Liff 2013 Guide

27th Leeds International Film Festival 6 - 21 November 2013

Official Selection

Retrospectives

Fanomenon

Free Guide Cinema Versa

Short Film City

Welcome WELCOME TO THE 27th LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The LIFF27 Guide is just the start to your experience of one of the most diverse and exciting film festival programmes in Europe. Every year the mission of Leeds International Film Festival is to bring to the city the full, incredible world of global filmmaking and to make the experience for audiences accessible and unforgettable.

GUIDE CONTENTS In these pages are listed all the feature films, events and short film programmes at time of going to press for our five major programme sections: Official Selection, Retrospectives, Fanomenon, Cinema Versa, and Short Film City. Full details of tickets, passes, and venues are up front (a full pass is only £90), while at the back you will find an invaluable day by day guide to more than 250 screenings and events in LIFF27.

Leeds Film City Tickets & Passes Map & Venues Partners Official Selection A to Z Retrospectives A to Z Fanomenon A to Z Cinema Versa A to Z Short Film City A to Z Day by Day Guide Film & Event Index

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SCREENING INFORMATION • LIFF does not show trailers or adverts before films and where possible all screenings start at the time advertised: sometimes a LIFF programmer or a guest will make a short introduction.

• Any film not in English language has subtitles, and this is indicated in the film listings as ST. Where films are subtitled the original language is usually the same as the country of origin.

For full details see www.leedsfilm.com • Most films in the programme have recommended certificates: please contact the festival office or city centre box office for advice on suitability.

• Most films are projected in the DCP (digital cinema) or HDCam format: where a film is on 35mm or 16mm, this in indicated in the film listings.

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LIFF27 AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FILM Every new feature film screened at the 27th Leeds International Film Festival is rated by our audience and competes for the LIFF27 Audience Award for Best Film. We’ll share which films have received the highest ratings online during the festival, and will reveal the overall winner at the end. You can give each film you see a rating using our audience response forms, which will be given out at the start of screenings and collected afterwards.

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LEEDS FILM CITY AND LEEDS INSPIRED It’s no surprise that the home of Leeds International Film Festival should have a thriving cinema culture, and we’re very pleased to be able to share news about the brilliant screen events going on, from unique film club screenings to events at the city’s new First Direct Arena. LIFF27 venues are home to amazing year-round film programmes. These include The Hyde Park Picture House, a cinema which celebrates its 100th birthday next year, and the newly opened Everyman Leeds, a splendidly luxurious place to enjoy new films. There’s also the Leeds Young Film Festival in March – a marvellous springtime companion to LIFF. Keep an eye out for the #leedsfilmcity hashtag on Twitter, and browse the Leeds Film City guide on leedsfilm.com to see all of the places where you can experience cinema in Leeds.

If you’re looking to fill your days in Leeds with vibrant cultural activity – especially film – then the website Leeds Inspired is a great place to start. You can pick a time and you’ll soon find an event to suit your fancy on leedsinspired. co.uk. Browse the Independent Film Listings for family friendly outdoor screenings to midnight movies in your favourite bar. Also, keep an eye out for Minicine, the marvellous, award-winning community cinema based in The Palace Picture House within Armley Mills Industrial Museum.

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There is a lot going on to celebrate film across Yorkshire, one of greatest regions in the UK for experiencing the world of film through fantastic venues and festivals. Major venues include the National Media Museum, home of the Bradford International Film Festival (April) and BAF! (November), and the Sheffield Showroom, also the centre for DocFest (June), one of the world’s leading film industry events. Throughout Yorkshire there is also an incredible variety of venues hosting independent film screenings and events.

TICKETS & PASSES INDIVIDUAL TICKETS

SPECIAL OFFER

VICTORIA, EVERYMAN, HYDE, VUE, BELGRAVE

£8 / £6

ALBERT, HIFI and all short film programmes

£6 / £5

(excluding short film programmes and the Opening Gala)

OPENING GALA - Gravity in 3D

£12 / £10

ID is required for concessionary rate: NUS, ISIC, over 55s, under 16s, registered unemployed See page 7 for key to venue codes

Get 6 tickets for the price of 5!* Take advantage of this exclusive offer until the end of the festival! *Valid for all films/events in the Film Festival. Buy online, in person at City Centre Box Office or on the phone. Cheapest ticket is free.

Not available on the door.

PASSES LIFF27 Single Pass

£90

The full 27th 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 LIFF27 Pass includes access to all screenings at all venues and across all programme sections, with the only exception being Fanomenon Night of the Dead 13, which is available to pass holders for just £10. For the first time, the LIFF27 pass will give free entry to Fanomenon Day of the Dead 7 as well as Fanomenon Anime Day 2013.

LIFF27 Double Pass

£160

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

FANOMENON PASSES Fanomenon Night of the Dead XIII Sat 9th November, 10pm - Late, HYDE £25 / £20 conc / £10 LIFF27 Pass No individual tickets

Fanomenon Day of the Dead 7 Sat 16th Nov, from 12.00pm, VICTORIA £25 / £20 conc / Free with LIFF27 Pass

Fanomenon Anime Day 2013

Sun 17th November, from 11am, VICTORIA £25 / £20 conc / FREE with LIFF27 Pass

Fanomeon Double Pass

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).

HOW TO BUY TICKETS & PASSES Box Office

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

Online

www.leedsfilm.com

Tickets booked by telephone or online WILL NOT be 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 booked online are subject to a 24p convenience charge per ticket.

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MAP

TRAVEL Bus: 0113 245 7676 wymetro.com Dayrider tickets from ÂŁ3.90 for all day travel or use the Leeds CityBus Service to travel around the City Centre for 50p.

56 bus from outside The Light on Albion Street to Hyde Park Picture House.

Train: 0845 000 0125 northernrail.org Local train travel into Leeds 0845 748 4950 www.nationalrail.co.uk National train information for details of routes to and from Leeds.

Taxi: 0113 279 2222 streamline-telecabs.co.uk Private Hire Leeds taxi firm for the city centre.

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LOCATIONS & ACCESS VENUES 1 Leeds Town Hall (VICTORIA & ALBERT)

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.

5 The HiFi Club (HIFI)

2 Central Road, Leeds, LS1 6DE 0113 242 7353 Access: No wheelchair access.

6 Seven Arts (SEVEN)

31A Harrogate Road, Leeds, LS7 3PD 0113 262 6777 Access: Full disabled access.

Bus 2, 3 or 3A from the city centre. On street parking on Harrogate Road or behind Co-op.

2 Hyde Park Picture House (HYDE)

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.

7 East Street Arts (ESA)

Patrick Studios, St Marys Lane, Leeds, LS9 7EH 0113 248 0040 Access: Disabled access to entrance, lift access and disabled toilet.

3 Vue Cinema The Light (VUE)

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

8 Belgrave Music Hall (BELGRAVE)

1A Cross Belgrave Street, Leeds, LS2 8JP 0113 246 0744 Access: Please contact venue for details.

On street parking available and paid car park nearby.

4 Everyman (EVERYMAN)

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

Codes used throughout the guide to identify the venues are shown in brackets after the venue name

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4 Trevelyan Square, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 6ET 0113 236 6366

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EXHIBITIONS

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24 New Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6NU 0113 242 4540 Basha Film Poster Exhibition 6 - 21 Nov 2013 See page 20 for more details and opening times

C Belgrave Music Hall

1A Cross Belgrave Street, Leeds, LS2 8JP 0113 246 0744

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PICTURE HOUSE

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Built in 1914, the Hyde Park Picture House is a beautiful Grade II listed cinema with a stunning combination of period features and 21st century cinematic technology.

We pride ourselves on having a programme that is exciting, challenging and diverse; one that combines the best and brightest in contemporary independent and foreign language cinema with special events, live music and one off screenings of classic and cult films.

Whatever your taste, there’s always something extraordinary happening at the Picture House.

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OFFICIAL SELECTION

The Official Selection hosts special screenings of some of the most acclaimed films of the year.

Opening LIFF27 is Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity in 3D, hailed as the greatest space film since 2001: A Space Odyssey. Major awarded films in the Official Selection include outstanding Romanian drama Child’s Pose, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and remarkable love story Blue is the Warmest Colour, winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or. Other Cannes successes in the Official Selection include Alexander Payne’s oddball comedy road movie Nebraska and Alain Guiraudie’s striking and offbeat Stranger by the Lake. For many critics, the best film of the year is Norte, the End of History, an unforgettable four-hour narrative dissection of crime and punishment from maverick Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz.

The Official Selection is also home to fascinating new discoveries, including Kazakh director Emir Baigazin’s multi-award winning debut Harmony Lessons, an intense drama of corruption and violence.

Another bold debut in a very different style is The Strange Little Cat from German film student Ramon Zürcher, a minimalist depiction of domestic mayhem over one day in a Berlin flat. Receiving rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival, Concrete Night is the latest feature from veteran Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo, a visually stunning drama about a teenage boy’s downfall. Closing LIFF27 is a rare screening of Hungarian director György Pálfi’s unique Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen, an irresistible celebration of cinema, telling the ultimate love story using tiny excerpts from hundreds of movies ranging across film history.

Image: Gravity

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After Lucia Dir. Michel Franco, Mexico/France, 2012, 103 min, ST Sat 9, 18:00, VUE • Tue 12, 18:30, VUE Revealing an uncompromising precision of filmmaking style comparable with Michael Haneke and a similar predilection for dark subject matter, Mexican writer-director Michel Franco has come into his own with After Lucia. Six months after the death of his wife in a car accident, Roberto and his teenage daughter Alejandra set off from Vallarta for a fresh start in Mexico City. Alejandra finds her feet more easily than Roberto but very soon, she has aroused the baser instincts in her classmates. Ashamed and unable to tell her father about the escalating bullying at school, Alejandra’s silence ultimately takes a dreadful toll.

Blue is the Warmest Colour Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 2013, 179 min, ST Sun 10, 19:00, HYDE • Wed 13, 19:30, HYDE Blue is the Warmest Colour triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival in May, winning over the official jury chaired by Steven Spielberg, stunning film critics, and dominating the headlines because of its intimate sex scenes. Featuring extraordinary performances from Léa Seydoux as Emma and Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle (both actresses shared the Cannes Palme d’Or with director Abdellatif Kechiche), Blue is the Warmest Colour is simply a very powerful and beautifullycrafted love story about a deeply passionate relationship between two young women.

The Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mori Dir. Aleksey Fedorchenko, Russia, 2012, 106 min, ST Tue 19, 20:30, EVERYMAN • Thu 21, 18:00, EVERYMAN As in his previous film Silent Souls, Alexey Fedorchenko, one of Russia’s most distinctive contemporary directors, sets out for the Volga region to reveal the way of life of the Mari, a FinnoUgric nation that still maintains a number of traditional rituals originating from paganism. Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari is an energetic celebration of love, of womanhood and of the joy of life. The film’s delightful mosaic of twenty-two short tales about Mari women sees Fedorchenko blending reality with folklore and fairytale motifs with erotica in a playful style all his own.

Child’s Pose Dir. Calin Peter Netzer, Romania, 2013, 112 min, ST Sun 10, 18:00, VICTORIA • Tue 12, 20:30, HYDE Well-to-do, well-connected Bucharest society lady Cornelia has always tried to shelter her 34-year-old son Barbu from the harsh realities of life through her smothering love and attentions. But when Barbu kills a child in a car accident, fleeing the scene, and faces a long jail sentence, Cornelia’s maternal instincts kick into overdrive as she pulls strings while her son looks on in a chemical-induced haze. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Child’s Pose is an intense satire of Romania’s high-class lifestyles and low-level corruption.

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Circles Dir. Srdan Golubovic, France/Germany/Serbia/Slovenia/ Croatia, 2013, 112 min, ST Fri 8, 16:00, VUE • Sun 10, 16:00, VUE Circles lays bear the traumatic emotional aftershocks of the Bosnian wars in an intense and complex character drama, intersecting damaged lives and the spiralling effects of one great act of betrayal and heroism. In the midst of the Bosnian war, Marko a Serbian soldier witnesses a brutal attack against Haris, a Muslim civilian, by three fellow soldiers. Marko interferes and saves Haris, but is beaten to death by the infuriated soldiers. Fifteen years later when the war is over, Marko’s father and best friend both encounter ethical dilemmas when one of Marko’s killers reappears in their lives.

Computer Chess Dir. Andrew Bujalski, USA, 2013, 92 min Sat 9, 21:00, EVERYMAN • Wed 13, 18:30, EVERYMAN Andrew Bujalski, the king of mumblecore, has just raised the bar considerably with the funny, inventive and stylish Computer Chess. Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers in the earliest days of the PC boom around 1980, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses and the nerdish infighting involved in teaching a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence to come.

Concrete Night Dir. Pirjo Honkasalo, Finland, 2013, 96 min, ST Sat 9, 16:00, VUE • Sun 10, 14:00, VUE Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s feverish, visually amazing Concrete Night, a glimpse at the imaginative life of a fourteenyear-old boy called Simo, is an aesthetic tour de force - an emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger generations, and the ways we do it. Set during summer in a stifling Helsinki slum, Concrete Night features creepily precise black-and-white cinematography and a muted soundscape to create a claustrophobic sense of dread.

The unmoored setting perfectly reflects Simo’s anxiety and confusion about the world around him.

Final Cut, Ladies and Gentlemen - Closing Gala Dir. György Pálfi, Hungary, 2013, 84 min, part ST Thu 21, 20:30, VICTORIA An irresistible piece of pop experimentalism from Hungarian director György Pálfi, made between his boundary-pushing dramatic works, Final Cut is the ultimate love story between the ultimate man and the ultimate woman. In a seamless editing job, splicing together tiny snippets from hundreds of movies ranging across film history, from Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo through Marcello Mastroianni and Audrey Hepburn to Juliette Binoche and Brad Pitt, Final Cut vividly reimagines the oft-told tale of boy meets girl. The result is funny and disorientating, highly original and hugely entertaining throughout.

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The Future Dir. Alicia Scherson, Italy/Chile/Germany/Spain, 2013, 94 min, ST Fri 8, 21:00, HYDE • Sun 10, 20:30, EVERYMAN • Fri 15, 21:00, HYDE Chilean director Alicia Scherson’s thoughtful and accomplished feature is the first filmic adaptation of a novel by the great Roberto Bolaño. It’s a Rome-set literary crime drama and an offbeat love story pitching young actress Manuela Martelli against a playfully cast Rutger Hauer as a reclusive ex-wrestler and B movie film star. After their parents die in a car accident, teenagers Bianca and Tomas are left to survive on their own. Soon after, Tomas’s friends persuade Bianca to seduce Maciste, a reclusive former Mr. Universe, in order to rob him.

Gloria Dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Spain, 2013, 110 min, ST Thu 7, 18:00, VUE • Sat 9, 20:00, VUE • Mon 11, 20:30, HYDE Paulina García won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her breathtaking performance as Gloria, a vivacious and uncompromising middle-aged divorcée who, while grooving on the dance floor of the local singles club, finds in the recently separated Rodolfo what may be her last chance for love.

Brilliantly scripted and energized by a keen sense for music, Sebastián Lelio’s captivating film sensitively portrays a woman facing the reality of ageing through the character’s unique, often hilarious perspective.

