Films A-Z

Unmissable reportage from the frontlines of the Arab Spring by passionate participants rather than detached observers. Arriving in Cairo on assignment, acclaimed documentary film-maker Omar Shargawi could not have predicted that the streets would erupt in one of the most important revolutions of this century. Shargawi and friends captured the reality of the revolution that [...]

The zombie genre has enjoyed unprecedented popularity with mainstream audiences thanks to the success of films like Dawn of the Dead and Frank Darabont’s hit TV series The Walking Dead. But 13 Eerie is a fresh take on a genre that’s literally decomposing. This epic battle of the undead follows the story of six ambitious [...]

A rare chance to see a much overlooked example of director Yasujiro Ozu and star Kinuyo Tanaka at their absolute finest. Awaiting her husband’s return from the war, Tokiko (Tanaka) struggles to support herself and their young child Hiroshi, a situation which reaches a crisis point when Hiroshi falls ill and requires life-saving treatment. Left [...]

Ivan Turgenev’s classic novel is brought to life with luscious cinematography and set design in Andrei Konchalovsky’s third feature A Nest of Gentlefolk. Disenchanted with the superficial glitter of Parisian society and with his frivolous wife, Fyodor Lavretsky returns to his long neglected estate in Russia in the decadent days of the aristocracy shortly before [...]

A festival favourite from 2004 and screening on 35mm, Aaltra is a hilarious wheelchair road movie, a wonderfully deadpan and irreverent comedy scattered liberally with ingenious sight and sound gags. The story follows two feuding neighbours who seem to live only to torment one another. When they come to blows over an item of agricultural [...]

A mysterious underground outfit known as Alps has developed a bizarre new trade: for a small fee, they inhabit the role of people’s dearly departed, adopting their mannerisms and wearing their clothes until the bereaved can finally obtain some measure of acceptance and closure. Strangely enough, business is booming, until one of the group, who [...]

The hugely popular Fanomenon Anime Day returns to LIFF this year on Sunday 11th November, also presented on the first day of the Thought Bubble Festival 2012 and in partnership with Scotland Loves Animation. Starting at 12 noon in the superb setting of the Victoria Hall at Leeds Town Hall, the Fanomenon Anime Day will [...]

Ben Affleck directs and stars in his widely-acclaimed comic thriller based on a remarkable true story about a CIA ‘exfiltration’ expert who concocts an outlandish plan to get a group of stranded Americans out of Iran. On November 4, 1979, a group of Islamist militants took control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held [...]

The passionate, atmospheric Asya’s Happiness is the greatest of Andrei Konchalovsky’s early films, but it was banned by the Soviet authorities and barely seen for 20 years. Otherwise it would surely have stood as a landmark of 60s Soviet cinema. Asya is a lame young woman who works as a cook in a remote Russian [...]

With clarity and a deep respect for his subjects, filmmaker Petr Lom follows five stories of ordinary Egyptians who have suffered injustice at the hands of the State in the first year of the revolution’s aftermath. Shot in an intimate vérité style, the film takes us into hidden corners of Egyptian lives, far from the [...]

Imagine everything you ever did was possessed of spectacular artistic inspiration. That’s not far from the truth of how designer, painter, puppeteer, sculptor and musician Wayne White lives his life. You may recognise his art from the set of legendary 80s kids TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Beauty is Embarrassing portrays White as a multi-talented family [...]

Behind the Screen casts a formidable glance behind the facade of the electronics industry where 7 computers are produced a second. Behind the Screen reveals the people behind the important electronic product and thereby illustrates the links of our decentralized economic system, which are difficult to grasp based on real life processes. Behind the Screen [...]

Despite things having gone a little awry towards the end of the first film, we return to the fray to find that things are still on the up and up for Griffith and his Band of the Hawks as they prove themselves to be ever more invaluable to Midland and their quest to regain land [...]

Cult psychedelic sci-fi odyssey Beyond the Black Rainbow has divided critics and audiences, attracting outspoken champions and derisive naysayers in roughly equal numbers. Sufficed to say it is quite unlike anything else featuring eye catching retro-futurist production design, a pulsating analogue synth soundtrack and trippy visuals that make 2001 seem like The King’s Speech. Deep [...]

