LIFF 28 Guide

28th Leeds International Film Festival 5/20 November 2014

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WELCOME TO THE LIFF28 FREE GUIDE The 28th Leeds International Film Festival features more than 250 screenings, events and exhibitions over 16 days, bringing a vast, diverse and unique experience of global filmmaking culture to venues across the city. The full LIFF28 line-up is presented in this free guide in both A to Z and Day by Day formats, and each listed screening, event or exhibition is colour coded according to its programme section. LIFF28 features five programme sections – Official Selection, Retrospectives, Cinema Versa, Fanomenon and Short Film City – and these are summarised in pages 11 – 18. Leeds Free Cinema Week (page 19) is a new initiative launched this year to increase access to alternative film events in the city. Full details of tickets, passes, and venues are on the next few pages. For the latest LIFF28 updates follow us through our social media on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and visit leedsfilm.com

GUIDE CONTENTS

LIFF28 AUDIENCE AWARD AND REPEAT SCREENINGS

Partners 4 Tickets & Passes 5 Map & Venues 6-7 Official Selection 11 Retrospectives 12 - 13 Cinema Versa 14 - 15 Fanomenon 16 - 17 Short Film City 18 Leeds Free Cinema Week 19 A - Z Film Guide 23 - 77 Day by Day Guide 84 - 98

Every new feature film screened at LIFF28 is rated by the audience using voting forms distributed at the start of screenings. News of which features are receiving the highest ratings will be revealed during the course of the film festival, with the overall winning film announced at 11pm on Thursday 20th November. In the last few days of LIFF28 some of the audience favourites will be repeated - details of the selected films for repeats will be announced around 13th November on leedsfilm.com and through our social media.

FREE LIFF28 CATALOGUE A limited number of copies of the free LIFF28 Catalogue will be available from the box office at Leeds Town Hall from 5th November when there are screenings. The catalogue will include more information about all feature films showing at LIFF28, including articles, filmmaker interviews, and extended credits, and the full line-up of all short films.

SCREENING INFORMATION • LIFF does not present trailers or adverts before films and where possible all screenings start at the time advertised. At many screenings, a LIFF programmer will give a short introduction. Guests attending LIFF for Q&As after screenings will be announced on leedsfilm.com in late October.

• The majority of films screened in LIFF are not in the English language and have subtitles. Where films are subtitled, the original language is usually the same as that of the country of origin.

• Most films are projected in the DCP (digital cinema) format. Where a film is on 35mm or 16mm, this in indicated in the A to Z film listings.

• Most films in the programme have recommended certificates - please contact the city centre box office for advice on suitability.

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TICKETS & PASSES INDIVIDUAL TICKETS ALL VENUES EXCEPT ALBERT ROOM

£8 / £6

ALBERT ROOM

£6 / £5

Unless otherwise stated in the A-Z, some screenings are £10/£8, some are FREE (see page 19)

ID is required for concessionary rate: NUS, ISIC, over 55s, under 16s, registered unemployed, registered disabled, Leeds Card.

SPECIAL OFFER Get 6 tickets for the price of 5!* Take advantage of this exclusive offer until the end of the festival! *Valid for all individual film screenings at LIFF28. Buy online, in person at City Centre Box Office or on the phone.

Cheapest ticket is free. Not available on the door.

PASSES LIFF28 Single Pass

£90

The full 28th Leeds International Film Festival Pass is amazing value for money at just £90, and gives access to every individual screening throughout the festival’s gigantic 16 day programme. The LIFF28 Pass includes access to all screenings at all venues and across all programme sections, with the only exceptions being the Cole Porter concert and Fanomenon Night of the Dead XIV which is available to pass holders for just £10. The LIFF28 pass will give free entry to Fanomenon Day of the Dead 8 as well as Fanomenon Anime Day 2014.

LIFF28 Double Pass

£160

Team up with a friend or partner and purchase a pass at the same time for £160 to save £20!

ONCE IN A LIFETIME - MUSIC FILM DAY PASSES Sat 15th November, 12pm-6.30pm, VICTORIA £15 / £12 conc / Free with LIFF28 Pass

FANOMENON PASSES Fanomenon Night of the Dead XIV

Fanomenon Anime Day 2014

Fri 14th November, 9pm - Late, HYDE £25 / £20 conc / £10 with LIFF28 Pass No individual tickets

Sun 9th November, from 11am, VICTORIA £25 / £20 conc / FREE with LIFF28 Pass

Fanomeon Double Pass

Fanomenon Day of the Dead 8

Buy tickets for any two of the above events for £40 full / £30 concession (this offer can be purchased over the phone, or in person at the Box Office, currently not available online).

Sat 8th Nov, from 12pm, VICTORIA £25 / £20 conc / Free with LIFF28 Pass

HOW TO BUY TICKETS AND PASSES Box Office

Tickets booked by telephone or online are not posted out but can be collected from Box Office up to the day before the screening or from the appropriate venue from one hour before the event / screening. Tickets purchased on the day of the screening / event can only be bought from the venue from one hour before.

Online

Online bookings are subject to a £0.50 convenience charge per ticket, or £1.00 per transaction for tickets booked over the phone.

0113 224 3801 The Carriageworks, Millennium Square 10am – 6pm Monday to Saturday www.leedsfilm.com

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MAP Leeds City Centre Venues

Headingley & Hyde Park Venues

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Seacroft Venues

Map copyright Š 2009 Leeds City Council, using map design and source data supplied under licence. All rights reserved. Designed by Applied Information Group V1 June 2009

VENUES 1 VICTORIA/ALBERT Leeds Town Hall

8 LEFT BANK

The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD 0113 247 7988 Access: Level access on ground floor via The Headrow entrance, with lift to all floors. Wheelchair accessible toilets and disabled parking next to the entrance.

2 HYDE

Hyde Park Picture House

9 ARMOURIES

Brudenell Road, Leeds, LS6 1JD 0113 275 2045 Access: Street level access to stalls via fire exit. No wheelchair accessible toilets. Guide Dogs welcome. Bus 56 from the city centre.

3 VUE

Vue Cinema The Light

Everyman Leeds Trinity

10 COTTAGE

Belgrave Music Hall

11 TETLEY

City Varieties

12 CHAPEL FM

Carriageworks Theatre

Chapel FM, Seacroft York Road, Leeds, LS14 6JB 0113 22 55 944 Fully wheelchair accessible, disabled toilets & induction loop. Bus 4 & 16 from Leeds City Centre.Parking on York Road outside the Chapel, by the village green or at Tesco.

13 RELIANCE

Swan Street, Leeds, LS1 6LW 0113 243 0808 Access: Access to all levels of the auditorium. Wheelchair spaces situated at each level. Disabled toilets.

7 CARRIAGE

The Tetley Hunslet Road, Leeds, LS10 1JQ 0113 320 2323 Wheelchair accessible lift to all public floors. Accessible toilets on the ground and second floors. Next to Brewery Car Park, a large pay and display (and pay online) car park.

1A Cross Belgrave St, Leeds, LS2 8JP 0113 246 0744 Access: Wheelchair access and disabled toilet only on ground floor.

No disabled access to upper floors.

On street parking available and paid car park nearby.

6 VARIETIES

Cottage Road Cinema Cottage Rd, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 4DD 0113 2751 606 Access: Unfortunately The Cottage Road Cinema does not have wheelchair access or disabled toilets.

Buses from and to City Centre stop on Otley Road, including: 1, 6, 28, 97.

Level 4, Trinity Leeds, Albion St, LS1 5AT 0871 906 9060 Access: Full disabled access.

5 BELGRAVE

Royal Armouries Armouries Dr, Leeds LS10 1LT 0113 220 1999 Access: Full disabled access.

22 The Light,The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 8TL 08712 240 240 Access: Fully wheelchair accessible via Albion St, disabled parking, infrared hearing system.

4 EVERYMAN

Left Bank Cardigan Rd, Leeds LS6 1LJ 07553 988698 Access: Wheelchair access via portable ramp. No disabled toilets.

Bus 19, 49, 50/50A and 56 stop within 10 minutes’ walk of the venue. Burley Park station is a 5 minute walk away.

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds LS2 7PN 0113 295 6060 Access: Unfortunately The Reliance does not have wheelchair access or disabled toilets.

14 NORTH

Electric Press, Millennium Sq, LS2 3AD 0113 224 3801 Access: Lift access to all floors.

Wheelchair accessible toilets.

Codes used throughout the guide to identify the venues are shown in RED

North Bar, Leeds 24 New Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6NU 0113 242 4540 Access: Unfortunately North Bar Leeds does not have disabled toilets.

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OFFICIAL SELECTION OPENING & CLOSING FILMS Opening LIFF28 is the film adaptation of Vera Brittain’s best-selling memoir Testament of Youth, about her coming of age during World War I. Featuring some of the UK’s most exciting talent and filmed across Yorkshire, director James Kent’s Testament of Youth is one of several films made in the region showing at LIFF28, including Dominic Brunt’s thriller The Taking, Daniel Wolfe’s Catch Me Daddy and Morgan Matthews’ debut X+Y. Closing LIFF28 is the UK Premiere of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s brilliant Birdman, starring Michael Keaton as a washed-up actor who attempts to mount a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory in his role as an iconic superhero.

FILMS OPENING FILM Testament of Youth CLOSING FILM Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignroance)

PREVIEWS The Drop Goodbye to Language 3D The Green Prince Horse Money The Imitation Game

PREVIEWS The Official Selection hosts special previews of some of the most anticipated films of the year. Two of the most acclaimed films at this year’s Cannes film festival screen at LIFF28 - Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, hailed as a ‘new Russian masterpiece’ and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or winning Winter Sleep.

Other highlights include - The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as English mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing; Tom Hardy’s latest film, crime drama The Drop, also the late James Gandolfini’s last film; and Song of the Sea, the new beautifully animated Irish feature film from the director of Secret of Kells.

Journey to the West Leviathan Love is Strange My Old Lady Song of the Sea Stations of the Cross Stray Dogs Timbuktu Wild Winter Sleep X+Y

DISCOVERIES

DISCOVERIES

Bird People

Discoveries showcases a broad range of new talent and filmmakers on the rise from all around the world. Some are fresh from prizewinning success at major festivals, Corn Island won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary, No One’s Child won the main prize at Venice Critics Week and Alê Abreu’s The Boy and the World scooped the top prize at Annecy Animation festival.

Elsewhere we have UK premieres of innovative French drama Bird People and gripping Latvian coming of ager Modris, gritty Indian thriller Titli, Mexican teen odyssey We are Mari Pepa and Icelandic black comedy Paris of the North.

The Boy and the World Catch Me Daddy Corn Island Free Fall Kebab and Horoscope + Frozen Stories Love Steaks Modris No One’s Child Paris of the North Refugiado Rocks in My Pockets Titli We Are Mari Pepa

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RETROSPECTIVES BERGMAN ON FÅRÖ

FILMS The great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman first came to the island of Fårö on a stormy day in 1960, researching shooting locations for Through a Glass Darkly. It proved an inspired choice and he ended up making a string of features and a couple of documentaries there including Shame, Persona and The Passion of Anna.

He was so taken with the place, he moved there and stayed for the last forty years of his life. Since his death in 2007, the island has become a focal point for his legacy and a pilgrimage made by many of today’s leading filmmakers is shown in the new documentary Trespassing Bergman.

BERLANGA AND BARDEM

Fårö Dokument 1969 The Passion of Anna Persona Shame Through a Glass Darkly Trespassing Bergman

BERLANGA AND BARDEM

Luis García Berlanga and Juan Antonio Bardem were extremely influential filmmakers in modern Spanish cinema, but have not had the attention they deserve internationally. Their best films stand the test of time and should be celebrated more widely. Beginning by working together on Welcome Mr Marshall and That Happy Couple, they developed distinct but complementary satirical styles, Berlanga’s sharply observed black comedies like The Executioner and Placido and Bardem’s noirish melodramas like Death of a Cyclist.

Both were very influential during the period of Franco’s dictatorship and beyond as shown with additional screenings of later classics by Erice, Saura and Almodovar.

WAR AND CINEMA

Cria Cuervos Death of a Cyclist The Executioner Placido That Happy Couple The Spirit of the Beehive Welcome Mr Marshall What Have I Done to Deserve This?

WAR AND CINEMA

During the First World War, film - for the first time in the history of the medium - was systematically employed by governments on both sides of the conflict. Between 1914 and 1918 countless films were produced, some were made to help train troops, and many others were produced as propaganda intended to influence public opinion, as well as to provide those at home hungry for information with images of the war. War and Cinema gathers propaganda newsreel and animation, classic silent films and enlightening documentaries to provide a unique perspective on the First World War and its cinematic heritage.

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BERGMAN ON FÅRÖ

Film on the Front Lines: British Propaganda from WWI (+ Launch with Q&A) How I Filmed the War J’accuse with live organ accompaniment La Grande Illusion Propaganda Toons!

Seventh Heaven with live organ accompaniment

RETROSPECTIVES MASTERS OF FILM COMEDY LIFF28’s Masters of Film Comedy selection plays out over one day, Saturday 8th November. The day opens with a free breakfast screening of Jour de Fete from French master Jacques Tati. The day then continues at City Varieties with a Buster Keaton masterpiece The General with live accompaniment from Unsilent Movies, Peter Sellers in perhaps his greatest screen performance in Dr. Strangelove, and Bill Murray in what is now regarded as one of the finest American film comedies ever made, Groundhog Day. The day closes with a former LIFF audience favourite, the unclassifiable experience of Symbol from Japanese master Hitoshi Matsumoto.

HOLLYWOOD GREATS: EUROPEAN ORIGINS The classic studio era of Hollywood’s heyday is hugely influenced by the influx of talent from Europe, in many cases Jewish Europeans fleeing from the rise of Naziism in Germany. The list of great directors is astonishing: Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Douglas Sirk, Robert Siodmak, Fred Zinneman. Here we showcase some of the classics made in Europe just before these directors hit their creative peaks in Hollywood, some well known like Josef von Sternberg’s first collaboration with Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel and some more obscure like Max Ophül’s unusual tragicomedy made in the Netherlands in the mid 30s, The Trouble with Money.

OPEN HOUSE - HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE CENTENARY DAY On Friday 7th November 2014, the Hyde Park Picture House is 100 years young and to celebrate, LIFF28 and the cinema present free screenings as part of Leeds Free Cinema Week. In the daytime there are four acclaimed British regional comedy dramas, one from each of the UK home nations - Good Vibrations, Raining Stones, Comfort and Joy, and Welshlanguage film Coming Up Roses, which screened at the cinema in the first LIFF in 1987. During the evening, there is a special presentation of the BFI’s A Night at the Cinema in 1914 and the return of a LIFF audience favourite from last year, Final Cut – Ladies and Gentlemen.

FILMS MASTERS OF FILM COMEDY Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb The General + Unsilent Movies Groundhog Day Jour de Fete Symbol

HOLLYWOOD GREATS: EUROPEAN ORIGINS The Blue Angel Last Laugh with live piano accompaniment M People on Sunday with live piano accompaniment The Trouble with Money

OPEN HOUSE - HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE CENTENARY Comfort and Joy Coming Up Roses Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen Good Vibrations A Night at the Cinema in 1914 Raining Stones

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CINEMA VERSA UNDERGROUND VOICES

FILMS Underground Voices gives a platform for human rights and activist films and profiles mavericks and outsiders and unusual themes beyond the usual scope of mainstream culture.This year includes some extraordinary reportage from the frontlines of the revolutions in the Ukraine (Maidan) and Syria (Silvered Water and #chicagogirl).

Elsewhere there are tributes to political cartoonists from around the world (Footsoldiers of Democracy), artwork made in the concentration camps (Because I was a Painter), and a football game in prerevolutionary Romania (Second Game).

And most unusually of all, a UK premiere of the strange real life science fiction world of the slime mould in The Creeping Garden.

MUSIC ON FILM A celebration of Music on Film takes in the old and the new spanning musical genres and film styles. Brand new documentaries pay tribute to the heartbreaking indie songwriting of Elliott Smith in Heaven Adores You, the vibrant sound of Brazilian band Sonzeira in Brasil Bam Bam Bam and the history of reggae in I am the Gorgon. Join us for a unique one day celebration of the concert movie with Once in a Lifetime, four classics from the seventies to the noughties culminating in an exclusive screening of the brand new digital print of arguably the greatest of them all, Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense. There will also be some special guest appearances by music icons including Edwyn Collins and Gilles Peterson.

FORUM Cinema Versa’s Forum presents a series of special events, collaborations and live performances. Enlightening talks and panel discussions accompany films on the influential radical thinker Herbert Read in To Hell With Culture, global development issues with the World Development Movement and Poverty Inc and Tibetan culture with Leeds based travel writer Ivan Cooper and Silent Holy Stones. We follow up last year’s successful Leeds Cinema Heritage Walks and long running collaborations with Arts and Minds with Film to Change and the University with Summat New. And we have a guest appearance from the great Edwyn Collins to accompany the remarkable new film The Possibilities are Endless.

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UNDERGROUND VOICES #chicagoGirl The Social Network Takes on a Dictator Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress Because I was a Painter Cartoonists - Footsoldiers of Democracy Concerning Violence Creator of the Jungle The Creeping Garden Everybody Street Fighting Down in Bethlehem Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?

Maidan Manakamana Mr Somebody?

One Rogue Reporter Point and Shoot Scrapyard The Second Game Seth’s Dominion Silvered Water, Syria Self Portrait Vessel What Now? Remind Me MUSIC ON FILM 1991: The Year Punk Broke Awesome; I .... Shot That!

Björk’s Biophilia Live Brasil Bam Bam Bam: The Story of Sonzeira Head Heaven Adores You I am the Gorgon: Bunny Striker Lee and the Roots of Reggae Led Zeppelin Played Here + Heavy Metal Parking Lot ONCE IN A LIFETIME Stop Making Sense The Kids Are Alright When Bjork Met Attenborough FORUM Fatal Assistance Film to Change 5 Leeds Film City Heritage Walk Poverty Inc Summat New The Possibilities are Endless with Edwyn Collins The Silent Holy Stones with Ivan Cooper To Hell With Culture

FANOMENON FANORAMA

FILMS Fanomenon is the home of cult and fantasy cinema at Leeds International Film Festival and the line-up for this year is a another heady mix of exciting new genre experiences, marathon horror events, amazing animated features, rarelyscreened classics, and all-time favourites.

Exclusive events in the Fanorama section include the world premiere of new Yorkshire thriller The Taking, and graphic novelist Alan Moore and filmmaker Mitch Jenkins on stage at Leeds Town Hall with their new project Show Pieces. Studio Ghibli documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Korean action sensation A Hard Day, and German fantasy horror The Samurai are among the line-up of new films.

Following the suceess of the Basha poster exhibition in North Bar last year, we are presenting a selection of Drew Struzan’s seminal film posters to coincide with the remarkable documentary Drew: The Man Behind the Poster about his illustrious career. The exbition is free and runs from 31 October - 10 December (see page 66 for details).

Alleluia The Canal Drew Struzan - Film Poster Exhibition Drew: The Man Behind the Poster Free to Play From Bedrooms to Billions A Hard Day The House at the End of Time The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-B, Monologue 02) Nocturna Patch Town Rurouni Kenshi 2: Kyoto Inferno The Samurai The Satellite Girl & Milk Cow + Wolf Daddy Sci-fi Shorts Show Pieces with Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins The Taking Tokyo Tribe

FANATHONS

FANATHONS Fanomenon’s epic movie marathons are always popular, with hundreds of film fans literally going to great lengths to experience the latest in Japanese anime and worldwide horror filmmaking. This year’s Anime Day features a brand new print of Ghost in the Shell, a new Dragon Ball Z feature, and the award-winning Giovanni’s Island.

Night of the Dead returns for its 14th edition with a selection of gruesome films including ABCs of Death 2, festival favourite Housebound and a brand new Dead Short competition. With guests, giveaways (from our new sponsor Shameless Screen Entertainment) and gore galore, this is a night any self-respecting horror fan won’t want to miss.

Day of the Dead 8 has a truly international programme with demonic possession from Spain (Asmodexia), werewolves from Denmark (When Animals Dream), vampires from New Zealand (What We Do in the Shadows) and Kevin Smith’s latest body horror (Tusk). The audience also gets to vote for their favourite film in the Silver Méliès fantastic short film competition.

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FANORAMA

ANIME DAY 2014 Appleseed Alpha Dragonball Z: Battle of the Gods Ghost in the Shell Giovanni’s Island Grave of the Fireflies Short Peace FANOMENON & THOUGHT BUBBLE ANIME PARTY: INTERSTELLA 5555 DAY OF THE DEAD 8 Asmodexia Silver Méliès Fantastic Short Film Competition Tusk What We Do in the Shadows When Animals Dream NIGHT OF THE DEAD XIV ABCs of Death 2 Dead Short Competition Housebound WolfCop

FANOMENON RETROS

FILMS RETRO SPECIALS

RETRO SPECIALS

LIFF audience favourite Sound of Noise returns in a free screening as part of Leeds Free Cinema Week and 2001: A Space Odyssey screens again due to popular demand as part of the BFI’s Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season. Discover one of Japan’s most talented and original animators, Masaaki Yuasa, in a special selection of his work. Revisit three anime classics on the big screen, Gainax’s Wings of Honneamise and Studio Ghibli’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Grave of the Fireflies.

2001: A Space Odyssey

RETRO - ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA

RETRO - ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA

Álex de la Iglesia has been making films for over 20 years and yet, unlike his contemporaries (Guillermo del Toro, JeanPierre Jeunet, Kevin Smith), his films are mostly unknown in the UK. Regardless of the genre or the plot, all Iglesia’s films have his trademark black humour and social commentary. Discover some of the most overlooked independent horror comedies of the last two decades with four of his greatest films.

