Fanomenon

Agenda

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  Pan's Labyrinth (20th Anniversary 4K Restoration)

  Dir. Guillermo del Toro

  Fanomenon Retro

  Thu 29 Oct and Fri 30 Oct

  Guillermo del Toro’s beloved masterpiece is meticulously restored in 4K from the original 35mm negative.

  • Mexico
  • Spain
  • Europe
  • Horror
  • Period
  • Fantasy

  Book Tickets
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  Wicker

  Dir. Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson

  Fanomenon Opening Film

  Thu 29 Oct - Multiple times

  Olivia Colman’s perfect wicker husband becomes the source of much jealousy in this charming one-of-a-kind romance.

  • Australia
  • UK
  • USA
  • Women Filmmakers
  • Europe
  • Comedy
  • British Films
  • Offbeat
  • Period
  • Fantasy

  Book Tickets
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  Papaya

  Dir. Priscilla Kellen

  Fanomenon Family

  Fri 30 Oct and Sun 1 Nov

  A tiny papaya seed rebels against becoming a tree in this stunning Brazilian animated debut from Priscilla Kellen, dialogue-free and with an upbeat score from Talita Del Collado.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Brazil
  • Women Filmmakers
  • Music
  • First Features
  • South America
  • Offbeat
  • Animation
  • Family Films
  • Environmental

  Book Tickets
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  You are the Film + Hoodsteps

  Dir. Makoto Ueda (You Are the Film)/ Nomura Fusso (Hoodsteps)

  Fanomenon

  Fri 30 Oct - Sun 1 Nov

  A trip to the cinema breaks the space/time continuum in this delightful micro-budget sci-fi comedy.

  • Japan
  • East Asia
  • Comedy
  • Offbeat
  • Fantasy

  Book Tickets
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  Mārama

  Dir. Taratoa Stappard

  Fanomenon

  Fri 30 Oct and Sun 1 Nov

  A young Māori woman faces the horror of her colonial heritage in this stunning Gothic horror.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • New Zealand
  • UK
  • Horror
  • First Features
  • Political
  • Thriller
  • Australasia

  Book Tickets
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  Wild Horse Nine

  Dir. Martin McDonagh

  Fanomenon - LIFF 40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL FILM PREVIEW

  Fri 30 Oct - Sun 1 Nov

  From writer-director Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Wild Horse Nine is a gripping dark comedy thriller set shortly before the 1973 coup in Chile.

  • Chile
  • UK
  • USA
  • Europe
  • History
  • Comedy
  • Political
  • Period
  • Thriller

  Book Tickets
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  Day of the Dead

  Fanomenon - Fanathon

  Sat 31 Oct - 13:15

  All-day horror marathon with some of the most acclaimed horror films of the year.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Faroe Islands

  Book Tickets
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  Never After Dark

  Dir. Dave Boyle

  Fanomenon - Day of the Dead

  Sat 31 Oct - 13:15

  A travelling medium uncovers dark, threatening secrets in this spine-chilling ghost story.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Japan
  • East Asia
  • Horror
  • Thriller

  Book Tickets
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  Recluse

  Dir. Henry Chaisson

  Fanomenon - Day of the Dead

  Sat 31 Oct - 15:30

  Henry Chaisson’s atmospheric debut set in a Gothic world is a claustrophobic descent into horror.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • USA
  • North America
  • Horror
  • Thriller

  Book Tickets
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  Imposters

  Dir. Caleb Phillips

  Fanomenon - Day of the Dead

  Sat 31 Oct - 18:15

  A couple is put to the test when their missing baby returns under mysterious circumstances in this chilling lo-fi sci-fi.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • USA
  • North America
  • Horror
  • Thriller

  Book Tickets
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  Ghost in the Cell

  Dir. Joko Anwar

  Fanomenon - Day of the Dead

  Sat 31 Oct - 20:30

  In the Fanomenon Day of the Dead finale, Indonesian genre master Joko Anwar delivers a wild combo of martial arts action, graphic horror, pitch-black humour, and social commentary, topped with dance battles and performance art prayer routines.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Indonesia
  • South Korea
  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • Southeast Asia

  Book Tickets
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  Grotesqqque

  Dir. Atsushi Nishigori

  Fanomenon - Feature Film Competition

  Sun 1 Nov - 13:45

  A hit at this year’s Fantasia film festival, Grotesqqque is a music-fuelled, girl-filled anime anthology film in three parts from CloverWorks studio and Atsushi Nishigori, Chief Animation Director behind Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Japan
  • East Asia
  • Animation
  • Sci-Fi
  • Short Films

  Book Tickets
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  Mutter: The Diary of a Mother

  Dir. Alphan Eseli

  Fanomenon - Feature Film Competition

  Sun 1 Nov and Wed 4 Nov

  A mother’s love knows no bound in this maternal horror drama with a powerful central performance.

