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A stark and beautiful rotoscope animation from the Czech Republic, Alois Nebel builds on the recent trend in animation to relate nuanced stories of political sophistication and psychological depth. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland. He is a loner who finds the loneliness of the station [...]
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From the director of Hidden and The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s extraordinary new drama Amour is announced as the Closing Gala of the Official Selection. Amour is the Austrian writer / director’s second Palme d’Or winner at Cannes where the film was hailed as a masterpiece after its world premiere. Georges (Jean- Louis Trintignant) and [...]
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Behind the Screen casts a formidable glance behind the facade of the electronics industry where 7 computers are produced a second. Behind the Screen reveals the people behind the important electronic product and thereby illustrates the links of our decentralized economic system, which are difficult to grasp based on real life processes. Behind the Screen [...]
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Determined to give its loyal genre fans something unique, Fanomenon’s Day of the Dead delivers four UK premieres this year as well as some amazing short films and very special guests. The films include creepy folklore tale Thale from Norway, ghostly J-horror style hauntings in Germany’s Room 205 of Fear; Modus Anomali, a terrifying lost-in-the-woods [...]
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For the first time Fanomenon is presenting a special shorts package, with five films from across the world. While each film is unique, all five share a common theme – a shock ending!
Familiar Dir. Richard Powell, Canada, 2012, 20 mins
A hen-pecked man battling with his inner demons has plans to escape his humdrum life.Matriarch Dir. [...]
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Jörg Buttgereit is an independent filmmaker who courted controversy in his early career in the 80s with his underground films Nekromantik and The Death King which have not screened in the UK since 1990. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Nekromantik we are presenting both these films in a partnership with Hyde Park Picture House’s [...]
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A hugely entertaining documentary profile of Ralf König, Germany‘s most successful cartoonist. Wittily playing with queer clichés and providing a razor sharp critique of modern society’s conflicted relationships with gay culture, he also reaches a wide heterosexual audience. König became famous with his comic book The Most Desired Man that was made into a film [...]
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A riveting documentary from British filmmaker Michael Radford about the extraordinary life of French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani (1962 – 1999). Born with glass bone disease, and standing just three feet tall as an adult, Petrucciani overcame extraordinary obstacles to become an internationally acclaimed jazz artist, driven by an insatiable and all- consuming hunger for [...]
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Robert works for a crew who clean up after grisly accidents, which gives him the chance to feed his odd hobby by stealing body parts. Following one accident he brings home a full corpse for him and his girlfriend, Betty, to enjoy. Unfortunately Betty prefers her new lover to Robert and leaves with the corpse. [...]
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Maverick director Carlos Reygadas (Japón, Silent Light) has created one of the most challenging and indelible films of the year. Post Tenebras Lux (‘After Darkness, Light’) is a disorienting, kaleidoscopic and stunningly-filmed vision of a family torn between tenderness and violence that won the filmmaker Best Director at Cannes.
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Carlos Reygadas introduces the experience of watching [...]
