Fri 4 Jan

From 6pm – ICA Theatre & Bar Festival Launch Night: Funny Sh*t Live

Live on stage: JARRED CHRISTMAS (The Geek Show / That Film Show / Flight of the Conchords [radio 2])

Jarred Christmas has a unique style that deftly mixes gags with storytelling. He has a dynamic onstage persona and the ability to improvise and roll with anything that's thrown his way, making his comedy sizzle with originality. Full of passion and charisma Jarred takes the audience on a hilarious thrill ride of laughs and gasps with an edge of anger that manifests itself in his incredible rants against the small things in our lives. Give him a room above a pub with an audience of 8, or an audience of 3000 at Glastonbury Festival and he will shine. "BEST OF THE CROP...A FABULOUSLY BOISTEROUS KIWI WITH A DEFINITE FUTURE" Evening Standard, 2006 "HUMAN RED BULL" Time Out http://www.jarredchristmas.com

+ Films starring: The Mighty Boosh / Johnny Vegas / Martin Freeman / MacKenzie Crook / Kris Marshall

The Mighty Boosh star in James Pilkington's surreal romantic comedy SWEET, and Tim Plester & Ben Gregor will present their comedic trilogy looking back at the triple whammy of 70's and 80's pop culture referencing: Big Daddy the wrestler, Adam & the Ants and Blake's 7, all starring the comedy geniuses of JohnnyVegas, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Freeman and Kris Marshall.

+ DJ set: Dan from BOLT ACTION FIVE http://www.myspace.com/boltactionfive

+ Visuals by: BUZZARD BUZZARD http://www.myspace.com/seabuzzard

+ Hollywood tattoos for all by HANNAH MISSINTHEMIX

11pm – ICA cinema 1 new shorts 1: Funny Sh*t

A selection of new films to put a smile on your face for the New Year. Includes the Shooting People Award for Best Comedy Short.

Sat 5 Jan

4pm – ICA cinema 1 new shorts 2: F*cked Up Love

Is that a tear or a twinkle in your eye? Love is always f*cked up in this selection of new films.

6pm – Curzon Soho new shorts 3: Fortean Nights

Weird visions and strange shenanigans from the unexplained to the creepy. The Fortean Times magazine of strange phenomena and curiosities hosts this screening and presents an award for the film most fitting the Fortean ethos.

From 7pm – Roxy Bar & Screen Roxy Acoustica

A night of gentle musics and stunning visuals to ease in the new year. Three bands perform low-key acoustic based sets against guest visuals projected as a backdrop on the Roxy's amazing giant screen. Free entry!

THEIR HEARTS WERE FULL OF SPRING:
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring make inspirational congregational indie-pop music for you to sing along to and get involved with. They count the BBC's own Tom Robinson and Huw Stephens amongst their fast-growing troupe of loyal fans after recent BBC6 Music airplay and a show-stealing performance at the Swn Festival in Cardiff in November. Warning: may include audience participation. http://www.myspace.com/theirheartswerefullofspring

MONKEY, DON'T!: Monkey, Don't! is the sole work of Mark Robson making leftfield pop music akin to Hot Chip, Jim Noir and Yo La Tengo, with some acid synths and country guitar thrown in for good measure. Mark is a 30 year old London resident who is originally from the Hampshire suburban seaside, a place with little to do when you're growing up except mess around in the seafront arcades or in the countryside whilst getting messy on various recreational drugs. Add to this an obsession with oddball music and a bad case of OCD and you have the roots of Mark's music. 'Gubbins' is the debut album released on Manna Records. http://www.myspace.com/monkeydontmusic

ROMAN RAPPAK (Bretton):
Following a successful run of US shows, Bretton frontman Roman Rappak returns to London to perform an exclusive solo set accompanied by headfuck visuals from the EatLessWax team. http://www.myspace.com/brettonmusic

DJ's on the night will be Eat Less Wax. Visuals on the night will be by Buzzard Buzzard, who have worked at Cargo and with The Hertitage Orchestra and Schlmo, as well as being part of SeaBuzzard who will be back at the Roxy on Tuesday night to present their work. http://www.myspace.com/seabuzzard. And Prime Objective, aka Chris Keenan, photographer and filmmaker, down from Birmingham with his super-8 laptop stylings http://www.primeobjective.co.uk/

11pm – Curzon Soho new shorts 4: Late Night Horror

Run bleeding and screaming to the hills with a selection of the latest scary and gory horror shorts. Includes the Dead By Dawn horror award.