João Canijo’s Blood of My Blood is one of the key features marking the Portuguese hotspot in new world cinema. Honing a superbly original style of complex, cross-cutting shots and dialogue, he skilfully blends gritty urban cinema with larger than life psychodrama. In the suburbs of Lisbon, single mother Márcia lives with her sister and [...]

This is a new programme in the festival created just to celebrate the variety of great and strange animated films we have received from UK animators this year. A vivid mash-up of films ranging from one minute long attention grabbers to more considered and delightful narratives, the programme gives us a chance to show off [...]

It’s fair to say that drama is one of the things we do best in this country. From the grand tradition of Shakespeare’s theatre to that oh so concise of things, the dramatic short film. This year’s dramatic short film panorama includes the blackly comic BAFTA Award winning short Pitch Black Heist starring Michael Fassbender, [...]

A dynamic introduction to black and white 16mm filmmaking at its most accessible! We will lay small objects on the raw 16mm film stock and expose it to light, creating ‘rayograms’ on the filmstrip and then processing it in a bucket using highcontrast developer. We will then examine the film to see what we have [...]

A very popular hands-on Super 8 workshop where you’ll learn how to shoot and hand-process your very own colour Super 8 film! As well as adding colour to the films with inks and pens we will consider alternative image-making techniques such as burying and bleaching film, which film stocks are available, and how to cross-process [...]

On the day that Tommy and his pregnant wife are due to leave their squalid tenement building (the Citadel of the title) for a new council house, she is brutally attacked by a gang of feral youths. in front of him. Twelve months on and Tommy is suffering from agraphobia (an incredible performance from actor [...]

Crazy and Thief are two young children whose fantasy world exists within the streets of the real New York. Where adults see only advertising hoardings, refuse and everyday people, our two young heroes see magical starcharts, time machines, a cyclops and a giant. We join the two adventurers as they embark on a quest to [...]

Determined to give its loyal genre fans something unique, Fanomenon’s Day of the Dead delivers four UK premieres this year as well as some amazing short films and very special guests. The films include creepy folklore tale Thale from Norway, ghostly J-horror style hauntings in Germany’s Room 205 of Fear; Modus Anomali, a terrifying lost-in-the-woods [...]

Leeds Film Quarter – Christmas Screening

Dir. John McTiernan, USA 1988, 131 mins

“Yippee kai yay!” – it’s only the most explosive action movie of all time, which also happens to be a Christmas film! The seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and also stars velvet-voiced baddie Alan Rickman. When terrorists take control of a [...]

Django Kill is a surreal, gothic vision starring Tomas Milian as The Stranger, a half-breed bandit left for dead by his doublecrossing gang members. Rising from the grave, he sets about seeking revenge, aided by a pair of mystic Native Americans and armed only with a pistol and a supply of golden bullets. His quest [...]

Comic shop caper Electric Man is a twisty comedy thriller inspired in equal parts by Clerks and The Maltese Falcon. Jazz and Wolf run Deadhead Comics. They owe their landlord £5,000 and the shop is doomed until Issue No 1 of Electric Man mysteriously appears. Worth £100,000, the comic is being sought by a number [...]

Pauline (an unrecognisable AnnaLynne McCord from 90210) is the school misfit with delusions of becoming a successful surgeon so that she can save her terminally ill sister. In between reading medical textbooks and dissecting small animals she spends her time planning her first sexual encounter, questioning God’s existence and fantasising about necrophilia (in the film’s [...]

The infamous Night of the Dead wouldn’t be the same without the usual selection of horror short films from around the world to accompany the feature films. For 2012 we have a fantastic line up of some of the scariest, nastiest, goriest and strangest films you are likely to see anywhere on the planet (or [...]

A fascinating, enlightening and almost unbearably intimate document of the Palestinian struggle from self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, from the village of Bil’in. When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, he gets his first camera. At the same time a separation barrier is being built and the villagers begin to resist this decision. For [...]

A fresh, street-wise indie debut from Adam Leon. Malcolm and Sofia, two Bronx teens, are the ultimate graffiti-writers. When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece, they must hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but they need to raise $500. Over two whirlwind, sun-soaked summer days, Malcolm and Sofia [...]