Gravity in 3D - Opening Gala Dir. Alfonso Cuarón, USA/UK, 2013, 90 min Wed 6, 18:30, EVERYMAN • Wed 6, 21:00, EVERYMAN Hailed as the greatest space film since 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is an unforgettable and unique cinema experience, best witnessed in 3D. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney). On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes as the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiralling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth.

Harmony Lessons Dir. Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan/Germany/France, 2013, 120 min, ST Fri 15, 18:00, EVERYMAN • Sat 16, 20:00, EVERYMAN A distinctive new cinematic voice from Kazakhstan, Emir Baigazin has made an extraordinary debut feature that’s swept the festival circuit with awards at Berlin and Tribeca.

Harmony Lessons is an intense drama of corruption and violence set in a Kazakh village schoolyard with committed performances from an ensemble cast of teenaged newcomers and elegant cinematography. Aslan, a 13-year-old boy living with his grandma, fixates on the school gang leader Bolat, who humiliates him in front of all his classmates. Setting out with good motives, he decides to rid his school of crime.

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VICTORIA - Leeds Town Hall ALBERT - Leeds Town Hall HYDE - Hyde Park Picture House

VUE - Vue in the Light

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Heli Dir. Amat Escalante, Mexico/France/Germany/Netherlands, 2013, 105 min, ST Fri 8, 18:30, VUE • Mon 11, 18:30, VUE The Steven Spielberg-led jury at Cannes courted controversy by awarding Best Director to Amat Escalante for this unflinching tale ripped from Mexico’s blood-soaked headlines. When teenagers Beto and Estela scheme to fund their elopement by peddling some stolen cocaine, the would-be bride’s wellintentioned brother Heli is left to endure the brutal blowback.

Escalante crafts a brazenly confrontational film that is every bit as unshakeable as it should be. ‘Squint, and the title makes more sense. Shut your eyes entirely to its horrors and you’ll really miss out.’ (Catherine Shoard, The Guardian)

Lasting Dir. Jacek Borcuch, Poland/Spain, 2013, 95 min, ST Sat 9, 14:00, VUE • Mon 11, 16:30, VUE The burning intensity of a first relationship is twisted into heartbreak by a random act of violence in this impassioned and stylish drama by Polish actor/director Jacek Borcuch.

Polish students Michal and Karina are falling in love and enjoying a carefree summer in idyllic rural Spain until an unexpected nightmare throws their lives into chaos. Jacek returns to Poland with a dark secret and a guilty conscience, confiding only in Karina, who is struggling with troubles of her own. Committed performances and lively direction create an unusually effective dissection of a youthful relationship.

My Sweet Pepper Land Dir. Hiner Saleem, France/Germany/Iraq, 2013, 100 min, ST Fri 8, 20:30, VUE • Sun 10, 20:30, VUE My Sweet Pepper Land is a swirling and romantic Kurdish western set in the border country between Iran and Turkey.

Made with great verve and style by director Hiner Saleem, it’s an ingenious appropriation of the frontier morality drama informed by a sensitive reading of the political tensions in the area. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish war hero, accepts a position in a godforsaken village and illegal trafficking Eldorado. There he meets the beautiful young teacher Govend, suspicious locals and a powerful criminal fraternity intent on getting rid of them both.

Nebraska Dir. Alexander Payne, USA, 2013, 110 min Sat 9, 20:00, VICTORIA • Tue 12, 20:30, VICTORIA Bruce Dern won Best Actor at Cannes for his brilliant performance as Woody, an alcoholic and increasingly senile old man who is convinced he has won a million dollars after receiving a letter from Mega Sweepstakes Marketing. Bent on collecting his winnings from the company in Nebraska, he keeps setting off on foot only to be returned each time by the authorities. Woody’s estranged son David takes pity on him, and they set off on a rocky road trip together. Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, shot in black and white, is a meditative and often hilarious delight.

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Norte, The End of History Dir. Lav Diaz, Philippines, 2013, 250 min, ST Sat 9, 13:00, EVERYMAN • Mon 11, 13:30, EVERYMAN Filipino auteur Lav Diaz is emerging as one of the leading directors of contemporary world cinema, developing a patient and unique style that reaches transcendent moments inaccessible to most filmmakers. Since its debut in Cannes earlier this year, Norte has been acclaimed by many of the world’s leading critics as the film of the year. A complex and vividly cinematic Dostoyevskian drama, the story follows a working man who is wrongly imprisoned for murder. The real killer roams free, an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. Both men gradually succumb to a strange and mystical transformation.

Only the Young Dir. Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet, USA, 2012, 72 min Fri 8, 17:00, EVERYMAN • Sat 9, 17:30, EVERYMAN Only the Young breathes new life into the suburban youth culture film with a warm and affecting documentary following three skateboarding teens who live in a recession-hit desert town in Southern California. These kids must find things to do in a place that offers nothing – foreclosed homes, underpasses and unfilled swimming pools. Yet in the course of observing their day-to-day lives, we see them discover friendship, first love, heartbreak, and what it means to be young. Tippet and Mims’ delicate, ethereal filmmaking and Only the Young’s innocent yet rebellious subjects collectively embody the very essence of adolescence.

The Retrieval Dir. Chris Eska, USA, 2013, 92 min Mon 11, 20:30, EVERYMAN • Tue 12, 18:00, EVERYMAN An unusually understated and powerful American indie, The Retrieval is a subtly nuanced character drama set on the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War. The story follows a fatherless thirteen year-old boy sent north by his bounty hunter gang on a dangerous mission to retrieve a wanted man. During their journey towards their reckoning, the initially distant pair develop unexpected emotional bonds. As his feelings grow, the boy is consumed by conflicting emotions and a gut-wrenching ultimate decision. The Retrieval overcomes a modest budget to explore a rich emotional drama that remains inaccessible to mainstream Hollywood.

The Rocket Dir. Kim Mordaunt, Australia, 2013, 96 min, ST Sat 16, 12:00, HYDE Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited, fablelike family drama from Australia tells the story of scrappy tenyear-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny.

After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his father and grandmother through the Laotian outback in search of a new home. Along the way, they come across a rocket festival with a competition that offers a lucrative, but dangerous, chance for a new beginning. (Rated PG)

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Silence Dir. Pat Collins, Ireland/Germany, 2012, 87 min Mon 18, 18:00, HYDE A beautifully crafted and understated drama by Irish documentarian Pat Collins, Silence is a poetic meditation on sound and silence, history, memory and exile influenced by elements of folklore and archive. Eoghan is a sound recordist who returns to Ireland after 15 years away, for a job recording nature in remote terrain, away from towns and villages.

Throughout his journey, he is drawn into a series of encounters which gradually divert his attention towards a more intangible silence, bound up with the sounds of the life he had left behind.

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The Strange Little Cat Dir. Ramon Zürcher, Germany, 2013, 72 min, ST Wed 13, 19:00, VUE • Sat 16, 16:30, HYDE The Strange Little Cat is a fresh and distinctive debut feature

by German filmmaker Ramon Zürcher, a small scale domestic drama carefully choreographed to reveal the poetry in everyday gestures. Set entirely in one Berlin apartment, the story follows siblings Karin and Simon as they visit their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives join them for dinner. Along the way, the film shows the family members joke and fight, talk about everyday objects and play silly games, gently revealing a vivid set of characters with considerable charm and a quietly irreverent sense of humour.

Stranger by the Lake Dir. Alain Guiraudie, France, 2013, 97 min, ST Fri 8, 20:30, EVERYMAN • Sun 10, 18:30, EVERYMAN • Tue 19, 18:30, HYDE One of the most striking and offbeat hits from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Stranger by the Lake won both the Queer Palm and Best Director for the Un Certain Regard section. It’s an idiosyncratic hybrid thriller and love story set in the sweltering heights of the French summer at an unusual cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a tranquil lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.

Summer House Dirs. Johan von Reybekiel, Marcus Werner Hed, Sweden/UK, 2013, 83 min, ST Tue 12, 20:30, VUE A fresh and dynamic ensemble drama, Summer House tracks the fallout of a fraying relationship during a late summer party weekend on the west coast of Sweden. A circle of old friends have gathered to celebrate Carl’s birthday in his family’s summer house. Carl’s beautiful cousin Stina has just moved back from London to resettle in Sweden, and brings devoted British boyfriend Nick, who struggles to fit in. As the weekend becomes ever more bawdy, the boozy party escalates into a blur of taboo-laden conflict and an explosive investigation of love and commitment.

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A Touch of Sin Dir. Zhangke Jia, China, 2013, 133 min, ST Mon 11, 20:00, VICTORIA • Wed 13, 15:00, VICTORIA ‘Internationally acclaimed Chinese master Jia Zhangke (Still Life) won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes for this startling - and startlingly violent - tale of four outcasts on the margins of a rapidly changing China who channel their underclass rage into a bloody and murderous rampage. Jia Zhangke confronts China’s extreme social changes with a daring aesthetic, drawing inspiration from real-life events to compose a visually arresting, emotionally disturbing fresco of the underprivileged.

A fascinating mix of social realism and contemporary kung fu.’

(Toronto Film Festival)

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear Dir. Denis Côté, Canada, 2013, 95 min, ST Sat 16, 18:00, HYDE • Sun 17, 19:00, HYDE Maverick Canadian director Denis Côté’s Vic+Flo Saw a Bear provoked strong reactions and critical acclaim at Berlin, winning a Silver Bear and a deserved reputation as one of the most original films of the year. Racking up the narrative tension of a great thriller while exploring the ambiguous boundaries of narrative realism and dreamlike symbolism, the story follows prison parolee Victoria who returns to her summer house in the woods and reconnects with Florence, her lover from prison.

Guillaume, Vic’s parole officer, watches over the women’s reintegration while their past catches up with them.

Wakolda Dir. Lucía Puenzo, Argentina/France/Spain/Norway, 2013, 93 min, ST Thu 7, 20:30, VUE • Sun 10, 18:30, VUE • Thu 14, 20:30, VUE Patagonia, 1960. An Argentinian family meets a mysterious German physician on their way to opening a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. The encounter with the family reawakens the man’s obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with a body too small for her age.

Everyone is gradually won over by this charismatic man, by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge and his money, until they discover his real identity. Argentinian filmmaker Lucía Puenzo’s Wakolda is a gripping revelation, inspired by true events.

We are the Best!

Dir. Lukas Moodysson, Sweden/Denmark, 2013, 102 min, ST Tue 19, 18:00, EVERYMAN • Thu 21, 20:30, EVERYMAN Provocative Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson (Show Me Love, Together) returns with this raucous and ebullient tale of three preteen outcasts who form an all-girl punk band. Based on a graphic novel by Moodysson’s wife Coco and set in early 1980s Stockholm, We are the Best! is a paean to DIY culture and the need for revolt. Neglected or taken for granted at home and school, the three girls react by making themselves unignorable, and when they’re mocked for looking different, they demand centre stage.

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Leeds International Film Festival presents Basha Film Poster Exhibition

8 - 21 November 2013 North Bar, 24 New Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6NU Monday - Tuesday 11.00/01.00

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LIFF27 includes a fantastic array of retrospective programmes ranging from rare opportunities to rediscover forgotten gems to celebrated classics given an appropriately grand backdrop in Leeds Town Hall. Director retrospectives include Walerian Borowczyk, the maverick Polish animator and avant-gardist, unjustly overlooked in recent years, his films are belatedly being released on DVD and blu ray and we anticipate the first phase of this release with screenings of many of his classic early animated shorts, historical romance and underrated cinematic masterpiece Blanche and a new documentary on the artist by filmmaker and consultant on the retrospective, Daniel Bird.

We also celebrate the work of Japanese master, Masaki Kobayashi with screenings of his breathtaking samurai classics Hara-Kiri and Samurai Rebellion alongside the rarely screened wartime epic The Human Condition. We are also introducing a series of European Catalyst Films, game changing features running through the history of world cinema that were the first in influential movements, from Luchino Visconti’s Ossessione and Italian neorealism, through Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge and the Nouvelle Vague right up to Cristi Puiu’s Stuff and Dough and the recent Romanian New Wave. Elsewhere we have a series of classic thrillers at the Town Hall including The Third Man, Rififi and Peeping Tom and special one off screenings including the late Aleksei German’s Russian classic Trial on the Road and Chantal Akerman’s feminist masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce 1080 Bruxelles.

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Battleship Potemkin + live organ accompaniment Special Screenings Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union, 1926, 72 min Thu 14, 18:30, VICTORIA Never slipping in its legendary status in the 90 years since it was made, Battleship Potemkin still has an awesome power, shown to its full effect with a new digital print in the magnificent Town Hall and live accompaniment by city organist, Simon Lindley.

Most famous for its iconic Odessa steps sequence, often imitated, but never matched, director Sergei Eisenstein invented and refined some of the most dynamic cinematic techniques and orchestrated them to perfection. The story follows a notorious Russian naval protest resulting in a police massacre of civilians, one of the seeds of the revolution.

Blanche Walerian Borowczyk Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, France, 1972, 92 min, ST Sat 16, 16:00, EVERYMAN Blanche is one of the underrated masterpieces of world cinema and probably Polish master Walerian Borowczyk’s greatest film. A spare and understated filmic style, immaculate design and cinematography elevate a medieval melodrama to an eerie and resonant cinematic experience highly influential on later generations of directors from Terry Gilliam to Neil Jordan.

Borowczyk’s wife, Ligia, gives a heartrending performance as Blanche, the young, beautiful wife to a senile baron, played by the legendary Michel Simon. When an amorous king pays a visit, he and his philandering page fall under her spell.

Carmen Special Screenings Dir. Carlos Saura, Spain, 1983, 102 min, ST Sun 17, 17:00, HYDE Based on the French novel and featuring music from Bizet’s most popular opera, Carlos Saura’s exhilarating flamenco Carmen became an instant classic on its release thirty years ago. Saura’s bold version explores the legend by staging a modern ensemble of musicians and dancers busy rehearsing a flamenco interpretation of the Carmen story. The producer and star dancer Antonio (Antonio Gades) chooses a girl named Carmen (Laura del Sol) to play ‘his’ Carmen, but life begins tragically to imitate art. Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia also contributed to the soundtrack.

Classe Tous Risques Classic Thrillers at Leeds Town Hall Dir. Claude Sautet, France/Italy, 1960, 103 min, ST Sun 10, 15:30, VICTORIA • Mon 11, 15:30, VICTORIA Claude Sautet’s great crime movie has been unjustly forgotten for decades, overshadowed on its first release in the early 60s by the revolutionary films of the Nouvelle Vague. Classe Tous Risques is a wonderful rediscovery that looks better today than most of its contemporaries. Based on a novel by death-rowinmate-turned-writer José Giovanni, it’s the tale of Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) – a Parisian gangster exiled in Italy who commits a daring robbery before leaving Milan for France. Unsure if he can trust his former partners in crime, they send a total stranger – Eric Stark (Jean Paul Belmondo) – to ferry him back to Paris.

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European Catalyst Films and Cinema Worldwide Seminar European Catalyst Films Wed 20, 15:00, ALBERT • FREE EVENT

The Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds presents a round table discussion to complement our European Catalyst Films season. Bringing together leading film scholars, media practitioners and industry specialists, the discussion will query the major changes in the history of European film and the effects they had on cinemas world-wide. Is it possible to single out specific films that have impacted our understanding of the medium? How do these films help us understand what European cinema is really about? Do catalyst films present an alternative history of cinema? What is the popular perception of such films?

