This year’s London Film Festival boasts a stellar 30 SP members within their generous shorts programmes this year. We can’t spotlight them all, so here are five short films you may want to see. Members, please share your films and screenings in our bulletins, so everyone knows where to see them. In the meantime, a cross section of some, below.

Smear (UK 2017, 4 minutes)

LFF Short Film Programme – Laugh (Gits & Shiggles)

Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 20:45

& Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 21:00

Kate Herron’s Smear explores the awkward reality of a first time smear test made funny by one woman’s crushing femininity. What begins as a seemingly routine test, quickly turns into a body-horror-comedy that uses externalise internal struggles in a whole new way.

Wave (Ireland 2017, 14 minutes)

LFF Short Film Programme – Laugh (Gits & Shiggles)

Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 20:45

& Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 21:00

Wave was directed by Benjamin Cleary, alongside TJ O’Grady Peyton.  It follows Gasper Rubicon as he awakes from a coma to a world he cannot communicate with. After falling prey to internet trolls, he gets to experience the other side of social media.

Have Heart (UK 2017, 12 minutes)

LFF Short Film Programme – My Loneliness Is Killing Me

Sunday, 8 October 2017 at 15:30

& Monday, 9 October 2017 at 20:50

Directed by acclaimed animator Will Anderson, ‘Have Heart‘ is a story of a looping GIF having an existential crisis. Saying more would only spoil the surprises this festival crowdpleaser has to offer.

Baby Gravy (UK 2017, 11 minutes)

LFF Short Film Programme – London Calling

Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 20:45

& Saturday, 14 October 2017 at 15:15

Marley Morrison’s Baby Gravy takes place in a rural pub on a busy motorway where same sex couple Brona and Alex await the arrival of a man called Karl. A short comedy about the joys and woes of sperm donation.

V (UK 2017, 10 minutes)

LFF Short Film Programme – London Calling

Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 20:45

& Saturday, 14 October 2017 at 15:15

Jimmy Dean’s V follows a 16-year old vampire as she reconsiders her past relationships, cleverly subverting mythology and generic tropes to explore femininity and sexual abuse.