The Day of the Beast

RETRO - KONSTANTIN LOPUSHANSKY

RETRO - KONSTANTIN LOPUSHANSKY

While the cold war still loomed ominously in the USSR, Russian director Konstantin Lopushansky created two visionary postapocalyptic masterpieces. LIFF28 is proud to present extremely rare screenings of both Letters from a Dead Man (1986) and Visitor to a Museum (1989) - a compelling companion piece to Tarkovsky’s Stalker, on which Lopushansky was an assistant. Each film follows a central character through seemingly post-nuclear landscapes, thoughtfully reflecting on humanity’s struggle and hopes for the future.

RETRO - THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE The social injustice, unemployment and poverty faced by many in post-Vietnam America gave rise to a number of angry young directors who were driven to make violent and often bleak films about the death of the American Dream. Buddy Giovinazzo, Jim van Bebber and Jim Muro all hailed from different states and had very different approaches to the subject but all created films that have gained cult status and which are brought together for the first time at LIFF28.

Cat Soup to Space Dandy: The animations of Masaaki Yuasa Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Sound of Noise Wings of Honneamise

Ferpect Crime The Last Circus Witching and Bitching

Letters from a Dead Man Visitor to a Museum

RETRO - THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE Combat Shock Deadbeat at Dawn Street Trash

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SHORT FILM CITY COMPETITIONS

PROGRAMMES The very first moving images were captured in Leeds by Louis le Prince in 1888 and LIFF’s international competition for short fiction films is named after the film pioneer. The International, British and Animation competitions are at the heart of the Short Film City programme and will be judged by an international jury of experts. There’s also the Yorkshire Short Film Competition which champions local filmmakers, the new screendance and music video awards. You also have the chance to decide on the outcome of a competition yourself in the new audience award. LIFF is a recognised festival in the categories of short film for both the Academy Awards and BAFTA.

PANORAMAS, EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS This year the Short Film City panoramas focus on new filmmaking talent from Romania and Ireland, alongside the annual selection of French shorts. The main event at Short Film City this year also opens Leeds Free Cinema Week on Friday 7th November at Left Bank - Vertical Cinema is an unforgettable light and sound experience that captivates the senses, featuring a unique method of film projection. The mesmerising three-screen installation Mother. I Am Going runs at The Tetley from Friday 14th November. For budding filmmakers, Short Film City will present a series of masterclasses and networking events – full details will be available from late October on leedsfilm.com.

THE KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO SHORT FILM GUIDE LIFF28 is presenting a series of screenings connected to videogaming culture, including the first-ever film festival screenings of Valve’s Free to Play and British documentary From Bedrooms to Billions. Kentucky Route Zero is one of the most acclaimed independent video game series made in the last few years. Releasing gradually online in five chapters, KRZ is a remarkable and surreal interactive experience, strongly influenced by experimental and original narrative filmmaking. For this year’s Short Film City, the KRZ creators have selected some of their key short film influences and two featurelength films made of vignettes, Songs from the Second Floor and Le Quattro Volte.

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COMPETITIONS British Short Film Competition Leeds International Music Video Award Leeds Screendance Competition Leeds Short Film Audience Award Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition World Animation Award Yorkshire Short Film Competition

PANORAMAS, EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS Fantasia Filmmaker Events French Short Film Panorama Irish Short Film Panorama LMVAs Mother. I am Going Romanian Short Film Panorama Vertical Cinema

THE KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO SHORT FILM GUIDE Le Quattro Volte Lessons of Darkness Songs from the Second Floor Wavelength, The Way Things Go & Violin Power

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FREE CINEMA WEEK E X P E R I E N C E C I N E M A I N N E W WAYS F O R F R E E AT L I F F 2 8 F R O M 7 - 1 4 N OV E M B E R Tickets for all events and screenings must be reserved through Eventbrite via leedsfilm.com to guarantee entry. Reservation is not required for exhibitions.

Opening Event Vertical Cinema (UK Premiere) Open House: Hyde Park Picture House Centenary A Night at the Cinema in 1914, Comfort and Joy, Coming Up Roses, Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Vibrations, Raining Stones Masters of Film Comedy Jour de Fete World War One Centenary Event Seventh Heaven with live organ accompaniment Documentary Screenings Fighting Down in Bethlehem, Free to Play, Seth’s Dominion, Scrapyard, When Bjork Met Attenborough Short Film Screenings Leeds Short Film Audience Award, Lessons of Darkness, Exhibitions Film on the Front Lines: British Propaganda from World War One, Drew Struzan - Film Poster Exhibition Closing Screening Sound of Noise

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#chicagoGirl - The Social Network Takes on a Dictator Joe Piscatella

USA

2013

FILMS A-Z UNDERGROUND VOICES

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A fascinating perspective on the revolution in Syria and global activism in the age of social media, #chicagoGirl is 19 year old Ala’a Basatneh, who plays a major role in organising resistance on the frontline from her bedroom in the Chicago suburbs. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network in Damascus and Homs, braves snipers and shelling in the streets and shows the world the human rights atrocities of one of the most brutal dictators. Due to the media blackout, all footage shot in Syria for this film was smuggled out on hard drives.

Mon 17 Nov, 18:00, CARRIAGEWORKS

1991: The Year Punk Broke Dave Markey

USA

MUSIC ON FILM - ONCE IN A LIFETIME 1992

99 min

The Sex Pistols gave the pop establishment a tremendous, galvanising shake-up in the late 70s, but it wasn’t until 1991 that guitar wielding revolutionaries Nirvana and Sonic Youth changed the pop landscape forever. 1991: The Year Punk Broke catches both groups at their most passionate, just as they reach their explosive peak on a European tour. There are also mighty appearances from Dinosaur Jr. Babes in Toyland and the Ramones, and treasured footage showing Kurt Cobain enjoying Nirvana’s early success. A glorious time capsule of a very special moment in alternative music.

Sat 15 Nov, 14:00, VICTORIA, ONCE IN A LIFETIME PASS AVAILABLE

2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick

USA | UK

RETRO SPECIALS 1968

180 min

Returning to LIFF due to audience demand, 2001: A Space Odyssey is an experience not to be missed in the stunning setting of Leeds Town Hall. Repeatedly voted into top ten movies of all time lists, Stanley Kubrick’s visionary sci-fi classic is a brilliantly imaginative adaptation of Arthur C Clarke’s mind-bending novel, an episodic spectacle featuring balletic sequences of cine-choreography, awesome futurist design, suspenseful action, trippy psychedelia, and a magnificent soundtrack. Screening courtesy of the British Film Institute as part of its major film season Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder. £10 / £8

Tue 18 Nov, 19:00, VICTORIA

ABCs of Death 2 Various (26 Directors)

FANATHONS - NIGHT OF THE DEAD XIV USA | UK | Japan +

2014

125 min

Following on from the success of ABCs of Death in 2013 the most ambitious anthology ever conceived returns with 26 new directors, including many whose films have previously screened at LIFF: The Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt, Robert Morgan, whose short film Invocation competed in the Silver Méliès Short Film Award last year, Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead), Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves), Kristina Buožytė (Vanishing Waves) to name but a few. The titles of the individual segments are still a secret but the variety of films is even more diverse than the first film offered.

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Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress

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Kevin Cameron

UK

2013

94 min

A Life in Progress is a playful documentary tribute to the unique Scottish renaissance man, Alasdair Gray: groundbreaking novelist, mural painter, notorious drunkard, irascible interviewee and controversial essayist. Filmed over the course of 15 years, the film explores the biographical and literary influences behind his great novel Lanark and the development of his artwork from early book illustrations to the Oran Mor Arts Centre’s 21st century Sistine Chapel. The character who emerges is by turns incisive, chaotic and laugh out loud funny and an outspoken advocate of Scottish independence.

Fri 14 Nov, 17:00, ALBERT | Mon 17 Nov, 19:00, ALBERT

Alleluia

FANORAMA

Fabrice Du Welz

Belgium | France

2014

93 min

Based loosely on the true story of the 1940s ‘lonely hearts killers’, Du Welz (The Ordeal, LIFF 2004) relocates the story to present day Ardennes, where lonely Gloria falls in love with Michel after only one date, only to find that he is a con artist who seduces widows and steals their money. Determined not to lose him she makes him promise never to leave her and even agrees to support his scams but soon her jealousy becomes uncontrollable to the point of murder. Michel is shocked by her actions but bound by some powerful connection, they continue onwards into a downward spiral of destruction.

Sun 16 Nov, 18:45, HYDE

Appleseed Alpha

FANATHONS - ANIME DAY 2014

Shinji Aramaki

Japan | USA

2014

93 min

Based on the comic book by the creator of Ghost in the Shell and from the director of the original Appleseed anime movie comes the intense post-apocalyptic prequel. Left to survive in a post-World War society, two mercenary soldiers - Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos – are sent on a mission on the outskirts of their war-torn city. During the operation, they run into Iris and Olson, two citizens from the utopian city of Olympus, who might have a way to save the world but the ruthless Talos and the scheming warlord Two Horns have their own plans.

Sun 9 Nov, 11:00, VICTORIA, ANIME DAY PASS AVAILABLE

Asmodexia

FANATHONS - DAY OF THE DEAD 8

Marc Carreté

Spain

2014

81 min

Co-written by Marc Carreté and Mike Hostench (deputy director of Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival) Asmodexia rises above the recent slew of exorcism/possession movies to deliver a tense and terrifying vision of Armageddon.

Eloy de Palma is an exorcist travelling across country with his teenage granddaughter Alba towards Barcelona. Their mission is to help those possessed by The Evil One, who targets the weakest members of society: children, mental patients, drugaddicts. Each battle with evil reveals a piece of Alba’s forgotten past, which if revealed could bring about the end of days.

Sat 8 Nov, 12:00, VICTORIA, DOTD PASS AVAILABLE

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Awesome; I .... Shot That!

Adam Yauch

USA

MUSIC ON FILM - ONCE IN A LIFETIME 2006

90 min

A rare big screen outing for the instant classic concert film, Awesome; I .... Shot That made in 2004 at a sold out concert at Madison Square Gardens. Awesome is skillfully assembled from the footage shot by 50 fans who were given camcorders to use in different parts of the stadium. The result is an unusually intimate film experience of a big scale concert, designed and orchestrated to perfection by an ensemble at the height of their powers. Featuring hits from throughout their career including Sure Shot, Paul Revere, Pass the Mic and Sabotage.

Sat 15 Nov, 16:00, VICTORIA, ONCE IN A LIFETIME PASS AVAILABLE

Because I was a Painter Christophe Cognet

France | Germany

UNDERGROUND VOICES 2013

104 min

Extraordinary though it may seem, a significant amount of artwork survives that was secretly created in the Nazi concentration camps. Because I Was a Painter is an unprecedented investigation into this phenomenon, conversing with the handful of living artists who survived the camps and with their curators: about the emotions the works stir, their marginalization, their signature or anonymity, their style, as well as the representation of horror and extermination.

And the film takes a long look at the drawings and paintings themselves, many of which have great power and beauty.

Sat 8 Nov, 14:30, VUE | Mon 10 Nov, 14:00, VUE

Bird People Pascale Ferran

DISCOVERIES France

2014

127 min

Selected to compete at this year’s Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard, Pascale Ferran’s Bird People combines magic and realism to tell the tale of two people in transit, an American businessman in throws of a midlife crisis, and a wistful French hotel maid who happens to be in the same airport hotel. Both appear alienated, desiring to take flight and cut the chains of their obligations. Ferran transforms this realistic fable into something astonishing in the film’s surprising second act. This is an enchanting story that delicately observes the curious nature of human behaviour.

Wed 12, 18:00, VUE | Sat 15, 15:00, VUE | Tue 18, 13:30, VUE

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro González Iñárritu USA

2014

CLOSING GALA

119 min

Receiving its UK Premiere as the closing film of LIFF28, the highly-acclaimed black comedy Birdman is one of the most anticipated films of the year. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), Birdman is the story of an actor - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself. Michael Keaton is brilliant in the leading role, hilariously parodying his Batman persona.

Thu 20 Nov, 18:30, HYDE | Thu 20 Nov, 21:00, HYDE Official Selection

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Björk’s Biophilia Live

MUSIC ON FILM

Nick Fenton | Peter Strickland UK

2014

97 min

Recorded live at London’s Alexandra Palace in 2013, Björk and her band performed the entire Biophilia album, as well as reworking versions from her extensive catalogue using a broad variety of instruments - some digital, some traditional and some completely unclassifiable. The radical, live performance is fused with animation, science and nature footage inspired by the themes of the album, which explore the relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena- from the microscopic to the galactic. The film has already been hailed as ‘an imaginative stand-alone artwork’ (Hollywood Reporter) Thu 6 Nov, 18:00, VICTORIA | Fri 7 Nov, 21:00, VICTORIA

The Blue Angel

HOLLYWOOD GREATS: EUROPEAN ORIGINS

Josef von Sternberg

Germany

1930

106 min

The great Austrian born director Josef von Sternberg began his career in Hollywood but was invited back to Germany at the end of the expressionist period to direct The Blue Angel.

There he met the 28 year old Marlene Dietrich and a historic cinematic partnership was born. Silent star Emil Jannings plays the lovelorn Professor Unrath who becomes infatuated with nightclub singer Lola-Lola. A heartbreaking and sensuous melodrama featuring an iconic performance from a new star of cinema. The famous sequence where she sings Falling in Love Again perfectly encapsulates an era.

Tue 11 Nov, 13:30, VICTORIA |Sun 16 Nov, 13:30, VICTORIA

The Boy and the World

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Alê Abreu

Brazil

2013

80 min

The Boy and the World is a dazzling, hand drawn animation and a kaleidoscopic parable of the globalised economies of the modern world. The tale unfolds through the eyes of a young child from a poor rural area whose father leaves to find work in the big city. The boy goes off in search of his father and encounters a strange industrialised and commercial world, animated in a riot of dreamlike colour, at once seductive and threatening from the bright lights and billboards of a corporate facade to the devastation and decay of landfills and urban wastelands.

Tue 11, 19:15 & Thu 13, 17:00 & Fri 14, 15:00, EVERYMAN MUSIC ON FILM

Brasil Bam Bam Bam: The Story of Sonzeira with Gilles Peterson Charlie Inman | Benjamin Holman UK | Brazil

2014

75 min

Join LIFF28’s special guest Gilles Peterson as the BBC Broadcaster, DJ and record collector fulfils a lifetime ambition, traveling to Rio to create the super-group Sonzeira and record the album ‘Brasil Bam Bam Bam’. Feast your eyes and ears on the lively sounds of Rio-bossa, samba, Baile funk - and the colourful landscapes, people and culture that have inspired it.

Featuring an amazing cast of musicians including Seu Jorge, Elza Soares, Wilson Das Neves, Ed Motta and Marcos Valle, this is a delectable voyage into the beating heart of Brazil. Director Charlie Inman joins Peterson for a Q&A. Thu 6 Nov, 20:30, VICTORIA

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British Short Film Competition (2 programmes)

COMPETITIONS

90 min approx Last year’s Best of British programme’s included shorts which went on to win both live action and animation awards in the short film section at the BAFTAS as well as playing at a number of festivals internationally so that gives you a little feel for the sort of standard we’re after these days. The 600+ submissions we watched from the UK this year has included animations, documentaries, dramatic shorts and a fair few that defy standard genre rules, so, get along to one of this year’s shorts programmes and prepare to meet the feature film directors/ actors/key grips of tomorrow.

1: Sat 15 Nov, 14:00, HYDE | 2: Sat 15 Nov, 16:00, HYDE

The Canal Ivan Kavanagh

FANORAMA Ireland

2014

92 min

The midnight hit at TriBeCa Film Festival, The Canal tells the story of David, a film archivist who discovers from some old film footage that his house was the scene of a grisly murder at the beginning of the last century. When the stability of his family is rocked by the discovery that his wife is having an affair, he starts to have nightmarish visions and becomes convinced that dark spirits in the house are somehow involved. In his drive to unveil the shadows hidden in the walls, David begins to descend into insanity, threatening the lives of everyone around him.

Fri 14, 19:00 & Sun 16, 19:00 & Wed 19, 19:00, EVERYMAN

Cartoonists - Footsoldiers of Democracy Stéphanie Valloatto

France

UNDERGROUND VOICES

2014

106 min

Stéphanie Valloatto’s feature film debut showcases the humorous and often subversive work of political cartoonists led by French caricaturist Plantu. The documentary takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the world through interviews with 12 prominent cartoonists from countries as varied as France, Israel, China, Russia and the US, interspersed with examples of their drawings and animations. Whether it’s Plantu receiving calls from a dismayed Sarkozy, or the experiences of Russian cartoonist Zlatkovsky whose work is banned from publication; censorship is forever looming over their freedom of speech.

Sun 9 Nov, 14:00, VUE | Mon 10 Nov, 16:00, VUE

Cat Soup to Space Dandy: The Animation of Masaaki Yuasa Masaaki Yuasa

Japan

Various

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90 min

A recent guest animator for Adventure Time, Masaaki Yuasa is one of the most original, creative and playful minds in Japanese animation. Once you see an animated film by Masaaki Yuasa, you may never forget it, and scenes from this special selection of his work may enter your dreams. The selection includes cult anime short Cat Soup, for which Yuasa was animation director, about a young feline who goes on a psychedelic journey with his sister in order to save her soul. Yuasa’s pro-wrestling short KickHeart is included alongside one episode each from his own series The Tatami Galaxy and the great Space Dandy.

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Catch Me Daddy

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Daniel Wolfe

UK

2014

107 min

The remarkable, visceral Yorkshire-set chase thriller Catch Me Daddy, screening at LIFF28 with cast and crew in attendance, is the debut feature of Daniel Wolfe, the award-winning director of Plan B’s music videos. Laila is a girl on the run from her family, hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron.

When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow to track her down, Laila is forced to flee for her life and face her darkest night. ‘Working with cinematographer Robbie Ryan, Wolfe shoots the Yorkshire landscape like the setting of a longdecayed fairy-tale.’ (Daily Telegraph) Mon 17 Nov, 18:00, VICTORIA

Cole Porter in Hollywood - John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra

LIVE CONCERT

120 min approx In one of the finale events of LIFF28, presented by Leeds International Concert Season, the John Wilson Orchestra returns to Leeds Town Hall with special guests and a brand new show celebrating the works of Cole Porter. The songs featured included I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Night & Day, and Let’s Do It, in the lush arrangements originally written for Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Peggy Lee, as well as numbers from movies including Anything Goes, High Society and Can-Can. This event is not available to LIFF28 pass-holders. Tickets can be bought online at www.leeds.gov.uk/townhall.

Wed 19 Nov, 19:30, VICTORIA

Combat Shock

RETRO - THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

Buddy Giovinazzo

USA

1984

85 min

Buddy Giovinazzo’s Combat Shock, along with Deadbeat at Dawn and Street Trash (both also screening at LIFF28) reflect how the American Dream failed a whole section of society in the 80s, abandoning them to poverty and addiction.

Frankie is a pathetic Vietnam veteran living in poverty in New York with a nagging wife and screaming deformed baby, a result of his exposure to Agent Orange during the war. The relentlessly downbeat film follows Frankie throughout a single day dealing with unemployment, loan sharks, drug addiction and flashbacks until his disintegrating mind finally snaps.

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Comfort and Joy Bill Forsyth

UK

1984 106 min

Bill Forsyth’s follow up to Gregory’s Girl and Local Hero sees Glaswegian radio DJ Allan ‘Dicky’ Bird thrown into turmoil when his girlfriend suddenly leaves a few days before Christmas. His heartache is interrupted when he witnesses a violent attack on an ice-cream van and gets embroiled in a dessert based turf war. Mark Kermode calls Comfort and Joy one of his top ten alternative Christmas films and it’s easy to see why with Bill Paterson’s pitch perfect performance, a script full of rich surreal twists and turns and a perfect 80s soundtrack by Mark Knopfler.

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Fri 7 Nov, 14:00, HYDE

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1986

90 min

Stephen Bayly’s Coming up Roses played at the Picture House as part of the first ever Leeds International Film Festival back in 1987. Its story about the closure of the last cinema standing in a small town in South Wales pre-dates Cinema Paradiso by two years though contains a comparable sense of romance for the medium of film and the grand old buildings designed to house it. The film’s sweet, very 80s, humour is cleverly juxtaposed with the allusion to a town hit hard by recent mine closures not only on an economic level but also in terms of its sense of community and spirit.

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Fri 7 Nov, 16:00, HYDE

Concerning Violence

UNDERGROUND VOICES

Göran Olsson Sweden | Finland | Denmark | USA 2014

78 min

A boldly original take on the essay film, deconstructing the legacy of colonialism in Africa, Concerning Violence brings together recently uncovered archive footage and a narration from a controversial book about the mechanisms of decolonisation, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.

Segments portray scenes from a nighttime stealth attack on a Portuguese base in what is now Angola, a miner’s strike in Liberia, a wounded fighter being operated on in the jungle in Guinea Bissau and interviews with people such as a thenyoung president Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Mon 10 Nov, 18:30, HYDE

Corn Island

DISCOVERIES

George Ovashvili Georgia | Germany | France + 2014

100 min

Crystal Globe winner at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Corn Island is a beautiful and poetic film from Georgia. The Enguri River forms the border with the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia and tensions between the nations run high. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus, creating tiny islands: small clusters of no man’s land. An old Abkhaz farmer and his teenage granddaughter build a hut on one of the islands, ploughing the earth to sow corn. When the corn has shot up, the girl finds a wounded Georgian soldier hiding among the stalks.