Sun 6 Jan

12 midday – Curzon Soho filmmaker focus: Jes Benstock

Since co-directing the video for Orbital's THE BOX (featuring Tilda Swinton), Jes's work has veered from art and video installation at the Big Chill and other festivals, to award winning documentary on everything from Holocaust tourism to family history & Jewishness to piercing! He is currently working on a feature documentary project about the Alternative Miss World, and this afternoon he takes a break to screen his work and join us on stage for a Q&A.

1.30pm – ICA cinema 1 new shorts 5: God's Lonely Men

Travis cruised his cab around New York's grimy streets back in the 1970's, but the disenfranchised male species continues to be unfathomable and moody in this varied selection of new films.

3pm – Amersham Arms Shooting People pub quiz

Shooting People regularly hosts it's famous pub quiz around the UK. For pub quiz aficionados, much of the event is familiar: punters divide into teams, there are 6 rounds of 8 questions across 4 categories, spot prizes, some audio visual challenges, the odd sherbet, 10s and 10s of pounds of prizes to be won. Meet new friends in the filmmaking industry, test your wits against the Shooting People quizmaster. Free entry!

6pm – Curzon Soho new shorts 6: Trick of the Light

Short films with gorgeous and sumptuous images in this stunning collection of rich cinematography and beautiful animation.

Mon 7 Jan

4pm – Curzon Soho bar (free entry) Howling Feedback 1: Film London presents Getting Rad in the Regions

As a London-based filmmaker, do you ever wonder about those other areas of the UK? Well there are opportunities in them there hills. Film London present an outward looking discussion of inspiring filmmaker-run spaces outside of the capital, and consider how London-based filmmakers can connect with thriving indie film scenes in Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham and beyond. Chaired by Josic Cadoret, New Talent Co-ordinator at Film London.

6pm – Curzon Soho new shorts 7: London Lives

A selection of shorts that show off all the glory and diversity of our fair city. Includes the Time Out Award for Best London film.

6.30pm – ICA cinema 1 new shorts 8: Leftfield and Luscious

Innovations from an abstract viewpoint in this selection of new films. Includes the Lux Award for Best Experimental Film.

7pm – ICA Nash Room Turntable Café present The Caravan Gallery

The Caravan Gallery presents leisure, landscape and lifestyle in 21st Britain as a mobile exhibition venue. Run by artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale who are on a mission to record the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in Britain today, and eager to examine clichés and cultural trends, they are particularly drawn to absurd anomalies and curious juxtapositions, typical of places in transition and in the process of reinventing themselves. Turntable Café is an irregular event curated by Saint Etienne bringing together artistes, and tonight welcome Jan and Chris in conversation and to screen many of the photographic slides that has made the project so popular.

7pm - ICA Cinema 2 guest screening: Bristol Meth

A selection of no and lo budget films, comprising of work from mr_hopkinson, Jane Porter, Fránçois and Rozi Plain and award winning funny feminist skate film, 'Don't Do Tricks" from Lady Lucy and James Canyon, and many more. Brought together, these films document the connections of personalities and places of this playful and resourceful DIY scene.

8pm - ICA Bar Bristol Meth live: mr_hopkinson's computer / Rozi Plain / Jem Noble / Rasha Shaheen

Curated by singing computer owner mr_hopkinson, Bristol's multimedia underground is transported away from its usual habitat of the artist-run project The Cube Microplex, bringing connections and personalities of this playful and resourceful DIY scene. Live performance from Bristol residents mr_hopkinson's computer, Rozi Plain and others.

