CINEMA 1 | 12PM

New shorts: London Lives

Stories from across our fare city, from fading East End histories, to tube mice on the underground, and to the rough streets of our inner city. Includes the Time Out Film Critics Award for Best London Film.

Trt c. 90 mins

CINEMA 2 | 1PM | 7PM

New shorts: A Trick of the Light

Gorgeous cinematography and ooohhh-luverly images on show in this stunning and beautiful selection of new short films.

Trt c. 100 mins

CINEMA 1 | 2.30PM

New shorts: Leftfield & Luscious

Experiments in film & video from inventive minds and arty types everywhere, including work by Al + Al and The Desperate Optimists. Includes the Lux Award for Best Experimental Film.

Trt c. 110mins

CINEMA 2 | 3PM

48 Hour Film Challenge retrospective

Johnnie Oddball started the Challenge in 2002, and it’s so far travelled the world from Berlin to Paris to the US; 400 films have been made and new filmmaking communities have been born! With Johnnie planning new Challenges for 2005, it’s time to take stock of the last 3 years with this retrospective best of.

CINEMA 2 | 5PM (also at Cinema 2: 16 Jan, 8pm)

New shorts: F*cked-Up Love

Following last year’s romantic selection, we’re coming back atcha with more stories of love & loss and sexual politics.

Trt c. 100 mins

CINEMA 1 | 15JAN | 11PM

New shorts: Late Night Horror

The horror film is alive and kicking, bleeding and screaming. Run for the hills! Includes the new incredibly disturbing & gory film from Sam Walker, last year’s

Horror Award winner. Will he beat the competition again tonight, with the Award for Best Horror Film?

Trt c. 90 mins

THEATRE | BAR | 7.30PM

Big Cheese magazine presents

A Night of Skateboard Culture

Including special guests No Comply (Deckcheese) & Foreign Beggars (Dented)

“Foreign Beggars are 3 emcees spitting mad multis about dancing with zombies, chewing razor blades and drinking uranium” – DJ Sketchy, UK Hip Hop Review

“No Comply are f*cking essential female fronted punk” – Europunk review

A multi-media extravaganza with live music and video bringing together the best from the British skate scene, and mixing genres from hip hop to punk. Videomaker Lucia Helenka curates the latest in skate video, plus a screening of guerrilla skate vids made in Westminster last weekend (in association with Awards For All and the Queens Park Media Centre). Also screening will be a retrospective look at the Dirty Sanchez video career, including their non-MTV skate video appearances. Live on stage are Plymouth ska-punkers No Comply (Deckcheese Records), who’s debut album ‘With Windmills Turning Wrong Directions’ wowed the rock press this summer including a 4-K review in Kerrang!, featuring lead vocalist Kelly who can out-scream her male counterparts. London-based hip hop crew Foreign Beggars (Dented Records) return to mash things up even more, after their sessions with Skinnyman and Dr Syntax. Plus more guests to be announced.