Golden Slumbers is a poignant and fascinating documentary that resurrects the myths and legends of a lost cinema. Cambodian films flourished in the 1960s, drawing huge crowds to theatres around the country, until the industry was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge. Of the 400 films produced, only 30 remain today. Almost all the actors were [...]

Mixing Super 8 and 16mm film in a cut and paste, homemade aesthetic, Grandma Lo-Fi pays tribute to Icelandic hometaping legend, Sigríður Níelsdóttir. At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. Seven years later she had made 59 albums, crafting an endless array of [...]

A troubled Catholic priest, Father James, finds his faith crushed when a young girl he promises to protect commits suicide. Months after her death, he is forced to return to his old parish and to the scene of her suicide, a derelict mansion house. Trapped in the house overnight James becomes convinced that he is [...]

Michael Morpurgo has enchanted a whole generation of children with his writing. Now with the adaptation of his novel War Horse for the stage and screen he has become a household name for all ages. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear him talk about his fascinating life, his award-winning work, and the arrival of his [...]

A visionary new documentary about the hugely influential musician, composer, musicologist, outsider artist and all round eccentric, John Fahey, known as the father of American Primitive Guitar. Fahey’s music stretches the boundaries of past musical traditions, creating a complex musical dialogue primarily with his steel stringed solo guitar, transcending Delta influences to include bluegrass, classical, [...]

Leeds Film Quarter – Christmas Screening
 
Dir. Frank Capra, USA 1946, 130 mins
 
Frank Capra’s perennial Christmas favourite is a bona fide Hollywood classic, featuring magical storytelling and iconic performances from James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who attempts suicide on Christmas Eve, Henry Travers as his Guardian angel Clarence Odbody and a whole raft of great Hollywood studio character [...]

In 1989, 20-year-old guitar virtuoso Jason Becker was on the brink of global success. He’d just landed himself a gig playing lead guitar for Van Halen’s David Lee Roth when he was struck down with ALS, the aggressive degenerative disease Professor Stephen Hawking suffers from. Despite his debilitation, Jason continues to compose music using complex [...]

In an interview with a reporter (the brilliant Paul Giamatti) Dave explains how he and his friend John came to try the new drug Soy Sauce that allows users to access alternate dimensions and slip through time. While under the influence John and Dave discover that the world is on the brink of invasion from [...]

He is a Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer, living in exile in Spain, an atheist, a communist, and in his eighties. She is a Castilian journalist, a feminist, a translator, and in her fifties. They are José Saramago (1922-2010) and Pilar del Río, for whom intersecting streets are named in José’s home town of Azinhaga in [...]

One of two classic Japanese movies screening in Fanomenon this year, presented in association with Zipangu Festival and featuring rarely screened archive 35mm prints. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) sees the world’s two most monumental monsters go head-to-head, slugging it out in their first ever colour widescreen outing. Produced to celebrate Toho studio’s 30th anniversary, [...]

To coincide with LIFF’s retrospective of actress and pioneering filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka, the Centre for World Cinemas (University of Leeds) and Mixed Cinema Network are delighted to host a half-day workshop focusing on her work. The event will feature several presentations from Japanese film experts and will conclude with a rare screening of The Eternal [...]

LIFF celebrates the great Leeds-based Leaf record label with an evening of music and film highlighting a brand new improvised soundtrack to Luis Bunuel’s surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou by the innovative pianist, Matthew Bourne. Leaf Label boss Tony Morley will also be providing a DJ set to accompany the classic French short The Red [...]

From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]

From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]

From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]

Michael Palm’s philosophical essay film is a razor sharp critique of surveillance culture and its entrenchment in high tech modern life. He uses offscreen dialogue by scientists and intellectuals of various disciplines (neurology to media sciences to theology) set against a mosaic of CCTV footage: unreal, grainy images of everyday scenes. They reflect on the [...]

Elijah Wood plays Frank, a disturbed young man suffering from childhood trauma and abuse at the hands of his mother. Now the owner of a mannequin store his world is turned upside down when he meets Anna, a young artist who asks for his help with her new exhibition. Their friendship unleashes the killer inside [...]

