- The special two day Thought Bubble comic convention includes an incredible line-up of leading artists and writers, including Tim Sale (Batman, Heroes), Adam Hughes (Star Wars, Wonder Woman), Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Swamp Thing) and Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe, Gemma Bovery) and features over 300 tables showcasing the best that sequential art has to offer. [...]Click to read more about this film »
- We are delighted that the finale film of the 25th Leeds International Film Festival is an exclusive screening of Cannes sensation and Oscar-tipped comedy The Artist. One of those out-of-the-blue delights that cinema can sometimes spring on audiences, The Artist is a highly original and hilariously funny story about ambition and passion set in 1920s’ [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Two medium length films which explore the relationship between language and possession in politically resonant ways. Roee Rosen’s film Tse confirms his status as one of Israel’s most interesting and provocative experimental filmmakers, forming a link between S/M bondage practices and the policies of Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, renowned as one of [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The Camera Lucida is a prismatic device that was used as an aid to drawing and David Hockney would argue that it ushered in Renaissance perspective of art. These wondermental film and video works consider life through the cinematic magic of the prism, as light spills its bounds, inviting us to see the world in [...]Click to read more about this film »
- 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 »
- The incredible rise of Jon Gnarr, iconoclastic comedian turned Reykjavik mayoral candidate and his controversial Best Party, which began as a parody and turned into a spectacular if controversial success story. No country epitomizes the boom and bust absurdities of capitalism better than Iceland since its sudden crash from economic success story to national bankrupcy. [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Documentary filmmaker Dean Puckett interrogates the writer and international security analyst Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It – a powerful critique of a failed global system and a manifesto for constructive social change. Taking a similar filmmaking approach to Adam Curtis, he [...]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 »