Tues 8 Jan

4pm – Curzon Soho bar (free entry) Howling Feedback 2: UK Film Council presents In The Directors Chair

How well does the UK film industry treat it's artistes? Where are the new voices and young auteurs following the footsteps of Roeg, Russell or Jarman, and are they been nurtured and guided for future greatness, or does the industry only care about quick hits, and discarding those who don't deliver on an opening weekend. This discussion invites filmmakers Sean Conway and others screening in the later 6pm slot to put across their views as the next generation and how they see their career path develop,
alongside representatives from the UK Film Council, and chaired by journalist Ian Smith.

6pm – Curzon Soho new shorts 9: In the Directors Chair

Four short films not directed by Harmony Korine, Terence Malick, Andrei Tarkovsky, or John Cassevetes but the influences of these auteur filmmakers can definitely be seen and felt in the powerful and original four films on show in this programme. Sean Conway's ALEX AND HER *RSE TRUCK takes us on a surreal journey with nymphomaniacs and drug dealing lesbians, while Scott Graham's SHELL takes us to the wide open remote spaces of Scotland in a story of loneliness and escape. Jonathan Stewart's MIRRORS gives us a lone man's pained journey across an empty landscape to redemption, while Jason Yi's FLATSHARE comes on like an improvised loose riff with a group of bickering students in low rent accommodation.

From 7pm – Roxy Bar & Screen Music Film Nite

A film night featuring the best in new music videos and short films. Free entry!

BBC FILM NETWORK NEW MUSIC SHORTS

BBC Film Network, Electric Proms and New Talent challenged filmmakers to make original new films inspired by new music tracks. They partnered with Domino Records, 679 Recordings, Big Dada and Warp Records, who provided some of their latest release tracks, and Warp Films, who produced the selected films with the directors. The five new filmmakers received a budget of up to £5,000 to create a new innovative film. The five films feature music by Lightspeed Champion, The Earlies, Wiley and Gravenhurst. Filmmakers will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A. http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork

THINKSYNC FILMS

Founded in 2005 and now in it's third year, ThinkSync Films brings together independent filmmakers with independent record labels & publishers through it's annual short film competition where entrants are invited to submit short films which incorporate one or more tracks that are downloadable free of charge. Tonight's selection will be supported by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers www.thinksyncfilms.com

SEABUZZARD filmmaker focus

A special retrospective with videomakers Sarah Sea and Fay Milton, known collectively as SeaBuzzard. Since 2005 they've been working on music videos and short documentaries with Foals, The Mystery Jets, Kieron Hebden, and The Noisettes, plus The Mighty Boosh backstage antics and their independent documentary on the Austin Texas SXSW Festival. All will be on show tonight and Sarah & fay will be on hand for a Q&A. http://www.myspace.com/seabuzzard

Weds 9 Jan

4pm – Curzon Soho bar (free entry) Howling Feedback 3: Shooting People presents Primordial Soup

Collaboration is one of the key skills needed in filmmaking, yet it is rarely discussed. Festivals may provide the perfect meeting ground for likeminded directors, writers and producers to meet, but when that spark flies at the post-screening drinks how do you ignite a project and create a team? Chaired by Shooting People's uber-networked creative director James Mullighan and filmmaker Ben Blaine, this event will cover strategies from initial networking, to how to put a crew together and most importantly how to communicate and creatively involve the people you work with.

6pm – Curzon Soho C'mon, it's the VX Auteur Theory 3

A showcase of the next generation of D.I.Y auteurs for whom filmmaking is a more rounded, personal process as apposed to clear-cut, traditional film making roles, for those who produce, write, direct, shoot and edit or written the music and acted in it too! Created by Lucia Helenka, a London based artist and filmmaker and supported by Vauxhall, the competition will showcase undiscovered, talented filmmakers with a strong personal vision and hands on approach to filmmaking. This third VX Auteur Theory invites and challenges cross disciplined filmmakers to prove they are the ones to watch, following in the footsteps of last year's winners Simon Ellis with his film A STORM AND SOME SNOW and Greg Butler with his film A MOUSE FUNERAL. The judges for the 3rd VX Auteur Theory will include actress Natalie Press (MY SUMMER OF LOVE, WASP, NIGHTWATCHING) and filmmaker Asif Kapadia (THE WARRIOR, FAR NORTH). The award ceremony will take place in the Curzon bar immediately following the screening. http://www.vxcollective.co.uk

6.30pm – ICA Cinema 2 guest screening: Shorts International

Shorts International is the world's largest distributor of short films across multiple platforms, including television, iTunes, Sony PSP and mobile phones. Here they present a selection of the work they represent and will answer your questions.

