- A beautifully kooky offering from the director of Girl Sparks (LIFF 2008), this offbeat Japanese gem is full to bursting with oddball humour and surreal moments (the opening scene, and the later dancing scene are absolute gold dust!). Norio is a 17 year old country boy who decides his only option is to follow his [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A celebration of just a small part of the superb oeuvre of Warren Sonbert, one of the seminal figures of American wondermental film and rarely shown in the UK. He started making films in 1966 and was given a retrospective before he was 20! His early films feature denizens of the Warhol scene, with his [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Leeds favourite Takashi Miike gives his original superhero parody a fresh spin in the big-budget, entertainment-packed sequel. Zebra City, 2025 – ex-teacher Ichikawa wakes from a 15 year sleep, unaware he once saved Earth from green alien goo as clueless crime-fighter Zebraman. Tokyo has been renamed in his honour and terribly every day during Zebra [...]Click to read more about this film »
- What do you do when you’ve just won an Oscar and a host of other awards across the world? Move to Hollywood? Remake a classic film? Well, in the case of John & Keiran Carney, who made critically acclaimed indie music flick Once, you return to your little-seen 2003 short film and give it a [...]Click to read more about this film »
