- The best comedy yet from Japan’s exciting new talent and Leeds favourite Yûya Ishii. Stuck in a tiny flat in Tokyo, Mitsuko is unattached, friendless, broke and 9-months pregnant. Her inept parents thinks she is in California, happily settled with the baby’s GI father. One day she follows a cloud back to the run-down alley [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Two children, Seita and his little sister Setsuko, are at the centre of this deeply moving 1988 anime classic from Studio Ghibli, set in Japan during World War II. After their mother is killed in an air raid, and with their father serving in the navy, they are forced to fight for survival in the [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Marie Kreutzer’s amazingly assured first film The Fatherless is set in the idyllic Austrian countryside in a large, run-down house which was the site of a sexually liberated commune back in the ‘80s. Now the commune’s charismatic former leader Hans is dying, attended by his oldest son, who never got the approval he craved. Hans’ [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Dissecting one traumatic event with incredible cinematic invention, Koen Mortier’s 22nd of May ricochets from realist drama to taut thriller to dreamlike surreal fantasy. One seemingly ordinary day turns to disaster in a single moment for shopping centre security agent Sam as a bomb explodes in his workplace. Shellshocked and disorientated, he encounters victims and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Exploring the terrifying thought that the enemy is not ‘out there’, but here among us, Invasion preys on our paranoia and fears of losing our identity, in a psychological sci-fi full of suspense and timely political and social subtext. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) notices something is not right with the community of Santa Mira, as [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Fans of the much-loved John Carpenter classic: here’s your chance to delve into the back story of one of the most horrific monster movies of all time at one of the film’s first screenings in the UK. The Thing acts as a prequel, offering an alternative story with a focus on the Norwegian scientist’s point [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Never Make It Home chronicles the final tour of ‘insurgent country’ band Split Lip Rayfield, a barnstorming punk-bluegrass band led by hellraiser singer/guitarist Kirk Rundstrum. Kirk is diagnosed with throat cancer and given only months to live, but with steely determination and a passionate conviction to his craft, he sets out on a last tour, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- One of the annual Film Festival highlights and always a hit with audiences, the World Animation Competition presents a diverse selection of painted, drawn, modelled, stop-frame and computer-generated shorts. The first programme contains iconic British artists Gilbert and George reflecting on their idyllic day out in the English countryside, and there is exhilarating action, destruction [...]Click to read more about this film »