Faust + live organ accompaniment Special Screenings Dir. F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1926, 85 min Mon 18, 13:00, VICTORIA • FREE EVENT A free screening of F.W. Murnau’s dizzying and visceral masterpiece Faust with live accompaniment by city organist Simon Lindley in the suitably grand surroundings of Leeds Town Hall. Murnau fused Faust’s script from German folk legend and the works of Goethe, Gounod, and Marlowe to tell the vivid and macabre tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil. Featuring a gleeful performance by the great Emil Jannings as Mephisto and a magnificent procession of apocalyptic imagery, Faust carries forward the wonders of cinema’s silent era.

Festen European Catalyst Films Dir. Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark/Sweden, 1998, 105 min, ST Thu 14, 17:00, HYDE • Fri 15, 17:00, HYDE Dogme Film 1: the first, highly acclaimed feature made according to Lars von Trier’s Dogme ‘Vow of Chastity’ by Thomas Vinterberg, director of last year’s LIFF audience winner, The Hunt.

Making an asset of his self censored resources, Vinterberg’s freewheeling handheld video camera follows a nightmarish family fallout during a birthday party held for a 60 year-old man. One of his sons turns up without being invited and makes a public accusation that causes havoc around him and shakes the bourgeois family to its core.

Harakiri Masaki Kobayashi Dir. Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1962, 133 min, ST Fri 8, 18:00, VICTORIA Of all Masaki Kobayashi’s attacks on the cruelty and inhumanity perpetrated by authoritarian power, perhaps none are more brilliant than his visceral, mesmerising Harakiri. In a stunning performance, Tatsuya Nakadai (who stars in all the Kobayashi films screening in LIFF27) plays a masterless downand-out samurai who enters the manor of Lord Iyi, requesting to commit ritual suicide on his property. Suspected of simply fishing for charity, Hanshiro is told the gruesome tale of the last samurai who made the same request but Hanshiro will not be moved.

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love Masaki Kobayashi Dir. Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1959, 208 min, ST Sun 17, 13:00, HYDE Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. The Human Condition is rarely screened outside of Japan and the nine-and-a-half hour film is presented at LIFF27 on 35mm prints in three epic parts. Adapted from Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, the film tells of the tragic journey of well-intentioned but naive idealist Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) from Japanese labour camp to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW during World War II. In part one, Kaji enters the war as a supervisor of forced Chinese labour, with traumatic consequences.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity Masaki Kobayashi Dir. Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1959, 181 min, ST Mon 18, 14:30, HYDE Masaki Kobayashi drew on his own experiences during World War II as he filmed The Human Condition from 1959 to 1961. After being drafted and sent to Manchuria, Kobayashi refused promotion as a protest against the brutality of the Japanese army. In part two, Kaji is newly drafted and ordered to Manchuria, the site of Japan’s longest and most savage wartime atrocities. When he discovers the mistreatment of soldiers by their superiors, Kaji’s attempts to stop it are met with accusations that he is a Communist sympathiser and the threat of execution looms.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer Masaki Kobayashi Dir. Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1961, 190 min, ST Tue 19, 15:00, HYDE The Human Condition was an inherently controversial film in Japan, where the government had never fully acknowledged the horrific actions of its army in Manchuria. In part three, Kaji is the sole surviving member of his unit and surrenders to the advancing Soviets. He is hoping for better treatment than he received from his own compatriots, but instead he is accused of murder and must escape his captors. A raw indictment of its nation’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles Special Screenings Dir. Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France, 1975, 201 min, ST Sun 10, 13:00, HYDE

Stunningly powerful, this is one of cinema’s most striking innovations. Jeanne Dielman is a single mother performing her routine daily tasks of cleaning, cooking, and... prostitution.

Her seemingly mechanical control begins to slip, revealing her personal tragedy to astonishing effect. The film’s style, detail and use of repetition and restraint is sheer brilliance, matched by an iconic performance by French actress Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad). A rare opportunity to experience on 35mm what is undisputedly a piece of cinema history – and for good reason.

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Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi Dir. Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1964, 125 min, ST Tue 12, 18:00, HYDE Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kobayashi’s lavish and full-colour widescreen production features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Kwaidan’s tales are adapted from Greek-born Lafcadio Hearn’s classic Japanese ghost stories about mortals caught up in forces beyond their comprehension when the supernatural world intervenes in their lives. Breathtakingly photographed entirely on handpainted sets, the spellbinding Kwaidan is an abstract wash of luminescent colours from another world and one of the most meticulously crafted supernatural fantasy films ever made. Screening in 35mm.

Le beau serge European Catalyst Films Dir. Claude Chabrol, France, 1958, 98 min, ST Mon 11, 16:00, HYDE • Wed 13, 15:00, HYDE After several years of incendiary reviews in the Cahiers du Cinema, Claude Chabrol was the first critic to turn filmmaker and kickstart the Nouvelle Vague with the masterful Le Beau Serge. Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy and Bernadette Lafont star in a simmering tale of love and loyalty, friendship and betrayal.The dandyish François takes a holiday from the city to his home village of Sardent, where he reconnects with his old chum Serge, now a besotted and hopeless alcoholic, and sly, duplicitous, carnal Marie. A grave triangle forms, and a tragic slide ensues.

Le cercle rouge Classic Thrillers at Leeds Town Hall Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, France / Italy, 1970, 140 min, ST Wed 13, 17:30, VICTORIA • Fri 15, 15:00, VICTORIA Jean-Pierre Melville was the great master of the French crime genre, reinventing hardboiled American noir films and setting them in the backstreets of Paris. His 1970 film Le Cercle Rouge boasts an enviable triumvirate of great lead actors, Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonte as three jewel thieves who target an elegant, supposedly impregnable jewelry store.

In his pared down and understated style, Melville builds the tension towards a virtuoso heist sequence towards the end of the film that mirrors the classic Rififi made fifteen years earlier, a film Melville was originally slated to direct.

Little Fugitive Special Screenings Dirs. Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, USA, 1953, 80 min Sat 16, 18:00, EVERYMAN • Sun 17, 12:00, EVERYMAN Arguably the very first ‘indie’ movie, made outside the American studio system, Little Fugitive is a groundbreaking low budget gem, rarely seen since the 50s. The film follows two young brothers, left alone while their mother visits a sick relative. Lennie is annoyed at having to look after Joey and plays a trick on him, pretending to have been shot by a rifle they’ve given him.

Seven year old Joey runs off, afraid he’s really killed his brother, spending the day in the beaches and amusement park at Coney Island. Touching, authentic and beautifully made, Little Fugitive was way ahead of its time.

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Mr & Mrs Kabal’s Theatre + The Concert Short Walerian Borowczyk Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, France, 1967, 80 min, ST Sat 16, 14:00, EVERYMAN Originally conceived as a television series, Borowczyk’s two Kabal films are absurdist animated cut-up fantasies featuring a domestic couple who are both constantly at war and very much in love. First seen in the 1962 short, The Concert of Mr and Mrs Kabal, Borowczyk followed up with the expanded feature version Mr and Mrs Kabal’s Theatre, a grotesque yet strangely touching black comedy, eschewing straightforward narrative and dialogue in favour of sparse, coarse graphics spliced with gloriously kitsch live action colour inserts of Mr Kabal’s fantasies of extramarital affairs.

Obscure Pleasures: Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk Dir. Daniel Bird, Poland/UK, 2013, 75 min, ST Sun 17, 16:00, EVERYMAN A brand new documentary on the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk. In hospital in 2001, Borowczyk made a list of the objects from all his films which he used to bring order to the chaos, symbolically putting his own life in order. Using the list as a starting point, Obscure Pleasures offers a portrait of Borowczyk that encompasses all facets of his artistic personality, including his post-impressionist paintings, socialist realist drawings, film posters, groundbreaking animations, revolutionary short films not to mention the taboo busting films from the 1970s onwards.

Of Time and the City Special Screenings Dir. Terence Davies, UK, 2008, 74 min Sat 16, 11:00, EVERYMAN A special presentation of Terence Davies’ acclaimed personal film elegy for his birthplace, Liverpool, with producer Sol Papadopoulos in attendance. This event is part of the Creative Producing Elevator series, an initiative of the Northern Film School at Leeds Metropolitan University enabling first time feature film producing teams to develop financing and distribution plans. Sol will talk about producing Of Time and the City and his career in the regions, from his Chairmanship of the North West Producers and Directors group to his collaborative production of feature films.

Once Upon a Time in the West introduced by Sir Christopher Frayling Special Screenings Dir. Sergio Leone, Italy/USA, 1968, 175 min Wed 20, 19:00, VICTORIA

We are delighted to welcome Sir Christopher Frayling to present an illuminating and entertaining talk on Sergio Leone’s virtuoso über-western Once Upon a Time in the West, alongside a screening of the film in the suitably operatic setting of the Town Hall. Simultaneously subverting, celebrating and reinventing every convention of the western genre, Leone creates a hymn to cinema and a parable of encroaching modernity through the wilderness of the American West. In collaboration with the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds and the Leverhulme Trust.

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Ossessione European Catalyst Films Dir. Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1943, 140 min, ST Fri 8, 16:00, HYDE Ossessione is the second of several striking adaptations of James M. Cain’s noir fiction classic, The Postman Always Rings Twice and also the first film that was described as neo-realist.

The great Luchino Visconti’s debut feature transposes the dark story of sexual tension and betrayal to rural Italy and contrasts with the more theatrical, melodramatic American adaptations in its patiently observed and naturalistic style, which was very unusual at the time. The film was banned and destroyed by the fascist Italian government and survives only because Visconti himself hid a negative.

Peeping Tom Classic Thrillers at Leeds Town Hall Dir. Michael Powell, UK, 1960, 101 min Tue 12, 18:00, VICTORIA • Thu 14, 16:00, VICTORIA Recently rehabilitated as a British classic, the daring thriller Peeping Tom was so controversial in its day that it derailed director Michael Powell’s career, despite his status as one of our industry’s all time greats. The film follows a serial killer who attacks people using a modified movie camera, filming them in the process. The sequences using the camera’s viewfinder to show a killer’s eye view of his victims remain some of the most terrifying in film history. As a psychologically sophisticated deconstruction of the aggressive, voyeuristic power of cinema, Peeping Tom is unparalleled.

Rififi Classic Thrillers at Leeds Town Hall Dir. Jules Dassin, France, 1955, 122 min, ST Sun 10, 13:00, VICTORIA • Tue 12, 13:30, VICTORIA Blacklisted Hollywood director Jules Dassin went to Paris in 1955 and made one of the most acclaimed French film noirs of the era, winning the director’s prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Dassin adapted Auguste Le Breton’s novel prompting then Cahiers film critic Francois Truffaut to observe, ‘out of the worst crime novels I ever read, Jules Dassin has made the best crime film I’ve ever seen.’ Many of the plaudits came for the bravura set piece early in the film, a half hour, dialogue free heist scene, which is still unbearably tense in today’s era of rapid-cutting, Bourne-style action films.

Samurai Rebellion Masaki Kobayashi Dir. Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1967, 128 min, ST Sat 16, 14:00, HYDE Masaki Kobayashi’s last major film Samurai Rebellion is arguably his greatest masterpiece and is screening at LIFF27 in a new 35mm print. Legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune stars as Isaburo, an ageing swordsman living a quiet life until his clan leader orders that his son marries the Lord’s ousted mistress. Reluctantly, father and son take in the woman, and, to the family’s surprise, the young couple in love. But the Lord soon demands his mistress back. Isaburo and his son refuse, and they take a stand against the injustice of authority in an extraordinary and unforgettable final act.

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Stuff and Dough European Catalyst Films Dir. Cristi Puiu, Romania, 2001, 90 min, ST Fri 15, 19:00, HYDE The Romanian New Wave is still in full swing, though contested by some of its most celebrated participants. Nevertheless, it’s a great opportunity to show the brilliant and rarely screened debut feature by acclaimed director, Cristi Puiu. The stuff of the title is a bag of prescription drugs, which is en route to Bucharest in the care of three naïve young friends. Puiu spikes a witty hybrid of road movie and social realist drama with incisive reflections on the contradictions of his home country, which opened the floodgates for a flush of new filmmaking talent.

The Sun in a Net European Catalyst Films Dir. Štefan Uher, Czechoslovakia, 1962, 90 min, ST Tue 12, 16:00, HYDE Štefan Uher’s exquisite, groundbreaking film is consistently ranked amongst the greatest films in the history of Czech cinema. It is also recognised as the film that kick-started the Czechoslovak New Wave. Bringing to the screen a number of then unacceptable social and political themes, combined with surprising sexual frankness and an exhilaratingly freewheeling approach, The Sun in a Net presented an authenticity in its depiction of ordinary lives that immediately struck a strong chord with audiences, consequently leading to the film being judged unsuitable by the authorities.

The Third Man Classic Thrillers at Leeds Town Hall Dir. Carol Reed, UK / USA, 1949, 93 min Sat 9, 18:00, VICTORIA • Mon 11, 18:00, VICTORIA Regularly voted the greatest British film ever made, The Third Man is essential big screen viewing, showing for the first time in the grand surroundings of the Town Hall. Famous for many reasons: the great novelist Graham Greene’s best original screenplay, Robert Krasker’s vivid expressionist camera work of post-war Vienna, Orson Welles’ unforgettable scene-stealing cameo and Anton Karas’s infectious zither score. Any one of these elements would elevate a film to greatness, but in The Third Man they all come together under the direction of Carol Reed to create a seamless and atmospheric masterpiece.

This Sporting Life Special Screenings Dir. Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1963, 134 min Fri 8, 15:00, VICTORIA Screening in celebration of the Rugby World Cup 2013, This Sporting Life is a Northern classic and one of the cornerstones of the British ‘Kitchen Sink’ revolution. It represents the transition of the great director Lindsay Anderson from documentary to fiction and boasts an iconic performance of bone-crunching intensity by a young Richard Harris. Frank is a miner with a competitive nature and a powerful physique who reads of the success and respect gained by the local rugby team and decides to share in the glory. As his career progresses, his brutal nature distances him from those around him.

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Trial on the Road Special Screenings Dir. Aleksei German, Soviet Union, 1971, 96 min, ST Thu 14, 15:00, HYDE In a tribute to the Russian director Aleksei German, who died earlier this year, we present a rare opportunity to see his early masterpiece Trial on the Road. Under-appreciated outside his native Russia, German was one of the leading filmmakers of the post-war generation. Trial on the Road is an uncompromising war movie with stunning black and white cinematography.

Finding himself a POW during WWII, an apparently German soldier tries to convince his Russian captors that he is actually one of them, a sergeant in the Russian army forced by the Nazis to serve in the enemy ranks.

Walerian Borowczyk: Animated Shorts Walerian Borowczyk Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, France, 1963-1969, 100 min, ST Sun 17, 14:00, EVERYMAN Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk is one of the most influential animators of the twentieth century inspiring filmmakers like Jan Svankmajer, David Lynch and Terry Gilliam. Here we present a selection of nine of his greatest short films including Grandma’s Encyclopaedia, which animates cut outs from Victorian encyclopedias. Renaissance features a scene of wrecked, handmade objects gradually reconstructing themselves into a still life composition before exploding once more. The Game of the Angels evokes de Chirico and Magritte to describe the concentration universe of death camps and the Gulag.

