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Thursday, 23 January
Daily Programme
Films
London Short Film Festival 2025
UK Competition: House Of Mirrors 
4:00 PM
Enter a maze of self-reflection and distortions in this collection of UK Competition films, selected from across the LSFF programme.
Exhibitions
New Contemporaries
The annual exhibition returns to the ICA, featuring 35 emerging and early career artists selected through an open call by artists Liz Johnson Artur, Permindar Kaur and Amalia Pica. 
Films
In Focus: Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light
4:05 PM
Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s stunning sophomore feature – which follows ICA Distribution project A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) – is a profound meditation on urban migration and dislocation.
Films
London Short Film Festival 2025
UK Competition: Panoramics
6:00 PM
In this anthology of UK Competition films, selected from across the LSFF programme, immerse yourself in haunting desolate terrains, unearthed archival memories, eerie provincial conspiracies and the sheer uncertainty of our place in the cosmos.
Films
London Short Film Festival 2025
Documentary: Marching forward, looking back
6:30 PM
Reflecting on the traces that linger in the quiet pursuit to understand what lies ahead.In our most delicate moments of reflection, how are we to reconcile the lingering fragments bridging past and present?
Live
Teeth of the Sea + Smote
7:30 PM
Since their formation in 2006, London-based Teeth Of The Sea have metamorphosed into the most adventurous psychedelic rock outfit in the UK. Don't miss their show in January, Support from Smote. 
Films
Vermiglio
8:30 PM
Recipient of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice Film Festival this year, the film is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside.
Films
London Short Film Festival 2025
Can you tell me a poem?
8:45 PM
The selection of six non-/fiction diary films, capture the moment everyday life is transformed into a poem - and the mundane is made to become sacred.
Digital
Cinema 3
Tricksters: ICA x Monangambee
3:00 PM
A series of screenings, talks and workshops organized in collaboration between Lagos-based Monangambee and London-based Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)