Leeds International Film Festival and Fanomenon are the UK affiliated member of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (EFFFF) which organises the Méliès competition to champion European genre films throughout the world. Each of the ten affiliated members hold a Méliès d’Argent competition, which is judged by a jury of film professionals. The winning film [...]

A riveting documentary from British filmmaker Michael Radford about the extraordinary life of French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani (1962 – 1999). Born with glass bone disease, and standing just three feet tall as an adult, Petrucciani overcame extraordinary obstacles to become an internationally acclaimed jazz artist, driven by an insatiable and all- consuming hunger for [...]

John awakes from a shallow grave, disoriented and unable to remember who he is or how he got there. Piecing together the events of the last few hours from clues he finds in the forest he discovers that his wife has apparently been murdered, his children are missing and he is being stalked by a [...]

Mikio Naruse once said that ‘From the youngest age, I have thought that the world betrays us’, (Anderson and Richie, 1982: 364). Widely considered to be one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Naruse is particularly celebrated for his sympathetic treatment of women and it was through his portrayals of female suffering that he best enunciated his [...]

Director Eric Rohmer and cinematographer Nestor Almendros’s breakthrough film is a classic of modern French cinema, cerebral, sexy and stylish in equal measure with expressive performances by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Francoise Fabian. Chaste and conservative Jean-Louis sees a woman that he believes will be his perfect match whilst attending church. But when he unwittingly spends [...]

Robert works for a crew who clean up after grisly accidents, which gives him the chance to feed his odd hobby by stealing body parts. Following one accident he brings home a full corpse for him and his girlfriend, Betty, to enjoy. Unfortunately Betty prefers her new lover to Robert and leaves with the corpse. [...]

International pressure forces the plebiscite, or referendum, on Pinochet’s presidency, and the chief challenge for the ‘No’ underdogs is to sway the undecided, educating the ignorant young and roping in the complacent old. Conventional wisdom says to use the typical scare tactics, publicly broadcasting horrors and statistics (33,000 killed; 200,000 tortured), but the irrepressible René [...]

Pedro Costa’s transformative drama is the first part of a trilogy of films set in the Fountainhas slums, and is one of the most radical innovations in cinematic narrative technique in recent years. Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her [...]

Wim Wenders’ bittersweet, Euro-centric hymn to modern America is one of the great arthouse films of the 80s. Featuring iconic performances by Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski, mesmerising widescreen cinematography from Robby Müller and a hypnotic soundtrack by Ry Cooder, the film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1984. The story follows an [...]

LIFF presents a collaboration between Leeds City Art Gallery and Pavilion. Lucy Skaer’s Film for an Abandoned Projector (Pavilion, 2011) is a removed look at the once animated mechanisms of analogue film. Pavilion is exploring this alternate, uncomprehending and analytical look, as a phenomenon amidst current practices.
Lucy Skaer’s artwork Film for an Abandoned Projector (Pavilion, [...]

Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, visionary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) toiled for more than a quarter of a century on his masterpiece only to have it torn from his hands. Filmmaker Kevin Schreck has woven together mind-blowing animation, rare archival footage, and exclusive interviews with artists who [...]

Enfant terrible of the Nouvelle Vague Jean-Luc Godard and his equally influential cinematographer Raoul Coutard peaked with the colourful, iconoclastic Pierrot le Fou. Challenging and celebrating film conventions at every turn, Godard incorporates his customary homage to American genre films and an increased radical sensibility. The story follows Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Anna Karina), [...]

Maverick director Carlos Reygadas (Japón, Silent Light) has created one of the most challenging and indelible films of the year. Post Tenebras Lux (‘After Darkness, Light’) is a disorienting, kaleidoscopic and stunningly-filmed vision of a family torn between tenderness and violence that won the filmmaker Best Director at Cannes.
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Carlos Reygadas introduces the experience of watching [...]

In 1963, one man radically transformed the FM dial. Radio Unnameable tells the story of the groundbreaking New York disc jockey Bob Fass and his innovative use of the airwaves to inform, entertain and encourage dialogue amongst listeners. His program is entirely free form, there’s no telling what might happen next. It is a place [...]