Wed 12, 20:30, VUE | Fri 14, 18:30, VUE | Tue 18, 16:00, VUE

Creator of the Jungle Jordi Morató

Spain

UNDERGROUND VOICES 2014

77 min

Josep Garrell, an eccentric recluse, created beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in the forest next to the highway. He spent 45 years with his bare hands making spectacular tree houses and dreamlike structures in his jungle playground, only to burn them down and reconstruct them again. A child at heart, Garrell spent much of his time filming peculiar Tarzan remakes with the help of a local boy.This film puts together the pieces of an extraordinary life: Garrell is seen both as a visionary, revered by those who go on a pilgrimage to his forest, but also as a lunatic, and misunderstood by many.

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The Creeping Garden

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Tim Grabham | Jasper Sharp UK

2014

81 min

The Creeping Garden is a real life science fiction story devoted to the world of myxomycetes, or fungal-like ‘slime moulds’, and the people who work with them. Despite their biological simplicity, they exhibit an innate, collective intelligence that is being used in scientific research into a stunning array of unexpected areas from AI and computing, to robotics and emergence theory, even biology-inspired design, visual arts and music. The film boasts stunning original macroscopic timelapse photography, interviews with artists and researchers and an original soundtrack by Jim O’Rourke.

Sat 15 Nov, 18:30, EVERYMAN | Tue 18 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN

Cria Cuervos

BERLANGA AND BARDEM

Carlos Saura

Spain

1976

110 min

One of the key Spanish films made in the last days of Franco’s regime, Carlos Saura’s Cria Cuervos is one of the successors to Berlanga and Bardems’ satirical innovations. It’s a disturbingly inventive psychodrama seen through the eyes of an eightyear-old orphan who believes she has poisoned her cold, authoritarian father. Cria Cuervos is one of cinema’s most hauntingly vivid depictions of a child’s fantasy-imbued reality.

Darkly unsettling, deeply touching and comic by turns, it exposes a stifling world in which talk of sex or the Civil War is still largely taboo.

Mon 17 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN

The Day of the Beast

RETRO - ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA

Álex de la Iglesia

Spain

1995

99 min

Álex de la Iglesia’s early film about the birth of the Antichrist on Christmas Day in Madrid is a delicious unpolitically correct black comedy that launched his international career.

Discovering that the Book of Revelation is actually a cypher, a Basque priest believes he must commit acts of evil to attract the attention of Satan and discover where the Antichrist will be born. Enlisting the help of a hapless heavy metal music fan and the charlatan host of an occult TV show the three set off to find and kill the newborn Antichrist before the world is destroyed. Screening from a rare 35mm print.

Sat 15 Nov, 18:00, HYDE

Dead Short Competition

FANATHONS - NIGHT OF THE DEAD XIV

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2014

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LIFF28 sees the launch of a brand new Fanomenon short film competition in partnership with Shameless Screen Entertainment specifically for directors working in the horror genre. Films can be from all over the world but must be under 10 minutes long and have a strong horror theme. The best entries will be screened as part of the Night of the Dead lineup and the winner, chosen by the audience, will receive a specially commissioned Shameless trophy and have their short film included as an extra on a future Shameless DVD release.

Expect to see some weird and wonderful things!

Sat 15 Nov, 02:00, HYDE, NOTD PASS AVAILABLE

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Deadbeat at Dawn Jim Van Bebber

RETRO - THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE USA

1988

80 min

Never released in the UK, Jim Van Bebber’s cult masterpiece Deadbeat at Dawn is a nihilistic look at the problems facing America in the 1980s, with poverty, gangs and addiction destroying the American Dream. Set in Dayton, Ohio, Goose is a fighter for the notorious gang The Ravens who have frequent vicious run-ins with their rivals The Spiders. After being wounded in a knife fight, Goose’s girlfriend Christy demands that he leaves the gang or she’ll walk out. Goose tries to go straight but the maniacal leader of The Spiders is hell-bent on revenge and has Christy killed.

Sat 15 Nov, 22:30, HYDE

Death of a Cyclist Juan Antonio Bardem

BERLANGA AND BARDEM Spain

1955

88 min

Death of a Cyclist is a churning melodrama, a nuanced character study and a direct attack on Spanish society during Franco’s rule. Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, mistress, Maria José, accidentally hit a cyclist, and run.

The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain, and surveys the corrupt ethics of a society seduced by decadence. An equally incisive dramatic take on social satire made a few years after That Happy Couple and Welcome Mr Marshall which was co-written by Berlanga and Bardem.

Sat 8 Nov, 16:00, HYDE | Tue 11 Nov, 15:30, HYDE

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb MASTERS OF FILM COMEDY - PETER SELLERS Stanley Kubrick

UK | USA

1964

95 min

Almost 50 years on and still a subversive treat, Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire is a universally acknowledged masterpiece.

Screening as part of the Masters of Film Comedy Day, the film famously features a brilliant triple role for Peter Sellers as a hapless airman, the bemused President Merkin Muffley and the US Nazi adviser Dr Strangelove himself. The film also boasts great performances by Sterling Hayden and George C. Scott, a razor sharp script and an increasingly anarchic doomsday spoof scenario ricocheting from horror to black humour and back again.

Sat 8 Nov, 15:30, VARIETIES

Dragonball Z: Battle of the Gods Masahiro Hosoda

Japan

FANATHONS - ANIME DAY 2014 2013

85 min

The first new Dragonball Z feature film in seventeen years, screening as part of the Fanomenon Anime Day 2014.

Following the events of the Dragon Ball Z television series, after the defeat of Majin Buu, a new power awakens and threatens humanity. Beerus, an ancient and powerful God of Destruction, searches for Goku after hearing rumors of the Saiyan warrior who defeated Frieza. Realizing the threat Beerus poses to their home planet, the Z-fighters must find a way to stop him before it’s too late. Only Goku, humanity’s last hope, can stop Beerus’s from destroying Earth, and possibly the entire universe!

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Thursday 29 January: 7.30pm

Banff Film Festival

Watch incredible footage of adrenaline packed action sports and thoughtprovoking pieces shot from the far flung corners of the globe. An evening of exhilarating film by the most talented adventure filmmakers of today.

Visit www.banff-uk.com for more details.

Tickets: £13.50 (concessions £2 off)

Thursday 12 February: 7pm

Ocean Colour Scene The 25th Anniversary Acoustic Tour

Having sold millions of records and headlined arenas around the world, Ocean Colour Scene are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a very special UK tour accompanied by Q Strings.

Tickets: £27.50

Friday 27 February: 7.30pm

The Levellers (acoustic) & A Curious Life (film) From their folk punk roots, the Levellers’ mix of scathing political comment and positive DIY attitude to life hasn’t dissipated with age. A Curious Life – a film about their rise to fame in the 1990s, is directed by former Chumbawamba frontman Dunstan Bruce.

Tickets: £20

Thursday 12 March: 8pm

Omid Djalii

Iranalamadingdong Winner of Time Out Award and EMMA Award for Best Stand Up, and Best Actor Award for his lead performance in The Infidel at the Turin Film Festival, Omid makes his premiere performance at Leeds Town Hall.

Tickets: £23

Wednesday 8 April: 7.30pm

Orquesta Buen Vista Social Club Adios Tour

The group which grew out of the release of the Grammy Award-winning bestselling album Buena Vista Social Club™ tours to Leeds with a number of the original artists featured on the landmark recording and film.

Tickets: £37.50 facebook.com/leedstownhall @leedstownhall

Tuesday 21 April: 8pm

Dylan Moran Off the Hook

Star of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead and Calvary makes his Leeds Town Hall debut with his new stand-up show.

Tickets: £25 (concessions £2 off)

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Drew Struzan - Film Poster Exhibition

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Following many years as a starving and impoverished art student, Drew Struzan began his career designing album covers, including the infamous Welcome to My Nightmare design for Alice Cooper and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath for Black Sabbath. His movie poster career took off when he was asked to design an image for Star Wars, which immediately brought him international recognition and demand. His long standing collaborations with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg has seen him create some of the most iconic film posters of all time. Leeds International Film Festival and North Bar are proud to present an exhibition of his work spanning his illustrious 40 year career.

31 Oct - 10 Dec, (see page 66 for times), NORTH BAR

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Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

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Eric Sharkey

USA

2013

97 min

You may not know the name Drew Struzan, but you will certainly know some of his work. Probably the greatest film poster artist of all time his images have adorned the walls of film fans the world over for nearly forty years. His iconic images have been used to promote Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Thing, many of the Muppet movies, Harry Potter, The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner and many many more. Directors such as George Lucas, Frank Darabont and Guillermo del Toro are huge fans and the film looks back on the amazing career of a remarkable man.

Tue 11 Nov, 18:00, ALBERT | Sun 16 Nov, 21:00, ALBERT

The Drop

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Michaël R. Roskam

USA

2014

106 min

A Brooklyn bartender finds himself caught between the cops and a crew of Chechen mobsters, in this gritty crime drama starring Tom Hardy, Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust & Bone), Noomi Rapace and the late, great James Gandolfini. Tom Hardy delivers his most accomplished performance to date in the English-language debut from acclaimed Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead). Using grey, misty hues and a foreboding atmosphere, Roskam sets a nuanced character study in a world of moral ambiguity. Hardy comprises its centre in a typically heavyweight - if deceptively slow-building - turn.

Tue 11 Nov, 20:30, VICTORIA | Wed 12 Nov, 17:30, VICTORIA

Everybody Street

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Cheryl Dunn

USA

2013

83 min

Filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn captures the excitement, danger and perseverance of pioneering street photographers in New York City. The film pays tribute to the art of street photography, and the influence that ‘the city that never sleeps’ has had on their practice. Featuring an array of photographers, including Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt and Martha Cooper, and the variety of subjects they capture from everyday people and firefighters to gangs and graffiti artists. The film reveals that these shooters are as vibrant as the subjects they persistently document.

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The Executioner Luis García Berlanga

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1963

91 min

Luis García Berlanga’s masterpiece is both a devastating condemnation of capital punishment and a witty social satire full of wickedly funny gallows humour. Featuring a fabulous central performance by Nino Manfredi as the young undertaker Jose Luis who has no luck in love until he meets the beautiful Carmen, the executioner’s daughter. After their marriage, Jose is forced to follow his father in law into a family profession for which he lacks the temperament. A brilliant set up for a perfectly poised tragicomedy, consistently hilarious and ultimately as moving as any great drama.(35mm) Wed 12 Nov, 19:00, HYDE

FANOMENON & THOUGHT BUBBLE ANIME PARTY FEATURING INTERSTELLA 5555 Kazuhisa Takenouchi

Japan | France

2003

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Fanomenon and the Thought Bubble comic art festival team up to throw a giant party at Leeds Town Hall. Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555 gets the party underway then DJs take over for the rest of the night (until 4am), playing great music accompanying favourite anime films on the giant screen. Steered by legendary anime creator Leiji Matsumoto, Interstella 5555 takes the story told in the videos for One More Time and others tracks from the Discovery album and cranks them out into a full length Animated House Musical, with a story of intergalactic kidnapping, evil space ninjas, and, of course, music and its players. (*film run time only) £10 / £8

Sat 15 Nov, 20:30, VICTORIA

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The line-up for this year’s Fanomenon Anime Day includes two new action-packed and visually spectacular features – the first Dragon Ball Z feature film for 17 years, Battle of Gods, and a prequel to the Appleseed movie from the original’s director.

Short Peace is a unique collection of anime shorts from different directors including the legendary Katsuhiro Ôtomo (Akira). The award-winning Giovanni’s Island is a moving story of childhood innocence amid political conflict, based on real events. The finale of the Anime Day is a double bill of two masterpieces, both screening on new digital cinema prints: Ghost in the Shell and Grave of the Fireflies.

Sun 9 Nov, 11:00 - 22:15, VICTORIA, ANIME DAY PASS AVAILABLE

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Eight years on and Fanomenon Day of the Dead is now an important annual landmark on the UK’s horror calendar, delivering some of the best new and unseen horror films from around the world. This year’s programme is better than ever with films covering werewolves (the understated When Animals Dream), vampires (hilarious mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows from co-creator of Flight of the Conchords), demonic possession (Spanish terror in Asmodexia) and grotesque body horror to top it all off. (Kevin Smith’s eagerly anticipated Tusk).

The audience will once again be able to vote on their favourite short film in the Silver Méliès Fantastic Short film competition.

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FANOMENON NIGHT OF THE DEAD XIV

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For LIFF28 we welcome a new partnership with Shameless Screen Entertainment who are sponsoring NOTD XIV and the new Dead Short competition. There will be lots of Shameless goodies and giveaways throughout the night as well as trailers from their extensive catalogue. The film marathon kicks off with ABCs of Death 2 followed by Housebound from New Zealand and WolfCop, a homage to 80s monster horror. There’ll also be a rare opportunity to see the classic melt movie Street Trash plus a surprise film that we’re keeping under wraps (for now). Add in a new celebrity host and the shit film amnesty (bring us your worst horror film to win) and you’ve got the blueprint for a great night.

Fri 14 Nov, 21:00 - LATE, HYDE, NOTD PASS AVAILABLE

Fantasia

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Various Directors

USA

1940

125 min

Experience the sounds and sights of Fantasia, Disney’s glorious and groundbreaking celebration of classical music, in the orchestral concert venue of Leeds Town Hall. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas and Schubert. Disney’s animators created a remarkable range of interpretations for the music and some of the segments are classics in themselves, including Night on Bald Mountain, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and The Nutcracker Suite.

Wed 12 Nov, 13:30, VICTORIA | Sun 16 Nov, 16:00, VICTORIA

Fårö Dokument 1969

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Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

1969

78 min

A rare opportunity to see one of Ingmar Bergman’s few forays into documentary filmmaking, Fårö Dokument was made for Swedish television a couple of years after he moved to the island. Seen today it seems like a fascinating time capsule to a pivotal moment in the island’s history in the late 60s. Fårö has only about 900 inhabitants, mostly farmers and fishermen, a series of interviews with local people reveals a generational divide in which many of the younger people are dissatisfied with the old way of life, poor employment and harsh winters, and plan for futures on the mainland. (35mm) Tue 18 Nov, 14:00, HYDE

Fatal Assistance

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Raoul Peck

France | Haiti | USA | Belgium

2013

99 min

Fatal Assistance is a masterful documentary which interrogates the complex reconstruction process in post-earthquake Haiti and the mixed blessing of a massive humanitarian and development aid programme, mostly a disastrous failure.

The film takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts and offers a devastating indictment of the international community’s postdisaster idealism. With an introduction and panel discussion by the organisers of University of Leeds exhibition, Representing Postcolonial Disaster.

Tue 18 Nov, 20:00, ALBERT

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Ferpect Crime Álex de la Iglesia

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2004

105 min

A fan favourite in LIFF 2004, Álex de la Iglesia moves away from horror to a black comedy farce set in his beloved Madrid.

Rafael is a successful salesman in a large department store.

When he accidentally kills his arch-rival during a heated argument, he is assisted in covering up the crime by the vulgar and obsessive shop assistant Lourdes. Spying her opportunity Lourdes blackmails him into becoming her lover, husband and slave. Seeing everything he holds dear crumble around him Rafael comes up with a ferpec purf perfek brilliant plan to rid himself of Lourdes once and for all.

Sun 16 Nov, 20:45, HYDE | Mon 17 Nov, 14:00, HYDE

Fighting Down in Bethlehem Ronald Wright

UK

UNDERGROUND VOICES 2014

100 min

Shot over 16 months by Leeds filmmaker Ronald Wright, Fighting Down In Bethlehem is a raw, uplifting feature documentary about the struggle for success in boxing. The film follows Lee Murtagh, the oldest Irish boxing champion in history (and the first-ever Leeds born Irish champion), as he runs the tiny but inspirational Bethlehem Boxing Club in the tough East End Park area of Leeds, and embarks upon an unexpected adventure of a lifetime, to fight Hector Camacho Jnr. in New York. Fighting Down In Bethlehem is screened during LIFF28 at the new Chapel FM venue in East Leeds.

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Tue 11 Nov, 18:00 & 20:30, CHAPEL FM

Film on the Front Lines: British Propaganda from WWI (+ Launch with Q&A) Various

UK

1914 - 18

WAR AND CINEMA

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WWI was the first time that film was systematically employed by governments on both sides to influence public opinion, as well as to provide those at home hungry for news with images of the conflict. Film on the Front Lines is a video installation showcasing rarely seen WWI British film propaganda from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, with a new score by Leeds based composer Oliver Thurley (Ithaca Trio). Sited at the Royal Armouries for the duration of LIFF, the installation will be opened with a launch event featuring an intro and Q&A with WWI expert Dr Claudia Sternberg.

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Sat 8 Nov, 14:00, ARMOURIES

Film to Change 5 Various

FORUM UK

2014

90 min

A selection of the best short films about mental health, made by people with personal experience of the issues. We will show work from the Arts & Minds film group, Time to Change Leeds, Northern Film School, Inkwell Arts and others. Our programme includes: the premiere of Locust (Dir. Rob Pritchard), the story of how two brothers deal with grief, starring Francis Magee (Game of Thrones); Fade Away, a compelling study of a man with dementia; and an excerpt from Last Chance Saloon (Dir. Barry Gibb), the story of Neil ‘Twink’ Tinning, a troubled, magnificent musician living with bipolar disorder.

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Filmmaker Events

PANORAMAS, EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

LIFF28 will present a series of events for filmmakers as part of Short Film City and in partnership with the Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University. Events will include masterclasses with established filmmakers working in Yorkshire, a presentation of the latest low-cost technology and software available for making your own films, and networking nights where you will get the chance to meet directors who are attending LIFF28 with films selected for the programme.

The series of events will be announced in late October on leedsfilm.com and to receive details directly, please email shortfilmcity@gmail.com.

See www.leedsfilm.com for dates and times OPEN HOUSE - HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE CENTENARY

Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen György Pálfi

Hungary

2012

84 min

The closing film of last year’s LIFF and an instant audience favourite, György Pálfi’s unique Final Cut returns as part of the Hyde Park Picture House Centenary celebration with two free screenings. Created using moments from hundreds of classic movies in a seamless editing job, Final Cut is the ultimate love story with the greatest cast ever, including Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marcello Mastroianni, Audrey Hepburn, Juliette Binoche and Brad Pitt. Vividly re-imagining the oft-told tale of boy meets girl, Final Cut is funny and disorientating, highly original and hugely entertaining throughout.

Fri 7 Nov, 21:15, HYDE | Sun 9 Nov, 13:00, HYDE

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Free Fall

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György Pálfi

Hungary | France | South Korea

2014

80 min

The latest film from the director of Final Cut (also showing at LIFF28), György Pálfi’s Free Fall is a wildly imaginative black comedy featuring a series of stories, each a take on a different film or television genre including sci-fi, horror, romance, social realism and sitcom. An old lady jumps off the roof of an apartment building in Budapest. A few moments later, she picks up the pieces of her broken glasses and limps back up the stairs. As she climbs each of the seven floors, we witness the bizarre lives and often extreme predicaments of those behind the closed apartment doors.

Sat 15, 19:15, VUE | Wed 19 Nov, 20:30, VUE

Free to Play

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Mark Adler

USA

2014

75 min

An exclusive free screening of Valve Software’s fascinating documentary about the phenomenon of e-sports, hugelypopular live organised videogame competitions. Free to Play succeeds in making the world of e-sports accessible as a film subject by focusing on the family divides and personal challenges faced by three professional gamers as they compete for a million dollar cash prize in the first DOTA 2 International Tournament. The scenes of increasingly intense competitive gameplay are exciting to watch, all accompanied by helpful commentary like, ‘He’s trying to retreat, he’s turned into a pig!’.

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French Short Film Panorama

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90 min approx French filmmakers have treated LIFF with charming short films for years and this year’s edition makes no exception. We’ve handpicked a marvelous selection that will make you smile and evoke the exquisite excitement of falling in love. The young hero of The Dive aims to impress as he climbs up the diving platform. Will he be able to pluck up the courage to jump? Others go to great and peculiar lengths to recapture a particular feeling, as seen in Something To Do With Love. The films reveal that romance can appear in the most unusual and sometimes absurd circumstances.

Sun 16 Nov, 17:00, ALBERT

From Bedrooms to Billions Anthony Caulfield, Nicola Caulfield

FANORAMA UK

2014

120 min

Developments in computer technology in the UK of the late 70’s and early 80’s helped inspire a generation of small team enthusiasts, hobbyists, school kids, bedroom coders and entrepreneurs to make and release some truly classic video games. From Bedrooms to Billions reveals some of the remarkable stories, struggles and successes that saw the UK video games industry go from nothing into a major force littered with original thinkers, innovators and eccentric characters. Featuring interviews with key contributors to the UK story, From Bedrooms to Billions is a fascinating insight into a golden videogaming era.

Tue 18 Nov, 18:00, HYDE

The General + Unsilent Movies Buster Keaton

USA

MASTERS OF FILM COMEDY - BUSTER KEATON 1926

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Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane has often been cited as the greatest film ever made, but Welles himself suggested that honour should be reserved for The General. Buster Keaton’s masterwork is certainly one of the high points of silent comedy, using his endlessly inventive sensibility to create set piece after set piece of fast moving comic mayhem aboard the engine ‘the general’ on the Oregon railroads during the civil war. Not to be missed on the big screen especially with live musical accompaniment courtesy of the deft and lively ensemble Unsilent Movies.