  • Turkey
  • Horror
  • Competitions
  • Thriller
  • Southwest Asia

  Book Tickets
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  Bowels of Hell

  Dir. Gurcius Gewdner, Gustavo Vinagre

  Fanomenon

  Sun 1 Nov - 20:15

  A delightfully trippy and socially conscious horror-comedy from Brazil, about a sewage system taken over by evil spirits.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Brazil
  • South America

  Book Tickets
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  Wolfram

  Dir. Warwick Thornton

  Fanomenon

  Mon 2 Nov and Tue 3 Nov

  Warwick Thornton follows up his acclaimed Sweet Country from 2017 with the immersive and moving outback western Wolfram.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 7

  • Australia
  • History
  • Period
  • Thriller
  • Australasia

  Book Tickets
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  Persepolis

  Dir. Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

  Fanomenon Retro

  Mon 2 Nov and Tue 10 Nov

  We opened LIFF 2007 with Persepolis at Leeds Town Hall and we are screening the film again in tribute to the artist, writer and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi who passed away this June.

  Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds

  Main Sanctuary

  • France
  • USA
  • Women Filmmakers
  • Europe
  • Political
  • Animation
  • Biography
  • Human Rights
  • Adaptations

  Book Tickets
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  Salvation

  Dir. Emin Alper

  Fanomenon

  Tue 3 Nov and Wed 4 Nov

  Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlin Film Festival, Emin Alper’s Salvation is a deeply unsettling folk-horror-like examination of the roots of atrocity that fills you with foreboding until its searing end.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 7

  • France
  • Greece
  • Netherlands
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Sweden
  • Turkey
  • Horror
  • Political
  • Thriller
  • Southwest Asia

  Book Tickets
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  Levitating

  Dir. Wregas Bhanuteja

  Fanomenon - Feature Film Competition

  Wed 4 Nov and Sat 7 Nov

  In a town where people find joy in possession, a young man aspires to become a trance party shaman to prevent his eviction.

  • France
  • Indonesia
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Music
  • Horror
  • Competitions
  • Offbeat
  • Fantasy
  • Southeast Asia

  Book Tickets
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  Donkey Princess

  Dir. Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León

  Fanomenon - Feature Film Competition

  Wed 4 Nov and Sat 7 Nov

  A princess defies her father’s wishes in this boldly original retelling of Charles Perrault’s fairytale Donkeyskin.

  • Chile
  • France
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Uruguay
  • Horror
  • South America
  • Competitions
  • Offbeat
  • Animation
  • Fantasy

  Book Tickets
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  The Days Off

  Dir. Lucila Mariani

  Fanomenon - Feature Film Competition

  Thu 5 Nov - Multiple times

  Set in near-future Argentina, Lucila Mariani’s beguiling debut is a dreamlike coming-of-age story suspended between the everyday and the otherworldly.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 7

  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • France
  • Mexico
  • Women Filmmakers
  • Friendship
  • First Features
  • South America
  • Competitions
  • Sci-Fi
  • Fantasy

  Book Tickets
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  Light Pillar

  Dir. Xu Zao

  Fanomenon - Feature Film Competition

  Thu 5 Nov and Sun 8 Nov

  A hauntingly original sci-fi animation from Japan, Light Pillar is set on a wintry, abandoned film studio compound, where a lonely janitor is drawn into a virtual journey that blurs the line between dreaming and waking.

  • China
  • East Asia
  • Competitions
  • Animation
  • Sci-Fi

  Book Tickets
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  Bagworm

  Dir. Oliver Bernsen

  Fanomenon - Feature Film Competition

  Thu 5 Nov - 20:15

  A surreal and darkly comic debut shot on 16mm about a man facing an existential meltdown that may have been caused by stepping on a rusty nail.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 7

  • USA
  • North America
  • Competitions

  Book Tickets
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  Fanomenon Short Film Competition 1

  Fanomenon Shorts

  Fri 6 Nov and Sun 8 Nov

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Horror
  • Competitions
  • Thriller
  • Sci-Fi
  • Short Films

  Book Tickets
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  Fanomenon Short Film Competition 2

  Fanomenon Shorts

  Fri 6 Nov and Sun 8 Nov

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Horror
  • Competitions
  • Thriller
  • Sci-Fi
  • Short Films

  Book Tickets
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  Fanomenon Short Film Competition 3

  Fanomenon Shorts

  Fri 6 Nov and Sun 8 Nov

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Horror
  • Competitions
  • Thriller
  • Sci-Fi
  • Short Films

  Book Tickets
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  Jim Queen

  Dir. Nicolas Athane, Marco Nguyen

  Fanomenon

  Fri 6 Nov and Sun 8 Nov

  A raunchy but heartfelt queer spoof about a viral outbreak which is turning gay men straight. Lucien is a timid twink who idolises gay social media influencer Jim Queen (and his rippling abs).