8.30pm – ICA Cinema 2 guest screening: Bitesize Cinema Winter 2008

Bitesize Cinema scour the world of short film for award winning original work from the hottest new movie making talent. Each quarterly programme features genres and styles to suit all palates.

From 7pm – Roxy Bar & Screen FourDocs + new shorts 10: docs

FOURDOCS present THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF FOOTBALL free entry!

Channel 4's online documentary Channel, FourDocs, takes you on a documentary journey into the heart of Yorkshire football culture. A mix of treats from the Yorkshire Film Archive and newer "user generated" fans' films, see just what the beautiful game means to those in the most beautiful county. From Bradford City's first trip to Bournemouth in the 1940s, accompanied by wicker baskets and fags, to Brian Clough and Don Revie's fractious 1970s local television encounter, to strange, devoted, quickly-assembled paeans to success and failure from the 21st century. The medium may change, but the passion of Yorkshire football has always been documented. Silent archive films accompanied by live piano. http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs

NEW SHORTS 10: docs

A themed 100 minute selection of short films from open submission into the 5th London Short Film Festival, which will culminate in the FourDocs Award for Best Documentary Short within this year's Festival. From skateboarding in Southsea to mudlarking on the Thames, from being high up on London building site cranes to being on the lonely Yorkshire moors with just sheep for company. From the dark urban heart of Glasgow to the hard life of a stand up comedian trying to break the big time. Forget reality TV, all real life is here tonight…

Thu 10 Jan

4pm – Curzon Soho bar (free entry) Howling Feedback 4: Rushes presents The Future of Advertising

With a DIY aesthetic flooding the promo world, is YouTube dictating advertising? Does the death of virals mean the rise of serials? Now commercials and short films are increasingly merging, colliding and hybridising, where's it all heading? And how can you get a piece of the action? As the Rushes Soho Short Film Festival rebrands its Title Sequences and Idents category to become the Broadcast Design Award, festival director Joe Bateman reflects on current trends in advertising format and content with guests from Imperial Leisure and Film Friends Forever. Plus Eoghan Kidney, who's StreamLounge will be in the ICA bar later tonight.

5.30pm – Goldsmiths College Made in Poland

A screening of 3 shorts made in Poland, through the Lodz film school schemes. Following the screening director Martin Gavreau (AGNEISZKA 2039, POLAND NIGHTS) will be in conversation about his experiences filming in Poland. Free entry! (Screen 1, Media Research Building , Goldsmiths College, New Cross London SE14)

6pm – Curzon Soho new shorts 11: Teenage Britain

Tales from the frontline of Britain's youth in the 21st century; not for the fainthearted. Includes the Teenage Jury Award.

6pm – ICA Cinema 1 guest screening: DepicT!

"... a veritable treasure trove of tiny triumphs" The Guardian

Watershed's short filmmaking competition, part of Encounters International Short Film Festival, has been challenging filmmakers from across the globe to come up with a compelling, imaginative idea and distil it into 90 seconds since 1999. This cherry picked selection from the DepicT! vaults, along with the London premiere of the ten DepicT! '07 shortlisted films, offers a unique chance to experience an astounding range of work on the big screen and reflect on the endless possibilities of the ultra short format. Filmmakers will be in attendance for a Q&A following the screening.

"In a world where so many films outstay their welcome, these are films that get in and get out before you've swallowed your first mouthful of popcorn... the avant-garde of short films in the frenzied, instant satisfaction world of the 21st century."
Damien O'Donnell

6.30pm – ICA Cinema 2 guest screening: dazzle

dazzle, the UK's hottest independent short film label, handles the exclusive distribution, exhibition and sales rights for a selective catalogue of award-winning, critically acclaimed UK and international titles. From 90-second, digital micro-movies to super-35mm masterpieces, dazzle's bijou short film collection is often provocative, always
original and sure to inspire.