Sat 8 Nov, 13:00, VARIETIES

Ghost in the Shell Mamoru Oshii

FANATHONS - ANIME DAY 2014 Japan

1995

83 min

A special presentation of Mamoru Oshii’s classic cyberpunk anime Ghost in the Shell, screening in a new digital cinema print on the giant screen at Leeds Town Hall as part of this year’s Fanomenon Anime Day. It’s the year 2029 and Major Motoko Kusanagi is a cyborg officer in the Section 9 security force. She’s on the trail of a computer criminal known as the Puppet Master, a data manipulator skilled enough to hack into the minds of his victims. As Kusanagi digs deeper into the case, she realises that the identity of the assailant lies at the heart of a vast political conspiracy.

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Giovanni’s Island

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Mizuho Nishikubo

Japan

2014

102 min

Directed by Mizuho Nishikubo, a longtime collaborator of Mamoru Oshii , Giovanni’s Island – like the anime classic Grave of the Fireflies – examines the struggles of the Japanese in the immediate aftermath of their defeat in World War II, from the perspective of a child. A testament to the emotional resilience of children, and the preciousness of those lost but not forgotten, Giovanni’s Island echoes the work of the master Miyazaki in refusing to paint a picture of extreme moral contrasts. There are no heroes or villains here, just ordinary people managing as best they can in desperate circumstances.

Sun 9 Nov, 16:15, VICTORIA | Wed 12 Nov, 16:00, VUE, PASS AVAIL. OPEN HOUSE - HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE CENTENARY

Good Vibrations Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn

UK | Ireland

2012

103 min

Good Vibrations was a legendary record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe, home of the Alternative Ulster movement during the worst years of the troubles. The film tells the inspiring story of the unflappable Terri Hooley, the man responsible for discovering The Undertones and recording Teenage Kicks. He orchestrated a compelling voice of resistance in Belfast’s nascent underground punk scene in marked contrast to their nihilistic English counterparts. Richard Dormer plays Hooley with terrific charisma and energy and the film is riotously entertaining from beginning to end.

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Fri 7 Nov, 10:00, HYDE

Goodbye to Language 3D

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Jean-Luc Godard

France

2014

70 min

The latest filmmaker to push the boundaries of the new 3D cinema is the veteran iconoclast, Jean-Luc Godard, still provocative and prolific at 83 years of age. With his usual cocktail of confrontational agitprop, restless audiovisual invention and irreverent humour, Godard uses the 3D format to reinvigorate his fragmented narrative style, a pranksterish collage of stories and ideas culminating in one dizzying sequence where he literally shows two films simultaneously. An exhilarating reminder of one of the most influential filmmaking talents of all time.

Thu 6 Nov, 18:00, VUE

Grave of the Fireflies

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Isao Takahata

Japan

1988

89 min

Screening on a new digital print, Isao Takahata’s early Studio Ghibli masterpiece is a visually stunning and emotionally powerful film that meditates on the devastating consequences of war. A young brother and sister are forced to fight for survival in the devastated Japanese countryside during World War II after their mother is killed in an air raid, and with their father serving in the navy. Food and shelter are scarce, and even their own relatives are too concerned with their own survival. All they have is each other. Also see Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness.

Sun 9 Nov, 20:45, VICTORIA | Fri 14 Nov, 13:30, VICTORIA

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The Green Prince

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Nadav Schirman Germany | USA | UK | Israel 2014

95 min

Winner of this year’s Sundance world documentary audience award, Schirman’s film unfolds with all the intensity of a spy thriller. Based on Mosab Hassan Yousef’s autobiography, the film follows the journey of Yousef, the son of a Hamas founder, who, after being arrested at 17 for smuggling guns, is persuaded to spy for the Israeli security service Shin Bet. The film uses a mix of archive footage and constructed scenes whilst the candid interviews with Yousef and his Israeli ‘handler’ help unravel the protagonists’ complex motivations.

Fri 7 Nov, 15:00, EVERYMAN | Sat 8 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN

Groundhog Day Harold Ramis

MASTERS OF FILM COMEDY - BILL MURRAY USA

1993

101 min

One of the finest feature comedies ever made, the sadly missed Harold Ramis infuses his decidedly modern examination of free will with the spirit of classic screwball comedies. Bill Murray is perfect as the cynical weatherman who, in living the same day again and again, must learn to change his ways. One of the finest feature comedies ever made, the sadly missed Harold Ramis infuses his decidedly modern examination of free will with the spirit of classic screwball comedies. Bill Murray is perfect as the cynical weatherman who, in living the same day again and again, must learn to change his ways.

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A Hard Day Seong-hoon Kim

FANORAMA South Korea

2014

111 min

A Hard Day is the must-see Far Eastern action film of the year. On the way back from his mother’s funeral, special crimes detective Gun-su gets into an accident, killing a man instantly. To cover up his crime, he hides the body inside his mother’s coffin, with her inside. A few days later, Gun-su’s crime pops up on the police database and his partner is heading up the case. Things get worse as his partner slowly uncovers more details of the accident and a witness to the crime threatens his life. ‘This slick, dynamic, twist-heavy police thriller combines supercharged suspense with flashes of dark humor.’ – Hollywood Reporter Fri 14 Nov, 20:30, VICTORIA | Sat 15 Nov, 20:00, HYDE

Head Bob Rafelson

MUSIC ON FILM USA

1968

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Bob Rafelson’s legendary 1968 Monkees film has superlative cult credentials. A spectacular flop on its release, made a little too late to capitalise on Monkees mania and a lot more edgy and psychedelic than the kid-friendly hit tv series, the film has gained a steady following ever since, proving against the odds to stand the test of time far better than most 60s artefacts. Well worth taking the rare opportunity to see it on the big screen, it’s still remarkably inventive and entertaining and a fascinatingly satirical take on its era. Presented with an introduction by Dr Peter Mills of Leeds Metropolitan University.

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Heaven Adores You

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Nickolas Dylan Rossi

USA

2014

104 min

An intimate and meditative look at the life and music of Elliott Smith, who died tragically in 2003. An American singer-songwriter, Smith is best known for the Academy Award nominated song “Miss Misery,” from Gus Van Sant’s film ‘Good Will Hunting’. This definitive documentary about the late singer features previously unreleased songs, pictures, and rare footage that take us on a journey through the cities he lived in. Poignant interviews with Smith’s friends, family and collaborators make for a heartfelt tribute to his fleeting but unforgettable career, and the impact it continues to have on fans and fellow musicians today.

Tue 18 Nov, 20:45, HYDE | Wed 19 Nov, 18:00, HYDE

Horse Money

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Pedro Costa

Portugal

2014

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A hauntingly beautiful and dreamlike film from the great Portuguese director Pedro Costa set in a strange, crumbling infirmary, Horse Money is an indictment of social injustice in postcolonial Europe. The film centres on the 70 year old Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant, worn out from a lifetime of backbreaking manual labour and civil unrest in the Lisbon slums of Fountinhas. He is recuperating from a nervous disease and looks back on his life through a series of fragmented and ghostly encounters in a film of considerable visual and narrative originality and power.

Mon 17 Nov, 18:00, VUE | Wed 19 Nov, 13:30, VUE

The House at the End of Time

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Alejandro Hidalgo

Venezuela

2013

101 min

Thirty years after being convicted for the murder of her husband, a crime she claims she didn’t commit, Dulce returns to her old house to unravel the mystery that connects her to the creepy old building. Searching for clues among the old rooms, the past and present become inexplicably entwined.

Venezuela is not known for its horror films and yet Alejandro Hidalgo has created a truly scary tale of suspense that switches between the 1970s and the present day effortlessly.

Similar in tone and style, The House at the End of Time is certain to be compared favourably to The Orphanage (LIFF 2007).

Sun 9 Nov, 18:30, VUE | Wed 12 Nov, 14:00, VUE

Housebound

FANATHONS - NIGHT OF THE DEAD XIV

Gerard Johnstone

New Zealand

2014

109 min

One of two fantastic horror comedies to come out of New Zealand this year (see also What We Do in the Shadows) Gerard Johnstone has taken elements of The People Under the Stairs, Disturbia and Poltergeist and created a wickedly entertaining film. Put under house arrest by the courts, Kylie has to return home under the watchful eye of her estranged mother, Miriam.To make matters worse Miriam’s belief that the house is haunted starts to rub off on Kylie as she starts to hear strange noises and soon begins to suspect that there may be a hostile spirit in the house.

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How I Filmed the War Yuval Sagiv

WAR AND CINEMA

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2010

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One of the most successful propaganda films ever made, The Battle of the Somme, is explored in this fascinating experimental documentary. Released in 1916, Somme is a filmed account of the bloody and tragic WWI battle of the title, shot and edited

by Geoffrey H. Malins. Brilliantly utilising the techniques of early cinema and set to a haunting electronic-ambient score, How I Filmed the War unravels the complex and contested history of this landmark documentary using powerful images from the original film alongside intertitles drawn from Malins’ controversial autobiography, and conflicting historical accounts.

Mon 17 Nov, 17:30, ALBERT

I am the Gorgon: Bunny Striker Lee and the Roots of Reggae Diggory Kenrick

UK

2013

MUSIC ON FILM

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I am the Gorgon traces the rise of Jamaican music from the ghettos of Kingston to the furthest reaches of the globe and one of its great champions, legendary producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee. From humble beginnings in a large family from the poorest suburbs of Kingston, Bunny Lee went from car mechanic and record plugger to reggae’s most successful producer in the 1970s. He was a prime agent for spreading reggae music internationally and in the careers of many of its great stars from Derrick Morgan to Johnny Clarke and King Tubby. Presented in partnership with Jumbo Records.

Mon 17 Nov, 21:00, BELGRAVE

The Imitation Game Morten Tyldum

PREVIEWS UK

2014

113 min

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as brilliant Cambridge mathematician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, who spearheaded the Enigma code-breaking operation during World War II and was later persecuted by the British government for his homosexuality. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) skilfully delivers a gripping film, with Turing and his colleagues racing against time to devise a machine that can crack Germany’s Enigma codes, while Turing himself must work out how to be a gay man at a time when such men are routinely crushed by the law.

Fri 7 Nov, 18:30, VICTORIA | Sat 8 Nov, 20:30, HYDE

Irish Short Film Panorama

PANORAMAS, EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

90 min approx Every year Short Film City focuses its attention on the outstanding short filmmaking talent of a particular country.

This year we were delighted to angle our lens towards Ireland.

We’ve handpicked a jam packed programme of the best live action and animation from the emerald Isle. The line-up includes a number of award winning films such as Coda, a beautifully hand drawn animation fresh from winning at SXSW, and the BAFTA nominated Orbit Ever After, which features a truly stellar cast. The programme is bursting with thrills, wonder and delight, and of course a full serving of Irish charm.

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Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?

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Michel Gondry

France

An unexpected meeting of two very different minds, French filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) meets one of the great thinkers of our age, Noam Chomsky. Illustrating the conversation with stream of consciousness style animation, Gondry enlivens Chomsky’s ideas and reveals far more about the man behind those extraordinary insights than most conventional documentaries, taking in his influential theories about the formulation of language, his libertarian critiques of political power structures and his upbringing during the depression.

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J’accuse with live organ accompaniment

WAR AND CINEMA

Abel Gance

France

1919

166 min

Abel Gance’s powerful anti-war drama J’accuse gets a rare screening at this year’s LIFF with live organ accompaniment. Set in France against the backdrop of WWI, the film tells the story of two very different men whose lives become entwined through the machinations of fate, war and their love of the same woman. Radical, thought provoking and moving, J’accuse is an extraordinary, epic work of deeply felt humanism, and the film’s climactic scene in which the dead rise up and return from the battlefield to ‘see if their sacrifice was worth anything’ is a brilliant, chilling moment of pure cinema.

Wed 12 Nov, 19:30, VICTORIA MASTERS OF FILM COMEDY - JACQUES TATI

Jour de Fete France | Italy

Jacques Tati

1949

70 min

Jacques Tati’s inspired debut feature is a dizzying orchestration of slapstick satire set in a small French village in the late 40s.

Tati himself plays an inept postman inspired by a newsreel describing the technological efficiencies of the US postal system. As part of the busy preparations for the village fete he attempts a series of ridiculous bicycle stunts to speed up his delivery time with hilariously disastrous results. Tati pioneers his trademark comic style employing a complex array of sight and sound gags in place of dialogue and satirising modern society’s over-reliance on hi tech gadgetary.

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Sat 8 Nov, 10:00, VICTORIA

Journey to the West

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Tsai Ming Liang

France | Taiwan

2013

56 min

Screening along with Stray Dogs, Journey to the West is another great new film from Taiwanese master Tsai Ming Liang based on the ancient Buddhist ritual journeys. Xuanzang, the 7th century monk celebrated for his rigour and his 17 year quest for vacuity on the roads of Asia, wanders through the streets of Marseille. The film simply follows his steadfastly snail paced pilgrimage through 14 beautiful static shots as modern, urban life takes place around him. Such a simple idea creates a wholly original filmic meditation on a spiritual quest in a modern city. £6 / £5

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Kebab and Horoscope + Frozen Stories Grzegorz Jaroszuk

Poland

2014

DISCOVERIES 75+26 min

A masterclass of measured filmmaking and deadpan humour, Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s debut follows in the footsteps of the likes of Aki Kaurismäki and Roy Andersson. Two misfits re-imagine themselves as marketing executives and run to the aid of an ailing carpeting store – itself filled with strange employees. Some excellent performances and confident yet low-key direction result in a film that is carefully surreal but has many hilarious moments. Screening with Jaroszuk’s former LIFF award winner Frozen Stories, about work colleagues who want to appear on a programme showcasing the world’s biggest losers.

Fri 14 Nov, 20:30, VUE | Sat 15 Nov, 13:00, VUE

The Kids Are Alright Jeff Stein

MUSIC ON FILM - ONCE IN A LIFETIME UK

1979

101 min

A career-spanning retrospective of unforgettable footage of one of the greatest rock groups of all time. The Who possessed a raw power and vibrancy in their live performances which few groups have ever matched since. The Kids Are Alright documents the group from 1964 to 1978 as they journey from poster boys of the British Mod scene to international superstars, and features the notorious rock’n’roll antics of legendary drummer Keith Moon. The expansive range of footage features everything from the group’s Woodstock appearance to hilariously outrageous TV interviews.

Sat 15 Nov, 12:00, VICTORIA, ONCE IN A LIFETIME PASS AVAILABLE

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness Mami Sunada

Japan

FANORAMA

2014

118 min

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes documentary about Studio Ghibli, full of fascinating insights into the inner workings of the celebrated Japanese animation studio founded by filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and producer Toshio Suzuki. My Neighbour Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, and Spirited Away are just some of the studio’s animated masterpieces, and this engrossing documentary shows Miyazaki and Takahata creating their latest acclaimed films, The Wind Rises and The Tale of Princess Kaguya respectively.

Fri 14 Nov, 15:30, VICTORIA | Sun 16 Nov, 15:00, COTTAGE ROAD

La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir

WAR AND CINEMA France

1937

114 min

Jean Renoir’s poetic masterpiece has a strong claim as the greatest First World War film ever made. Crafting a poignant drama of class divisions and of the random suffering and cameraderie of war, Renoir assembles an unforgettable cast of characters, all memorably portrayed by great performers.

Aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), mechanic Lieutenant Marechal (Jean Gabin) and wealthy Jewish banker Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio) are all thrown together as prisoners of the Germans ending up under the command of German aristocrat Van Rauffenstein (Erich Von Stroheim).

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The Last Circus

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Álex de la Iglesia

Spain | France

2010

107 min

Cruelly overlooked in the UK, Álex de la Iglesia’s ‘sad trumpet ballad’ (it’s original language title) is probably his most personal and socially relevant work to date. Using the Spanish Civil War as a backdrop he focuses on the tragic story of a young boy who grows up to be a sad clown. When Javier joins the circus he is befriended by the other performers who make him feel at home. Unfortunately he falls in love with Natalia, the abused wife of Sergio, the brutish ‘happy’ clown who humiliates him on a daily basis in the show. Javier misguidedly decides to rescue Natalia and take revenge on Sergio with horrific results.

Mon 17 Nov, 18:30, HYDE | Thu 20 Nov, 13:00, HYDE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: EUROPEAN ORIGINS

Last Laugh with live piano accompaniment F.W. Murnau

Germany

1924

77 min

F.W. Murnau’s landmark film, made in Germany before his star turn in Hollywood with Sunrise and Tabu, is an example of purely visual storytelling and pioneer of a panoply of influential technical innovations. His film depicts the tale of an elderly hotel doorman (brilliantly played by Emil Jannings, also star of The Blue Angel) who is reduced to polishing tiles beneath a sink in the gents’ lavatory until one day his fate suddenly changes. Screening in collaboration with the Leaf Label with live accompaniment by the great Leeds based jazz pianist, Matthew Bourne.

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Le Quattro Volte Michelangelo Frammartino Italy|Germany|Switz. 2010 88 min One of the most original and beautiful arthouse films of recent years, Le Quattro Volte tells a universal tale of the revolving cycles of life high in the hills of Calabria, Southern Italy. Using barely a whisper of dialogue and minimal camera moves, the film progresses through four perspectives. We see an old shepherd live his last days in a quiet medieval village before the focus shifts to a newborn goat kid from his herd, then a majestic tree through the seasons ending in the ancestral ritual of turning wood into charcoal. The result is quite unlike anything else in recent cinema.

Wed 12 Nov, 15:00, EVERYMAN | Mon 17 Nov, 15:00, EVERYMAN

Led Zeppelin Played Here + Heavy Metal Parking Lot

MUSIC ON FILM

Jeff Krulik

USA

2013

107 min

In 1969, Led Zeppelin played to 50 students in a school gymnasium, and there wasn’t a camera in sight to prove it. Or did they? Led Zeppelin Played Here is a documentary about an urban legend that keeps you guessing about the truth of the matter throughout. Presented in partnership with MusicFilmWeb, it’s the new film by Jeff Krulik, the man responsible for the legendary Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986), which captures hard rock fans in their natural habitat - partying outside a Judas Priest concert. A comedic and thoughtful pair of films about the nitty gritty of rock’n’roll fandom.

Wed 19 Nov, 20:30, BELGRAVE

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Leeds Film City: Invisible Cinema Walk

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Invisible Cinema is Ben Waddington’s exploration of the secret picture houses of the UK’s city centres. The number of cinemas rose and fell with the 20th Century; most cities at one time boasted hundreds of screens. With the rise of the multiplex, their structure was absorbed back into the fabric of the city - that is, if they escaped demolition. However, their presence can still be detected, if you know what to look for. Join Ben on a 90 minute tour in search of the city’s screens as well as other significant lost architectural moments. The tour begins inside the Wellington Street entrance of Leeds Railway Station (facing into City Square). Tickets are £8/£6 and must be booked in advance.

Sat 8 Nov, 12:00, CITY | Sun 9 Nov, 12:00, CITY CENTRE

Leeds International Music Video Award

COMPETITIONS

80 min approx In the 1980s and 1990s music videos were a primary vehicle for getting songs heard around the world, and resulted in many iconic pop culture moments. Since the advent of online music their role has shifted dramatically, and with lessened commercial emphasis a new generation of artistically minded musicians has flourished, using them for endlessly creative means. The first annual Leeds International Music Video Award celebrates the artform with a programme of videos from the past 12 months selected from a broad range of genres by international artists including Heatsick’s Re-Engineering (pictured).

Mon 17 Nov, 18:30, BELGRAVE

Leeds Screendance Competition

COMPETITIONS

90 min approx In partnership with Yorkshire Dance, LIFF is delighted to present the city’s first Screendance Competition, a compelling new programme of international work. Screendance, dance film and video-dance are some of the titles used to describe this elusive genre which spans a vast range of styles: some of the shorts in the selection could sit comfortably within an esoteric artists’ film & video programme and some on mainstream TV. Sometimes featuring dancers and sometimes not, sometimes narrative and sometimes not, what unites these shorts is their engagement with choreography, either in their content, the edit, or ideally both.

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Leeds Short Film Audience Award

COMPETITIONS

90 min approx In this free screening, you have the chance to vote for your favourite film from a selection of brilliant short shorts, all under 10 minutes in length, and help to choose the winner of this year’s Short Film City audience award. Included in the selection is British short Two Films About Loneliness (UK), a split-screen, bilingual stop-motion film, in which two neighbours turn to technology in their search for companionship and acceptance. In Voluntario from Spain, Jamie is a budding filmmaker and he wants to make it in Hollywood, but his parents think he’s got no talent and they want him to travel a bit further...

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Lessons of Darkness Werner Herzog

France | UK | Germany

1992

50 min

A documentary shot like a science fiction film made by an alien observer, Lessons of Darkness is a captivatingly unusual film even for one of the world’s most unusual filmmakers, Werner Herzog. The film reveals an apocalyptic vision of the oilwell fires in Kuwait after the Gulf-War, as a whole world burst into flames. It is difficult to recognise a single shot as a factual depiction of our own planet. Controversial for its alleged aestheticisation of the horrors of war, Herzog likened his approach to that of Hieronymous Bosch and Goya and has inspired as many admirers as detractors.

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Wed 12 Nov, 16:00, VICTORIA

Letters from a Dead Man

RETRO - KONSTANTIN LOPUSHANSKY

Konstantin Lopushansky

Soviet Union

1986

87 min

The first of two masterful dystopias from Russian director Konstantin Lopushansky, Letters from a Dead Man is both harrowing and optimistic. A scholar negotiates his nightmarish surroundings whilst reciting letters to his deceased son in one of the most convincing and engulfing visions of a post-nuclear world you will experience. Shot in a golden tint which captures the ‘perpetual twilight’ experienced by its characters, this is an extremely rare screening of a film which presents the possibility of the nuclear threat from a Russian perspective.