Yesterday Girl + Brutality in Stone European Catalyst Films Dir. Alexander Kluge, West Germany, 1966, 88 min + 12 min, ST Wed 13, 17:00, HYDE Alexander Kluge’s groundbreaking 1966 feature Yesterday Girl broke the German film industry wide open for a new generation of innovative filmmakers from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Werner Herzog. With the dizzying energy and revolutionary spirit of a teutonic Jean-Luc Godard, Kluge tells the story of Anita G, brilliantly played by his sister Alexandra, whose parents were picked up one morning during the time of the Third Reich. She comes from the East and now freezes her way through the West. Screening alongside his classic short film interrogating nazi architecture, Brutality in Stone (1961, 12 min, ST).

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Fanomenon is the home of cult and fantasy cinema at Leeds International Film Festival and the lineup for this year is a heady mix of exciting new genre experiences, marathon horror events, amazing animated features, rarely-screened classics, and all-time favourites. Thrilling exclusives include the superb South Korean action blockbuster Cold Eyes, receiving its UK Premiere in Leeds, and a unique cinema presentation for the complete animated Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, screening with a brand new documentary about Frank Miller.

The ever popular annual marathons of Night of the Dead at the Hyde Park Picture House and Day of the Dead at Leeds Town Hall will together feature more than twenty hours of international horror with highlights including American black comedy 100 Bloody Acres, brilliant Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves and the new films from the makers of Amer, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears. Animation in Fanomenon 2013 is headlined by the Anime Day, with three brand new features including the third in the Rebuild of Evangelion series, a double bill of shorter films including the latest from Makoto Shinkai, and a special 25th anniversary screening of Akira.

Every year Fanomenon presents rarely-seen cult classics and this year’s selection includes German western Deadlock, Australian outback shocker Wake in Fright, and Czech sci-fi Ikarie XB-1. Giants of genre cinema are also featured in Fanomenon in the unique setting of Leeds Town Hall - see 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Exorcist, and Jaws like you’ve never seen them before.

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100 Bloody Acres Fanomenon Night of the Dead Dir. Cameron & Colin Cairns, Australia, 2012, 91 min Sat 9, Part of Night of the Dead XIII, HYDE Reg and Lindsay are two brothers who run an organic fertiliser business in the outback of Australia. They’re worried as they are running out of the ‘secret ingredient’ that makes their product so good. When dimwitted Reg finds a car crash victim at the side of the road he grabs the corpse while there’s no-one about but then decides to pick up some hitchhikers on the way home.

As they begin to realise what’s going on things start to get very messy and the body count starts to rise. A cross between Tucker & Dale and Motel Hell, 100 Bloody Acres is a darkly funny, gloriously bloody romp through the Australian outback.

2001: A Space Odyssey Fanomenon Greats at Leeds Town Hall Dir. Stanley Kubrick, UK / USA, 1968, 160 min Sat 9, 14:00, VICTORIA You haven’t really seen 2001: A Space Odyssey until you’ve seen it on the big screen, and the experience is unique in the stunning setting of Leeds Town Hall, as the film returns to the venue for another screening this year due to huge demand.

Kubrick’s visionary sci-fi classic is repeatedly voted into top 10 movies of all time lists: it’s 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.

After School Midnighters Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Hitoshi Takekiyo, Japan, 2012, 95 min, ST Sat 9, 12:00, HYDE • Mon 18, 16:00, EVERYMAN Providing more fun in 95 minutes than a year’s worth of average Hollywood family film releases, this brilliantly inventive and hilarious Japanese animated joy is bursting with enough pleasures to delight all ages – the gangster rabbits alone deserve their own movie. Mako, Miko, and Mutsuko are three mischievous girls exploring the mysterious St. Claire Elementary at night. They stumble upon a disused lab tamely haunted by the hapless duo of science models Kunstrijk and Goth. Their zany encounter unleashes the school’s bizarre secrets at the indescribable midnight party. (Rated PG, subtitled).

Akira Fanomenon Anime Day Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan, 1988, 124 min, ST Sun 17, 19:30, Part of Anime Day 2013, VICTORIA A special 25th anniversary presentation in the unique setting of Leeds Town Hall for one of the greatest anime feature films ever made, screening in a new digital print. Neo-Tokyo, 2019, and the city is being rebuilt after World War III. Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop-outs, are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. They stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans, apparently for use as weapons.

Tetsuo learns of the existence of his ‘peer’ Akira, the project’s most powerful subject, and sets out to challenge him.

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Antisocial Fanomenon Night of the Dead Dir. Cody Calahan, Canada, 2013, 89 min Sat 9, Part of Night of the Dead XIII, HYDE Five friends are planning a New Year’s Eve party, but as the evening progresses it becomes clear that all is not well. Finding themselves in the middle of an epidemic that’s affecting everyone they know, they barricade themselves in and turn to social media to try and make sense of the mayhem that’s all around them. But conflicting reports and terrifying footage of the infection cause first fear and then paranoia among the survivors and it isn’t long before they turn on each other. A dark and bloody cautionary tale about the dangers of social media, with zombies.

Basha: Film Posters + Talk Fanomenon Exhibition Fri 8 - Thu 21, North Bar, 24 New Briggate, Leeds • FREE Entry Basha Film Posters Talk: Sun 17, 14:30, ALBERT • FREE Event Barbara ‘Basha’ Baranowska, best known for her poster for Possession, is the unsung hero of Polish poster art. Basha donned a variety of graphic personae – from the sometimes brutal cut-outs of her early Polish book jackets to the voluptuous, almost psychedelic surrealism of her French film posters. The works she produced are unforgettable. The exhibition is in the North Bar on New Briggate for the duration of LIFF27 (see page 20 for opening times).

The curator of the exhibition Daniel Bird will give a free talk on Basha in the Albert Room on 17th November at 2.30pm.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Jay Oliva, USA, 2012/2013, 156 min Mon 18, 18:00, EVERYMAN • Wed 20, 20:00, EVERYMAN Jay Oliva’s widely acclaimed and faithful animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s hugely influential graphic novel was released originally in two parts on video. Now you can see both parts as one full-length feature film in an exclusive cinema presentation as part of Fanomenon 2013. It is ten years after an ageing Batman has retired, and Gotham City has sunk deeper into decadence and lawlessness. Now, when his city needs him most, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of glory. Don’t miss the brand new documentary about Frank Miller’s masterpiece, also showing in Fanomenon.

The Battery Fanomenon Day of the Dead Dir. Jeremy Gardner, USA, 2012, 101 min Sat 16, 12:00, Part of Day of the Dead 7, VICTORIA Ben and Mickey are two former baseball players thrown together in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. They survive by wandering across the remains of New England, always on the move and never staying in the same place for long. As time goes by Ben becomes increasingly feral and embraces their new nomadic, lawless lifestyle while Mickey, who refuses to kill the undead, won’t accept the harsh reality and longs for the world of old. When Mickey intercepts a radio signal from another survivor his determination to track her down threatens both their friendship and survival.

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Big Bad Wolves Fanomenon Day of the Dead Dir. Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado, Israel, 2013, 109 min, ST Sat 16, 21:00, Part of Day of the Dead 7, VICTORIA When a suspected child murderer is released from custody following a police blunder the disgraced detective in charge of the case decides to take matters into his own hands.

Unfortunately the father of the latest victim has the same idea and soon the detective finds himself in the middle of an ever escalating spiral of torture and madness. The film raises questions about truth, guilt and whether it is ever right to take the law into your own hands. As well as being an incredibly taut thriller, Big Bad Wolves is also wickedly funny which, given the subject matter, is no mean feat.

Bushido Man Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Takanori Tsujimoto, Japan, 2013, 88 min, ST Sat 9, 14:00, HYDE • Sat 9, 18:00, HYDE Martial arts and niche cuisine action comedy Bushido Man could only have been made in Japan. It is a happy, sunlit day at the dojo of the Cosmic Way, a school of the martial arts whose sensei, Gensai, preaches a path of hard-earned wisdom and honour, and of knowing your opponent through what he eats. His prized student Toramaru has returned from a pilgrimage across Japan with tales of seven battles with legendary fighters, each masterfully-choreographed encounter preceded by a helping of his prey’s favourite dish.

Chimères Fanomenon Day of the Dead Dir. Oliver Beguin, Switzerland, 2013, 80 min, ST Sat 16, 19:00, Part of Day of the Dead 7, VICTORIA While holidaying in Romania, photographer Alex is hit by a car and is badly hurt. Following an operation he returns home to work on his new exhibition but his recovery is hampered by strange side effects - sensitivity to light, a taste for raw meat and disturbing hallucinations. When challenged by his concerned wife about his erratic and increasingly violent behaviour he confesses that he believes he is turning into a vampire.

The debut feature from Olivier Beguin (whose previous short Employee of the Month screened in LIFF 2011), Chimères is a cleverly crafted thriller that builds into a crescendo of violence.

Cold Eyes Fanomenon Panorama Dirs. Ui-seok Jo, Byung-seo Kim, South Korea, 2013, 119 min, ST Wed 13, 20:30, VICTORIA • Thu 14, 20:30, HYDE A blockbuster success in South Korea,Cold Eyes is a dizzyingly intense and masterfully-crafted action-thriller, featuring extraordinary over-the-shoulder-shot stunt scenes and thrillingly staged chase sequences across Seoul’s city sprawl. Gifted with remarkable observation skills, Ha Yoon-Ju is the newest recruit (codename ‘Squirrel’) to a high-tech police surveillance team that is attempting to take down a gang of ruthless bank robbers led by ‘James’, one of the most menacing and murderous master criminals yet to appear in modern Far Eastern action films.

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Deadlock Fanomenon Cult Classics Dir. Roland Klick, West Germany, 1970, 85 min, ST Fri 8, 18:30, EVERYMAN Deadlock is a gripping and atmospheric cult western from Germany rescued from obscurity with a newly restored digital print. A young man, Kid stumbles through the Mexican Sierra, shot and bleeding to death, carrying a suitcase containing the loot from a bank robbery. He is found by opportunist ex-gold miner Charles Dump and sadistic killer Sunshine, the standoff is perfectly poised for a dusty and violent finale. The film’s outspoken admirers range from Alejandro Jodorowsky to Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino. Boasting an incredible soundtrack by legendary Krautrock band Can.

Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo Fanomenon Anime Day Dirs. Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Japan, 2012, 96 min, ST Sun 17, 17:00, Part of Anime Day 2013, VICTORIA The latest eagerly-awaited feature film in Hideaki Anno’s Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy. Fourteen years after the third impact, Shinji awakens to a world he does not recognize and his body has not aged a single day. Earth lies in ruins and those he once fought valiantly to protect have cruelly turned against him. Nerv is nothing but a distant memory. Trapped in a harrowing cycle of death and rebirth, Shinji continues to courageously battle the angels - even as the world spirals down towards what could be a tragic end.

The Exorcist - Director’s Cut Fanomenon Greats at Leeds Town Hall Dir. William Friedkin, USA, 1973, 122 min Fri 15, 20:30, VICTORIA It’s hard to imagine any of today’s CGI-heavy horror films still having the ability to shock and unsettle audiences 40 years on and yet that is one of the triumphs of William Friedkin’s masterpiece. Arguably the greatest horror film ever made it’s a harrowing account of a modern world ripped apart by an obscene, ancient evil made even more shocking by placing an innocent child at the heart of the story. To really appreciate the impact of the film, it needs to be seen with an audience and with a new digital cinema print Leeds Town Hall is the perfect place to experience it.

Fanomenon Anime Day 2013 Fanomenon Special Event Sun 17, 11:00, VICTORIA The hugely popular Fanomenon Anime Day this year is presented on the first day of the Thought Bubble Festival 2013 and in partnership with Scotland Loves Animation. Opening with a mini double bill, including the latest film from Makoto Shinkai, and closing with a special 25th anniversary screening of Akira, the Anime Day 2013 also includes English Premieres of three brand new features - Patema Inverted from the director of Time of Eve, the first movie based on the Steins;Gate TV series, and part three of the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy.

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Fanomenon Day of the Dead 7 Fanomenon Special Event Sat 16, 12:00, VICTORIA Having outgrown its home in City Varieties, Day of the Dead 7 relocates to the splendour of Leeds Town Hall with a bigger screen and better projection to deliver an incredible line-up of films. Opening with new US zombie film The Battery, followed by the shocking Giallo-inspired The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears and the violent vampire thriller Chimères before closing with the disturbing Israeli masterpeice Big Bad Wolves the day is certain to give you your money’s worth. For the first time the audience will also get to vote for the winning Méliès d’Argent short film from Europe. With special guests and a couple of surprise additions make sure you grab your passes early.

Fanomenon Night of the Dead 13 Fanomenon Special Event Sat 9, 22:00, HYDE It’s Night of the Dead 13, which can only mean one thing - a fun-packed night of the best new horror films from around the world guaranteed to shock, scare and entertain you. This year we have three UK premieres including Savaged, a gruesome raperevenge thriller with a supernatural twist, On Air about a pirate DJ desperate to stop a psychopathic killer and They Will Outlive Us All about a couple who must battle an unnatural intruder hellbent on turning them into zombies. Add in some superb shorts, the Shit Film Amnesty (bring along your most appalling movie to compete for the worst film award) and a load of competitions and giveaways, this is a date you won’t want to miss.

The Forest Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Óscar Aibar, Spain, 2012, 90 min, ST Sun 17, 18:00, EVERYMAN • Tue 19, 16:00, EVERYMAN Similar in style to Guillermo Del Toro’s films, The Forest is an unusual sci-fi film about love, friendship, loyalty and the futility of war. Set in 1936 in a remote Spanish village, Ramon and his wife Dora own a farm with a bizarre secret - in a copse of trees on their land a wormhole to another world opens up twice a year.

When the Spanish Civil War breaks out, Ramon’s childhood rival becomes head of the local militia and, fearing for his life, Ramon enters the portal to hide, leaving Dora to fend for herself. As the war rages, their relationship is stretched to breaking point as Dora does everything she can to survive in Ramon’s absence.

Garden of Words + HAL Fanomenon Anime Day Dir. Makoto Shinkai, Japan, 2013, 46 min, ST Sun 17, 11:00, Part of Anime Day 2013, VICTORIA A special mini double bill of brand new anime, both films English Premieres. From Makoto Shinkai, the acclaimed director of Journey to Agartha, Garden of Words is a love story about a high school art student who skips school one day in favour of sketching in a rainy garden, only to meet a woman who will change his life forever. In HAL, the debut of exciting new anime talent Ryoutarou Makihara, android Q01 is dispatched to help a woman cope with the loss of her lover who the robot has been remodelled to resemble.

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Ghost Graduation Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Javier Ruiz Caldera, Spain, 2012, 88 min, ST Wed 13, 20:00, EVERYMAN • Fri 15, 16:00, EVERYMAN Fans of The Breakfast Club will love this Spanish supernatural comedy about a group of five ghostly students who are haunting a troubled high school. Modesto is a teacher with a problem - he sees (and talks to) dead people which has cost him his job on many occasions. However his powers may actually be useful at his latest school, where five undead students are causing mayhem and putting the school’s future at risk. Modesto realises that to move on and be at peace they must graduate, but how do you go about teaching five wayward teenage ghosts?