From 7pm – ICA Bar StreamLounge

Formerly The YouTube lounge, this public audiovisual setup in keeping with tonight's found-footage theme, allows a user to DJ / VJ between their favourite Internet videos from sites such as YouTube, Veoh, Stage6, Dailymotion or Google video. It is the perfect opportunity to showcase your own favourite online videos and an excuse to express yourself through the creation of a live mash-up of audio and video, creating and rearranging works into a live video stream controlled by a single user that evades rational analysis, but allowing subtle new meanings emerging from the chaos of Youtube's immense video library. The Streamlounge was first set up at the 2007 Darklight Symposium in Dublin, and has since shown up at night in Dublin pubs
and, more surprisingly, on stage at the Reading and Leeds festivals.

8pm – ICA Theatre Soundtracks – found-footage vs. post-rock

Live: LADYSCAPER vs. Max Hattler + BLOOD STEREO vs Ben Rivers + THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE vs Sarah Wood + film programme

There is a long history of artists working with found footage, and recently interest has been revived and encouraged by the new BFI Mediatheque and the Prelinger Archive. Award winning filmmakers Sarah Wood, Ben Rivers and Max Hattler are using archive and found footage to create short films and visuals sets to screen tonight, to be accompanied by live music from three of the most experimental avant-garde outfits around. The event is supported by Animate Projects http://www.myspace.com/animateprojects who explore the relationship between the visual arts and animation.

LADYSCRAPER

A laptop set by one of the UK's most innovative and hardcore electronica artistes. His releases on Brighton's Wrong Music label have veered into breakcore, gabba and drum n bass territory, but tonight could see some mellower musings alongside the insane bpm's and soundtrack samples. http://www.myspace.com/ladyscraper

Award winning animator, visuals artiste and VJ Max Hattler brings his super 8 krautrock stylings and images from his laptop library to accompany the musical madness on stage.

BLOOD STEREO & guests

Brand new big-band line-up from Blood Stereo: The duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance are joined by a bunch of screaming ladyfriends, including members of Brighton 's Leopard Leg. Bowed springs and strings, tortured vocals, tape loops, charged chasms of silence and the sudden rush of blood-pumping electronics, moving from huge steels of beautiful, slow-floating lung into fully charged slow-motion meat/brain spasms, making sound like some kind of hulking alien life-form breaking out of a rusty cryogenic deep-space chamber. http://www.myspace.com/bloodstereo

Filmmaker Ben Rivers says of his found-footage horror film TERROR!: "A love letter to the genre which got me into film in the first place; these films I've cut up in particular, which I saw when I was about 10 or 12, due to a dodgy video shop owner in my village who seemed to enjoy pushing these films onto our young minds. His shop, by the way, was in the basement of the Methodist church — I don't think they had any idea
what was coming out of their cellar."

THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE

Five young men from Nottingham and Leeds, occasionally joined by friends from elsewhere, who make music which speaks of a mysterious past and dreams of a better future. Organic, kraut-like experimentations with elements of folk poking their heads above their noise. Expect guitars, chord organ, jew's harp, violin, zither, synth, melodica, mandolin, glockenspiel, banjo, trumpet, wok, other amplified objects, voice and computer. http://www.myspace.com/theexploitsofelaine

Filmmaker Sarah Wood says of her found-footage film THE BOOK OF LOVE, that it's "a found footage investigation into the psychosexual landscape of love. Love is never having to say you're sorry; love is soft as an easy chair. Is it? For decades scientists have worked hard to uncover the truth. THE BOOK OF LOVE reveals some of their findings."

+ Found-Footage film programme: To kick off proceedings, a chance to see some of the classics of found-footage films: Thomas Draschan & Ulrich Wiesner's YES? OUI? JA?, Anne McGuire's THE WALTONS, Sarah Wood's I WANT TO BE A SECRETARY, and People Like Us with WE EDIT LIFE. Thanks to LUX.

Fri 11 Jan

2.30pm – ICA cinema 1 guest screening: UK Film Council Challenging Visions

The New Cinema Fund has partnered with organisations in each region and nation of the UK to enable filmmakers to make innovative shorts using digital technology. The screening will be followed by a networking session in the bar.