Sun 9 Nov, 19:00, HYDE

Leviathan

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Andrey Zvyagintsev

Russia

2014

140 min

Lauded Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return) won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes for his unanimously acclaimed magnum opus Leviathan, a painterly, primordial tale set in the coastal landscape of the Barents Sea, and featuring music by Philip Glass. In a small seaside town, weather-beaten patriarch Kolya lives with his teenage son Roma and second wife Lilya. Their idyllic homestead harbours deep-rooted familial resentments that are aggravated by the aggressions of corrupt local mayor Vadim. When Kolya calls in his lawyer brother Dima from Moscow, a series of dramatic events unfolds.

Thu 6 Nov, 20:00, VUE

LMVAs

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180 min approx East Leeds FM, in partnership with Leeds International Film Festival, wants to promote and celebrate the use of music video in the city as a creative tool, for both musicians and filmmakers.

The Leeds Music Video Awards will be voted on by a jury made up of experts from the music and film industries, and there will be a People’s Choice award to be voted on by the public, which will be hosted on the ELFM website. The event at the brand new Chapel FM venue in East Leeds will present the award winners and feature live performances, all streamed via elfm.co.uk.

Chapel FM is being developed as a Pay What You Can venue.

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Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition (6 programmes)

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Short Film City presents another year of exceptional short filmmaking at LIFF. The Academy Award qualifying competition is named after Louis Le Prince who captured the very first moving images right here in Leeds in 1888. We’ve searched high and low to find the very best short films from around the world. More than 30 shorts make up the six competition programmes, many of which UK audiences will be seeing for the first time.This year’s competition is definitely one you won’t want to miss! The complete programme will be announced on leedsfilm.com at the end of October.

1: Wed 12 Nov, 13:00, HYDE | 2: Wed 12 Nov, 15:00, HYDE | 3: Thu 13 Nov, 13:00, HYDE | 4: Thu 13 Nov, 15:30, HYDE | 5: Fri 14 Nov, 14:00, HYDE | 6: Fri 14 Nov, 16:00, HYDE

Love is Strange Ira Sachs

PREVIEWS USA | France

2014

94 min

Having loved each other for nearly four decades, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot and celebrate their wedding with family and friends. These same wedding guests have to accommodate them when the official recognition of their relationship causes the couple to lose their home. Ira Sach’s fifth feature film Love Is Strange was applauded by critics for its unpretentious acting and multifaceted script, when it played at Sundance, Tribeca and Berlin Film Festival.

More than a romantic drama, it is a film about balancing our own needs with those of the people we love.

Sun 16 Nov, 18:30, VICTORIA | Tues 18 Nov, 14:30, VICTORIA

Love Steaks Jakob Lass

DISCOVERIES Germany

2013

89 min

A little low budget gem full of verve and invention, Love Steaks uses comic improvisation and dynamic camerawork in a spiky indie love story. Clemens starts a new job as a massage therapist in a luxury hotel. He is shy and sensitive and intimidated by the advances of some of his clients. He meets kitchen worker Lara who is brash and vivacious and it’s a case of opposites attract. She brings him out of his shell in a series of little adventures. Featuring improvised scenes by great young actors filmed in a real hotel, every scene is shot through with a real freshness and energy.

Sat 8, 19:00 & Sun 9, 19:00, EVERYMAN | Wed 12, 21:00, HYDE

M Fritz Lang

HOLLYWOOD GREATS: EUROPEAN ORIGINS Germany

1931

117 min

The great Fritz Lang maintained throughout his long and influential career, that the 1931 masterpiece M was his greatest achievement. Taking on the controversial subject of a child murderer, Lang’s sensitive and imaginative thriller goes far beyond its many shallow and exploitative imitators. His first foray into sound, Lang’s innovations set many of the ground rules for the new format including the famous leitmotif from Grieg’s Peer Gynt, announcing the arrival of killer Hans Beckert, unforgettably portrayed with equal horror and tenderness by the legendary Peter Lorre.

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28TH LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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BACK-TO-BACK SCREENINGS

THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY

Saturday 25 October / 10am – 10pm / £10 / Tickets On-line

THE HOBBIT

SWORDS OF MIDDLE EARTH EXHIBITION

MOVIE MEMORABILIA

Sat 1 Nov 2014 / £10 / Book Tickets On-Line

Sat 25 Oct – Sun 2 Nov 2014 / Free

Back-to-back screenings of parts 1 & 2 of this epic fantasy adventure.

Crafted by Peter Lyon, Weta Workshop.

Officially licensed LOTR and Hobbit reproduction swords available to buy in the Museum shop and on-line.

www.royalarmouries.org

Exclusive: Introductory talk about the arms and armour of Middle Earth before each film.

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Maidan

UNDERGROUND VOICES Ukraine | Netherlands 2014

Sergey Loznitsa

130 min

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Lozitsna has made the most rigorously cinematic response to a civil uprising in this remarkable first hand depiction of the Maidan protests in Kiev.

Filmed between December 2013 and February 2014, it uses an effectively minimalist style to capture an emotionally gripping struggle through organised dissent to state brutality and a deeply moving and dignified response to its casualties. He uses a series of strategically placed camera angles and long static shots with no interruptions for voiceovers or interpretation, the actions speak for themselves and the film is unmissable.

Mon 17 Nov, 20:00, VUE | Wed 19 Nov, 18:00, VUE

Manakamana

UNDERGROUND VOICES

Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez

Nepal | USA

2014

118 min

The Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, the same filmmaking collective behind last year’s extraordinary documentary Leviathan return with a highly original big screen spectacle, the beautiful Manakamana. High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship at Manakamana Temple. A camera is placed in a fixed spot in the cable car, observing a series of very different passengers in real time on their journey up the mountainside with an extraordinary vista from the windows. An almost virtual reality travel experience and an ingenious device for people-watching.

Tue 11 Nov, 18:00, VICTORIA

A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-B, Monologue 02) Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Austria

2014

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A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-B, Monologue 02) is a surreal experiment that takes clips from over 50 years of Boris Karloff movies and compresses them all into a single feature length film, seeing Karloff portray over 170 different characters. The result is a schizophrenic horror journey in which Karloff often appears to be having conversations with different versions of himself. At some times Frankenstein’s Monster, at others Jeckyll and Hyde or even some of his more bizarre roles, the scenes are expertly cut together by Pfaffenbichler to create rhythmically repetitive set pieces which punctuate the film.

Fri 7 Nov, 21:00, ALBERT | Wed 12 Nov, 19:00, ALBERT

Modris Juris Kursietis

DISCOVERIES Latvia | Germany | Greece

2014

98 min

Modris is a bored teenager with a fondness for gambling, and a shaky relationship with his despairing mother. When Modris goes a step too far and pawns his mother’s electric heater for another go on the slot machines, she betrays him to the police in an attempt to teach him a lesson. Sentenced to two years’ probation, Modris is forced to change his ways, but luck isn’t always on his side. Then Modris decides to follow a new path: to find the father he has never met. A touching coming of age drama, with a distinctive style from an exciting new voice in Latvian cinema.

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Mother. I am Going

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Caitlin and Andrew Webb-Ellis

UK | Bulgaria

2014 13 min

A new three-screen film installation by British/Canadian artist-filmmakers Caitlin and Andrew Webb-Ellis. Filmed in an abandoned village in southern Bulgaria, and on the North East coast of England, the film weaves together documentary, performance and archive footage to explore memory’s relationship to the photographic image, and the discontinuity of history. Memories return in the form of images. ‘Moments of history are plucked out of the flow of history, then returned to it – no longer quite alive but not yet entirely dead.’ Lucidity appears only in brief moments and no final truth is ever revealed.

Fri 14 Nov, 19:00, TETLEY (Exhibition until Sun 23 Nov)

Mr Somebody?

UNDERGROUND VOICES

Michelle Heighway

UK

2014

60 min

Huddersfield resident Jake Mangle Wurzle is probably the most eccentric man in Britain. After his wife and daughter left him some forty years ago, he vowed to spend the rest of his days as a professional lunatic. This whacky, outspoken and unforgettable oddball lives in a cottage overflowing with hoarded objects, inventions and rubbish that he refuses to throw away. Michelle Heighway has filmed Jake’s ups and downs over five years, including a council ordered clean up.

This is an intriguing and intimate portrait of the man behind the lunacy.

Wed 12 Nov, 21:00, ALBERT

My Old Lady

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Israel Horovitz

USA | France

2014

104 min

In this warm and witty comedy-drama from the great American playwright Israel Horovitz, Mathias (Kevin Kline) is a harried New Yorker trying to sell the Parisian apartment he’s inherited from his late father when he runs up against its current occupants, a spirited elderly woman Mathilde (Maggie Smith) and her acid-tongued daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas). The apartment, Mathias learns, will not become his until its present occupant passes away, in accordance with the French ‘viager’ principle. As he even attempts blackmail to evict the pair, Mathias discovers more about Mathilde, and his father, than he’d ever intended.

Sun 16, 16:00 VUE | Tue 18, 18:00, VUE | Wed 19, 15:30, VUE

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

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Hayao Miyazaki

Japan

1984

117 min

When we surveyed anime fans about the Hayao Miyazaki film they would most like to see at LIFF28, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was the most popular choice. Rarely screened in cinemas and presented at LIFF28 in its 30th anniversary year on an English-subtitled 35mm print, Miyazaki’s 1984 masterpiece was his first major work. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of seaside kingdom The Valley of the Wind engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth after a global war. Also see Grave of the Fireflies and The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness.

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85 min

As the Picture House turns 100 we would like to invite you to don your formal attire and join us to experience a night at the cinema 1914 style. This marvellous programme, compiled by the BFI National Archive, recreates the glorious miscellany of comedies, dramas, travelogues and newsreels which would have constituted a typical night out in 1914. We’ve also invited the wonderful After Hours Quintet to join us for some prefilm entertainment to add to the celebrations as we reflect thankfully on the last 100 years while looking eagerly toward to the next 100.

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Fri 7 Nov, 19:00, HYDE

No One’s Child Vuk Ršumović

DISCOVERIES Croatia | Serbia

2014

95 min

No One’s Child is based on the remarkable true story of a child who was raised by wolves and found by hunters in the Bosnian woods in 1988. Returned to an orphanage in Belgrade and given the name Haris, he is very slowly reintegrated into human life, developing rudimentary language skills and learning to get along with the other children until the onset of war forces him back into the woods and the frontline. Avoiding sensationalised storytelling, Serbian director Vuk Rsumovic has made a sensitive and compelling debut which won the main prize at Venice Critics’ Week.

Tue 11 Nov, 20:30, HYDE | Thu 13 Nov, 18:30, VUE

Nocturna

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Adrià García, Víctor Maldonado Spain | France 2007

80 min

A LIFF family presentation of the acclaimed Spanish animated feature Nocturna, featuring an English voice cast. Beautifullyanimated and wildly inventive, Nocturna explores the mystery of the night in a sweeping nocturnal adventure full of Alice in Wonderland-like characters and moody, dream-inspired landscapes. Have you ever wondered why your hair looks funny in the morning or where the sounds outside your window come from at night? A young boy named Tim finds out after an unusual discovery on the rooftop of his orphanage plunges him into the secret world of Nocturna. £1 14/under

Sat 8 Nov, 12:00, HYDE

ONCE IN A LIFETIME - A DAY OF CLASSIC MUSIC CONCERTS

MUSIC ON FILM

Relive some of the greatest music films of all time in the unique atmosphere of Leeds Town Hall, which LIFF28 is giving a makeover to celebrate the full, glorious concert film experience with Once in a Lifetime. The Victoria Hall’s normal stall seating will be replaced with new festival-style deck chairs especially for the occasion, to create a relaxed and celebratory atmosphere, and there will beer by Northern Monk Brewery and street food available. We will celebrate the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s with Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, Beastie Boys Awesome; I .... Shot That!, 1991: The Year Punk Broke (starring Nirvana + Sonic Youth) and The Who’s The Kids Are Alright.

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One Rogue Reporter with guests

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Tom Jenkinson, Rich Peppiatt UK

2014

55 min

Rich Peppiatt was a hack reporter at The Daily Star until he finally quit, angered by his editors’ obsession of putting sensationalism over substance and scandal above the truth. What started out as a stand up show at the Edinburgh Fringe has been adapted into an insightful documentary about the behaviours of the tabloid press, including interviews with Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant, John Bishop, philosopher AC Grayling and former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. Through a series of mischievous stunts Peppiatt hilariously exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of modern journalism. Followed by Q&A with Rich Peppiatt.

Sat 15 Nov, 17:30, VUE

Paris of the North

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Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson Iceland | France + 2014

98 min

After his brittle comedy drama Either Way, the second feature from Icelandic director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson once again deals with ideas of isolation and the hell of one’s own friends and relations. Hugi is a teacher in a small Icelandic village, dealing with a breakup and subsequent alcohol problems. Enter Hugi’s father Veigar, a grizzled hedonist who decides to visit, crating chaos in his son’s life. This sets an intimate relationship drama against the vastness and majesty of Icelandic’s mountains and countryside with dry and biting humour next to well observed moments of absurdity.

Fri 7 Nov, 17:00, VUE | Sat 8 Nov, 18:30, VUE | Tue 11 Nov, 16:00, VUE

The Passion of Anna

BERGMAN ON FÅRÖ

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

1969

101 min

Often acclaimed as one of his greatest films yet not as well known as his most iconic features, The Passion of Anna is a compelling psychological drama. The first Fårö shot feature filmed in colour, it has a contrasting, more vibrant sense of location than the earlier films. A man with a past, played by Max von Sydow has found peace living in seclusion until he is disturbed one day by a chance encounter with emotionally volatile woman played by Liv Ullmann, grieving for the recent deaths of her husband and son. Meanwhile the island is victimised by someone commiting acts of animal cruelty. (35mm) Tue 18 Nov, 15:30, HYDE

Patch Town

FANORAMA

Craig Goodwill

Canada

2014

85 min

Once in a while a film comes along that defies convention and classification and is destined to be a cult hit. Patch Town is one such film. With similarities to Dark City, Brazil, Repo! The Genetic Opera and even Elf this black comedy horror sci-fi musical blends these genres into something truly unique.

In Patch Town babies born in cabbages are transformed into dolls for young children. When their owners grow up they are returned to Patch Town, turned back into humans and forced to work in the factory. Jon, a worker, remembers his human ‘mother’ and is determined to escape and track her down.

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Robert Siodmak, Curt Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinneman Germany

1930

74 min

A historic collective work made in Germany by a role call of some of Hollywood’s future star directors, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinneman and Billy Wilder. People on Sunday was arguably the first blend of fiction and documentary and used non-professional actors who actually worked in the jobs described in the film: taxi driver, music shop assistant, wine salesman, film extra, mannequin. It’s an overture of the everyday, subtle, charming and way ahead of its time.

Screening with live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand.

Sun 16 Nov, 17:00, HYDE

Persona Ingmar Bergman

BERGMAN ON FÅRÖ Sweden

1966

85 min

The most original collaboration between the great Ingmar Bergman and his long-term cinematographer Sven Nykvist shot entirely on the island of Fårö, is one of the landmark films of the 1960s. After a bravura, experimental opening sequence, Persona introduces standout roles for two of his regular leads.

While convalescing on the coast from an illness which robs her of speech, famous actress Elizabeth (Liv Ullmann) is cared for by Nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson) and finds that her nurse does the talking for both of them. Gradually, the two women’s personalities merge. (35mm) Mon 17 Nov, 21:00, HYDE | Wed 19 Nov, 13:30, HYDE

Placido Luis García Berlanga

BERLANGA AND BARDEM Spain

1961

87 min

Another classic black comedy from Spanish master Luis García Berlanga, Pladico is set in a small spanish town where a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a ‘Sit a poor man at your table’ dinner. Wealthy households invite a homeless person dining with them that night. Plácido’s family is forced to live in a public toilet because he can’t afford to pay the rent and he has to find more money to pay for his one possession, a three wheeler vehicle, before midnight or he’ll lose even that. A bitingly clever social satire with the lightest of comedic touch. (35mm) Tue 11 Nov, 13:30, HYDE

Point and Shoot Marshall Curry

UNDERGROUND VOICES USA

2014

82 min

Winner of the Best Documentary Award at Tribeca Film Festival, Point and Shoot follows the extraordinary journey of Matt VanDyke, a shy 26-year-old with OCD, who left his sheltered life in Baltimore for a self-described ‘crash course in manhood.’ With a motorcycle and a video camera he began a three-year trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. Whilst travelling, he befriended a group of Libyans, and when the revolution broke out, joined them in the rebel army against Gaddafi. Taking up arms and a camera, Matt documented the events until he was captured and held in solitary confinement for six months.

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The Possibilities are Endless with Edwyn Collins

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James Hall, Edward Lovelace

UK

2014

83 min

A profoundly moving and life-affirming film of a remarkable journey from the brink of death back to language, music, life and love. Influential Scottish songwriter, Edwyn Collins could only say two phrases after waking up: ‘Grace Maxwell’ and ‘The Possibilities Are Endless’. He had the contents of his mind effectively deleted after experiencing a stroke but with the help of his wife Grace, gradually unlocked the story of his past. We are delighted to welcome Edwyn and Grace to the screening and hope to follow with some live music. Presented in partnership with Hyde Park Picture House.

Thu 13 Nov, 20:30, HYDE

Poverty Inc

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Michael Matheson Miller USA | UK | Thailand + 2014

94 min

Poverty Inc is an eye opening documentary which asks some difficult questions about the attempts to alleviate poverty in the developing world. The West has initiated a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry but the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing increasingly vocal in calling for change.

Poverty Inc unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore. Screening in partnership with the World Development Movement followed by a panel discussion on the themes raised in the film.

Tue 11 Nov, 20:00, ALBERT

Propaganda Toons!

WAR AND CINEMA

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USA | Japan | Czechoslovakia 1943-1946 81 min

War hasn’t just left its mark on live action cinema, animation has often been drafted into the fight too. During WWII countless animated films were produced to help with the war effort, from training films for the army to more overt propaganda. We’ve selected some of the best and most inventive to screen for you at this year’s LIFF; highlights include an early Japanese anime featuring anthropomorphic animals bombing Pearl Harbor, Private Snafu (created by Frank Capra and Dr. Seuss), and a rare public screening of Der Fuehrer’s Face, the infamous Walt Disney short featuring Donald Duck as a Nazi!

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Raining Stones Ken Loach

UK

1993

106 min

One of Ken Loach’s finest moments, Raining Stones is a grim story of survival in a depressed Northern town shot through with an underlying warmth and humour that makes it a joy to watch. Bruce Jones (better known as Les Battersby from Coronation Street) and Ricky Tomlinson put in terrific performances as a pair of jobless mates Bob and Tommy, struggling to get by with a series of increasingly desperate money-making schemes from rustling sheep to stealing turf from the Conservative Club bowling green. All with a touching determination to afford a communion dress for Bob’s daughter.

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Refugiado Diego Lerman

DISCOVERIES France | Argentina

2014

90 min

A suspenseful and passionate drama from Argentine director Diego Lerman (Invisible Eye LIFF2010), Refugiado follows a mother and son on the run after an incident of domestic violence. The story is revealed through the eyes of seven year old Matías who returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and try to rebuild a life somewhere else. They find a city where everything familiar feels dangerous and it’s hard to trust even the closest friends and family.

Sun 9 Nov, 15:00, EVERYMAN | Mon 10 Nov, 15:00, EVERYMAN

Rocks in My Pockets Signe Baumane

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Latvia

2014

88 min

Born in Latvia and based in New York, animator Signe Baumane has long provided refreshingly adult work, unafraid to deal with themes such as sexuality and mortality. In her feature animation debut she continues with her personal and uncompromising examination of life as she explores the nature of her struggle with depression and that of her family. As she unpicks her own memories, Baumane slowly starts to understand the origin of her own illness. A very human film with Baumane not holding back in opening up her life, its honesty and lack of pretention makes the film both compelling and moving.

Sun 9 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN | Wed 12 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN

Romanian Short Film Panorama

PANORAMAS, EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

90 min approx With feature films such as the Palme D’Or winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and Tuesday, After Christmas, the Romanian New Wave has been responsible for some of the most affecting and interesting cinema of the past decade. The same has been true in the world of shorts with Romanian films becoming a popular fixture on the festival circuit. This programme will provide the chance to see some of the best shorts from Romania of the past few years. Expect beautifully created films imbued with a rare humanity.

Fri 7 Nov, 17:00, ALBERT

Rurouni Kenshi 2: Kyoto Inferno Keishi Ohtomo

Japan

FANORAMA 2014

134 min

In the second in the trilogy of live-action adaptations of Nobuhiro Watsuki’s celebrated manga, Takeru Sato returns as the handsome, taciturn hero, while his nemesis this time is played by Tatsuya Fujiwara (Battle Royale, Death Note).

A grand epic set at a time of great change for Japan, the Rurouni Kenshi arc is an imaginative revisiting of history, the backdrop for a complex and emotionally resonant drama with outbursts of superior-grade samurai swordplay. Following the furious conflicts in Tokyo, fearsome but violence-averse warriorassassin Himura Kenshin is sure he can now live a quiet life...

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The Samurai

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Till Kleinert

Germany

2014

79 min

Nothing much happens in the small German town where Jakob is the young naive police officer until the day he receives a mysterious package. Following a phone call requesting that he deliver the parcel he discovers a strange man dressed in a wedding dress who informs Jakob that it is his job to stop him.

Opening the package to reveal a Samurai sword, the stranger jumps from the window and heads into town on a killing spree.

Jakob follows, not realising that by the end of the night he will have experienced too much and be a far different man from whom he once was. A skilfully directed arthouse horror film.

