Every section of Leeds International Film Festival is a unique programme, each one almost a film festival in itself. You could just see all the screenings in Short Film City and experience the vast diversity of the real world of cinema with films from every continent.
Competitions
Leeds International Film Festival is now a recognised festival in the categories of short films for both the Academy Awards and BAFTA. The British, International and World Animation Competitions are at the centre of the Short Film City programme, celebrating the outstanding new talent emerging from across the world. The International Competition, presented over six screenings, is inspired and named after Louis le Prince, the Frenchborn film pioneer who made the first ever moving images, right here in Leeds in 1889.
Panoramas and Special Events
Alongside the Competitions this year, Short Film City presents three Panorama programmes: the annual homage to fabulous French short filmmaking, a special focus on new Portuguese shorts, and an extra animation programme dedicated to British talent. In a special free event, the Magma Festival in Sicily has curated a programme of shorts especially for Leeds, and the city’s Cherry Kino lab provides in-depth and hands-on short filmmaking experiences with real film.
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This is a new programme in the festival created just to celebrate the variety of great and strange animated films we have received from UK animators this year. A vivid mash-up of films ranging from one minute long attention grabbers to more considered and delightful narratives, the programme gives us a chance to show off [...]
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No man is an island but Britain certainly is and by gosh it’s chock full of talented directors, actors, writers making this year’s Best of British Programme a corker. It includes beautiful stop motion animation I am Tom Moody about the delicate ego of a young musician finding his voice, tender drama Dylan’s Room about [...]
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It’s fair to say that drama is one of the things we do best in this country. From the grand tradition of Shakespeare’s theatre to that oh so concise of things, the dramatic short film. This year’s dramatic short film panorama includes the blackly comic BAFTA Award winning short Pitch Black Heist starring Michael Fassbender, [...]
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French short filmmaking is an incredibly rich and fascinating world of mini dramas, comedies, and fantasies. Every year the French Panorama presents a film selection box of delicious treats. In the colourful musical Attack of the Giant Brainsucker Monster From Outer Space (pictured), a monster from an old Hollywood movie arrives in a small town [...]
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From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]
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From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]
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From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]
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From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]
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From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]
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From this year onwards the winning film of the annual Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition will be eligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In this year’s exciting competition, more than 30 short films from across the world will be presented to the public and a jury in [...]
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