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The impeccable new drama from the great Xiaoshuai Wang (Drifters, Shanghai Dreams) is a politically sharp tale set in the rural province of Ghizhou during the dying days of the Cultural Revolution. The vivid story unfolds through the eyes of eleven year old Wang Han, whose life is shaken up after a confrontation with a [...]
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[Please note this screening will end at approximately 11pm] You haven’t really seen 2001: A Space Odyssey until you’ve seen it on the big screen, and in the stunning setting of Leeds Town Hall, this special presentation on a new digital print is going to be a very special occasion. Kubrick’s visionary sci-fi classic is [...]
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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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The hugely popular Fanomenon Anime Day returns to LIFF this year on Sunday 11th November, also presented on the first day of the Thought Bubble Festival 2012 and in partnership with Scotland Loves Animation. Starting at 12 noon in the superb setting of the Victoria Hall at Leeds Town Hall, the Fanomenon Anime Day will [...]
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Ben Affleck directs and stars in his widely-acclaimed comic thriller based on a remarkable true story about a CIA ‘exfiltration’ expert who concocts an outlandish plan to get a group of stranded Americans out of Iran. On November 4, 1979, a group of Islamist militants took control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held [...]
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Mid-15th century Japan. Flood, drought and famine have transformed the landscape of the capital of Kyoto into a barren wasteland. More than 80,000 have perished in the three years between 1459 and 1461. This desolate state served as the backdrop to the beginning of the country’s greatest civil war. The victims of this dark period [...]
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Stanley Kubrick’s epic costume drama is a must-see on the big screen, an unusually expansive evocation of period detail with magnificent production design and every shot fastidiously framed with the beauty of a Gainsborough painting. Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal) is forced to leave home after becoming involved in a duel. He gets lost in various [...]
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The Berserk anime is set in a foreboding, medieval Europeaninspired world, where a hundred year war rages on. Lone mercenary Guts travels the land, cutting down his opponents with unrivalled swordsmanship. His ferocity and strength attracts the attention of Griffith, leader of the mercenary group The Band of the Hawk.
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Despite things having gone a little awry towards the end of the first film, we return to the fray to find that things are still on the up and up for Griffith and his Band of the Hawks as they prove themselves to be ever more invaluable to Midland and their quest to regain land [...]
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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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