Mon 17 Nov, 19:15, EVERYMAN | Wed 19 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN

The Satellite Girl & Milk Cow + Wolf Daddy

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Hyung-yun Chang

South Korea

2014

91 min

The debut feature from idiosyncratic Korean animator Hyung-yun Chang, whose fantastical shape-shifting storytelling is delightful to experience. Il-ho is a satellite girl in orbit that gazes down to Earth as she circles the globe, curious about human emotions.

Singer-songwriter Kyung-chun turns into a milk cow when he suffers heartbreak and soon finds himself on the run from the Incinerator, an evil machine that devours creatures with lonely hearts. Coming to his aid is Merlin the Wizard, a roll of toilet paper, and before long Il-ho falls to earth and is transformed into a girl.

Screening with Hyung-yun Chang’s short Wolf Daddy (2005).

Fri 7 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN | Mon 10 Nov, 17:00, EVERYMAN

Sci-fi Shorts

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2014

90 min

Now in its third year the Fanomenon Sci-fi short film programme is firmly embedded within the LIFF programme and once again brings together a diverse selection of shorts from around the world. From alien attacks to post-apocalyptic dystopias all manner of future worlds are revealed including The Perfect Soldier, produced by Sci-fi London and interestingly shot in a 1:1 ratio about the dangers of bio-weaponry and the Dutch film Rotor about a scientist in an underground facility who is shocked to discover an impossible intruder roaming the corridors.

Tue 18 Nov, 19:00, EVERYMAN

Scrapyard

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Nadege Trebal

France

2013

88 min

In a patiently revelatory documentary, filmmaker Nadege Trebal rummages through life on the margins to uncover some hidden treasures in a huge scrapyard in an unspecified French town. Every day, hundreds of men pace through the automotive wasteland, spending hours taking carcasses to pieces, looking for the missing part. They come from all over the world and many of them have extraordinary tales to tell, often making dangerous journeys to get to the continent and struggling to get by, Scrapyard quietly listens to what they have to say.

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The Second Game Corneliu Porumboiu

UNDERGROUND VOICES Romania

2014

97 min

The Second Game is a brilliantly original take on the sports film by Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest). Interpreting a deceptively simple idea, Porumboiu presents the tv footage of an entire, uninterrupted football match from 1988, the Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.

In place of the commentary, he talks to his father, the referee in the match, offering a fascinating perspective on the time and place.

Thu 6 Nov, 20:00, ALBERT | Sat 8 Nov, 19:00, ALBERT

Seth’s Dominion Luc Chamberland

UNDERGROUND VOICES Canada

2014

42 min

A deft portrait of Canadian cartoonist Seth, one of the world’s great storytellers in the form best known for comic books such as Palookaville. In his personal projects he transforms his poignant inner life into observant and witty graphic stories.

He is also incredibly prolific, producing semi-autobiographical comics and award-winning commercial work. Director Luc Chamberland sheds light on his articulate subject, mixing insightful biography with vivid animation in an artful fusion of filmmaking techniques that perfectly captures Seth’s manifold creative universe.

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Seventh Heaven with live organ accompaniment Frank Borzage

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1927

WAR AND CINEMA

110 min

One of the first films to be nominated for “Best Picture” at the Academy Awards, Seventh Heaven is a gorgeous and gloriously sentimental romantic melodrama in which a kind hearted sewer cleaner saves a young prostitute from a beating at the hands of her abusive older sister. After pretending to be the woman’s husband to save her from the police he invites her to live with him to keep up the charade.

Before long they’ve fallen for each other and everything seems perfect until WWI arrives, shattering their newly found domestic bliss. This is a free screening with live organ accompaniment.

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Shame Ingmar Bergman

BERGMAN ON FÅRÖ Sweden

1968

103 min

Shot on Fårö but set in an unnamed island during the onslaught of a civil war, Shame is about the effects of war on an apolitical couple played with an incredible intensity and vulnerability by Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. Bergman gave them freedom to improvise some dialogue for the first time in their long working relationships and the results create both a wrenching emotional drama and a powerful parable of personal experience against political turmoil. The provocative, apocalyptic climax is one of the most affecting sequences in Bergman’s entire filmography. (35mm) Wed 19 Nov, 15:30, HYDE Official Selection

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Short Peace

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Hiroaki Andô, Hajime Katoki, Shûhei Morita, Katsuhiro Ôtomo Japan

2013

68 min

The acclaimed anthology Short Peace, conceived by the creator of Akira, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, features four dystopian shorts from some of Japan’s most exciting creative talent. Ôtomo’s contribution, Combustible, is a tragic story about a firefighter set in the Edo period. In the Oscar-nominated Possessions from Shuhei Morita, a traveller seeks shelter in a magical Shinto shrine.

A girl’s prayers summons a great bear to defeat an oni (demon) in Hiroaki Ando’s Gambo, and in Hajime Katoki’s A Farewell to Arms, a small crew of soldiers sets out to destroy a robot-tank.

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Show Pieces with Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins Mitch Jenkins

UK

2014

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Alan Moore, one of the greatest graphic novelists of all time, will attend LIFF28 with Show Pieces, his new film collaboration with director Mitch Jenkins. From the creator of ground-breaking works including Watchmen, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, and V For Vendetta, the three-part Show Pieces is Alan Moore’s first endeavour written specifically for the screen and made with his ongoing creative involvement. Show Pieces was brought to life by award winning photographerturned-director Mitch Jenkins and is set within a nightmarish alternative version of the creators’ native Northampton.

Fri 14 Nov, 18:00, VICTORIA

The Silent Holy Stones with Ivan Cooper Pema Tseden

China

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2005

102 min

The Silent Holy Stones is the beautiful debut feature by Pema Tseden, the very first indigenous Tibetan filmmaker. Made on location in a village in the Amdo region,Silent Holy Stones follows a young lama assigned for Tibetan New Year to attend to the seven-year-old Living Buddha (tulku) of a mountain monastery. The young lamas try to balance their strict training with explorations of the outside world through the novelty of television, and make some surprising choices. Screening alongside a reading from Leeds based author of Tibet: An Accidental Pilgrimage, Ivan Cooper.

Wed 19 Nov, 20:00, ALBERT

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2013/14

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The European Fantastic Film Festivals’ Federation exists to raise the profile of European fantastic films through its Méliès competition, which is hosted by numerous film festivals across Europe. The winning film from Leeds, chosen by the audience, goes forward to compete for the coveted Méliès d’Or at Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival next year. The programme contains the best new horror, sci-fi, fantasy and downright weird short films made in Europe in the last year, including Breathe from Toby Meakins and Ghost Train from Lee Cronin, both previous entrants from UK and Ireland.

Sat 8 Nov, 16:00, VICTORIA, DOTD PASS AVAILABLE

Silvered Water, Syria Self Portrait

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Wiam Bedirxan, Ossama Mohammed Syria|France 2014 93 min Silvered Water is one of the most powerful documentaries of recent years, made up of a mosaic of amateur footage shot by ‘1,001 Syrians’, heartbreaking eye witness accounts of the horrors of civil war. Ossama Mohammed is a Syrian filmmaker who lives in Paris and struggles to come to terms with the events in his country. Every day, new and shocking footage appears on youtube, mostly shot on mobile phones, sometimes by the aggressors and sometimes by the victims. The film weaves a desperate narrative from these fragments and Mohammed’s friendship with a young Kurdish woman from Homs.

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Song of the Sea

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Tomm Moore Ireland | Denmark | Belgium +

2014

93 min

Director Tomm Moore’s follow up to Secret of the Kells is a spellbinding new animation based on Irish folklore, the legend of the selkies who live as seals in the water and humans on land. Ben and Saoirse live in a lighthouse with their father, still grieving for his wife who died several years before. Saoirse, who has not yet spoken though she is six years old, discovers a magical shell flute that belonged to her mother and has the power to bring the ancient stories to life. A magical and sumptuous film with beautiful animation and a haunting soundtrack.

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Songs from the Second Floor Roy Andersson Sweden | Norway | Denmark

2000

98 min

One of the first great films of the 21st Century, Roy Andersson’s disarmingly offbeat tragicomedy explores the paranoia and psychosis of Scandinavian life at the dawning of the new millennium. A series of interconnected vignettes portrays an absurdist urban mayhem from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. Endless queues, burned office buildings, toxic traffic jams and self-flagellating stock brokers line the streets as the camera zooms in on a series of confused and directionless lives. Aptly described by critic J. Hoberman as ‘slapstick Bergman’.

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Sound of Noise

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Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson Sweden 2010 102 min A former LIFF audience favourite, Swedish musical crime comedy Sound of Nose returns with a free screening as the closing film of Leeds Free Cinema Week. Police officer Amadeus Warnebring has suffered his whole life from a fear of music in all its forms and he is dreading his new assignment to a sonic crime spree. A band of outlaw musicians is causing havoc with shock gig attacks using whatever and whoever is in their path as instruments. After failing to prevent their DIY hospital gig and hip-hop bank heist, Amadeus is determined to overcome his fear and silence the band’s biggest musical assault yet...

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The Spirit of the Beehive

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Victor Erice

Spain

1973

97 min

A landmark of Spanish cinema with a cryptic allegorical storyline that echoes the covertly satirical style of Luis García Berlanga. Spirit of the Beehive is set in the Castilian countryside in 1940 immediately after Franco won the civil war and was hunting down republicans. Seen through the eyes of an eight year old girl who watches James Whale’s Frankenstein and becomes infatuated with the monster, believing she has invoked his spirit when she finds an injured republican soldier.

A magical film, beautifully directed by first time director Victor Erice.

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Stations of the Cross Dietrich Brüggemann

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Germany

2014

107 min

Stations of the Cross is a deeply moving human drama and a searing indictment of religious intolerance. It’s also a beautifully composed art film that is made up of a series of 14 fixed-angle long shots inspired by the stations of the cross, a series of images re-telling the story of Christ. Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. She lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him through her own 14 stations, to become a saint and go to heaven.

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Stop Making Sense Jonathan Demme

MUSIC ON FILM - ONCE IN A LIFETIME USA

1984

88 min

LIFF28 celebrates the 30th anniversary of the most innovative concert film of all time with the UK Premiere of a brand new digital print of Stop Making Sense. New York’s avant-pop masters the Talking Heads were at the height of their powers when they created a film which collapsed the boundaries between concert and cinema. From the solo acoustic performance of leader David Byrne playing Psycho Killer which opens the concert, the members of the group are gradually introduced and an entire set is built around them as they perform in this truly timeless work of art.

Sat 15 Nov, 18:00, VICTORIA, ONCE IN A LIFETIME PASS AVAILABLE

Stray Dogs Tsai Ming Liang

PREVIEWS France | Taiwan

2013

138 min

Tsai Ming Liang’s modern masterpiece of slow cinema combines his trademark deadpan humour with a series of beautifully composed long shots. The story follows a father and his two children who wander the margins of modern day Taipei. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets surviving off free food samples. By night they sleep in an abandoned building. One day the family is joined by a woman - might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?

Sun 16 Nov, 13:00, VUE

Street Trash James M. Muro

THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE USA

1987

91 min

By far the funniest film in The American Nightmare programme, Jim Muro’s melt movie is still a striking indictment of the state of America in the 80s and examines the plight of Vietnam veterans struggling to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism and homelessness. Against this backdrop the plot focuses around a case of out-of-date hooch that causes anyone who drinks it to dissolve in an array of technicolour goo, a hard-ass New York detective determined to clean up his city and two homeless brothers living in a junkyard trying to get by any way they can. Not for the squeamish.

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Summat New

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2013 - 2014

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A selection of short films about people who have stood up against injustice. Some, like the Dagenham Equal Pay strikers, achieved their goals. Others, like the residents of Powderhorn, Minneapolis who are fighting against housing inequality, continue to push back. These films are part of Summat New - a dynamic and thought-provoking all-day event featuring workshops hosted by community groups and organisations from across the city, stalls, guest panels, music, art and children’s activities, to launch Leeds for Change. For full details and free tickets, see leedsforchange.org.uk.

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Symbol Hitoshi Matsumoto

Japan

2009

93 min

LIFF28’s Masters of Film Comedy Day closes with a former LIFF audience favourite and a sublime feat of surreal comic fantasy, the rarely-screened Symbol from cult Japanese filmmaker and performer Hitoshi Matsumoto. A man wakes up and finds himself trapped in a white, empty rectangular room, wearing bright yellow polka dot pyjamas. Meanwhile, in a dusty Mexican town, a green-masked wrestler prepares for an important match. As the imprisoned man appears closer to escape and the wrestler steps into the ring, Matsumoto amplifies the otherworldly atmosphere to a phenomenal crescendo.

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The Taking

FANORAMA

Dominic Brunt

UK

2014

82 min

WORLD PREMIERE! Best known for his role as Paddy in ITV’s soap Emmerdale, Dominic Brunt burst onto the horror scene in 2012 with his directorial debut Before Dawn (LIFF 2012) which received critically acclaimed reviews around the world. For his second feature, Brunt examines how humans can be more evil and monstrous than any fantastical creature in this story about two market stall holders whose dreams of opening a small tearoom are shattered when they fall foul of a violent sociopathic loan shark. We welcome cast and crew to the world premiere of The Taking.

Wed 5 Nov, 21:00, VICTORIA

Testament of Youth

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James Kent

UK

2014

130 min

Filmed primarily in Yorkshire, Testament of Youth is the first big screen adaptation of Vera Brittain’s iconic and powerful WW1 memoir. Irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, Vera Brittain overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother’s close friend Roland Leighton as they go to university to pursue their literary dreams. But war is looming and everything will change. From award-winning television director James Kent, Testament of Youth stars Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Dominic West and Emily Watson.

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That Happy Couple

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Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem Spain 1953

83 min

Luis García Berlanga and Juan Antonio Bardems’ joint directorial debut is an engaging, bittersweet comedy colliding soapy melodrama and social realist satire to memorable effect. Film technician Juan pursues get rich quick schemes and his wife Carmen is devoted to radio soap operas. When they win a sweepstake and are chosen by the soap company as ‘that happy couple’ for the day, they are showered with gifts but soon find that money doesn’t solve all their problems. An auspicious debut that launched the careers of two of the most influential filmmakers in post-civil war Spain. (35mm) Mon 10 Nov, 14:30, HYDE

Through a Glass Darkly Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

BERGMAN ON FÅRÖ 1961

89 min

Bergman’s first film shot on Fårö transforms the starkly beautiful scenery of the island into a richly symbolic backdrop for a brooding family drama. Inspired by the chamber plays of August Strindberg, the film concentrates on a small group of characters over a 24 hour period, a troubled young woman, Karin, who has recently returned from a mental hospital, her husband, teenaged brother and her father, a famous novelist suffering from writer’s block. Bergman’s unique vision is greatly enhanced by the exquisite cinematography of Sven Nykvist and the intense performances. (35mm) Sun 16 Nov, 13:00, HYDE

Timbuktu Abderrahmane Sissako

PREVIEWS France

2014

96 min

Abderrahmane Sissako is cementing his reputation as one of the leading African directors of the 21st Century with Timbuktu, his most powerful film to date. Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife and daughter. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists.

Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned.

Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences and when Kidane accidentally kills a neighbour, he is forced to confront the chaos head on.

Sat 8 Nov, 16:30, VUE | Tue 11 Nov, 14:00, VUE

Titli Kanu Behl

DISCOVERIES India

2014

125 min

A vital indie crime drama set in the badlands of Delhi’s underbelly featuring terrific performances from a cast largely made up of non-professional actors. Titli, the youngest member of a violent car-jacking brotherhood, plots a desperate bid to escape the family business. His schemes are thwarted by his unruly brothers, who marry him off against his will. But Titli finds an unlikely ally in his new wife, Neelu, who nurtures her own frustrated dreams. They form a strange, mutually exploitative pact to break the stranglehold of their family roots. But is escape the same as freedom?

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To Hell With Culture

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Huw Wahl

UK

2014

56 min

English poet Herbert Read was born in North Yorkshire and after serving in the 1st World War he became an influential art critic, author, anarchist and co-founder of the ICA in London.

This new film is an immersive portrayal of his life and work, reflecting on how his ideas can be applied to contemporary society today. Interviews with artists, curators, historians and peers are combined with archival material, poetry and scenes of the Yorkshire landscape. After the screening there will be a discussion with filmmaker Huw Wahl, sound designer Simon Connor, Herbert’s son Ben Read and art historian Danielle Child.

Mon 10 Nov, 20:30, HYDE

Tokyo Tribe

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Shion Sono

Japan

2014

116 min

Japanese enfant-terrible filmmaker Sion Sono, director of former LIFF selections Suicide Club and Love Exposure, outdoes his earlier excesses with Tokyo Tribe, an epic hip-hop gangster musical based on the manga by Santa Inoue. In a futuristic, alternate-world Tokyo, the city is made up of ghetto slums and nightclub playgrounds where gangs of wayward youth rule the streets. The city is carved up into ‘hoods, and the crossing of territorial lines quickly leads to riots and rumbles. On the turf ruled by the savage yakuza Big Buppa, the simmering tension is about to boil over into all-out war.

Tue 11 Nov, 18:00, VUE | Thu 13 Nov, 13:00, VUE

Trespassing Bergman

BERGMAN ON FÅRÖ

Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas

Sweden

2013

107 min

An eminent array of directors including Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier discuss the legacy and influence that the legendary Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman had on their work. Many of them make a pilgrimage to his isolated house on the island of Fårö. Bergman was a notorious cinephile, rating many of the visiting filmmaker’s works, much to their amusement. To be in the master’s home provokes a range of emotions among the visitors, with Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárittu declaring that ‘if cinema is religion, then this is Mecca or the Vatican’.

Fri 14 Nov, 14:00, VUE | Mon 17 Nov, 15:30, VUE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: EUROPEAN ORIGINS

The Trouble with Money Max Ophüls

Netherlands

1936

82 min

Before making a string of exquisitely crafted melodramas in Hollywood from Letter from an Unknown Woman to Madame De, Max Ophüls made films in his native Germany and the Netherlands where he was contracted to direct this unusual tragicomedy in 1936. The story follows a collecting clerk who is falsely accused of stealing the money entrusted to him. Ophüls employs some innovative camera moves to craft a gripping, Brechtian narrative and a biting satire of the financial world.

A fascinating snapshot of a master of cinema developing his own unique style. (35mm) Mon 17 Nov, 16:30, HYDE

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Tusk Kevin Smith

FANATHONS - DAY OF THE DEAD 8 USA

2014

102 min

When a young writer calls on an elderly man in the hope of hearing some interesting stories for his podcast, he has no idea that the old man has plans to turn him into a walrus.

Never one to follow the conventional way of doing things, Tusk was conceived during the recording of a podcast when Kevin Smith saw an advert on Gumtree about a landlord who was offering free lodgings as long as the tenant was prepared to wear a walrus costume. Smith asked his listeners to tweet #WalrusYes if they wanted to see the idea turned into a film. The majority did and so Tusk was born.

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Vertical Cinema

PANORAMAS, EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

90 min approx LIFF28 invites you to an unforgettable evening of cinema like no other, the UK premiere of the acclaimed live event Vertical Cinema. A mesmerising light and sound experience that captivates the senses with hypnotic images and an amplified static soundscape which reverberates throughout the site.

Vertical Cinema features newly-commissioned work from ten renowned experimental filmmakers and audio-visual artists to be projected on a giant screen using a custom built 35mm projector. The event will be screened for free in the spectacular setting of Left Bank Leeds, for one night only!

Fri 7 Nov, 18:00, LEFTBANK | Fri 7 Nov, 20:30, LEFTBANK

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Vessel

UNDERGROUND VOICES

Diana Whitten USA|Netherlands|Tanzania|Spain+ 2014 90 min Winner of the audience award for documentary at SXSW, Vessel captures the brave and sometimes dangerous efforts of the abortion-rights group Women on Waves, and their passionate founder, Dr Rebecca Gomperts. Women on Waves started as a radical effort to provide abortion pills to women where the procedure is illegal, by picking them up on the boatturned-clinic, and floating them out to international waters, saving many women from taking drastic measures. We follow the organisation as they face daily struggles against antiabortion groups, politicians, the media and the law.

Sat 8 Nov, 21:00, ALBERT | Wed 12 Nov, 17:00, ALBERT

Visitor to a Museum Konstantin Lopushansky

RETRO - KONSTANTIN LOPUSHANSKY Svt Union|W.Germany+ 1989 136 min

The second of LIFF28’s screenings of two extremely rare films by Russian director Konstantin Lopushansky. Visitor to a Museum is the visually stunning story of a man’s treacherous journey to reach an offshore museum containing the last vestiges of a pre-apocalypse civilisation. The land is populated by those inflicted by the fallout of a previous global cataclysm, and reflects powerfully on the societal divisions caused. An impressive companion piece to Tarkovsky’s Stalker, a film which Lopushansky assisted on, Visitor to a Museum is a nightmarish and sometimes beautiful vision of societal collapse.

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Wavelength, The Way Things Go & Violin Power 90 min approx A selection of classic experimental films that have inspired the makers of acclaimed video game Kentucky Route Zero.

Michael Snow’s Wavelength (Canada, 1966/7, 45 mins, 16mm) is one of the great avant-garde films, a slow zoom on to a photograph on a loft wall. In the mesmerising The Way Things Go (USA / Switzerland, 1988, 30 mins), Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss film a Rube Goldberg machine, a deliberately elaborate invention that performs a very simple task in a very complicated fashion. Steina Vasulka’s Violin Power (USA, 1970–78, 10 mins) is a fascinating fusion of image and music.

