- 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 »
- 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 »
- Bela Tarr’s Satantango is one of the landmarks of modern cinema, a true epic at seven and half hours, it’s a monumental, must see experience on the big screen. Made in Hungary shortly after the collapse of communism, the film is set in a ramshackle rural community. Many of the villagers are set to leave [...]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 »
- Grant Morrison is one of the most influential and acclaimed writers currently working in the medium of comics; able to produce character defining reinterpretations of classic characters, as well as genre-defying original creations, his work constantly challenges readers to reassess what they should expect from comic books. Talking With Gods offers a unique opportunity to [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Warren Ellis has produced some of the most insightful comic books focusing on the human (and post-human) condition that the medium has to offer. A true phenomenon of the internet generation; his writing speaks to a wide-ranging, multimedia audience on a bewildering number of subjects, all of which have some bearing on how our society [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Ken Loach’s rarely seen early drama adapted from David Mercer’s TV play In Two Minds, is a characteristically powerful slice of social realism and a bitter indictment of the British mental health system in the early 70s. 19-year-old Janice is an increasing worry for her overbearing suburban parents as she has become increasingly withdrawn and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A gloriously free-wheeling selection of films on Super8 and 16mm, made by artists at DIY film labs and chosen for their sense of fun, freedom and their uncompromising attitude, which seem to emanate from the very material itself. Enjoy some black and white Lithuanian cat-stroking in Paris, a Portuguese radical manifesto, Berlin’s kaleidoscopic art and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Closing the Official Selection in considerable style, Shame represents another great feature in the best year for British film in living memory. Steve McQueen consolidates his reputation as one of our most gifted and confident directors, following his extraordinary feature debut Hunger. Shame is a mesmerising character drama boasting a superbly orchestrated soundtrack and cinematography and [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A delightful crowd-pleasing musical crime comedy from Sweden. Police Officer Warnebring suffers from a hatred of all music and his life is thrown into chaos when he is assigned to his first sonic crime spree. A band of outlaw musicians are causing havoc with shock guerilla gig tactics using anything in their path as instruments. [...]Click to read more about this film »
