films commissioned by The Guardian and Headlong Theatre to mark the one year anniversary of the EU referendum.

LSFF and Oska Bright team up once more to present an autism-friendly screening for the third year running.

A celebration of the work of Senegalese-French filmmaker and actress Mati Diop and her dreamlike ruminations on space, place and home.

A programme of shorts about the hot, heavy, fleshy and fucked up.

A rare screening of Forough Farrokhzad's only film is accompanied by readings of her poetry and a discussion of her legacy in Iranian cinema, culture and society.

A celebration of Ngozi's legacy with a screening rare works followed by a panel discussion.

The microscopic lens reveals much about who we are in this diverse selection of new documentaries.

A selection of films that display high wire virtuosity as they dangerously skitter through a myriad of cinematic forms.

Exploring JG Ballard's 20th century preoccupation with the machine versus the 21st century obsession with the digital.

Number up. Chips cashed. Dust bitten. A programme of shorts taking us beyond the veil.

A provocative look at personal resistance as a radical act.

These powerful shorts tackle our endemic melancholia, giving us complex characters baring all and attempting to take back control.

Honouring excellence across the spectrum of short film at this annual LSFF event.

An uncomfortable, in-your-face examination of Pakistan, from its violence to its apathy to its refusal to recognize its moral corruption.

Featuring special guests and audiovisual surprises, this celebration of women rappers promises to be a live event not to be missed.

An exhumation of 40-year-old films made by police to entrap gay men in Ohio reveals hidden dimensions through recontexualisation, offering up an open democratic space where age, class and racial boundaries break down.

A screening of this Philip Trevelyan film from 1971 followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Andrew Kötting and photographer Ingrid Pollard.

If you like your filmic morsels on the meatier side, then these medium length shorts are for you.

A chance to see the best UK and international short films of 2018.