When Frank and Freddy, two bumbling medical supply warehouse employees, accidentally break the seal on an old military canister in the basement they release a deadly gas that brings the dead back to life. With the help of a local nursing home owner they try to dispose of the reanimated bodies, only to make the [...]

Katrine is excited to be moving into her own dorm room at university, leaving her over-protected father and the memory of her breakdown behind her. Enjoying her new found freedom things soon turn ugly though as she falls foul of the local ‘in’ crowd, who start to bully her. Katrine discovers that this group were [...]

One of the biggest box office hits of the year in France and a sensation at Cannes, Rust and Bone is the new film from the director of A Prophet, a powerful and emotionally raw love story starring Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose / The Dark Knight Rises) and acclaimed Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts. [...]

Martin McDonagh, writer-director of In Bruges, returns with an escalation of his twisted dark comic visions in Seven Psychopaths.A screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling to write a serial-killer script gets more real-life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme goes badly wrong and brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep.A top-notch cult- movie [...]

Shock Head Soul is a fascinating docufiction about Daniel Paul Schreber who, in 1903, published the most celebrated autobiography of madness ‘from the inside’ ever written. Director Simon Pummell interleaves documentary-style talking heads with hallucinatory CGI animation and an intense reconstructive drama. Schreber was a successful lawyer who, in 1893, started to receive messages from [...]

One of the funniest films of the year, the superb black comedy Sightseers is directed by Kill List’s Ben Wheatley, produced by Shaun of the Dead’s Edgar Wright, and based on characters created by lead actors Alice Lowe and Steve Oram. Loved-up couple Tina and Chris set out on an erotic odyssey in a caravan [...]

Stormland is the tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After [...]

This stunning film, entirely shot on gorgeous black and white cine film in Portugal and Mozambique, is a deeply poetic rendering of an old woman’s melancholic nostalgia for a powerful love affair of her past. This is beautifully mirrored by director Miguel Gomes’ modern-day take on the silent film era, where the passionate second half [...]

What happens when a very white European man buys a diplomatic title which turns him into an African diplomat overnight – right in the middle of one of Central Africa’s most failed nation states?
A strange, enigmatic and decadent white European with diplomatic credentials arrives in The Car to head a diplomatic mission representing Liberia. Officially [...]

Ann, a reclusive elegant lady, with an obsession for butterflies, is surprisingly befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, Alice establishes a disturbing mother daughter relationship with Ann. Lured into her twisted world, Ann soon discovers that she is not the only recipient of the girl’s affections.
Confronted by Alice’s other lady [...]

Presented in seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and death. In each story, seemingly unconnected characters take their lives in different ways, from poisoning to shooting, while each vignette is linked by the gradual decomposition of a human body. Buttgereit’s follow up to the  [...]

Andrei Konchalovsky’s debut feature combines lurid folk tale and penetrative political history with a vivid evocation of life in the remote Russian steppes at the advent of the Soviet era. The film is based on Chingiz Aitmatov’s novel of the same name. It is set in Kyrgyzstan during the first years of Soviet era, not [...]

Paul Wegener’s German expressionist horror classic is presented in a free screening in the magnificent surroundings of Leeds Town Hall with dramatic live organ accompaniment by Leeds city organist Simon Lindley. The Golem is based on a Jewish legend and adapted from the 1915 novel by Gustave Meyrick.
One of most important contributions to German Expressionism, [...]

General Trius (or Bill as he’s now known), an alien from the dying planet Hondo, sets out on a mission to destroy the human race and prepare Earth for colonization. However, upon landing, he’s enchanted by a strange and mystical human invention known as ‘music’. No other species in any other galaxy knows of music, [...]

A vibrant and hugely entertaining documentary about the Kuikuro tribe, a traditional native people from the Brazilian Amazon. Far from a dry ethnographic document, The Hyperwomen works like a bawdy musical comedy as the powerful local women prepare for the Jamurikumalu, the main women’s ritual of the Upper Xingu.
Because he fears that his spouse does [...]

A radical reinvention of The Legend of Kaspar Hauser about the appearance of a young man who has been held captive throughout his life, very different from Werner Herzog’s famous 1974 version. Davide Manuli’s cult reboot is a surreal sci-fi western odyssey set on a remote Mediterranean Island with a throbbing techno soundtrack and a [...]

