LSFF: Looking Through The Square Window

“Better in our day” is a phrase that carries much negativity, but nostalgia can bring out both the good and bad memories - depending on who is doing the remembering. These films touch upon the misplaced memories of a woman dealing with dementia, the rooms that hold happy memories, the video footage that act as portals into a bygone era, and the old buildings that capture and fossilise our most nihilistic fantasies.

Alice Lowe (Sightseers) longs for the nostalgic tradition of marriage in For Better, and Michael Spicer (The Room Next Door / The Mash Report) recreates a long-lost televisual tradition to spark lost memories in Closedown.

The attending filmmakers will join us for a Q&A following the screening.

- Ruletista, dir. Lukas Valenta Rinner, Austria 2024, 22mins

- Diorama, dir. Vida Skerk, Croatia 2024, 9mins

- How Now, House?, dir. Tess Martin, Netherlands 2025, 13mins

- Closedown, dir. Michael Spicer, UK 2025, 17mins

- Late Summer 91, dir. Olaf Held, Germany 2024, 3mins

- Leaving Ikorodu in 1999, dir. Rashida Seriki, UK 2024, 17mins

- For Better, dir. Kitty Percy, UK 2025, 15mins

Content / Trigger Warnings: Contains scenes of suicide and self harm.