HK: Forbidden Super Hero Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Yûichi Fukuda, Japan, 2013, 90 min, ST Sat 9, 16:00, HYDE • Sat 9, 20:00, HYDE • Wed 20, 16:00, EVERYMAN A new hero has arisen in Japan, wearing fishnet stockings, a mankini, and a mask of knickers, who slays the bad guys with a mind-blowing variety of wild, deviant martial arts moves, and invincible crotch attack techniques. When conventional justice fails, make way for Hentai Kamen, the masked pervert. Based on a wildly popular Shonen Jump manga series and originally planned to be a direct-to-DVD release in Japan, this hilarious crowd pleaser became a surprise hit in cinemas in Japan and won the audience award at the New York Asian Film Festival.

Ikarie XB-1 Fanomenon Cult Classics Dir. Jindrich Polák, Czechoslovakia, 1963, 81 min, ST Sun 10, 14:00, EVERYMAN A pioneering cult sci-fi classic, Jindrich Polák’s Ikarie XB-1 is a beautifully designed and realised adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s novel The Magellanic Cloud, about a mission to find life in the Alpha Centauri system in the year 2163. Predating Star Trek and 2001, its influence can be seen on both - and on almost every other science-fiction vehicle that followed.

‘A game-changing film that profoundly influenced the genre and showed that science-fiction movies weren’t only about special effects; they were also high art. Of the hardest and most admirable kind’ - Alex Cox

Jaws Fanomenon Greats at Leeds Town Hall Dir. Steven Spielberg, USA, 1975, 124 min Fri 15, 18:00, VICTORIA We’re gonna need a bigger screen! The setting of Leeds Town Hall is one of the few venues that can really do justice to one of the biggest Hollywood movies of all time. Jaws is arguably the most significant Hollywood movie ever made, helping to usher in a new breed of filmmakers and styles. Amazing performances from Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw, a truly iconic score, some of the best set piece direction you’ll ever see and of course that shark all work together to create an unforgettable moment in movie history.

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KIRKSTALL ABBEY Abbey Rd, Leeds, LS5 3EH

GOTHIC FILM FESTIVAL 31 October – 3 November

Tickets: on sale from

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The Carriageworks

0113 224 3801 Kirkstall Abbey

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NOSFERATU NIGHT OF THE DEMON WITCHFINDER GENERAL THE DEVIL RIDES OUT BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC THE INNOCENTS

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Opening night Thu 31 October, 6.00pm: NOSFERATU with live accompaniment by Neil Brand, Gunter Buchwald and Jeff Davenport Presented by Cambridge Film Trust & Broadway Nottingham, in association with National Media Museum Bradford, Showroom Sheffield. Programmes from The Carriageworks and Kirkstall Abbey.

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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue Fanomenon Cult Classics Dir. Jorge Grau, Spain / Italy, 1974, 95 min, ST Fri 8, 23:00, HYDE In 1983 the Department of Public Prosecution, led on by the fervour of certain newspapers, attempted to ban a number of films under the Obscene Publications Act, creating what became known as the Video Nasties. Thirty years on and the majority of these films are now available to watch uncut in the UK including Jorge Grau’s zombie classic shot in Cheshire where experimental pesticides are bringing the dead back to life. While many of the films were of questionable quality, made popular only because of their notoriety, a few, like this and Possession (also showing in LIFF27) are great films in their own right.

Love & Hate: Fanomenon Shorts Special Fanomenon Panorama Dirs. Various, 2012/13, 100 min approx, some ST Thu 14, 18:00, EVERYMAN Last year’s short panorama had the theme of ‘tales of the unexpected’ where everything had a twist in the tail. This year’s programme brings together a collection of strange and sometimes horrific shorts from around the world on the theme of love and hate and that often grey area in between.

From Dollface, about a young woman coming to terms with her new boyfriend’s strange obsession to Sequence about a man who can’t understand why the entire world hates him, the programme will cover relationship break-ups, family breakdowns and a bit of cannibalism for good measure.

Love Eternal Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Brendan Muldowney, Ireland / Luxembourg / Netherlands / Japan, 2013, 94 min, ST Sun 17, 20:30, EVERYMAN • Thu 21, 16:00, EVERYMAN Brendan Muldowney’s debut feature Savage (LIFF 2010) was a brutal tour de force about a victimised man’s descent into violence. He returns with a film about a much more sensitive issue, albeit one that is just as shocking. Ian is an introverted loner who is obsessed with suicide. An encounter with a woman he meets in a suicide chatroom brings him closer to death and sparks a new obsession. He begins stalking another woman, Naomi (played with great pathos by Pollyanna McIntosh) whom he believes may be able to give him what he wants.

Masterpiece: Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns Fanomenon Panorama Dirs. Alexander Gray, Jeff Maynard, USA, 2013, 79 min Mon 18, 21:00, EVERYMAN • Wed 20, 18:00, EVERYMAN Malcolm McDowell narrates one of the best documentaries ever made about the art of graphic novels. Masterpiece is a detailed and fascinating account of the history and production of the hugely influential Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Frank Miller himself appears in the documentary along with many of the team involved in the creation of the classic work that ushered in the modern take of the dark and brooding protector of Gotham. The acclaimed animated version of the graphic novel is also showing in full in Fanomenon 2013.

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On Air Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Marco Riedl, Carsten Vauth, Germany, 2013, 104 min, ST Sat 9, Part of Night of the Dead XIII, HYDE Nighthawk is the pirate radio station run by family man ‘Doc Rock’ from his basement. His favourite topic of the moment is the vicious serial killer The Nightslasher whom he likes to badmouth live on air. Tonight though, the tables have been turned as The Nightslasher is on the line and has an ultimatum for the fast-talking DJ - keep him from killing his current victim before the end of the show and he’ll let her live. Doc Rock has to lay bear his soul without any chance of escape as the killer seems to know his every move.

Painless Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Juan Carlos Medina, Spain / France / Portugal, 2012, 100 min, ST Thu 14, 20:30, EVERYMAN David, a brilliant neuro-surgeon, has his world turned upside down when he visits his parents to ask if they can donate bone marrow for the life-saving operation he requires. Digging into his past he unlocks a mystery that goes back to the Spanish Civil War when a group of children who can feel no pain were locked up in an asylum. As he closes in on the shocking truth the lives of everyone he holds dear is changed forever. Weaving two stories together across different timelines Juan Carlos Medina creates an exciting thriller that will keep you guessing right to the end.

Patema Inverted Fanomenon Anime Day Dir. Yasuhiro Yoshiura, Japan, 2013, 99 min, ST Sun 17, 13:00, Part of Anime Day 2013, VICTORIA The English Premiere of the new anime feature from Yasuhiro Yoshiura, the director of Time of Eve, screening in Leeds just after its Japanese release. Patema has lived her whole life underground, following a catastrophic attempt to harness alternative power sources, when her community were driven to settle in a dark, cramped network of tunnels. She roams them by torchlight, dreaming of adventures on the surface. But she gets more adventure than she expects when she sneaks into a forbidden area that takes her above ground, and Patema’s world is turned upside-down, literally.

Possession Fanomenon Cult Classics Dir. Andrzej Zulawski, France / Germany, 1981, 118 min Fri 8, 20:30, VICTORIA Envisaged initially as a horror, this astonishing film is charged with an erotic energy and madness that is totally infectious, earning it cult status. Seriously, this film infects you, and you want it to. Anna (Isabelle Adjani), the gorgeous wife of Mark (Sam Neill), has fallen hard for another lover and is possessed by an insatiable frenzy of lust for him. Mark follows her into a stylized nightmare of paranoid encounters and horrific creatures, as if the deformity of their relationship has taken on a ghastly physical form that wants to possess Anna completely.

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The Resurrection of a Bastard Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Guido van Driel, Netherlands, 2013, 85 min, ST Tue 19, 20:30, HYDE Based on a graphic novel written by the director, The Resurrection of a Bastard tells the story of Ronnie, a Dutch gangster who has had a change of heart following an incident that he is recovering from. Once a vicious and heartless thug (whose violent actions are shown in flashbacks, including the most creative, nasty use of a vacuum cleaner ever seen) the new Ronnie is thoughtful, considerate and, apparently, slightly psychic. He is destined to cross paths with Eduardo, an asylum seeker who is struggling to fit in with the Dutch way of life and their fates are mysteriously entertwined.

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil, 2013, 98 min, ST Mon 18, 20:30, VICTORIA Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury is a breathtaking adult animated epic from Brazil that won the top award at the world’s leading animation festival in Annecy. Set during radical episodes of Brazil’s history, from the Portuguese colonisation in 1500 through to slavery and dictatorship, and in a sci-fi imagining of a future Rio in 2096 where water is scarce. The film is about the love between an immortal warrior and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years.

Santa Sangre Fanomenon Cult Classics Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico/Italy, 1989, 123 min, ST Fri 15, 20:30, EVERYMAN Ageing enfant terrible and master cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky returned to the fray after a decade long hiatus to present his incendiary, hallucinatory parable Santa Sangre, every bit as madcap and compelling as his early hits El Topo and Holy Mountain. Santa Sangre is a temple torn down by bulldozers over the protestations of its leader Concha, the wife of an unfaithful circus performer and the mother of Fenix (Jodorowsky’s son Axel). The Church is built on a gruesome crime scene, the first of many trials for the young Fenix which lead to his incarceration in a mental asylum.

Savaged Fanomenon Night of the Dead Dir. Michael S. Ojeda, USA, 2013, 93 min Sat 9, Part of Night of the Dead XIII, HYDE Zoe, a beautiful deaf girl, is driving across country on her way to meet her fiance when she is captured by a gang of bloodthirsty racist rednecks. Battered, beaten and close to death she manages to escape and is rescued by a local Indian healer, who attempts to save her. The ritual goes wrong and the angry spirit of a dead apache warrior enters her body, fusing their souls together. Channeling his strength and rage Zoe returns to deliver furious vengeance upon the men who abused her before her decaying body gives out. I Spit on Your Grave meets The Crow in this vicious, violent and bloody revenge thriller.

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Sci-fi: Fanomenon Shorts Special Fanomenon Panorama Dirs. Various, 2012/13, 100 min approx, some ST Sun 10, 16:00, EVERYMAN Following on from the success of the Fanomenon Shorts Panorama last year, we return with not one, but two special collections of fantastic shorts. In this programme we include a selection of films based on a number of futuristic visions, from the Iranian atmospheric dystopia of Impression XPS-160 about a blind photographer in a post-apocalyptic landscape to the slightly more light-hearted world of Alien Repair Guy about what happens when the Earth breaks down and needs rebooting. In between there’s plenty of other stories to make you think about what tomorrow’s world may bring.

Silver Méliès Short Film Competition Fanomenon Day of the Dead Dirs. Various, 2012/13, 100 min approx, some ST Sat 16, 16:00, Part of Day of the Dead 7, VICTORIA 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. LIFF has been a member since 2005 and from this year is asking you, the audience, to pick which film should win the Leeds Méliès d’Argent and go forward to compete for the coveted Méliès d’Or at Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival next year. Featuring a number of UK films, including Shellshocked from Yorkshire’s very own Dominic Brunt and Invocation from Robert Morgan whose last film was nominated for a BAFTA.

Soulmate Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Axelle Carolyn, UK, 2013, 104 min Mon 11, 18:00, HYDE Axelle Carolyn (The Halloween Kid, LIFF 2012) makes her feature film debut with Soulmate, a beautifully shot and intimate ghost story about love and loss. When Audrey, a young widow recovering from a suicide attempt, discovers that the remote cottage she is convalescing in is haunted, she decides to stay and befriend the lonely spirit. As the feelings between them grow the ghostly Douglas becomes stronger and more corporeal but his plans for their future begin to concern Audrey who must decide between life and death.

Steins;Gate the Movie: Loading Area of Déjà vu Fanomenon Anime Day Dir. Kanji Wakabayashi, Japan, 2013, 90 min, ST Sun 17, 15:00, Part of Anime Day 2013, VICTORIA The time travelling Steins;Gate phenomenon has spawned a manga and anime tv series, and now the first hit movie, receiving its English Premiere in Leeds. Kurisu is reunited with her boyfriend Okabe in Tokyo after a year in America, but their time together is cut short when Okabe begins to have images of other timelines, and disappears when he finds the ultimate Steins;Gate. Kurisu must decide whether to follow Okabe’s advice to not go back in time to get him, or try to find him and risk disaster for the world.

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The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears Fanomenon Panorama Dirs. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Belgium, 2013, 102 min, ST Sat 16, 14:00, Part of Day of the Dead 7, VICTORIA Almost single-handedly resurrecting the Italian giallo film genre with Amer (LIFF 2010), Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet return with another astounding piece of filmmaking that uses beautiful imagery, moody, atmospheric sound and incredible performances to draw in the audience. When Dan returns home to discover his wife is missing, he starts to investigate the creepy people in his apartment block. Convinced she is dead, the police refuse to help or even believe him. Soon his obsession causes him to descend into a world of madness leaving the audience to wonder if there ever was a killer.

The Tenant Fanomenon Cult Classics Dir. Roman Polanski, France, 1976, 126 min, ST Mon 11, 18:00, EVERYMAN • Tue 12, 15:30, EVERYMAN One of Polanski’s strangest and most underrated films,The Tenant has impeccable cult credentials. Adapted from the only novel by French oddball surrealist Roland Topor, it’s a bizarre and paranoid psychological thriller, poorly received on its initial release after the huge successes of Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown, it has since gained an impassioned following. The only feature in which Polanski casts himself in the lead role, he plays Trelkovsky, a lonely young man who rents a flat that was previously occupied by a girl who committed suicide. Gradually he becomes obsessed with her and begins to assume her identity.

They Will Outlive Us All Fanomenon Night of the Dead Dir. Patrick Shearer, USA, 2013, 73 min Sat 9, Part of Night of the Dead XIII, HYDE New York 2016 - the city’s public services are struggling to cope in the aftermath of freak hurricanes. Slacker twentysomething roommates Margot and Daniel survive in their rundown Brooklyn apartment by ignoring the world outside, getting drunk and watching horror films. But with three unexplained deaths in their building, some very dodgy looking green goo in the water and something unnatural running around their apartment, their safe little world is about to be violated in the worst possible way. Patrick Shearer’s debut feature takes a dark, funny and terrifying look at what the future may hold for us all...

Wake in Fright Fanomenon Cult Classics and Creatures of the Night Special Dir. Ted Kotcheff, Australia, 1971, 114 min Sat 16, 23:30, HYDE Wake in Fright had long been thought of as lost, but this 1970s seminal Australian New Wave film has now been fully restored in a stunning new digital version. Described by musician Nick Cave as ‘The best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence’ the film follows John Grant, a middle-class school teacher returning to Sydney for the holidays from the tiny outback settlement where he teaches. Stopping over in ‘Yabba’, a local town, he is sucked into a night of drinking and gambling. Awakening the following morning penniless, his hopes of reaching Sydney are dashed and so begins his descent into debauchery and madness.

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Cinema Versa is dedicated to the documentary form and inspired by the underground festival aesthetic, showcasing low budget, independent features: alternative music docs, grassroots political activist films and profiles of mavericks and outsiders. This year’s Music on Film section celebrates a diverse range of musical and film styles from the unconventional new tour film about indie darlings The National made by the singer’s brother to Harlem Street Singer about the legendary ragtime guitarist Reverend Gary Davis, whose history mirrors that of popular music in the twentieth century. We also show archive gems in collaboration with our music partners, MusicFilmWeb present The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector and Jumbo Records the classic Fela Kuti film, Music is the Weapon.