Sun 16 Nov, 19:00, ALBERT

We Are Mari Pepa

DISCOVERIES

Samuel Kishi

Mexico

2014

100 min

A pitch perfect teen drama from Mexico, We are Mari Pepa follows the fortunes of 16 year old aspiring punk rock superstar Alex as the scruffy realities of everyday life intrude on his dreams. Punk band Mari Pepa have one rude and raucous song and are in desperate need of new ideas and a lot of practice before the upcoming battle of the bands contest. But dull summer jobs, new girlfriends and parent problems all get in the way. Director Samuel Kishi brings a casual authenticity to his debut feature creating one of the freshest Latin American dramas of the year.

Sat 8 Nov, 20:30, VUE | Mon 10 Nov, 18:30, VUE

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BERLANGA AND BARDEM

Luis García Berlanga

Spain

1953

78 min

Luis García Berlanga made this razor sharp satire at the height of the Franco dictatorship and against the odds it became the biggest international hit of its era. In the wake of the Marshall Plan of American aid in post-war Europe, a small Castilian village is thrown into a frenzy as the various inhabitants scramble to make the best of their surroundings to impress their visiting benefactors. Culminating in an extraordinary dream sequence affectionately spoofing Hollywood Westerns, the film is warmly observed and brilliantly staged, still barnstormingly entertaining to this day. (35mm) Sat 8 Nov, 14:00, HYDE | Mon 10 Nov, 16:30, HYDE

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

BERLANGA AND BARDEM

Pedro Almodovar

Spain

1984

101 min

What Have I Done To Deserve This? was Pedro Almodóvar’s first cross-over and critical success. Pioneering his idiosyncratic fusion of melodrama and farce, the film pays tribute to its influences which include the Spanish comic master, Luis García Berlanga. The film stars Carmen Maura as Gloria, an over-worked mother and wife addicted to amphetamines in order to have the energy to cook and clean for her ungrateful family, as well as cleaning other people’s houses for extra cash.

Gloria’s husband Antonio is a chauvinist taxi driver who gets entangled in a plot to forge Hitler’s memoirs.

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What Now? Remind Me Joaquim Pinto

UNDERGROUND VOICES

Portugal

2013

164 min

‘What now?’ is a remarkable, personal diary film made by veteran Portuguese cinematographer Joaquim Pinto who has been living with HIV for almost twenty years. He records his experiences over a year of clinical studies with new, unapproved drugs. An open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics and globalization and survival beyond all expectations. In a to-and-fro between the present and past memories, the film splices impromptu midnight confessionals with archive footage of his early work. A beautiful film, at once both epic and intimate.

Sat 15 Nov, 15:00, EVERYMAN

What We Do in the Shadows Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi

New Zealand

FANATHONS - DAY OF THE DEAD 8 2014

86 min

Viago, Deacon, Vladislav and Peter are four vampires sharing a house in Wellington, trying to balance being undead with everyday problems like whose turn it is to wash up, where to find virgin blood and how to dress for a night out when you don’t have a reflection. As a documentary film crew follows them round we learn about each of their histories and what it means to be hundreds of years old in the 21st century.

Co-written and starring Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows balances comedy, horror and social commentary perfectly in this hilarious film.

Sat 8 Nov, 18:30, VICTORIA | Mon 10 Nov, 20:30, VUE, PASS AVAIL.

When Animals Dream Jonas Alexander Arnby

Denmark

FANATHONS - DAY O F THE DEAD 8 2014

84 min

Nineteen year old Marie lives at home with her parents on a small island in Denmark, where she works in a fish processing factory. Life is dull but Marie has attracted the attention of some of the local boys and her sexuality is beginning to awaken. At the same time she is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which threatens to turn her into a catatonic invalid like her mother. She begins to suspect that her symptoms aren’t from a disease and that the truth is far more disturbing. Similar in tone to Let the Right One In, When Animals Dream is a moving story of social conformity, repression and sexual awakening.

Sat 8 Nov, 14:00, VICTORIA | Sun 9 Nov, 20:30, VUE, PASS AVAIL.

When Bjork Met Attenborough Louise Hooper

UK

MUSIC ON FILM 2013

50 min

To accompany Biophilia Live we are screening an extraordinary meeting of two great minds, Björk and David Attenborough, who discuss the relationship between music and nature in the apt setting of London’s Natural History Museum. Björk provides an insight into her Biophilia project, from the specially created instruments, to the patterns in the composition, she uses nature and technology to help us understand music in a radical new way. Attenborough explores the evolution of music in the natural world, while author and neurologist Oliver Sacks reveals the astonishing effects that music has on the brain.

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Wild

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Jean-Marc Vallée

USA

2014

120 min

Reese Witherspoon stars in a vivid new wilderness drama from director Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club), based on Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir. After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi (Laura Dern) and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own. Anchored by two complex and unsentimental central performances, Wild is a compelling tale of an epic physical and emotional journey.

Mon 17 Nov, 20:30, VICTORIA | Tue 18 Nov, 16:30, VICTORIA

Wings of Honneamise

RETRO SPECIALS

Hiroyuki Yamaga

Japan

1987

121 min

Screening from a new digital print, Wings of Honneamise is a classic anime from studio Gainax, the makers of the Evangelion series. One of the most ambitious of all anime productions, Wings of Honneamise is a visually sensational two-hour extravaganza about an unkempt and disorganized young pilot named Shiro, who signs up for the Royal Space Force after failing to make the grade as a Navy pilot. Shiro seems on track to become the first man in space, little suspecting the sinister reasons why anyone would risk such an important flight on an officer as unsuitable as him.

Sun 16 Nov, 20:30, VUE | Mon 17 Nov, 13:00, VUE

Winter Sleep

PREVIEWS

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Turkey | France | Germany

2014

196 min

Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, Winter Sleep is undoubtedly one of the films of the year, the latest from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Uzak, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia). Set in the extraordinary landscapes of rocky Cappadoccia, the film is set in a small hotel there run by retired actor, Aydin. He has a tempestuous relationship with all those around him, his young wife Nihal, his sister Necla and various townspeople who are resentful of his wealth and influence. The onset of winter fuels their conflicts and the film matures into a complex and enriching drama, rarely matched in recent cinema.

Fri 7 Nov, 13:00, VUE | Fri 7 Nov, 19:00, VUE

Witching and Bitching

RETRO - ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA

Álex de la Iglesia

Spain | France

2013

112 min

Álex de la Iglesia once again uses the cover of the genre film for a scathing attack on the political and social failings of society, mixed in with his very own dark sense of humour. For his latest film he immerses us in the world of witches and the power of mother nature. Set as ever in Madrid, Witching and Bitching begins with a jewellery heist that quickly turns sour.

In a desperate attempt to lose the police, the gang head to Zagarramurdi, a remote Basque town famed for occult activity.

Discovering that the rumours of witches are true, the gang find themselves captives of the coven and soon to be sacrificed.

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WolfCop Lowell Dean

FANATHONS - NIGHT OF THE DEAD XIV Canada

2014

79 min

Having delivered an interesting take on the zombie film (13 Eerie, LIFF2012), director Dean turns his hand to the werewolf genre and delivers an 80s style horror comedy with some great old school special effects - a perfect film for Night of the Dead.

Lou Garou is an obnoxious womanising drunk, who also happens to be a local police officer. While out investigating a disturbance in the woods at night he is violently attacked and turned into a werewolf. Realising that there is a conspiracy amongst some of the townsfolk, WolfCop Lou decides it’s time to quit the booze and do some proper police work.

Sat 15 Nov, 00:30, HYDE, NOTD PASS AVAILABLE

World Animation Award (3 programmes)

COMPETITIONS

90 min approx One of the festival’s favourite events, the World Animation Award is always packed with small wonders. We stop at nothing to bring you a truly global selection of the best animated short films of the moment. Thoughtful stop-motion shorts and anarchic graduation films are screened side by side, representing new animation in all its forms. It is an experience that always delights and provokes in equal measure! The winning film selected by our jury is announced at the end of the week, but you are also invited to come to all three parts of the competition and vote for your favourite to win the audience award!

1: Tue 11, 17:00 & 2: Wed 12, 19:00 & 3: Thu 13, 19:00, EVERYMAN

X+Y Morgan Matthews

PREVIEWS UK

2014

111 min

A charming coming of age drama surrounding the challenging relationship between autistic teenager Nathan (Asa Butterfield) and his mother, played beautifully by Sally Hawkins. Nathan is a maths prodigy who understands numbers more than human emotions. This begins to change when he is mentored by the unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr Humphreys (Rafe Spall), in preparation for the International Mathematics Olympiad. The training leads Nathan out of his comfort zone to Taipei, where he experiences the unfamiliar pangs of first love for a fellow competitor.

Tue 18 Nov, 20:15, VUE

Yorkshire Short Film Competition

COMPETITIONS

90 min approx Every year the filmmakers of Yorkshire manage to make our hearts go all a flutter with their marvellous submissions and this year was no different. Featuring a combination of documentary, drama, comedy and animation, this year’s Yorkshire Film Award is a Yorkshire based microcosm of what’s happening in the film world as a whole but with an extra local twinkle in the eye. We’re especially pleased this year to feature some great little treats from young filmmakers at the beginning of their careers. Have we found the next Edgar Wright or Mike Leigh? Come have a look for yourself.

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Sun 21 December, 3pm

Christmas Favourites Sun 21 – Tue 23 December Sun 21 December

7pm

It’s a Wonderful Life

Delight your family this Christmas with a double-bill of classic musical stories for children accompanied by the Orchestra of Opera North. With the enchanted animated film The Snowman shown on a big screen, orchestral forces inject tingle-down-the-spine magic into Walking in the Air – the soundtrack to every child’s Christmas.

Tickets: £25, £23, £21, £19, £16 Discounts: Under 18s £5 off, Over 60s £1.50 off

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Mon 22 December

3.30pm Experience some of the most popular films with Christmas associations on the giant screen at Leeds Town Hall, including family favourites like Home Alone and Elf, the action-packed thriller Die Hard, and the film everyone loves to watch at this time of year, The Wizard of Oz. Plus, a special silent film event with live piano accompaniment featuring classic Christmas short films.

Home Alone

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Tue 23 December

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Christmas Silent Film Treasures with live piano accompaniment (90 mins)

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Mon 22 December, 1pm Tue 23 December, 3.30pm It’s not about the story anymore – you’ve seen Frozen fifty times by now and you know what’s going to happen – it’s the songs! Before the live action version reaches Broadway, this is your chance to show Disney how it should be done!

So why not come dressed as Anna or Elsa or Olaf (though probably not Sven – we don’t have room for a reindeer) and belt your heart out to all the great tunes. Let It Go – it’ll be more fun than a bucket of trolls!

Tickets: £7, £5 concessions

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DAY BY DAY GUIDE Your at-a-glance daily guide to every screening and event in LIFF28

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Testament of Youth Filmed primarily in Yorkshire, Testament of Youth is the first big screen adaptation of Vera Brittain’s iconic and powerful WW1 memoir.

Irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, Vera 19.00 Brittain overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford, but as war looms she will face her greatest changes and challenges yet. Starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Dominic West and Emily 20.00 Watson.

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The Taking Two market stall holders fall foul of a vicious loan shark in this Faustian thriller of corruption and revenge from Yorkshire’s own Dominic Brunt. Join the cast and crew in this special 22.00 world premiere screening.

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Bjork’s Biophilia Live Footage from Björk’s radical Biophilia concert which fuses together animation, science and nature images to complement the album.

Film To Change 5 A selection of the best short films about mental health, made by people with personal experience of the issues.

Goodbye to Language 3D Confrontational agitprop 3D film from veteran provocateur Jean Luc Godard.

The Second Game Footage from a football match in Romania a year before the revolution, a voiceover with the referee, the director’s father.

Leviathan Lauded Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s unanimously acclaimed magnum opus, a painterly, primordial tale set in the coastal landscape of the Barents.

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Raining Stones One of Ken Loach’s finest moments, the story of two jobless mates with a series of increasingly desperate moneymaking schemes.

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When Bjork Met Attenborough A discussion about music and nature.

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Paris of the North An intimate relationship drama from Iceland featuring dry and biting humour next to moments of absurdity.

A Night at the Cinema in 1941 A night of celebration and revelry 1914 style as the Picture House turns 100 years young.

Winter Sleep Cannes Palme d’Or winner from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan set in a hotel in Cappadoccia.

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Satellite Girl & Milk Cow + Wolf Daddy Fantastical shapeshifting debut feature from idiosyncratic Korean animator Hyungyun Chang.

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LEFT BANK Verical Cinema The UK premiere of the mesmerising Vertical Cinema will 19.00 Creator of the Jungle be screened for free for one night only.

The story of an eccentric man who created his own kingdom in the 20.00 forest.

LEFT BANK Verical Cinema The UK premiere of 21.00 the mesmerising Vertical Cinema will be screened for free for one night only.

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Bjork’s Biophilia Live A Masque of Footage from Björk’s Madness radical Biophilia Taking footage from concert which over 170 films, this fuses together experimental film 22.00 animation, science is a tribute to Boris and nature images Karloff’s career. to complement the album.

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The Green Prince The gripping true story of the son of a Hamas founder who is persuaded to spy for the Israeli security service.

Coming Up Roses A Welsh version of Cinema Paradiso with a bit of The Full Monty in there. Not Romanian Short Film to be missed.

Panorama A dazzling selection of our favourite Romanian short films.

The Imitation Game Benedict 19.00 Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing in this Point and Shoot acclaimed re-telling Extraordinary doc about how a shy of the Enigma man with OCD from code-breaking Baltimore found operation during 20.00 himself joining the World War II. Libyan rebel army.

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Winter Sleep Cannes Palme d’Or winner from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan set in a hotel in Cappadoccia.

Comfort and Joy Forsythe’s follow up to Gregory’s Girl is a slightly surreal slice of 80s cinema at its best.

La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir’s poetic 15.00 masterpiece has a strong claim as the greatest First World War film ever made.

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Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen An irresistible collage film using snippets from hundreds of movies to tell the ultimate love story.

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Jacques Tati’s slapstick satire.

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Asmodexia An exorcist and his granddaughter travel to Barcelona on the eve of 13.00 Armageddon.

When Animals Dream A teenager’s sexual awakening coincides with her discovery that she’s 15.00 a werewolf.

Welcome Mr Marshall A razor sharp satire set in a Castilian village expecting a visit from Americans after the war.

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What We Do in the Shadows 19.00 Hilarious mockumentary about four vampires flat-sharing in New Zealand.

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Tusk Kevin Smith returns 21.00 with a tale of body-horror about a reporter who is kidnapped and turned into a walrus.

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LEEDS CITY CENTRE Leeds Film City Invisible Cinema

Nocturna Beautifully-animated and wildly inventive, Nocturna explores the mysteries of the night in a sweeping Journey to the West nocturnal adventure.

Tsai Ming Liang’s filmic meditation on a spiritual quest in a modern city.

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Silver Méliès Short Film Competition Vote for your favourite European fantasy/horror short 17.00 film to go forward to compete for the coveted Méliès d’Or

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Point and Shoot Extraordinary doc about how a shy man with OCD from Baltimore found himself joining the Libyan rebel army.

The Second Game Footage from a football match in Romania a year before the revolution, a voiceover with the referee, the director’s father.

Vessel Vessel captures the brave and sometimes dangerous efforts of the abortion-rights group Women on Waves.

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Death of a Cyclist A churning melodrama, a nuanced character study and a direct attack on Spanish society during Franco’s rule.

Titli A vital indie crime drama set in the badlands of Delhi’s underbelly featuring terrific performances.

Because I was a Painter An unprecedented investigation into artwork secretly created in the nazi concentration camps.

Timbuktu A powerful drama about a town near Timbuktu under the control of religious fundamentalists.

Paris of the North An intimate relationship drama from Iceland featuring dry and biting humour next to moments of absurdity.

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ROYAL ARMOURIES Film on the Front Creator of the Jungle Lines 14:00 The story of an eccentric man who A video installation of WWI British created his own propaganda kingdom in the films with a new forest. soundtrack by Ithaca Trio.

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The Green Prince The gripping true story of the son of a Hamas founder who is persuaded to spy for the Israeli security service.

LEEDS UNI UNION Summat New 14:00 Free day of short films and workshops 18.00 at the University about people standing up against injustice.

Love Steaks A spiky indie love story from Germany using comic improvisation and dynamic camerawork.

The Imitation Game We Are Mari Pepa Benedict A pitch perfect teen Cumberbatch stars drama from Mexico as Alan Turing in this about a 16 year acclaimed re-telling old aspiring punk of the Enigma rock star. code-breaking operation during World War II.

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CITY VARIETIES Masters of Film Comedy Day 13:00 The General + Unsilent Movies 15:30 Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 18:00 Groundhog Day 20:30 Symbol

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Combat Shock Nihilistic cult movie about a Vietnam vet suffering from post traumatic stress.

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Appleseed Alpha The intense postapocalyptic prequel from the director of the original anime 12.00 feature Appleseed.

LEEDS CITY CENTRE Leeds Film City Invisible Cinema

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Dragonball Z: Battle of the Gods The first new Dragonball Z anime feature in seventeen 14.00 years, an epic sci-fi adventure.

Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen An irresistible collage film using snippets from hundreds of movies to tell the ultimate love story.

Short Peace

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Last Laugh with Piano Accomp...

F.W. Murnau’s landmark German expressionist silent film accompanied

by Matthew Bourne.

anthology of dystopian anime shorts, conceived

by Katsuhiro Ôtomo.

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Giovanni’s Island An award-winning Japanese anime feature about 17.00 the struggles of the Japanese in the immediate aftermath of their defeat in WWII. 18.00

Ghost in the Shell 19.00 Special presentation of Mamoru Oshii’s classic cyberpunk anime, screening in a new digital 20.00 cinema print.

Leeds Short Film Audience Award In this free screening, you have the chance to vote for your favourite film from a selection of brilliant short shorts.

Propaganda Toons!

A selection of some of the best and most inventive animated propaganda films from WWII.

Seth’s Dominion A deft portrait of Canadian cartoonist Seth.

Letters from a Dead Man An extremely rare screening of Lopushansky’s compelling postnuclear Soviet sci-fi.

Scrapyard A patiently revelatory documentary set amongst the Grave of the Fireflies immigrant workers 21.00 Isao Takahata’s in a huge scrapyard Is the Man Who Is early Studio Ghibli in France.

Tall Happy? masterpiece is a Filmmaker Michel stunning, emotionally Gondry interviews powerful meditation the great thinker on the devastating 22.00 Noam Chomsky consequences of war. and animates the conversation.

A tour in search of the city’s lost 13.00 screens and other architectural interests.

Cartoonists Footsoldiers of Dem..

Showcasing the humorous and often subversive work of political cartoonists across the world, fighting for their freedom of speech.

Silvered Water, Syria Self Portrait A powerful mosaic documentary of amateur footage taken during the civil war in Syria.

The House at the End of Time Time hopping horror from Venezuela about a house with a mysterious and murderous history.

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Refugiado A suspenseful and passionate Argentine drama about a mother and son on the run after an incident of domestic violence.

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Rocks in My Pockets The debut feature from Latvian animator Signe Baumane in which she explores the origins of her depression.

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Love Steaks A spiky indie love story from Germany using comic improvisation and dynamic camerawork.

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When Animals Dream A teenager’s sexual awakening coincides with her discovery that she’s a werewolf.

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MONDAY 10 NOV VICTORIA

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Seventh Heaven with live organ accomp.

This gloriously sentimental melodrama set 14.00 during WWI was one of the first films to be nominated for the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar.

That Happy Couple Berlanga and Bardems’ joint debut about a young couple who win a soap opera sweepstake.

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Welcome Mr Marshall A razor sharp satire set in a Castilian village expecting a visit from Americans after the war.

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Because I was a Painter An unprecedented investigation into artwork secretly created in the nazi concentration camps.

Cartoonists Footsoldiers of Dem..

Showcasing the humorous and often subversive work of political cartoonists across the world, fighting for their freedom of speech.

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Concerning Violence We Are Mari Pepa Essay film using A pitch perfect teen archive footage drama from Mexico and voiceover about a 16 year to deconstruct old aspiring punk the legacy of rock star. colonialism in Africa.

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To Hell With Culture An immersive portrayal of the life of art theorist Herbert Read.

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Refugiado A suspenseful and passionate Argentine drama about a mother and son on the run after an incident of domestic violence.

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Satellite Girl & Milk Cow + Wolf Daddy Fantastical shapeshifting debut feature from idiosyncratic Korean animator Hyungyun Chang.

Cat Soup: Masaaki Yuasa Shorts Celebrating Masaaki Yuasa, one of the most original, creative and playful minds in Japanese animation.

What We Do in the Shadows Hilarious mockumentary about four vampires flat-sharing in New Zealand.

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The Blue Angel A heartbreaking 14.00 and sensuous melodrama featuring an iconic performance from Marlene Dietrich.

Placido A classic black comedy about a Christmas ‘sit a poor man at your table’ dinner in a small Spanish town.

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La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir’s poetic 16.00 masterpiece has a strong claim as the greatest First World War film ever made.

Death of a Cyclist A churning melodrama, a nuanced character study and a direct attack on Spanish society during Franco’s rule.

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Manakamana Beautiful real time documentary filmed in a cable car en route to 19.00 the Manakamana temple in Nepal.

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The Drop Tom Hardy 21.00 delivers his most accomplished performance to date in The Drop, also James Gandolfini’s last film.

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster Moving and informative story of the greatest film poster artist of a generation, Drew Struzan.

Poverty Inc An eye opening documentary which asks some difficult questions about poverty followed by a panel discussion.

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Visitor to a Museum An impressive companion piece to Tarkovsky’s Stalker by the visionary Russian director Konstantin Lopushansky.