The Rise And Fall Of The Clash bucks the recent trend of punk nostalgia by focusing on the later years of punk’s greatest success story. Featuring previously unseen footage of the band at work and at play, interviews with band members and those close to them, director Danny Garcia traces the downward trajectory of one [...]

See Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece at Leeds Town Hall, a venue with a gothic, haunted opulence you’d never get in the multiplex. The brand new digital transfer is the US version never released in the UK, at 144 minutes, it runs 24 minutes longer than the European version. Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, this [...]

No British punk group had ever toured China until 2009, when Sham 69 received an email from a young promoter who wanted to bring them to his country. The iconic ‘77 punk group, known for anthems like Borstal Breakout and If the Kids are United then embarked on a journey both socially calamitous and culturally [...]

In an alternate New York, the hugely popular ‘Hero TV’ broadcasts the daring feats of the city’s most famous superheroes, rating their achievements and awarding points until an annual King of Heroes is crowned. Known for careless property damage in the line of duty, unpopular veteran Wild Tiger is assigned a new partner by his [...]

Recently reclaimed from the archives, Turksib is a jawdropping Soviet documentary depicting the heroic efforts to build a railway through the desolate desert landscapes of Turkestan and Siberia. Featuring breathtaking cinematography and the innovative montage style of the Soviet propaganda film, Victor Turin’s rarely seen classic was a huge influence on John Grierson and the [...]

A special free screening of Nick Broomfield’s powerful, highly acclaimed 2006 drama Ghosts accompanied by a Skype interview with the director, presented in collaboration with Unchosen. Unchosen seeks to raise awareness about human trafficking through the medium of film and aims to make people aware of how trafficking impacts all our lives, and to give [...]

A mysterious collector hires a gang of petty criminals to break into a desolate house in the country to steal a rare VHS tape. Once inside the house the thieves discover a dead body in front of a bank of TV screens, surrounded by a huge collection of tapes. As they try to find the [...]

A haunting sociopolitical drama blending fiction and documentary to elucidate the turbulent history of a Kurdish family. Mehmet (co-director Zeynel Dogan) lives with his pregnant wife in Diyarbakir, eastern Turkey. His father was fatally injured while working in Saudi Arabia and all he has left is an audio tape letter. Now he is to become [...]

A beautifully shot documentary that celebrates the traditions of African storytelling by following an old Kenyan fisherman called Mashoud. His stories paint a picture of a world of fantasy where the sea has a spirit, men can talk to fish, and seahorses dance on the waves. The one Mashoud prefers is about his inexorable destiny [...]

Yorkshire, 1974. Britain is in recession and the oil crisis brings unexpected power cuts. However the Maynard family are happy as they are moving into their dream home. But when strange things start happening to their daughter Sally (an impressive debut from newcomer Tasha Connor) it is clear that the house is haunted by a [...]

The wither is a type of underground-dwelling mythological creature common in Nordic folklore. Elves, dwarves and jotnar are withers, and they all live underground, are invisible most of the time and rarely meddle in human affairs. However, when enraged by people not respecting them properly, they are fearsome. Wither is similar to a zombie film [...]

A truly global look at the last year in animated short film, The World Animation Competition screens some of the best new films from the International film festival circuit. With 30 selected films over three days, it is an experience that always delights and provokes in equal measure.
See all three animation competition programmes for just [...]

A truly global look at the last year in animated short film, The World Animation Competition screens some of the best new films from the International film festival circuit. With 30 selected films over three days, it is an experience that always delights and provokes in equal measure.
See all three animation competition programmes for just [...]

Wrinkles is a wonderfully comic, irreverent and moving animated tale of friendship, resistance and survival in a retirement home, based on the acclaimed comic Arrugas by Spanish artist Paco Roca. Increasingly lost in his own memories, as well as a growing burden to his son, Emilio finds himself set adrift in the new world of [...]

A special screening of Beyond Time a journey into the life, work and times of iconic British artist William Turnbull co-directed by his son Alex Turnbull and filmmaker Pete Stern.
Join Alex Turnbull as he introduces Beyond Time, which reevaluates the legacy of the Scottish-born artist William Turnbull. Not only is Beyond Time a fascinating account [...]