Underground Voices ranges in subject matter from everyday life in a war zone as filmed by a group of ordinary Afghans in My Afghanistan to the history of hand crafted sign painting in the USA in Sign Painters and a delegation of artists and scientists visiting the melting ice caps of Greenland in Expedition to the End of the World. We also present a series of special events with our creative partners and collaborators including live film collage performances from both legendary DJ Andy Votel and plunderphonic artist Vicki Bennett, collaborations with human rights groups the Dalit Freedom Network and Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign with the film screening Apples of the Golan and the Invisible Cities cinema walk.

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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector Music on Film Dir. Vikram Jayanti, USA/UK, 2009, 102 min Sun 10, 18:30, ALBERT • Thu 14, 20:30, ALBERT An archive selection by our press partner, Andy Markowitz at MusicFilmWeb.com. A lot of music docs claim to reveal the ‘real’ people behind the music, but few deliver like this riveting guided tour of the mind of the mad genius of pop. Mixing an expansive interview that gives full rein to Spector’s creativity, selfabsorption, and abiding strangeness with footage from his first murder trial and full versions of his Wall of Sound hits (elegantly dissected by rock journo Mick Brown), this is one of the most psychologically dense and watchable portraits of an artist on film.

Andy Votel: Kleksploitation Special Events Approx 90 min Thu 7, 20:30, BELGRAVE A magical, psychedelic live film/music extravaganza by the legendary DJ, musician and label boss, Andy Votel. Kleksploitation is an homage to Pan Kleks, a Polish trilogy of much loved films made for children in the 1980s. Votel draws on images, music and sound from the original films, selecting and subverting, to coax their darker side to the surface and create something wholly original, unsettling and weirdly humourous. The trilogy was scored by Andrzej Korzyński, a Warsaw composer whose unearthed catalogue Votel is currently releasing on his Finders Keepers label, including Andrzej Żuławski’s incredible Possession.

Apples of the Golan Special Events Dirs. Jill Beardsworth, Keith Walsh, Austria/Ireland/Syria/Israel, 2012, 80 min, ST Fri 8, 19:00, HYDE A powerful documentary telling the epic story of one village in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights set to the backdrop of the revolution raging over the border in the villagers’ homeland of Syria. Before the Six Day War, Majdal Shams was one of 139 villages in the Golan Heights region. Only five remain. Over 130,000 Syrian Arabs were forced from their homes never to return. Amongst those who remain a stoic pragmatism prevails, Israel their home, Syria their homeland. Presented with the Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign featuring a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Breathing Earth Underground Voices Dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer, Germany/UK/Turkey/Italy/Mexico/ Japan/France, 2012, 97 min, Part ST Wed 13, 20:30, VUE • Thu 14, 16:30, VUE A beautiful and contemplative documentary that mirrors its 75-year-old subject, the extraordinary Japanese artist Susumu Shingu. He creates mesmerising art installations and sculptures using wind and water, windmills and turbines with complex and self-generating movements. Thomas Riedelsheimer’s film accompanies this quiet and unassuming man all around the world from the windstrewn highlands of Scotland to the Monarch butterfly breeding grounds of Mexico, in pursuit of a dream to create a large scale eco-village.

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Brothers Hypnotic Music on Film Dir. Reuben Atlas, USA/Netherlands, 2013, 84 min Thu 14, 20:00, BELGRAVE Introducing one of the most powerful and original family bands in the world today. For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, ‘brotherhood’ is literal: they’re all sons of antiestablishment Chicago jazz musician, Phil Cohran. Raised on Chicago’s South Side as subjects of their father’s utopian family experiment, they wore homemade clothes, ate vegan, and awoke at 5am for band practice. Now grown, they pursue their own resolutely independent creative path from busking in Times Square to collaborating with Mos Def and forming an incredible horn section for a stadium gig with Prince.

The Bucuresti Experiment Underground Voices Dir. Tom Wilson, Romania, 2013, 68 min, ST Fri 8, 21:00, ALBERT This clever and playful documentary interrogates the objectivity of history and the transition from Communism to Capitalism.

Filmmaker Tom Wilson describes the 1989 revolution in Romania as a coup d’etat. The Romanian secret police knew it was coming and had time to prepare for the free market, starting an experiment to turn ‘socialist man’ into ‘capitalist man’. The film follows the experiment’s initiator, Andrei Juvina, his former partner and pop singer, Carmen Anton and an array of shady characters and eccentric opportunists, wrongfooting its viewers along the way in an entertaining and illuminating fashion.

Dalit Freedom Network Presents ‘Kavi - Not All Prisons Have Bars’ Special Events Approx 80 min Sat 9, 18:00, ALBERT

Human rights charity, Dalit Freedom Network present a short film Kavi (Dir. Gregg Helvey, India/USA, 2009, 19 min, ST), alongside interviews and Q&A with Kumar Swamy, DFN’s South India Director, and local author David Skivington whose gripping novel ‘Scar Tissue’ focuses on child trafficking in India.

Kavi is an award-winning, Oscar-nominated dramatic short film set in India. Incisive and moving, it tells the story of a young boy who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave.

Dirty Wars Underground Voices Dir. Rick Rowley, USA/Afghanistan/Iraq/Kenya/Somalia/Yemen, 2013, 87 min Sun 17, 21:00, HYDE Dirty Wars is an urgent and powerful new documentary following investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of America’s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond.

CIA agents, military generals and Special Forces operators go on camera and on the record—many for the first time. The human victims of this unaccountable violence are also heard with direct testimony from survivors of night raids and drone strikes and victims of torture in ‘black’ detention sites.

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Expedition to the End of the World Underground Voices Dir. Daniel Dencik, Denmark/Sweden, 2013, 90 min, Part ST Sun 10, 20:30, VICTORIA • Tue 12, 16:00, VICTORIA An exotic travelogue and an adventure film with a difference, Expedition to the End of the World follows a three-mast schooner with a diverse crew of artists and scientists of various disciplines, who travel to the rapidly melting ice massifs in North-East Greenland. Stunningly shot with breathtaking vistas of glaciers and ice floes and a playful soundtrack that ranges from Mozart to Metallica. The epic journey throws up a whole range of new experiences for its crew, all of whom have a fascinating perspective on their experiences, which they share with curiosity, pathos and a liberating splash of humour.

Fifi Howls from Happiness Underground Voices Dir. Mitra Farahani, USA/Iran/France, 2013, 96 min, ST Tue 12, 16:30, VUE • Thu 14, 18:30, VUE One of the most fascinating and moving documentaries of the year, Fifi Howls from Happiness introduces the vivid, charismatic and combative Iranian artist Bahman Mohasses. Celebrated in pre-revolutionary Iran, Mohasses was written out of its history since 1979. No one had heard of him since, until filmmaker Mitra Farahani tracked the ageing artist down to a hotel room in Rome. Equally prone to egotism and self destruction, he had a disturbing tendency of destroying his own paintings. The film witnesses the attempts to reclaim and value what is left and follows the creative process of his last work.

Film to Change 4 Special Events UK, approx 90 min Tue 12, 18:30, ALBERT Film to Change, our collaboration with Arts & Minds returns with a new selection of shorts about mental health, made by people with experience of mental health issues. Includes The Black Dog, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Daddy Long Legs and The Monkey and the Burden. Featuring information about the history of the Arts & Minds film project and a Q&A with the film-makers. Also check out the Love Music Leeds Film Premiere, the story of a music and mental health project. Thursday 21st November, 7.30pm at Holy Trinity Church.

Finding Hillywood + Godka Cirka Underground Voices Dirs. Christopher Towey, Leah Warshawski, USA, 2013, 58 + 10 min Wed 13, 20:30, ALBERT • Fri 15, 18:30, ALBERT A unique and inspiring documentary about the growth of Rwanda’s film industry. Ayuub Kasasa Mago is one of the pioneers taking this newly accessible art form to the remotest regions of the country in a travelling film festival, sometimes showing people the wonders of cinema for the first time. Like many of his fellow Rwandans, he has a deeply painful past and these homegrown films explore the real social consequences of a country in the shadow of genocide. Screening with the equally moving short film Godka Cirka (Dirs. Àlex Lora Cercós, Antonio Tibaldi, Spain/USA/France, 2013, 10 min).

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Fortress Underground Voices Dirs. Klára Tasovská, Lukáš Kokeš, Czech Republic, 2012, 70 min, ST Sun 10, 17:00, ALBERT • Sun 17, 20:30, ALBERT A visit to the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is like a trip to a museum of communist totalitarianism. A tiny country on the Moldova-Ukraine border whose independence has been recognized by only a few other states, it’s an isolated multiethnic enclave held together by an authoritarian regime. As it’s a country where you are only allowed to film out the window of a train, Fortress offers a rare insider’s view. The locals are afraid of being denounced but are glad to live in a comfortable refuge from the hectic modern world and kitch propaganda songs on television celebrate the president.

Grasp the Nettle Underground Voices Dir. Dean Puckett, UK, 2013, 91 min Fri 8, 17:00, ALBERT • Mon 11, 18:30, ALBERT Dean Puckett, director of the LIFF hit documentary The Crisis of Civilisation returns with Grasp the Nettle, a vital grassroots documentary which grapples unflinchingly with activism and protest in austerity Britain, radical, alternative lifestyles and the occupy movement. He follows the exploits of a ragtag band of land rights activists in London as they struggle against corporations, government, police - and themselves - in their efforts to create alternative communities outside the framework of consumer society.

Grey City Underground Voices Dirs. Marcelo Mesquita, Guilherme Valiengo, Brazil/UK, 2012, 85 min, ST Sat 9, 19:00, EVERYMAN • Wed 13, 16:30, EVERYMAN With a similar verve and style to its featured street artists, Grey City takes us to the frontlines of the graffiti wars in Sao Paulo.

The city has nurtured its own graffiti style, replacing hip hop with regional culture and inspiring incredible large scale murals by artists like the OsGemeos’ crew, whose work has spread to galleries around the world. However, this new culture is constantly under threat, not least by a new visual pollution combat act that makes City Hall send out squads of agents, to cover the paintings with grey.

Harlem Street Singer Music on Film Dirs. Simeon Hutner, Trevor Laurence, USA, 2013, 76 min Sun 10, 20:30, ALBERT • Wed 20, 18:30 ALBERT Harlem Street Singer tells the little-known story of Reverend Gary Davis, the great American ragtime, blues and gospel guitarist.

Not only is he one of the greatest folk guitar players of all time, he also represents the sweep of popular music in America during the twentieth century. Harlem Street Singer traces his journey from the tobacco warehouses of the rural south to the streets of Harlem, and onto the 1960s folk music scene, a blind street musician and itinerant preacher who rose out of abject poverty to influence a generation of musicians from Ramblin’ Jack Elliott to the Grateful Dead.

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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Underground Voices Dir. Sophie Huber, Switzerland, 2012, 76 min Mon 11, 17:00 ALBERT • Wed 13, 19:00, ALBERT A hugely stylish and affectingly intimate documentary portrait of the iconic actor and musician, Harry Dean Stanton, Partly Fiction is as wistful and enigmatic as its subject. Looking back across an extraordinary career, Harry reluctantly opens up to some probing interview questions and performs heart-breaking renditions of some of his favourite American folk songs. An impressive supporting cast of collaborators and friends includes David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry. Also featuring beautiful cinematography with sequences in colour and black and white by Seamus McGarvey.

Here Was Cuba Underground Voices Dirs. John Murray, Emer Reynolds, Ireland, 2013, 78 min Thu 14, 16:00, EVERYMAN • Fri 15, 14:00, EVERYMAN Unfolding with the escalating tension of a great thriller, Here Was Cuba is a landmark documentary exploring what happened over 13 days in October 1962 when the fate of the world lay ultimately in the hands of just three men. At the height of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the earth to the very brink of nuclear holocaust. The film reveals how the world’s most powerful men, Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev fell into an abyss of their own making and what courage and luck it took to climb out again.

How We Played the Revolution Music on Film Dir. Giedre Zickyte, Lithuania/France, 2013, 70 min, ST Sun 17, 19:00, ALBERT • Tue 19, 18:30, ALBERT The extraordinary story of an art-school joke that became a figurehead for a freedom movement. How We Played the Revolution begins in 1984 in the era of Soviet perestroika, when a group of architects organised a band called Antis for one night only at a New Year’s party in Kaunas, Lithuania. They were so good that rumours spread like wildfire. Inventing theatrical shows with wild costumes and arch humour caricaturing Soviet propaganda, they grew into the Rock Marches – massive events involving thousands of people – that transformed into the Lithuanian ‘Singing Revolution’.

The Human Scale Underground Voices Dir. Andreas Dalsgaard, Denmark/Bangladesh/China/New Zealand/USA, 2012, 83 min Wed 13, 17:00, ALBERT • Mon 18, 20:30, ALBERT The Human Scale is a vital documentary dedicated to rethinking urban space and our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the centre of our equations. For forty years acclaimed architect Jan Gehl has systematically studied human behavior in cities, what he calls life between buildings. His ideas inspired the creation of walking streets, the building and improvements of bike paths and the reorganization of parks and squares from Copenhagen to Melbourne, Dhaka, New York, Chongqing and Christchurch.

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Irish Arts Presents: The Films of Thaddeus O’Sullivan Special Events Dir. Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Ireland, 1985/2011, 129 min Fri 8, 19:30, SEVEN ARTS •FREE Event Irish Arts present a tribute to director Thaddeus O’Sullivan including short film The Woman Who Married Clark Gable, a pivotal film for O’Sullivan, his first credit as the director of a screen drama. Lovingly shot on location in black-and-white 35mm, the film explores the power of the Church and of cinema, a theme picked up again in Stella Days, a feature imbued with wry humour and lightness of touch. The stark contrasts of monochrome imply the clear-cut moral dimension imposed on social behaviour and gender roles, and the cultural aesthetic enshrined in Ireland’s 1937 Constitution.

Leeds Film City: Invisible Cinema Walk Special Events Sat 9, 12:00, LEEDS STATION • Sun 10, 12:00, LEEDS STATION Invisible Cinema is Ben Waddington’s exploration of the secret picture houses of Leeds City Centre. The number of cinemas rose and fell with the 20th Century; most cities at one time boasting hundreds of screens. With the rise of the multiplex, their structure was absorbed back into the fabric of the city.

However, if you know what to look for, their presence can still be seen flickering in the shadows. Join Ben on a 94 minute tour searching for the city’s cinema screens that over time have been lost and perhaps forgotten but not quite gone. The tour will begin inside the Wellington Street entrance to Leeds Railway Station. Tickets are £6/£5 and must be booked in advance.

Leviathan Underground Voices Dirs. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, France/UK, 2012, 87 min Thu 14, 20:30, VICTORIA Leviathan is a thrilling, immersive doc that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast, the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail. Employing an arsenal of cameras that pass freely from film crew to ship crew, and swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird’s-eye views, Leviathan is a purely visceral, cinematic experience.

