- 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 »
- Innovatively blending documentary and fiction and bending generic expectations at every turn, Nicolás Pereda has constructed a startlingly original feature with Summer of Goliath. It is summer in Huilotepec, a rural community in the Mexican countryside, where a placid atmosphere belies the intrigues stirring among the townspeople. Teresa is convinced that her husband has left [...]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 »
- Take Shelter is a riveting blend of domestic drama and supernatural thriller featuring an outstanding central performance by Michael Shannon, rapidly emerging as one of the best America actors of his generation. In his second collaboration with director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories), Shannon plays Curtis, a Midwestern husband and father who begins having terrifying dreams [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Festival favourite Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, The Princes’ Quest) returns with another beautifully animated film, this time based around six folk stories from Central Africa, the Aztec City of Gold, medieval Europe, the Caribbean and Tibet. A trio of storytellers try to outdo one another with their tales of dragons, werewolves, magical drums [...]Click to read more about this film »
- We think it’s time that toys got a day out too! Bring your special ted, doll, animal or whoever it might be to the cinema along with your picnic lunch and enjoy a very special event. There will be activities and a screening of short films from all over the world, all with no dialogue [...]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 »
- When “The Dude” Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Marie Kreutzer’s amazingly assured first film The Fatherless is set in the idyllic Austrian countryside in a large, run-down house which was the site of a sexually liberated commune back in the ‘80s. Now the commune’s charismatic former leader Hans is dying, attended by his oldest son, who never got the approval he craved. Hans’ [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Veteran cinematographer Sandor Kardos’ astonishing adaptation of the classic Rainer Maria Rilke short story is a bold innovation in cinematic narrative technique. Commandeering the technology used in horse racing to document the photo finish, the film resembles a carousel of hall-of-mirrors images, distorted and bleeding into one another. An enigmatic stranger comes to work as [...]Click to read more about this film »
Leeds International Film Festival Calendar - November 2011
