- Whilst celebrating the wonderful array of International filmmaking talent active today is undoubtedly key to the festival, it is also great to be reminded of the terrific talent working not only here in the UK but also right on our doorstep! This year’s outstanding selection includes: Tetley’s – Quality Pays, an insightful documentary about the [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Shoot, process and project Super8 film! Learn about the different film stocks and how to use a high-end camera (including plenty of tips and tricks) before heading out to shoot a film with a partner. Back at the Cherry Kino Lab, we’ll process the films by hand in a DIY method that’s easy to recreate [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A highly acclaimed experimental filmmaker in his own right, Pip Chodorov has crafted a highly accessible and infectiously enthusiastic history of the artists and poets of experimental cinema. His’free radicals’ are crazy about filmmaking and pushing the artform in radical new directions, trapped in a no man’s land, excluded both from the art world and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- This year’s British Competition programme is a microcosm of contemporary cinema. The selection includes: Fixing Luka, a beautiful stop motion animation looking at autism through the eyes of a loving sister; Long Distance Information, a black comedy that explores the strained relationship between fathers and sons starring Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur); and the UK Premiere of [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Take the opportunity to see two episodes of director Krzysztof Kieslowski and writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s masterpiece on the big screen in conjunction with the University’s presentation on the duo’s work. Originally made for Polish television at the end of the communist era in 1988, this extraordinary series of films loosely based on the ten commandments [...]Click to read more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 »
- Made at the end of the communist era in Hungary, Ildiko Enyedi’s surreal odyssey tracks the progress of female identity through the accelerating mechanical age of the early twentieth century. Boasting an extraordinary triple role for the excellent Dorothy Segda as identical twins Dora and Lili and their mother. Born on the day Edison invents [...]Click to read more about this film »
- For LIFF25, Day of the Dead returns to the old-school glory of the newly reopened City Varieties. The darker twin sister of Night of the Dead showcases three UK premieres and the true variety to be found in horror, as zombies slouch on screen from as far afield as Cuba (Juan of the Dead) and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The discovery of the Snowtown murders in 1999 shocked Australia to its core. A gang of serial killers controlled by the notorious John Bunting had butchered 11 victims around Adelaide and stored their remains in barrels of acid. One of the killers, teenager James Vlassakis, had lived with his mother and brothers in an already [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Based on the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is the poignant and hilarious biographical story of Marji: from a rebellious, heavy metal loving tomboy experiencing the turmoil of adolescence during the tyrannical Iranian revolution to a teenage exile in Vienna, Austria, where she discovers the benefits of freedom can also cause deep conflict. Returning [...]Click to read more about this film »