6.30pm – ICA Cinema 1 new shorts 12: Love on the Road

A week on from last Saturday's F*cked Up Love selection of new films comes a further collection of romance imbued short films, but this time set on our byways and motorways.

8.45pm – ICA Cinema 1 new shorts 13: Lo Budget Mayhem

Expect a raucous show with our regular and popular selection of films, from bad taste depravity to no-budget lunacy. Toronto's Darryl's Hard Liquor & Porn Film Festival will be on hand to give an award.

11pm – Curzon Soho feature doc: American Hardcore (Paul Rachman, US 2006)

AMERICAN HARDCORE is a new documentary film about the history and origins of American punk rock music from 1980 to 1986. Generally unheralded at the time, the early 1980s hardcore punk rock scene gave birth to much of the rock music and culture that followed. There would be no Nirvana, Beastie Boys or Red Hot Chili Peppers were it not for hardcore pioneers such as Black Flag, Bad Brains and Minor Threat. Hardcore was more than music - it was a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids. The participants constituted a tribe unto themselves - some finding a voice, others an escape in the hard-edged music. And while some sought a better world, others were just angry and wanted to raise hell. AMERICAN HARDCORE traces this lost subculture, from its early roots in 1980 to 1986. http://www.myspace.com/americanhardcorefilm
http://www.sonyclassics.com/americanhardcore/

Join us in the bar from 9pm for a pre-screening drink and some hardcore sounds from DJs Stevie Chick, Jamie Thomson and Tony Sylvester bringing in their original hardcore 7"s to wow the crowd. Supported by Visible Noise.

Sat 12 Jan

1.45pm – ICA cinema 1 new shorts 13: Femmes Fantastique

This selection of new films brings us femmes with attitude. Includes the Club des Femmes Award for Best Woman Character.

4pm – ICA Cinema 2 Club des Femmes presents Discipline & Anarchy: a celebration of Kathy Acker

VARIETY Dir Bette Gordon 1982

Described by the LA Times as "a feminist Vertigo", VARIETY tells the sexually-charged tale of a woman's journey of self discovery. Controversial for its time, Acker's script upends feminist ideology by showing a woman who finds self-expression through an interest in pornography. Gordon's powerful film is helped along by an impressive array of talent. Nan Goldin acts, Tom DiCillo films, Spalding Gray makes obscene phone calls and John Lurie scores the film to give it its unique sensual appeal.

6pm – ICA Cinema 1 Radar Awards

Radar create professional opportunities for emerging music video filmmakers worldwide. The Radar Awards present winners and showcase the best entries from this year's competitions held with record labels NinjaTune, Mercury, Parlophone, Mute, Gronland, Independiente, Adage and Warp. Featuring stunning animation, gorgeous graphics, excellent filmmaking and promos from weird to poetic to gripping to beautiful. The best new music video talent in the world! Followed by guest DJs in the bar.

6.30pm – ICA Cinema 2 guest screening: dazzle presents Lipstick Cherry

Short film sales agent dazzle returns with it's strand highlighting unsung female technical talent behind the camera, focussing on cinematographers and editors as well as directors.

8.45pm – ICA Cinema 1 Club des Femmes presents Discipline & Anarchy: a celebration of Kathy Acker

Sex-Positive: a Night of Film and Fiction

Sit back and let Club Des Femmes take you on an Acker trip with a celebration of American experimental novelist, prose stylist, essayist, and sex-positive feminist, Kathy Acker. Short film in the spirit of Acker's writing, including work by Betzy Bromberg, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Clio Barnard and Jennifer Reeves & MM Seera, will be accompanied by readings from her work by Ali Smith and Kathleen Bryson.

From 7pm – Roxy Bar & Screen DARRYL'S HARD LIQUOR AND P0RN FILM FESTIVAL

Darryl's Hard Liquor and P0rn Film Festival is a COMEDY short film festival for adults only, based in Toronto, Canada. They're with us tonight to showcase the best of their recent films. Part video showcase and part drunken bash, the show features short films and animations from Canada and all parts of the globe. There's no guarantee you will see any REAL P0RN. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you perverts. But audience participation and possible dressing up suitably for the occasion will be encouraged. http://hardliquorandporn.com Free entry!

