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Honouring Louis Le Prince, the French-born inventor who shot the first ever moving images in Leeds in 1888, the International Short Film Competition celebrates the outstanding talent at work in the short film form around the world today. The film selection includes prize winners from other festivals as well as submissions to Short Film City, [...]
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Veteran cinematographer Sandor Kardos’ astonishing adaptation of the classic Rainer Maria Rilke short story is a bold innovation in cinematic narrative technique. Commandeering the technology used in horse racing to document the photo finish, the film resembles a carousel of hall-of-mirrors images, distorted and bleeding into one another. An enigmatic stranger comes to work as [...]
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A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “the merry [...]
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An extraordinary documentary profiling three very different characters all of whom claim to be the second coming of Christ, each part of a contrasting fringe community of disciples. British ex-secret service agent David Shayler underwent a spiritual awakening after release from prison and now lives in a squatting community rejecting capitalist values. INRI Cristo is [...]
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One of Japan’s few surviving pre-war horrors, a genre that was soon to be suppressed by the increasing state censorship. Japan’s first scream queen Sumiko Suzuki plays Mitsue, the possessive actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When his lost cat Kuro brings home a beautiful girl, dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue and [...]
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A jawdropping concert film from 1974 featuring the fabulous Celia Cruz and The Fania All Stars filmed in Kinshasa, Zaire as part of the famous Rumble in the Jungle title fight between the reigning champion George Foreman and the greatest, Muhammad Ali. Their original performance on the first day caused such a hysterical response from [...]
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A selection of the best short films about mental health. Includes work from the Arts & Minds Film Production Group, a Leeds based project that encourages people with personal experience of mental health issues to make films. Films include ‘Diagnosis Psychosis’, a humorous look at Hollywood cliché and “The Bus Stop” the story of one [...]
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Ambitious and ambiguous, Benedict Fliegauf’s Forest is a singular film, weaving together a loosely connected, only partially explicated series of dramatic vignettes to create an unsettling, uncategorizable whole. Most of the scenes build towards some kind of uncomfortable confrontation, but the viewer is not always given enough information to interpret exactly what’s going on: two [...]
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Like the illegitimate love child of Calvaire (The Ordeal) and The League of Gentlemen, Inbred is a distinctly un-PC gore-fest with a wicked sense of humour. Set in a remote Yorkshire village that the Tourist Board would never recommend, the stange yokels have some particularly unpleasant ‘ways’ and a distinct dislike for strangers (well, uncooked [...]
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The highest grossing domestic Chinese release ever, this hugely entertaining comic Western is a brilliant deadpan satire set during the Warlord Era of the 1920s. Bandits, led by ‘Pocky’ Zhang, hijack a train en route to Goose Town with its new governor on board. When the train crashes, its lone survivors are the governor’s sleazy [...]
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