Out of the Ashes (15*)
DocSpot. OUT OF THE ASHES + panel In just a few years, the Afghan cricket team has risen from the sport’s lowest ranks to phenomenal success in the highly competitive international arena. Garnering a...
View ArticleLIDF at The Book Club
Thinking and Drinking: Conversations in Film Six UK Short Docs from the LIDF 2010 We are delighted to be starting a new partnership with The Book Club (‘…currently the venue for hip literary events.’...
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LIDF media forum, karachi – Filmmaking For Social Change 2
The media landscape in Pakistan has radically altered over the last decade. Independent TV and radio channels have increased in number and as a result audiences have become ever better informed and...
View ArticleMore screenings in Pakistan
After our successful press screening in Karachi, and another full and busy event in London, more screenings are planned across Pakistan and the UK, including at the forthcoming LIDF. All the up coming...
View ArticleLIDF2011 Opening Night SOLD OUT
Our opening night gala screening of Senna is now sold out. Make sure you don’t miss out on any of the other great films and book early. The best way to enjoy the festival is with one of our new...
View ArticleThe Lights are Green
Record-breaking opening weekend for the LIDF. From the sold out ‘Senna’ to ‘Salam Rugby’ and Steven Soderberg’s ‘ And Everything is Going Fine’ on Sunday night the festival was lively, joyful and...
View ArticleSecond Helpings
Last night saw the World Premier of BENEATH THE SKY at Europe House with the director and the presence Bosnian Ambassador, while we screened the UK Premiere of Elisa Mantin’s IN THE SHADOWS OF DEATH at...
View ArticleNEW MEDIA AND THE COSMOPOLITAN IDEAL?
“Only the bored have need of illusions” In an age of globalised economic development the legacy of Enlightenment theories of cosmopolitanism (moral, political and economic), founded on the Hellenistic...
View ArticleHow Cinema Has Become The Home Of Documentaries
For decades television seemed to be the natural home for documentary makers. The gradual switch from film to video in the late 1970s and 1980s meant that capturing images outdoors or in tricky...
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Eating and Drinking Offer
LIDF has partnered with Ricker Restaurants to make sure your conversation about film does not end in the cinema. Great Eastern Dining Rooms and Cicada will give LIDF ticket-holders offers on cocktails,...
View ArticleLIDF2015
The LIDF was born in 2007; it was conceived a couple of years earlier. A group of post-graduate students in the department of Anthropology, University College London, decided to host documentary film...
View ArticleDocumentary Truth
The LIDF tends not to theme or editorialise the programme in advance. Themes emerge each year, and some themes never go away. In some cases, the latter is tragic. Broadly, you may say, the films fall...
View ArticleIllness Delays Festival
Due to the complications of a long illness the Director of the festival will not be able to be in London this week. That fact that these events should coincide with the run up the LIDF is a sad...
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LIDF media forum, karachi – Filmmaking For Social Change 2
The media landscape in Pakistan has radically altered over the last decade. Independent TV and radio channels have increased in number and as a result audiences have become ever better informed and...
View ArticleConversations
‘A conversation cannot belong to one person the way a narrative can. It is one thing after another, a series of events and relationships and words between those conversing and all those listening [….]...
View ArticleFestival Directions
At 21.15 on the 6th August 1932 the first Venice Film Festival opened with a screening of Rouben Mamoulian’s ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ and with it the era of the film festival began along with an...
View ArticleFestival Communities
Festivals have always suffered from a few simple problems, the most obvious being that a festival is situated in a particular place and a particular time. In a paradoxical way this has meant that a...
View ArticleLIDF.2 Founders
Rather like Bob Dylan’s ‘Never Ending Tour’. The LIDF will from 2017 be a permanent on-line and ‘live’ event. An attempt to engage constantly. It also wants to work with filmmakers directly and for...
View Article‘Flaneurs’
The LIDF begins its new Parisian partnership with Lost in Frenchlation on Friday 3rd March. Appropriately enough the season begins with ’Flâneurs’ – followed by a panel discussion featuring the...
View ArticleCall for Poems
LIF/LIDF/Spoken Word Paris The screening of ‘Flâneurs’ on the 3rd March which begins the LIDF Paris collaboration will be a literary-visual event. Alberto Rigettini and Rim Battal from Spoken Word...
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