  • Belgium
  • France
  • Europe

  Book Tickets
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  The Difficult Bride

  Dir. Rubaiyat Hossain

  Fanomenon

  Sat 7 Nov and Tue 10 Nov

  In this highly distinctive psychological drama, Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain uses subtle elements of folklore and body horror to create a biting feminist critique of the beauty myth.

  • Bangladesh
  • France
  • Germany
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Women Filmmakers
  • Horror
  • Political
  • Offbeat
  • South Asia

  Book Tickets
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  Prosecution

  Dir. Faraz Shariat

  Fanomenon

  Sat 7 Nov - Sun 15 Nov

  Winner of the Berlin Film Festival audience award, Faraz Shariat’s gripping and politically charged thriller follows German-Korean prosecutor Seyo Kim (Chen Emilie Yan) as she turns vigilante to confront far-right violence in eastern Germany.

  • Germany
  • Europe
  • Political
  • Thriller
  • Crime

  Book Tickets
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  I Love Paris

  Dir. Nicky Murphy

  Fanomenon

  Sat 7 Nov - 19:30

  Deadpan mockumentary about an up-and-coming musician whose career ambitions are complicated when she is turned into a bloodthirsty creature of the night.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • France
  • USA
  • Europe

  Book Tickets
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  Sheep in the Box

  Dir. Hirokazu Koreeda

  Fanomenon

  Tue 10 Nov and Wed 11 Nov

  One of two new films from LIFF favourite Hirokazu Koreeda screening this year, alongside Look Back, Sheep in the Box is a moving sci-fi drama about bereft parents turning to AI to rebuild their family.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 7

  • Japan
  • East Asia
  • Sci-Fi

  Book Tickets
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  Furies

  Dir. Rami Kodeih

  Fanomenon

  Fri 13 Nov - Sat 14 Nov

  A riveting heist thriller about two sisters fighting back against Lebanon’s real-life corruption-fuelled economic collapse when banks froze accounts overnight, trapping millions of people’s life savings.

  Vue in the Light, Leeds

  Screen 11

  • Brazil
  • Lebanon
  • First Features
  • Political
  • Thriller
  • Action
  • Southwest Asia

  Book Tickets
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  From Beyond

  Dir. Stuart Gordon

  Fanomenon - Night of the Dead

  Fri 13 Nov - 23:00

  Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Stuart Gordon's From Beyond reunites the director with his Re-animator stars, Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton for another tale of Lovecraftian body-horror.

  Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds

  Screen 1

  • Italy
  • USA
  • North America

  Book Tickets
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  Infirmary

  Dir. Nicholas Pineda

  Fanomenon - Night of the Dead

  Fri 13 Nov - 23:00

  The found footage genre meets liminal space horror in Nicholas Pineda's tense and unnerving Infirmary.

  Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds

  Screen 1

  • USA
  • North America

  Book Tickets
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  Night of the Dead

  All-Night Horror Film Marathon

  Fanomenon - Fanathon

  Fri 13 Nov - 23:00

  The Fanomenon all-night horror marathon returns to the iconic Hyde Park Picture House – and this year on Friday 13th - with a new mix of midnight horror and cult carnage. Can you survive the night?

  Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds

  Screen 1

  Book Tickets
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  No Way Down

  Dir. Mohamed Chabane, Théo Jourdain

  Fanomenon - Night of the Dead

  Fri 13 Nov - 23:00

  Five friends must find their way out of an abandoned tower in this tense horror-thriller.

  Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds

  Screen 1

  • France
  • Europe

  Book Tickets
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  Oddities

  Dir. Tyler Savage

  Fanomenon - Night of the Dead

  Fri 13 Nov - 23:00

  Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds

  Screen 1

  • USA
  • North America

  Book Tickets
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  Chronovisor

  Dir. Jack Auen, Kevin Walker

  Fanomenon Closing Film

  Sun 15 Nov - Multiple times

  This bold, haunting thriller shot on 16mm from Cosmic Salon (Jack Auen and Kevin Walker) follows a neuroscientist who stumbles onto a conspiracy surrounding a mysterious device.

  • USA
  • North America

  Book Tickets