LIFF Shorts

This year we welcomed an expanded new team of programmers who have considered 1000s of short films between them and made the final selections you can see at LIFF SHORTS 2024.

We have a new opening event for LIFF SHORTS this year on 6 November with a special selection of favourite short films from the programming team.

 From 6 to 9 November, we present the eight competitions including the Academy Award®-qualifying Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition – named after the Leeds pioneer who made the world’s first moving images in 1888 – and the World Animation Competition.

The other competitions include those for British and Yorkshire shorts, documentaries, screendance, queer shorts and music videos. The competitions culminate on 9 November with an awards event at Howard Assembly Room when the juries will announce the winning films which will all be screened on the night too. A separate printed guide for LIFF SHORTS will be available from our venues during the film festival.

LIFF SHORTS is sponsored by Stewarts.