- This late addition to the LIFF25 programme is a free presentation of a beautiful new short-length anime from Japan that has mesmerised audiences in Tokyo since its recent release. A young girl called Hotaru is lost and alone in an enchanted forest. She meets a spirit boy called Gin who helps her to get home. [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Accompanying the amazing feature film line up in Night of the Dead XI kicking off at midnight on Saturday 5 November, there will also be a fantastic selection of short films from around the world to celebrate horror in all its glory. The full line up of horror shorts is: Banana Motherf**kerDir. Fernando Alle, Portugal, 2011, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The special two day Thought Bubble comic convention includes an incredible line-up of leading artists and writers, including Tim Sale (Batman, Heroes), Adam Hughes (Star Wars, Wonder Woman), Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Swamp Thing) and Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe, Gemma Bovery) and features over 300 tables showcasing the best that sequential art has to offer. [...]Click to read more about this film »
- When Tom Six presented The Human Centipede: First Sequence at Leeds back in 2009, he promised that the sequel, apart from being 100% medically inaccurate, would also make the original look like My Little Pony. Two years later and after a brief spell on the BBFC’s ‘banned’ list later, The Human Centipede 2 is here [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Morphine were one of the great underground American bands of the 90s, led by the charismatic singer songwriter Mark Sandman who tragically died onstage in Italy in 1999 aged only 47. Cure for Pain examines his life and work from his troubled family background to his rise through various bands in his youth to the [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Beats, Rhymes & Life follows one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. A Tribe Called Quest’s sudden break-up in 1998 shocked the industry and saddened the scores of fans, whose appetite for the group’s innovative musical stylings never seems to diminish. A hard-core fan himself, Rapaport sets out on tour [...]Click to read more about this film »
- We are delighted that the finale film of the 25th Leeds International Film Festival is an exclusive screening of Cannes sensation and Oscar-tipped comedy The Artist. One of those out-of-the-blue delights that cinema can sometimes spring on audiences, The Artist is a highly original and hilariously funny story about ambition and passion set in 1920s’ [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The eagerly-awaited new anime adventure from Makoto Shinkai, director of the much-admired 5 Centimetres Per Second. Asuna is a young girl who has been forced to grow up fast after the death of her father. While walking home one evening she is attacked by a strange, fearsome monster. A mysterious boy called Shun rescues her [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A nail-biting crime drama featuring a captivating performance by Toni Servillo (Consequences of Love, Il Divo). Servillo plays chef, Rosario, an Italian restaurant owner just turned fifty who has lived in Germany for the last twelve years with his wife Renate and their young son. But one day in February everything changes. A sudden visit [...]Click to read more about this film »
- An innovative 16mm workshop run by Richard and Diana of Australia’s Nanolab! Usually, reversal cine film is developed as a negative and then converted to a positive image through a series of chemical baths, but it is possible to intervene by hand with a brush, thereby limiting their effect to particular areas of the film [...]Click to read more about this film »