Mistaken for Strangers Music on Film Dir. Tom Berninger, USA, 2013, 75 min Sun 10, 17:00, HYDE • Thu 14, 19:00, HYDE In a brilliant subversion of the standard rockumentary, Tom, the younger brother of Matt Berninger, lead singer of ascendant indie darlings The National, went on tour with the band as a roadie with camera in tow. A metalhead at heart, Tom is more interested in the people and occasion than the band themselves. Proving consistently ineffectual as a crew member, he’s often treated as an irritant by his subjects, but proves himself a consistently inventive filmmaker capturing a wealth of compelling and intimate, funny and moving footage of the heady experience of a touring rock band on the rise.

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Music is the Weapon + Miniyamba Music on Film Dirs. Jean-Jacques Flori, Stéphane Tchalgadjieff, France, 1982, 54 + 14 min, ST Sat 16, 20:00, ALBERT • Tue 19, 17:00, ALBERT Jumbo Records present Music is the Weapon. Fela Kuti, the legendary bandleader and creator of Afrobeat, pan-African revolutionary and late husband to 27 wives, was captured at the height of his powers in this classic doc. It’s a good time to revisit with Steve McQueen’s biopic and Alex Gibney’s doc both in the works. Fela offers insightful testimony, discussing his political philosophy and leading vivid and hypnotic performances at his nightclub The Shrine. Screening with beautiful short animation Miniyamba (Dir. Luc Perez, Denmark/France, 2012, 14 min, ST).

My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone Underground Voices Dir. Nagieb Khaja, Denmark, 2012, 88 min, ST Tue 12, 20:30, ALBERT • Thu 14, 17:00, ALBERT As a refreshing alternative to almost all film and reportage about Afghanistan, Nagieb Khaja’s fresh and inspirational film experiment invites ordinary Afghan people to document their own everyday lives. Khaja is a Danish journalist of Afghan origin who believes that the West makes decisions on Afghanistan based on an uninformed view of the country and its people. He distributed thirty mobile cameras to various Afghan civilians. For the first time, we are invited into life in the forbidden zone with all the joys and sorrows, victories and defeats associated with living in the shadow of war.

Notations – a film by Vicki Bennett

with a live score by invited artists and musicians featuring M.C. Schmidt, Wobbly and Tomomi Adachi 90 min Approx Special Events Sat 16, 21:00, HYDE A unique and groundbreaking live film/music collage performance by Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us. Each event features different guest improvisers, in Leeds it’s M.C. Schmidt from the legendary electronic duo Matmos, Californian plunderphonic artist Wobbly and Japanese improv vocalist Tomomi Adachi. Notations has been created from hundreds of film clips, which act as a visual score for the improvisers. Also featuring an audiovisual performance by People Like Us of Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another).

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This is Stones Throw Records) Music on Film Dir. Jeff Broadway, USA/UK, 2013, 94 min Fri 8, 19:00, ALBERT • Mon 11, 20:30, ALBERT Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton is an addictive profile of the avant-garde LA-based record label Stones Throw. Under the direction of founder and world-renowned DJ Peanut Butter Wolf, they have consistently released critically acclaimed, left-of-centre albums since the mid-90s. Revitalising the increasingly gung-ho and commercialised world of hip hop with groundbreaking artists such as J Dilla and Madlib, the label has diversified into other areas with innovators like Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne and Anika. Featuring interviews with many of the label artists, great concert footage and exclusive archive material.

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Revenge of the Mekons Music on Film Dir. Joe Angio, UK / USA, 2013, 95 min Thu 21, 21:00, HYDE ‘The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock ’n’ roll.’ Lester Bangs. The Mekons were one of the great bands to come out of Leeds and one of the most consistently innovative and provocative graduates of the British punk movement. Against all odds—and despite a career consigned to the margins—the Mekons continue to tour and make adventurous and challenging albums, despite its member’s separation across two continents. A rich and illuminating account of a fascinating, criminally under-recognized band, Revenge of the Mekons is a lively, inspiring and entertaining film.

Sean Noonan: A Gambler’s Hand Special Events Approx 90 min Mon 18, 20:30, HYDE A live collision of music, film and storytelling featuring New York drummer Sean Noonan, A Gambler’s Hand is a suite for string quartet and percussion combining downtown jazz/rock and improv and a mesmerising new film. The absurdist tale of Pavee, an Irish gambler who one day finds himself immured inside a wall, is vividly told by Noonan and also portrayed in a dreamlike film with the sound track from A Gambler’s Hand album. The film is produced in Poland by director and screenwriter Marta Kopec. Presented in partnership with Fusebox: wwwfuseboxleeds.org.uk

Secret City Underground Voices Dir. Michael Chanan, UK, 2012, 72 min Thu 14, 19:00, ALBERT • Mon 18, 19:00, ALBERT A timely investigation into the hidden history of the institutions at the heart of the economic crisis and the inner workings of the City of London and its ancient government, the Corporation of London. The recent economic crisis has focused attention on capitalism and its failings to a degree not seen for decades. After numerous scandals, questions abound about the origins of the crisis and the role of finance capital. Secret City exposes the inner workings of London’s financial heart, how it resists democratisation and has worked to become the predominant force in global capitalism.

Sign Painters Special Events Dirs. Faythe Levine, Sam Macon, USA, 2013, 80 min Thu 7, 21:00, HYDE The world of sign painting may, at first glance, feel a little niche. The power of Levine and Macon’s follow up to 2009’s Handmade Nation is that over the course of their film they show us how relevant this world is to ours, and how vital this art form still is. Sign Painters is about sign painting, I won’t lie about that, it’s also about skills and the beautiful legacy good craftsmanship leaves on our world. I can’t think of a more perfect film to mark the 99th birthday of a similar bastion of a bygone era, the Hyde Park Picture House.

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Sleepless Nights Underground Voices Dir. Eliane Raheb, Lebanon/United Arab Emirates/Qatar/ Palestine/France, 2013, 118 min, ST Sat 9, 20:00, ALBERT Sleepless Nights is a deeply moving documentary about reconciliation and justice in the Lebanon, bringing two people together whose lives have been changed forever by the civil war. Assaad Shaftari is a former intelligence officer in the Lebanese Forces who feels guilt for his bloody acts during the war and Maryam Saidi is a mother who’s still searching for her son, a communist fighter who disappeared in 1982. The war ended in 1991 with an amnesty for political crimes, Sleepless Nights interrogates the legacy of this decision from both sides.

The Stuart Hall Project + Panel Discussion Special Events Dir. John Akomfrah, UK, 2013, 103 min Tue 12, 20:30, EVERYMAN Made entirely from artfully assembled fragments of Hall’s film, television, radio and photographic archives, this is the astonishing life story of a black intellectual in post-colonial Britain.

His sincere and thoughtful narration guides us from his arrival in Oxford from Jamaica in 1951 to becoming one of the foremost intellectuals of the British Left. Leeds Metropolitan University’s School of Cultural Studies and Humanities and Leeds Taking Soundings are partners in this event. Following the screening there will be a discussion and we hope to welcome director John Akomfrah. See www.takingsoundings.org.uk for details.

The Tax Free Tour + How We Live Underground Voices Dir. Marije Meerman, Netherlands + UK, 2013, 53+16 min, Part ST Sat 16, 18:00, ALBERT • Wed 20, 20:30, ALBERT An eye opening primer on the tax evasive manoeuvres of multinational corporations that reveals alarming levels of economic injustice around the world. Gaining insight from international tax experts, director Marije Meerman takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally. A financial world operates in the shadows surrounded by a high level of secrecy. The Tax Free Tour is an economic thriller mapping the systemic risk for governments and citizens alike. Showing with an essential short film about energy, How We Live (Dir. Meghan Horvath, UK, 2013, 16 min).

Unplugged + Doctor Bucketman Music on Film Dir. Mladen Kovacevic, Serbia/Finland/Spain, 2013, 51+14 min, ST Tue 19, 20:00, ALBERT • Wed 20, 17:00, ALBERT A playfully offbeat Serbian documentary about the bizarre traditions of folk music and instrumentation and finding inspiration in everyday objects all around you. Josip is an amateur inventor, maker and collector of homemade musical instruments who sets out to decode the ancient folk artistry of leaf-playing. He meets and tries to emulate the last of the virtuoso leaf-players, former spy Vera. Music has rarely been so offbeat. Screening with the short film Doctor Bucketman (Dir. Carlos Carcas, Spain, 2012, 14 min) about a jawdropping Madrid street drummer.

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Wavemakers Music on Film Dir. Caroline Martel, Canada, 2012, 97 min, Part ST Sun 17, 17:00, ALBERT • Mon 18, 17:00, ALBERT A captivating documentary on one of the earliest and most expressive of electronic instruments, the Ondes Martenot.

Invented in the 1920s, it resembles a keyboard with long strings attached, creating sound by varying the frequencies of oscillation in its vacuum tubes. Instruments and players are now rare, but its eerie, wavering notes are unmistakable and utilised to great effect by everyone from Messiaen to sci-fi soundtracks.

The film follows collectors and inventors, modern virtuoso Suzanne Binet-Audet and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, all passionate advocates of the ’Stradivarius of the electronic age.’

William and the Windmill Underground Voices Dir. Ben Nabors, USA/Malawi/South Africa, 2013, 88 min Fri 15, 20:30, ALBERT SXSW award winner, William and the Windmill is a documentary of considerable warmth and insight, introducing a bright young African whose life is complicated beyond recognition by his own promising future. William Kamkwamba, a young Malawian, builds a power-generating windmill from junk parts to rescue his family from famine, transforming his life and catapulting him on to the world stage. His fame and success lead him to new opportunities and a clamour of western media attention distancing him from the life he once knew.

A World Not Ours Underground Voices Dir. Mahdi Fleifel, Lebanon/UK/Denmark/UAE, 2012, 93 min, Part ST Mon 11, 20:30, VUE • Wed 13, 17:00, VUE A World Not Ours is an intimate, humourous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family. Filmed over more than twenty years by multiple generations of the same family, A World Not Ours is more than just a family portrait; it is an attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be erased from collective memory.

Yadig? Night featuring So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?

Special Events Dir. Mark Kidel, UK, 1976, 81 min (event approx 120 min) Tue 12, 19:00, HIFI

Continuing the collaboration with the local Country/Roots records label, YaDig? have chosen a couple of films that have influenced the roots of the label. Welcome to Spivey’s Corner (Dir. Kier Cline, USA, 1978, 17 min) shows a glimpse into the festivities of the 1978 North Carolina National Hollerin’ Contest.

1976’s cult documentary So You Wanna Be a Rock’n’Roll Star? shines a light on the pub-rock, rhythm and blues of the Kursaal Flyers and the rather unglamourous myth of touring. Also featuring live music from Yadig’s Serious Sam Barrett.

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SHORT FILM CITY

Short Film City is the home of the latest and greatest short films from around the world. This year’s programme was selected from a record number of entries and includes the work of established filmmakers and directorial debuts, as well as boasting a number of UK premieres and award-winning films.

Leeds International Film Festival is now a recognised festival in the categories of short films for both the Academy Awards and BAFTA. The British, International and World Animation Competitions are at the heart of the Short Film City programme, celebrating the outstanding new talent emerging across the world. The International Competition, presented over six screenings, is inspired and named after Louis Le Prince, the French born film pioneer who made the first ever moving images, right here in Leeds in 1889. Short Film City also champions local cinema, selecting the cream of the crop for this year’s Yorkshire Film Award.

Alongside the Competitions this year, there are a number of panorama programmes: the annual homage to magnificent French filmmaking, a special focus on outstanding Lithuanian and Belgian shorts and an array of European Documentaries. Short Film City strives to capture visions of modern culture and a special programme has been dedicated to Spanish shorts that have appeared in response to the financial crisis. The glorious Vive le Tour programme has been created to celebrate and honour the Tour de France which will be starting in Leeds next year. Film festival favourite Cherry Kino also returns with an in-depth and hands-on short filmmaking experience with real film.

Image: Miniyamba (World Animation Award)

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27th Leeds International Film Festival www.leedsfilm.com

Belgian Short Film Panorama Approx 90 min Thu 14, 13:00, HYDE Belgium has become a hotbed of creativity in the short film world with works coming out of the country mixing gritty realism with a sense of the absurd. Short Film City has handpicked a sparkling selection of some of the very best Belgium shorts that cast a sideways glance at the world. Highlights of the programme include The Importance of Sweet and Salt, a sublime dark comedy about a man’s inner struggle to escape his dysfunctional relationship, spurred on by a talking fish, and Skunk, a compelling coming of age story about one boy’s attempt to make friends in time for his sixteenth birthday party.

British Short Film Competition 2013 Each programme approx 90 min Programme 1: Thu 21, 14:00, HYDE Programme 2: Thu 21, 16:00, HYDE This year’s crop of British films have been as varied and magnificent as ever including The Phone Call, featuring a shy call centre worker who has an encounter which will change her life forever, Sea View, a subtle piece about a teenage girl trying to navigate her way through a brief encounter with an older man and the charming and melancholic The Parachutist about a German soldier from WWII who parachutes into 2013 and must find his way home. Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Little Favour, a slick action thriller and the competition is rounded off with the darkly comic Pussy Cat, a film about sex, marriage and cats.

Cherry Kino Presents: Colour Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop Weekend workshop £90 - to book, please email cherrykinocinema@yahoo.com Sat 16 & Sun 17, 10:00 - 16:00, ESA

Super 8 colour filmmaking! Come and join Cherry Kino for this hands-on two-day workshop where you’ll learn how to use Super 8 cameras including special tips and tricks, and shoot your very own colour negative Super 8 film! On top of that, you’ll get to hand-process your film using an accessible and economical method that you can easily recreate at home, and learn about different techniques such as stressing the film material and painting film by hand using different tools and inks. Includes refreshments and free pro HD digitization.

Cherry Kino Presents: Eco Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop Weekend workshop £90 - to book, please email cherrykinocinema@yahoo.com Sat 9 & Sun 10, 10:00 - 16:00, ESA

Eco Super 8! Cherry Kino presents a hands-on two-day workshop where you’ll learn how to use Super 8 cameras, shoot your own black and white film, process it yourself using an ecofriendly developer made from household ingredients, and then paint it with colours to make a glorious coloured film without all the nasty chemicals! This fun technique was developed by Cherry Kino when visiting Finland this year, as a way of making a film while respecting the incredible natural environment.

Includes refreshments and free pro HD digitization.

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VICTORIA - Leeds Town Hall ALBERT - Leeds Town Hall HYDE - Hyde Park Picture House

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27th Leeds International Film Festival Box Office: 0113 224 3801

European Documentary Shorts Approx 90 min Wed 13, 13:00, HYDE Fiction has nothing on the drama of real life and these amazing European documentaries shake like little earthquakes with drama, passion and intrigue. Highlights include The Whistle – a winner of the the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival –a subtle and witty story of a referee in a Polish football league and A Story For The Modlins, the staggering and multi-award winning story of an actor in Rosemary’s Baby who became a recluse.

French Short Film Panorama Approx 90 min Fri 15, 15:00, HYDE French short filmmaking is an incredibly rich and fascinating world of mini dramas, comedies, and fantasies. Every year the French Panorama presents a film selection box of delightful treats. In Aurore Boreale, an eccentric father drags his reluctant daughter into the forest in the middle of the night to witness the Northern Lights, a meteorological event that happens very rarely, especially in France! In Ni Oui…, a man tries and fails to remember one very simple and useful word...

