- 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, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network present a free evening of short films and discussion, featuring the personal account of a refugee who has first-hand experience of the UK’s asylum system. In the UK, despite what you might read in the newspapers, the majority of asylum seekers live in very tough circumstances, with very little money [...]Click to read more about this film »
- One of Britain’s best loved comedians, Paul Merton is appearing exclusively at Leeds Town Hall to host a special presentation of his Silent Clowns event. Celebrating the icons of silent cinema, Silent Clowns features the Harold Lloyd classic Safety Last! Plus Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel & Hardy in hilarious extracts all introduced by [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The late Krzysztof Kieslowski and the co-writer of many of the great man’s films, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, planned a trilogy of films loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. Other directors have tackled this material after Kieslowski’s untimely death with mixed results, but Bosnian director Danis Tanovic did an excellent job with Hell, the intense story of [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Sinbad is considered a lost masterpiece of international cinema, rarely seen outside Hungary but cherished as a classic at home. Based on the stories of surrealist writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád (Zoltán Latinovits). As Szindbád contemplates his life [...]Click to read more about this film »
- In a gentle and deeply touching road movie, a poignant relationship slowly grows between a lonely truck driver, Rubén and a single mother, Jacinta who travels with her 8-month-old baby Anahí. Initially reluctant, Rubén gradually warms to his passengers on the long journey from Asunción del Paraguay to Buenos Aires and the skilfully restrained direction [...]Click to read more about this film »
- She Monkeys is an intense and taboo-challenging drama about the sexual awakening of Swedish teenagers with powerful, naturalistic performances by its young actors. When Emma tries out for the local voltige (horseback acrobatics) team she befriends the attractive and confident Cassandra, but feelings of jealousy, competetiveness and sexual attraction have them pushing each other to [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A claustrophobic and disturbing documentary, brilliantly executed (excuse the morbid pun) and shot entirely in a motel room on the US/Mexican border. El Sicario Room 164 is a feature length conversation with a masked Juarez hit man: he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and even received some training [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Marxists and nudists and vegans oh my! Life goes from hippie heaven to hellish anarchy when a housewife and her two precocious kids move into a ‘70s commune unleashing a maelstrom of suburban values. As the belligerent beatniks and commitment-phobic communists start questioning their beliefs, they realise living in harmony can be all-out war. After [...]Click to read more about this film »
