A special season celebrating the 70th anniversary of London Film School (LFS), the UK’s oldest film school and a vital force in independent filmmaking since its founding.

Cannes is arguably the most famous and prestigious film festival in the world. London Film School is proud that many of our alumni have had their features selected for competition there. In this programme we are showing short films, produced by our students, whilst still at the school, which were also selected for competition at Cannes, and in some cases won prizes there.

Glorious Revolution

UK/Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian

Festivals: Cannes 2022; Camerimage 2021

Director Mariia Novikova

In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, in this bleakly moving comedy. Never more relevant today.

Praeis (It’ll Pass)

UK/ Lithuania, Lithuanian

Festivals: Cannes 2024

Director Dovydas Draksas

The daughter of a cigarette smuggler thinks again about her father, as she works for him, questions the childhood myth she built around him and comes to know him anew.

Leidi

UK/Colombia – Spanish

Festivals: Cannes 2014

Director Simon Mesa Soto

Leidi lives with her mother and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn’t shown up in days. One sunny morning, after bathing her baby, Leidi is sent to buy plantains. Outside, a guy tells her that he has seen Alexis with another girl. Leidi won’t come home until she finds the father of her child.