Sun 13 Jan

2pm– ICA Cinema 1 filmmaker focus: Asif Kapadia

Hackney-born Kapadia originally studied graphic design before his interest in filmmaking led him to study at Newport Film School, the University of Westminster and the Royal College of Art. His graduate short from the RCA THE SHEEP THIEF shot in India with non actors, won many awards around the world including at Cannes
and the Grand Prix at the European Short Film Festival. His first feature THE WARRIOR was shot in Rajasthan, India and won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film & the Award for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2002 BAFTAs and the London Film Festival's Sutherland Trophy for the Most Original & Imaginative First Feature, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. His new film FAR NORTH premiered at the Venice Film Festival, stars Michelle Yeoh, Sean Bean and Michelle Krusiec and was shot on the archipelago of Svalbard, one of the most northern settlements in the world, two hours south of the north pole. Asif joins us today for a screening of both his own short film work and shorts that influenced him, followed by a Q&A session.

4pm – ICA Cinema 1 FAR NORTH (Asif Kapadia)

An exclusive preview of Asif Kapadia's striking third feature. Michelle Yeoh stars as a woman struggling to raise her child in Svalbard, one of the northern most settlements on the planet, and Sean Bean is the mysterious stranger who enters her life. Majestic visuals heighten the tale which carries with it the resonance of myth. Asif will introduce the screening. In conjunction with cinematICA.

From 5pm – Amersham Arms CLOSING NIGHT EVENT: AWARDS & FILMMAKERS-IN-BANDS

This years awards ceremony takes place at this new New Cross venue, and is punctuated by rock n roll from bands featuring some of our favourite filmmakers. Free entry!

Economy Wolf (featuring visuals by Max Hattler)

Economy Wolf comprises 5 musicians from London and Paris. They bonded over a shared love for computer game music, French pop and very vast spaces, fascinated in what would happen if these disparate influences were brought together under a haze of droning guitars and feral analogues. Award winning animator Max Hattler has created two MTV2-featured music videos for the band, introducing Johannes 'Your Highness' Ender as a Bez-esque honorary dancing member. For this London Short Film Festival performance Your Highness will be present in person. Daniel Berio aka Enist, a graphic designer and programmer from Florence, Italy, is supporting Max's visuals with his custom-made graphics engine that renders Your Highness into a computer games character. Tonight's performance will be the second of its kind, since the now-legendary gig for Beck's Fusions at the ICA earlier in 2007. http://www.economywolf.com / http://www.maxhattler.com

Sooks (featuring Joe Tunmer)

The members of Sooks met at a feral child relocation centre and since then have been playing stop start music in Brighton. They are now finishing their debut record and playing a series of chaotic live shows in Brighton, London and beyond. http://www.myspace.com/sookstheband

Bearcub (featuring Greg Butler)

One day in 2005 filmmaker Greg Butler was tinkering around with his musical equipment (a fire alarm, an acoustic pneumatic drill and a cheese grater). As time went by, he grew cold and needy in the solitary confinement of his solo project. Craving for the warmth and stability of an international rock act, he decided to visit his friend Will Fisk (formerly The Surgens / Plastic Hip), a notorious train robber from the Peterborough area. Once embedded into Will's seedy underworld (OMM), he was introduced to his authoritarian and frankly draconian brother, Ted (The Oliver Twist Project), who whipped him into shape quicker than you can say "You've stepped on my custard". Ted plucked his bass with such grace that he managed to mesmerise his new band mates into a performance that would be acceptable to the ear of the common man. The result of that fateful day, and many more to come, is 'BEARCUB'. Hear them roar!!!!...or something. http://www.myspace.com/bearcubden

The Reunionists (featuring Ben Blaine)

They sound like a fight in a lift. Not only does the band contain both director extraordinaire Ben Blaine and producer Zee Ahmad but the guitarist is the chief projectionist at the Vue in Leicester Square! All we need is to get some development execs to sing backing vocals and they'd be the whole damn industry. They grew up together in a greenish stretch of the world somewhere between North London and
nowhere and although they always stop they always start again. http://www.myspace.com/whitecoffinclub