Our annual festival returns to take audiences on a journey through the short films of the most interesting emerging voices working today.

We’re infamous for curating a broad selection of diverse national and international shorts with delightful tangents into a variety of genres and styles.

With a special focus on narrative & documentary cinematic shorts crafted exclusively by emerging talent, KLSFF is where you can discover genuine, exciting, and original independent voices.

August 28-31, 2025

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UPCOMING PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS

Open Screen

July 5th, 18:00 | Strongroom Shoreditch

Open Mics are a great place for emerging musicians and comedians to get their feet wet. Our "Open Screen" is the same concept... but for filmmakers.

Register to screen your short film (10 minutes or less) in front of an audience of fifty to a hundred. Get feedback. Invite friends. Connect with peers, collaborators, and those higher up in the film industry.

All genres accepted. No curation. Non-competitive. First to sign up is the first to screen.

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Pre-Festival Party

August 7th, 19:00 | Strongroom Shoreditch

Come mingle and network with the filmmaking teams behind this year's Official Selections, festival alumni, film industry professionals and emerging talent.

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Open Screen

August 25th, 19:00 | Strongroom Shoreditch

Open Mics are a great place for emerging musicians and comedians to get their feet wet. Our "Open Screen" is the same concept... but for filmmakers.

Register to screen your short film (10 minutes or less) in front of an audience of fifty to a hundred. Get feedback. Invite friends. Connect with peers, collaborators, and those higher up in the film industry.

All genres accepted. No curation. Non-competitive. First to sign up is the first to screen.

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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

COMING SOON

  • A Film About Dad - Joe Murphy

  • A Frog Sits In Water - Dylan Friese-Greene

  • A King Comes To Town - Joseff Morgan

  • A Scent - Johnny Russell

  • A Time Before - Leo Metcalf

  • A Twist of Hate - Maddy Shenai

  • Admin - Shannon Sullivan

  • Baby On Board - Jamie Luke Milligan

  • Behind - Alessio Avezzano

  • Blisters - Alia Wilhelm, Callie Keels Ju

  • Bonfire - Jake Mark

  • Broadcast - Ewan Pollitt

  • Cardboard Heart- Catalina Ferreira Martin

  • Cleaned Out - Sam Arnold

  • Cuddle - Arron Blake

  • Cut Short - Olz McCoy

  • Dave Muir - 'All or Nothing' - Hugo Pettit

  • Deadlift - Joseph McDonagh

  • Death Of Fles- Zechen Huang

  • Deli Meat - BRICK

  • Dirt - Isabella Speaight

  • Do You Have Kids? - Tom Gentle

  • Doppelgänger - Zak Harney

  • Easy Sell - Ken Abalos, Ash Meshkati

  • Every Time I See A Yellow Car - Matt Chandler

  • Fanfare for Shame - Sophia Capasso

  • Far From The Plains - Luigi Sibona

  • Finding Home - James Trosh

  • Fish & Chips - Macadie Amoroso

  • For Better - Kitty Percy

  • Fractured Frame - Natalie Lauren

  • Friday is Mushroom Soup - Arnold T RiceItch, Joe Savage

  • G.S.W. - Jonny Durgan

  • Game Over - Cleo Samoles-Little

  • Geronto - Mark Pluck

  • Gesualdo - Nicholas Hulbert

  • Glass - James Barlow

  • Good Behaviour - Dan Sloan

  • Grandma is Thirsty - Kris Carr

  • Handle with Care - Dylan Blore

  • Heat Haze - Margarita Milne

  • HERE - Lilly Zhuang

  • Homonym - Lily Howkins

  • How Fast Can You Eat A Pickled Egg? - Daniel England

  • I Think My Dad's a Cyborg and I Think He Killed My Mum - Felix Lagers

  • I Am The Prize - Sai Karan Talwar

  • I Hate Helen - Katie Lambert

  • If Now Now, When? - Eliot Gelberg-Wilson

  • In the Clouds - Alexandra Bahíyyih Wain

  • Indignitas - Darcia Martin

  • Itch - Joe Savage

  • Ivanko's Childhood - Vera Graziadei

  • James Pearson-Howes: Sitting Still - Donell Atkinson-Johnson

  • K-9INE! - Elliott Power

  • Karim - Faten Bushehri

  • Kindred Spirits - Ella Faye Donley

  • Kitty - Lizzie Hart, James Newman

  • Love & Bullets - Jadey Duffield

  • Love Me, Hold Me, Always - Hardey Speight

  • Make Yourself At Home - Dean Kay-Barry / Three Shades

  • Matilda's Arrived - Macadie Amoroso

  • Marloo - Isaac Money

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

  • Mayflies - Lydia McNulty

  • Me to you - Frøydis Fossli Moe

  • Megumi - Hiroki Berrecloth

  • Midnight at Mickey's - Vin Wolff

  • (Mum) - Jake Mavity

  • My Golden Boy - Tomasz Frymorgen

  • New Ground- Louisa Rechenbach

  • Night Whispers - Adrian León

  • Not Yet - Souvid "JIJO" Datta

  • Nothing Sticks - Roze Elisa, Kuba Szutkowski

  • Old Bag - John Ferrer, Alice Guymer

  • On Fire for Jesus- Harry Carr

  • Ovary-Acting - Ida Melum

  • Pay In 30 Days - Lawrence Essex

  • Pearls - Alastair Train

  • pieces - Klara Schmickler

  • Plastic Surgery - Guy Trevellyan

  • Proud Dad - Kyle Jon Shephard

  • Revenge of the Language Master 1757B - Michael Beeson

  • Sage - Max Blustin

  • Scope - Emma Moffat

  • SELF+TAPE - James Cleave

  • Signs - Esme Allen, Hannah Beach

  • Signal - Zak Jarvis

  • Spoken Movement Family Honour - Daniel Gurton

  • Stinging Nettles - Jerusha West

  • Swim Sistas - Catherine Joy White

  • Tapeworm - Daniel Rands

  • Tell Your Face - Jill Worsley

  • Tess - Melville Simon

  • The Proudest Rose - Joshua Jacob, Giorgia Young

  • The Removed - Rebecca Rose

  • The Invisible Nature of Beauty - Juan Camilo Suarez

  • The Trophy King - Tighe Boudreaux Kellner

  • The Algorithm of Loss - Levi Eddie Aluede

  • The Birth of a Mall Goth - Samantha Locock

  • The Humbug - Cole Paviour

  • The Impending White Light - Ben Wicks

  • The Intimacy Coordinator - Louisa Connolly-Burnham

  • The Long Spring - Olly Ginelli

  • The Painting & The Statue - Freddie Fox

  • The Secret Assistants - Katey Lee Carson

  • This Conversation Has Been Removed - Andrew Nolan

  • Through the bath water - Willow Bidwell

  • Time's Up, I'm Afraid - James Button

  • Toad in the Hole - Ben Norris

  • Truckload - Aella Jordan-Edge

  • Turtleneck - Laurie Fahy

  • Twenty Twenty - Alex A. Salam

  • Van Kampen & The Mosquito - Scott Hurran

  • Voice Shift - Roberto Duque

  • Wavelength - Holly Warburton, Kate Auster

  • We Dream In Colour - Kane Wilson

  • We're All Black Down Here - James William Mellors

  • Where There's Light - Charlotte Couture

  • Whiteface (Int)- Julian Alexander

  • Wild Bear - James Hastings

  • Woman, Dying - Vittoria Rizzardi Peñalosa

  • Your Email Has Not Found Me Well - Karolina Papp