No One’s Child The remarkable true story of a child who was raised by wolves and found by hunters in the Bosnian woods in 1988.

Timbuktu A powerful drama about a town near Timbuktu under the control of religious fundamentalists.

Paris of the North An intimate relationship drama from Iceland featuring dry and biting humour next to moments of absurdity.

Tokyo Tribe Japanese enfantterrible filmmaker Sion Sono outdoes himself with Tokyo Tribe, an epic hip-hop gangster musical based on a Japanese manga.

Rurouni Kenshi 2: Kyoto Inferno The second in the trilogy of live-action adaptations of the celebrated manga about fearsome but violence-averse warrior-assassin.

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Cat Soup: Masaaki Yuasa Shorts Celebrating Masaaki Yuasa, one of the most original, creative and playful minds in Japanese animation.

World Animation Award 1 One of the festival’s favourite events, the World Animation Competition is always packed with small wonders.

The Boy and the World A dazzling animated parable about the globalised economies of the modern world.

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CHAPEL FM Fighting Down in Bethlehem

A raw, uplifting documentary about 19.00 the struggle for success in boxing, based in East End Park in Leeds.

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CHAPEL FM Fighting Down in Bethlehem

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A raw, uplifting documentary about the struggle for success in boxing, based in East End 22.00 Park in Leeds.

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Louis le Prince Int’l Short Film Comp 1 More than 30 outstanding films compete in the prestigious international short film competition.

Fantasia Disney’s glorious and 14.00 groundbreaking celebration of classical music including such favourites as The Sorcerer’s 15.00 Apprentice and The Nutcracker Suite.

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Louis le Prince Int’l Short Film Comp 2 More than 30 outstanding films compete in the prestigious international short film competition.

Lessons of Darkness Werner Herzog’s doc about the postwar oilwell fires in Kuwait.

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The Drop Tom Hardy 18.00 delivers his most accomplished performance to date in The Drop, also James Gandolfini’s last film.

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J’accuse with live organ accomp 20.00 A rare screening of Abel Gance’s powerful antiwar drama with live organ accompaniment 21.00 in Leeds’ stunning Town Hall.

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Vessel Vessel captures the brave and sometimes dangerous efforts of the abortion-rights group Women on Waves.

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

Filmmaker Michel Gondry interviews the great thinker Noam Chomsky and animates the conversation.

A Masque of Madness Taking footage from over 170 films, this experimental film is a tribute to Boris Karloff’s career.

The Executioner Berlanga’s masterpiece, a perfectly poised tragicomedy and sly social satire about a reluctant executioner.

Mr Somebody?

An intriguing look at the world of Yorkshire eccentric Jake Mangle Wurzle.

Love Steaks A spiky indie love story from Germany using comic improvisation and dynamic camerawork.

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The House at the End of Time Time hopping horror from Venezuela about a house with a mysterious and murderous history.

Giovanni’s Island An award-winning Japanese anime feature about the struggles of the Japanese in the immediate aftermath of their defeat in WWII. Bird People An enchanting story that delicately observes the curious nature of human behaviour.

Corn Island A beautiful and poetic film about a farmer and his daughter on an island in wartorn Georgia.

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La Quattro Volte A beautiful tale of the revolving cycles of life high in the hills of Calabria, Southern Italy

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Rocks in My Pockets The debut feature from Latvian animator Signe Baumane in which 18.00 she explores the CHAPEL FM origins of her Scrapyard depression.

Documentary set amongst the immigrant workers 19.00 in a huge scrapyard World Animation in France.

Award 2 One of the festival’s favourite events, the World Animation Competition is always packed with small wonders.

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CHAPEL FM Free To Play Exhilarating documentary about the phenomenon of 21.00 e-sports.

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City centre access for traffic will be very limited on this evening due to the Leeds Lights Switchon, on The Headrow.

We advise you to use public transport to reach Leeds Town Hall, Vue, Everyman and The Reliance to avoid any delays.

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Louis le Prince Int’l Short Film Comp 3 More than 30 outstanding films compete in the prestigious international short film competition.

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Louis le Prince Int’l Short Film Comp 4 More than 30 outstanding films compete in the prestigious international short film competition.

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Free To Play Valve Software’s exhilarating documentary about the phenomenon of 18.00 e-sports.

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Sound of Noise A free screening of a former LIFF audience favourite, the Swedish musical 22.00 crime comedy caper Sound of Noise.

Rurouni Kenshi 2: Kyoto Inferno The second in the trilogy of live-action adaptations of the celebrated manga about fearsome but violence-averse warrior-assassin.

Stations of the Cross A deeply moving drama using No One’s Child beautifully The remarkable composed true story of a child cinematography who was raised by as a searing wolves and found indictment of by hunters in the religious intolerance.

Bosnian woods in 1988.

The Possibilities are Endless with Edwyn Collins The profoundly moving and life-affirming story of singer Edwyn Collins’ recovery after suffering from a stroke.

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Tokyo Tribe Japanese enfantterrible filmmaker Sion Sono outdoes himself with Tokyo Tribe, an epic hip-hop gangster musical based on a Japanese manga.

Modris A touching comingof-age drama with a distinctive style from an exciting new voice in Latvian cinema.

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Songs from the Second Floor Offbeat tragicomedy exploring the paranoia and psychosis of Scandinavian life at the dawning of the new millennium.

The Boy and the World A dazzling animated parable about the globalised economies of the modern world.

World Animation Award 3 One of the festival’s favourite events, the World Animation Competition is always packed with small wonders.

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CHAPEL FM Seventh Heaven with 17.00 live organ accomp.

19:00 This gloriously sentimental melodrama set during WWI was one 18.00 of the first films to be nominated for the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar.

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THE RELIANCE Seth’s Dominion 20:00 A deft portrait 21.00 of cartoonist Seth.

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Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata’s 14.00 early Studio Ghibli masterpiece is a stunning, emotionally powerful meditation on the devastating consequences of war.

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Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 16.00 An unprecedented behind-the-scenes documentary about Studio Ghibli, and the work of Japanese masters 17.00 of animation Hayao Alasdair Gray: A Miyazaki and Isao Life in Progress Takahata.

A playful documentary tribute to the 18.00 unique Scottish Show Pieces renaissance man, Legendary graphic Alasdair Gray. novelist Alan Moore and filmmaker Mitch Jenkins take 19.00 to the Leeds Town Irish Short Film Hall stage to present Panorama their Show Pieces A delightful film project. programme celebrating short 20.00 films from the emerald Isle.

A Hard Day The must-see Far 21.00 Eastern action film of the year. ‘This slick, dynamic, twist-heavy police thriller combines supercharged 22.00 suspense with flashes of dark humor.’

Everybody Street Capturing the excitement, danger and perseverance of iconic street photographers in New York City.

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Louis le Prince Int’l Short Film Comp 5 More than 30 outstanding films compete in the prestigious international short film competition.

Trespassing Bergman An eminent array of directors, from Scorsese to Haneke, discuss the legacy of Bergman in the house where he once lived.

Louis le Prince Int’l Short Film Comp 6 More than 30 outstanding films compete in the prestigious international short film competition.

Modris A touching comingof-age drama with a distinctive style from an exciting new voice in Latvian cinema.

Yorkshire Short Film Competition Yorkshire is the new Hollywood. Enough said! Come revel in a selection of regional short film treats.

Shameless Night of the Dead XIV 21:00 ABCs of Death 2 22:30 Housebound 00:30 WolfCop 02:00 Dead Short Competition 03:30 Surprise of the Dead 05:00 Street Trash

Corn Island A beautiful and poetic film about a farmer and his daughter on an island in wartorn Georgia.

Kebab & Horoscope + Frozen Stories A masterclass of measured filmmaking and deadpan humour about two misfits reimagine themselves as marketing execs.

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The Boy and the World A dazzling animated parable about the globalised economies of the modern world.

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Patch Town Unclassifiable black comedy horror musical about the twisted truth behind cabbage patch dolls.

The Canal A man’s mental state starts to deteriorate when he discovers his home was the scene of gruesome murders in Victorian times.

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TETLEY BREWERY Mother. I Am Going A three-screen film installation, filmed in an abandoned 20.00 village in Bulgaria, and on the NE coast of England.

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The Kids Are Alright A career-spanning retrospective of performances and interviews from one 13.00 the greatest rock groups of all time.

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1991: The Year Punk Broke See Nirvana and Sonic Youth and their most 15.00 passionate on their explosive European tour.

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Awesome; I .... Shot That!

An instant classic concert film in which 50 fans were given 17.00 cameras to film The Beastie Boys at Madison Sq Gdns.

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Stop Making Sense A 30th Anniversary screening of the most innovative concert film of all 19.00 time.

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Fanomenon & Thought Bubble 21.00 Anime Party: Interstella 5555 Fanomenon and the Thought Bubble comic art festival 22.00 team up to throw a giant party at Leeds Town Hall, opening with Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555.

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Song of the Sea A spellbinding new animation by the Secret of the Kells director based on the legend of the selkies from Irish folklore.

British Short Film Competition 1 A celebration of the marvellous filmmaking folk working in the UK short film industry today.

Bird People An enchanting story that delicately observes the curious nature of human behaviour.

British Short Film Competition 2 More bitesize morsels of dramatic brilliance from our little island.

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What Now? Remind Me A remarkable diary film made by cinematographer Joaquim Pinto who has been living with HIV for 20 years.

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The Day of the Beast Wickedly funny black comedy about a priest who must commit evil in order to discover the whereabouts of the birth of the antichrist at Xmas.

A Hard Day The must-see Far Eastern action film of the year. ‘This slick, dynamic, twist-heavy police thriller combines supercharged suspense with flashes of dark humor.’

Deadbeat at Dawn Underground 80s indie shocker about poverty, violence, addiction and gangs on the streets of Dayton, Ohio.

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Kebab & Horoscope + Frozen Stories A masterclass of measured filmmaking and deadpan humour about two misfits reimagine themselves as marketing execs.

One Rogue Reporter An ex-Daily Star reporter turns the tables on immoral Fleet Street editors.

Free Fall A wildly imaginative black comedy from Hungary featuring a series of surreal stories set in an apartment block.

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The Creeping Garden Doc devoted to myxomycetes, or ‘slime moulds’, and the people who work with them.

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Housebound Put under house arrest by the courts Kylie has to deal with strange things going bump in the night at her childhood home.

Bloody scary fun!

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Through a Glass Darkly Bergman’s first film on Fårö, a brooding family drama with exquisite cinematography.

The Blue Angel A heartbreaking 14.00 and sensuous melodrama featuring an iconic performance from Marlene Dietrich.

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Song of the Sea A spellbinding new animation by the Secret of the Kells director based on the legend of the selkies from Irish folklore.

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Fantasia Disney’s glorious and groundbreaking celebration of classical music 17.00 including such favourites as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Nutcracker Suite.

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Love is Strange Ben (John Lithgow) 19.00 and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot - and lose their home as a consequence.

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M Fritz Lang’s classic 21.00 expressionist thriller about a child killer starring Peter Lorre.

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French Short Film Panorama A marvelous selection of French shorts that evoke the exquisite excitement of falling in love.

Wavelength, The Way Things Go & ...

A selection of classic experimental films that have inspired the makers of acclaimed video game Kentucky Route Zero.

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster Moving and informative story of the greatest film poster artist of a generation, Drew Struzan.

People on Sunday with live piano acc First docufiction film made in Germany by many future star Hollywood directors.

Alleluia Compelling drama about a womanising conartist and his lover, based on the ‘lonely hearts killers’ from the 1940s.

Ferpect Crime When Rafael is blackmailed into marrying the caustic shopgirl Lourdes he must invent the ‘ferpect’ crime to escape her clutches.

COTTAGE ROAD Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Stray Dogs Tsai Ming Liang’s slow cinema masterpiece about a struggling Taipei family.

My Old Lady Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith star in this warm and witty comedydrama from the great American playwright Israel Horovitz.

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Hayao Miyazaki’s 1984 masterpiece is an epic ecological tale featuring beautiful animation 14.00 and a powerful story.

Songs from the Second Floor Offbeat tragicomedy exploring the paranoia and psychosis of Scandinavian life at the dawning of the new millennium.

COTTAGE ROAD Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

Documentary about Studio Ghibli, 16.00 and the work of Japanese masters of animation Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.

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Patch Town Unclassifiable black comedy horror musical about the twisted truth behind cabbage patch dolls.

Stations of the Cross A deeply moving drama using beautifully composed The Canal cinematography A man’s mental as a searing state starts to indictment of deteriorate when he religious intolerance. discovers his home was the scene of gruesome murders in Victorian times.

Wings of Honneamise The classic, visually sensational anime epic from studio Gainax, the makers of the Evangelion series.

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CHAPEL FM LVMAs 20.00 East Leeds FM presents the Leeds Music Video Awards, celebrating music video creativity in the city.

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Ferpect Crime When Rafael is blackmailed into marrying the caustic shopgirl Lourdes he must invent the ‘ferpect’ crime to escape her clutches.

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M Fritz Lang’s classic 16.00 expressionist thriller about a child killer starring Peter Lorre.

The Trouble with Money Fascinating early Max Ophüls film, a tragicomedy about a falsely accused collecting clerk.

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Catch Me Dady The remarkable, visceral Yorkshire-set thriller with stunning cinematography, 19.00 about a girl on the run from her violent family.

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Wild Reese Witherspoon 21.00 stars in a vivid new wilderness drama from the director of Dallas Buyers Club.

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How I Filmed the War Haunting documentary about the making of The Battle of the Somme. The Last Circus When a sad clown falls for the wife Alasdair Gray: A of his arch-rival a Life in Progress bitter love triangle A playful threatens to destroy documentary them alll and their tribute to the beloved circus. unique Scottish renaissance man, Alasdair Gray.

Everybody Street Capturing the excitement, danger and perseverance of iconic street photographers in New York City.

Persona Bergman’s classic psychodrama, one of the landmark arthouse films of the 60s.

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Wings of Honneamise East Leeds FM presents the Leeds Music Video Awards, promoting and celebrating music video creativity in the city.

Trespassing Bergman An eminent array of directors, from Scorsese to Haneke, discuss the legacy of Bergman in the house where he once lived.

Horse Money A beautiful and dreamlike film from Portuguese director Pedro Costa set in a strange, crumbling infirmary.

Maidan A remarkable, cinematic first hand depiction of the Maidan protests in Kiev.

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La Quattro Volte A beautiful tale of the revolving cycles of life high in the hills of Calabria, Southern Italy

Cria Cuervos A disturbingly inventive psychodrama set in the last days of Franco’s regime seen through the eyes of an eightyear-old orphan.

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CARRIAGEWORKS Leeds International Screendance Comp 20:30 The city’s 17.00 first Screendance Competition, a new programme of int’l dance films.

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The Samurai Tense arthouse horror about a small town cop trying to stop a sword weilding killer in a wedding dress.

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BELGRAVE Leeds Int’l Music Video Awards 18:30 International celebration of artistic music videos.

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BELGRAVE 23.00 I am the Gorgon 21:00 Doc about the rise of Jamaican music and one of its greatest champions.

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CARRIAGEWORKS #chicagoGirl 18:00 Fascinating perspective on activism and social media.

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Bird People An enchanting story that delicately Fårö Dokument 1969 observes the A rare opportunity curious nature of to see Bergman’s human behaviour. documentary about life on the island of Fårö in 1969.

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Love is Strange Ben (John Lithgow) 15.00 and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot - and lose their home as a consequence.

The Passion of Anna One of Bergman’s least known classics, Corn Island a compelling A beautiful and psychological poetic film about drama, the first Fårö a farmer and his film shot in colour. daughter on an island in wartorn Georgia.

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Wild Reese Witherspoon 17.00 stars in a vivid new wilderness drama from the director of Dallas Buyers Club.

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2001: A Space Odyssey You haven’t really seen 2001: A Space Odyssey until 20.00 you’ve seen it on the big screen, and the experience is unique in the stunning setting of 21.00 Leeds Town Hall.

Film Festival Favourite Repeats of the audience favourites from throughout the festival.

Check leedsfilm.com for the latest information.

Fatal Assistance A masterful documentary which interrogates the complex reconstruction process in postearthquake Haiti.

22.00

From Bedrooms to Billions The first feature documentary about the remarkable success story of the British video games industry in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

Heaven Adores You An intimate and meditative look at the life and music of Elliott Smith, featuring previously unreleased songs.

My Old Lady Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith star in this warm and witty comedydrama from the great American playwright Israel Horovitz.

14.00

Spirit of the Beehive A landmark of Spanish cinema with a cryptic allegorical storyline about a little girl obsessed

by James Whale’s Frankenstein.

15.00

16.00

17.00

The Creeping Garden Doc devoted to myxomycetes, or ‘slime moulds’, and the people who work with them.

18.00

19.00

Sci-fi Shorts A panorama of international shorts daring to predict what the future will hold for us.

20.00

X+Y A charming coming of age drama starring Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.

21.00

22.00

23.00

23.00

Official Selection

Retrospectives

Fanomenon

Cinema Versa

Short Film City

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WEDNESDAY 19 NOV VICTORIA

ALBERT

HYDE

VUE

EVERYMAN

OTHER

11.00

11.00

12.00

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13.00

13.00

Persona Bergman’s classic psychodrama, one of the landmark arthouse films of the 60s.

14.00

Horse Money A beautiful and dreamlike film from Portuguese director Pedro Costa set in a strange, crumbling infirmary.

15.00

Shame Bergman classic about the effects of war on an apolitical couple played by Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann.

16.00

17.00

18.00

19.00

Cole Porter in Hollywood 20.00 The John Wilson Orchestra returns to Leeds Town Hall with a brand new show celebrating the works of Cole 21.00 Porter.

Film Festival Favourite Repeats of the audience favourites from throughout the festival.

Check leedsfilm.com for the latest information.

The Silent Holy Stones with Ivan Cooper Beautiful Tibetan film set in an Amdo monastery with a reading from Ivan Cooper.

22.00

Heaven Adores You An intimate and meditative look at the life and music of Elliott Smith, featuring previously unreleased songs.

Witching and Bitching When a jewellry heist goes wrong the thieves hide out in a remote town run by a coven of witches who are planning a sacrifice to their goddess.

My Old Lady Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith star in this warm and witty comedydrama from the great American playwright Israel Horovitz.

Maidan A remarkable, cinematic first hand depiction of the Maidan protests in Kiev.

Free Fall A wildly imaginative black comedy from Hungary featuring a series of surreal stories set in an apartment block.

14.00

15.00

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Pedro Almodovar’s first great film, a comic melodrama about an overworked mother and her ungrateful family.

16.00

17.00

The Samurai Tense arthouse horror about a small town cop trying to stop a sword weilding killer in a wedding dress.

The Canal A man’s mental state starts to deteriorate when he discovers his home was the scene of gruesome murders in Victorian times.

18.00

BELGRAVE Head Legendary 1968 psychedelic film with the band The Monkees, rarely shown on the big screen.

20.00

BELGRAVE Led Zeppelin Played Here + Heavy Metal.. 21.00 A double bill of funny and thoughtful documentaries about the nitty gritty 22.00 of rock’n’roll fandom.

23.00

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19.00

23.00

Official Selection

Retrospectives

Fanomenon

Cinema Versa

Short Film City

THURSDAY 20 NOV VICTORIA

ALBERT

HYDE

VUE

EVERYMAN

OTHER

11.00

11.00

12.00

12.00

13.00

The Last Circus When a sad clown falls for the wife of his arch-rival a bitter love triangle threatens to destroy them alll and their beloved circus.

14.00

15.00

Witching and Bitching When a jewellry heist goes wrong the thieves hide out in a remote town run by a coven of witches who are planning a sacrifice to their goddess.

16.00

17.00

18.00

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

19.00

Receiving its UK Premiere at LIFF28, the highly-acclaimed black comedy Birdman is one of the most anticipated films of the year.

20.00

21.00

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Receiving its UK Premiere at LIFF28, the highly-acclaimed black comedy Birdman is one of the most anticipated films of the year.

22.00

23.00

Official Selection

Retrospectives

13.00

Film Festival Favourite Repeats of the audience favourites from throughout the festival.

Check leedsfilm.com for the latest information.

Film Festival Favourite Repeats of the audience favourites from throughout the festival.

Check leedsfilm.com for the latest information.

Film Festival Favourite Repeats of the audience favourites from throughout the festival.

Check leedsfilm.com for the latest information.

Film Festival Favourite Repeats of the audience favourites from throughout the festival.

Check leedsfilm.com for the latest information.

Fanomenon

14.00

Spirit of the Beehive A landmark of Spanish cinema with a cryptic allegorical storyline about a little girl obsessed

by James Whale’s Frankenstein.

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Pedro Almodovar’s first great film, a comic melodrama about an overworked mother and her ungrateful family.

Film Festival Favourite Repeats of the audience favourites from throughout the festival.

Check leedsfilm.com for the latest information.

15.00

16.00

17.00

18.00

19.00

20.00

21.00

22.00

23.00

Cinema Versa

Short Film City

99

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Live soundtrack to George Lucas’ THX 1138.

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Leeds Young Film Festival returns at Easter 2015 with another fantastic selection of familyfriendly films and workshops for young people interested in finding out more about animation, acting, directing and much much more. This year we are taking over Leeds Town Hall to create The Film House, which will be THE place to be at Easter so make a note of it in your diary!

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In conjunction with Carriageworks Theatre, Not For Rental is the brand new city-centre cinema run and programmed by MediaFish. Especially for 15-24 year olds Not For Rental gives young people the chance to see classic, archive, British and independent films on the big screen. See the website for the autumn / winter programme.

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