Guest Film Festival Focus: BAF! Approx 90 min Mon 11, 14:00, HYDE The 20th edition of the UK’s longest running animation festival takes place from 12-16 November at the National Media Museum in Bradford. Our programme brings you 5 whole days of masterclasses, workshops, screenings and special events by some of the industry’s top names. We are delighted to be bringing to the Leeds International Film Festival a special programme of animated short films, selected from over 100 films competing for a chance to win a coveted Osgood Award at this year’s BAF.

Lithuanian Short Film Panorama Approx 90 min Tue 12, 14:00, HYDE The Baltic country of Lithuania has undergone something of a cinematic renaissance over the past few years thanks to new investment and a restructured film industry. Now Leeds audiences can see some of the best and brightest from the burgeoning young film culture. The panorama has been lovingly guest programmed by Rimante Daugelaite, head of Lithuanian Shorts Agency and ISFF Vilnius Film Shorts. Highlights include the UK premieres of beautifully raw documentary Identities, about how beauty is only skin deep, and amusing drama Dog’s Life, you shouldn’t laugh but you will.

EVERYMAN - Everyman in Trinity HIFI - HiFi Club

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27th Leeds International Film Festival www.leedsfilm.com

Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition 2013 Each programme approx 90 min Programme 1: Mon 18, 15:30, VICTORIA Programme 2: Tue 19, 13:00, VICTORIA Programme 3: Tue 19, 15:30, VICTORIA Programme 4: Wed 20, 12:00, VICTORIA Programme 5: Wed 20, 14:30, VICTORIA Programme 6: Wed 20, 16:30, VICTORIA

The Louis le Prince Competition has continually given audiences the chance to see films on the cutting edge of modern cinema that delight, thrill and compel in equal measure. Now the Louis le Prince Competition is an Academy Award qualifier – meaning the winning film could be eligible for Oscar consideration in the Best Live Action Short category – the stakes are even higher as we present some of the absolute best from around the world. Let us take you on a journey through drama, comedy, absurdity and intensity in more than 30 short films over six screenings. With films taken from a record number of entries, we’ll present a programme that includes a number of award winning films many of which UK audiences will be seeing for the first time.

Fresh from winning best narrative at South by Southwest, we’ll have the UK premiere of Ellen is Leaving (New Zealand), a charming anti-romantic comedy. The competition also boasts the UK premiere of Balcony (Kosovo), a remarkable film that captures in one long sequence from sunset to twilight the onlookers of a truly absurd situation, and the UK premiere of the brilliantly raw Undress Me (Sweden), a rare insight into our notions of masculinity and femininity that won the prestigious Teddy Award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. There’ll also be the opportunity for UK audiences to see Little Secret (Czech Republic) for the first time, inspired by a true story of how one boy’s lie ignited a racist backlash across the entire country.

The rest of the exciting selection for this year’s competition will be announced on leedsfilm.com at the end of October.

Tickets are £6 / £5 concession per screening or you can buy a competition pass for just £18 / £15 that will give you access to all six screening programmes.

Spanish Short Film Panorama Approx 90 min Tue 12, 17:00, ALBERT The economic crisis has hit Spain pretty badly in the last few years but the filmmakers have responded in a flurry of imaginative ways, creating everything from biting and bitterly funny satires to moving and melancholy character dramas, angry polemnics and urgent documentary calls to arms. Our short film showcase explores the full spectrum including a mini melodrama set entirely during a 10 minute bus journey, some handheld verite reportage from the midst of some angry city demonstrations and a deadpan conversation between two gay lovers who are both dressed as storm troopers.

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27th Leeds International Film Festival Box Office: 0113 224 3801

Vive le tour!

Approx 90 min Fri 15, 17:00, ALBERT In July 2014, the world’s greatest cycle race, the Tour de France, will start in Leeds. This small celebration (a free glass of French wine included) is a special collection of three classic short documentaries: two fascinating films about the race by French film masters, Louis Malle’s Vive le tour (1962) and Claude Lelouch’s Pour Un Maillot Jaune (For a Yellow Jersey, 1965), and the wonderful Cyclists Special (1955), a historic British Railways guide for touring cyclists.

World Animation Award 2013 Each programme approx 90 min Programme 1: Mon 18, 18:00, VICTORIA Programme 2: Tue 19, 18:30, VICTORIA Programme 3: Tue 19, 20:30, VICTORIA Every year the World Animation Competition invites the best new animated films to Leeds and this year’s competition is definitely one you won’t want to miss. The most vivid and brilliant visions, the wildest imaginary worlds, true stories of amazing journeys, folklore, space, humour and just plain weird ideas… it is an experience that always delights and provokes in equal measure.

Don’t miss the chance to see award winning shorts from the year’s top festivals, such as the Palm Springs Future Filmmaker award winner Rhino Full Throttle, which mixes live action with stop-motion animation, props and imagination, or the charming Irish Folk Furniture, a labour of love that certainly deserved to win Sundance Best Animation this year. At Annecy, the award for Best Original Music went to The Wreckers for their song Lonely Bones and the film that partners this score will leave you wondering just what director Rosto’s dreams are really like, also included in the competition is this year’s Annecy Cristal award winner Subconscious Password. Representing the UK and fresh from winning the Grand Prix at Bristol Encounters we are pleased to present In The Air is Christopher Grey and a terrific new UK short narrated by Brian Blessed.

Tickets are just £6 / £5 concession per screening.

Yorkshire Short Film Competition 2013 Approx 90 min Thu 21, 18:30, HYDE Alongside rolling hills so beautiful your breath will catch in your throat and delectable treats like fat rascals and curd tarts (yum!) Yorkshire is also a breeding ground for great filmmaking talent. The 2013 crop is as varied as ever and our Competition programme features many gems including premiere screenings of Tea Time in Haworth, a charming comedy starring Anne Reid and Paul Copley and Bradford Halifax London which expertly captures the tensions of travelling with loved ones.

EVERYMAN - Everyman in Trinity HIFI - HiFi Club

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15th Leeds Young Film Festival 31 March - 11 April 2014

presented by

MediaFish

A unique film experience for young people and their families, featuring amazing films from around the world and masterclasses from leading film industry talent. Leeds Young Film Festival also features The Golden Owl Awards, celebrating young filmmaking in Leeds and The INDIs, the UK’s only young filmmaking award celebrating purely independent work.

www.leedsyoungfilm.com

Facebook: LYPFF

@leedsyoungfilm

DAY BY DAY GUIDE Your at-a-glance daily guide to every screening, event and workshop in LIFF27

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Gravity in 3D

18:30 • 90’ • Page 14 Opening Gala hailed as the greatest space film since 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is an unforgettable and unique cinema experience.

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 Vue and Belgrave Music Hall to avoid any delays.

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Gravity in 3D

21:00 • 90’ • Page 14 Opening Gala hailed as the greatest space film since 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is an unforgettable and unique cinema experience.

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Gloria

18:00 • 110’ • Page 14 A captivating film that sensitively portrays a woman facing the reality of ageing through the character’s unique, often hilarious perspective.

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Wakolda Sign Painters

21:00 • 80’ • Page 57 Documentary on sign painters and the beautiful legacy of good craftsmanship.

20:30 • 93’ • Page 19 Inspired by true events, the Argentinian Wakolda is a gripping revelation about a mysterious German physician in ‘60s Patagonia.

Andy Votel: Kleksploitation - Live

20:30 • 120’ • Page 50 A magical, psychedelic live film/music extravaganza by the legendary DJ.

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This Sporting Life

15:00 • 134’ • Page 28 Northern classic 60s drama starring Richard Harris as a rugby player.

Ossessione

16:00 • 140’ • Page 27 The first Italian neo-realist classic, an adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice.

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Circles

16:00 • 112’ • Page 13 Intense and complex character drama on the emotional aftershocks of the Bosnian wars.

17:00 • 72’ • Page 17 A warm and affecting skateboarding doc set in a desert town in Southern California.

Harakiri

18:00 • 133’ • Page 23 In Masaki Kobayashi’s visceral and mesmerising Harakiri, a down-and-out 19.00 samurai enters the manor of a Lord, requesting to commit ritual suicide.

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Heli Apples of the Golan

19:00 • 80’ • Page 50 A powerful documentary about one village in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.

Possession

18:30 • 105’ • Page 15 Amat Escalante won Best Director at Cannes for this unflinching tale ripped from Mexico’s bloodsoaked headlines.

My Sweet Pepper Land

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20:30 • 100’ • Page 15 A swirling and romantic Actress at Cannes for her The Future Kurdish western set in the mesmerising performance 21:00 • 94’ • Page 14 border country between Accomplished adaptation Iran and Turkey. as the possessed Anna of a cryptic Roberto in Andrzej Zulawski’s cult Bolaño novel starring classic.

22.00 Rutger Hauer.

21.00 Isabelle Adjani won Best

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Grasp the Nettle

17:00 • 91’ • Page 53 A vital grassroots documentary on activism and protest in austerity Britain.

Deadlock

18:30 • 85’ • Page 37 A gripping and atmospheric cult western from Germany.

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton 19:00 • 94’ • Page 56 Addictive profile of the innovative LA-based hip hop label Stones Throw Records.

Stranger by the Lake

20:30 • 97’ • Page 18 French thriller and love story set in an unusual cruising spot for men during one hot summer.

The Bucuresti Experiment

21:00 • 68’ • Page 51 Clever and playful documentary interrogating the transition to capitalism in Romania.

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

23:00 • 95’ • Page 41 Early zombie classic filmed in Cheshire where experimental pesticides are bringing the dead back to life.

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SEVEN Irish Arts Presents: The Films of Thaddeus O’Sullivan

Irish Arts present a tribute to director Thaddeus O’Sullivan.

Retrospectives

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After School Midnighters 12:00 • 95’ • Page 34 A brilliantly inventive and hilarious Japanese animated joy, bursting with enough pleasures to delight all ages.

2001: A Space Odyssey 14:00 • 160’ • Page 34 You haven’t really seen 2001: A Space Odyssey until you’ve seen it on the big screen, and the experience is unique in the stunning setting of Leeds Town Hall.

Bushido Man

14:00 • 88’ • Page 36 A tall tale of a warrior’s seven battles with legendary fighters with different tastes in food.

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Norte, The End of History 13:00 • 250’ • Page 17 Vivid moral philosophical drama about a man wrongly imprisoned for murder.

Lasting

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14:00 • 95’ • Page 15 Impassioned and stylish Polish drama about a first relationship.

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HK: Forbidden Super Hero Concrete Night 16:00 • 90’ • Page 39 A deviant new hero arises in Japan, wearing fishnet stockings, a mankini, and a mask of knickers, in this hilarious superhero spoof.

16:00 • 96’ • Page 13 The feverish, visually amazing Concrete Night is a glimpse at the imaginative life of a fourteen-year-old boy.

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Only the Young The Third Man

18:00 • 93’ • Page 28 Atmospheric British masterpiece set in wartime Vienna written by Graham Greene.

Bushido Man

18:00 • 88’ • Page 36 A tall tale of a warrior’s seven battles with legendary fighters with different tastes in food.

After Lucia

18:00 • 103’ • Page 12 Dark and masterful Mexican drama about the escalating effects of school bullying.

17:30 • 72’ • Page 17 A warm and affecting skateboarding doc set in a desert town in Southern California.

Grey City

19:00 • 85’ • Page 53 Stylish documentary on the frontlines of the graffiti wars in Sao Paulo.

Nebraska

20:00 • 110’ • Page 15 Alexander Payne’s Nebraska is a meditative and often hilarious delight about a cantankerous old man on a road trip with his son.

HK: Forbidden Super Hero Gloria 20:00 • 90’ • Page 39 A deviant new hero arises in Japan, wearing fishnet stockings, a mankini, and a mask of knickers, in this hilarious superhero spoof.

20:00 • 110’ • Page 14 A captivating film that sensitively portrays a woman facing the reality of ageing through the character’s unique, often hilarious perspective.

Dalit Freedom Network Presents ‘Kavi - Not All Prisons Have Bars’ 18:00 • 90’ • Page 51 Human rights charity presents a short film alongside interviews and Q&A.

Sleepless Nights

Computer Chess

20:00 • 118’ • Page 58 A deeply moving documentary about reconciliation and justice in the Lebanon.

21:00 • 92’ • Page 13 Warm and funny mumblecore period piece set in a geeky computer convention in 1980.

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Fanomenon Night of the Dead XIII

LEEDS STATION

22:00 - 08:00 • Page 38 100 Bloody Acres - Demented fun on a farm Down Under.

On Air - Dj vs serial killer in this tense vicious thriller.

Savaged - Gory supernatural rape/revenge shocker.

They Will Outlive Us All - Killer cockroach home invasion.

Antisocial - Zombie apocalyse for the iPad generation.

Leeds Film City: Invisible Cinema Walk

12:00 • 94’ • Page 55 A walk of discovery exploring of the secret picture houses of Leeds City Centre.

Official Selection

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Cherry Kino Presents: Eco Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop

10.00-16:00 • Page 64 Workshop using Super 8 cameras and eco-friendly film developing.

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Rififi

13:00 • 122’ • Page 27 Classic French heist movie from 1955 by blacklisted Hollywood director Jules 14.00 Dassin.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles

13:00 • 201’ • Page 24 Delphine Seyrig gives an iconic performance in Chantal Akerman’s stunningly powerful masterpiece and one of cinema’s most striking innovations.

Concrete Night

Ikarie XB-1

Circles

Sci-fi: Fanomenon Shorts Special

14:00 • 96’ • Page 13 The feverish, visually amazing Concrete Night is a glimpse at the imaginative life of a fourteen-year-old boy.

14:00 • 81’ • Page 39 A pioneering cult sci-fi classic from 60s Czechoslovakia.

Classe Tous Risques 15:30 • 103’ • Page 22

16.00 Great French crime movie

rediscovery from 1960 starring Lino Ventura and Jean Paul Belmondo.

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Mistaken for Strangers

Child’s Pose

18:00 • 112’ • Page 12 Winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, Child’s Pose is an intense satire 19.00 of Romania’s high-class lifestyles and low-level corruption.

16:00 • 112’ • Page 13 Intense and complex character drama on the emotional aftershocks of the Bosnian wars.

16:00 • 100’ • Page 44 A selection of futuristic visions pondering what tomorrow’s world will bring.

17:00 • 75’ • Page 55 Intimate rockumentary on the road with The National by the singer’s roadie brother.

17:00 • 70’ • Page 53 An insider’s view of the tiny totalitarian communist state, the Pridnestrovian Moldovian Republic.

Wakolda Blue is the Warmest Colour

19:00 • 179’ • Page 12 The Palme d’Or winner is a very powerful and 20.00 beautifully-crafted love story about a deeply passionate relationship between two young Expedition to the End of women.

the World

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An adventure film with a difference follows a crew of artists and scientists to Greenland.

Fortress

18:30 • 93’ • Page 19 Inspired by true events, the Argentinian Wakolda is a gripping revelation about a mysterious German physician in ‘60s Patagonia.

My Sweet Pepper Land 20:30 • 100’ • Page 15 A swirling and romantic Kurdish western set in the border country between Iran and Turkey.

Stranger by the Lake

18:30 • 97’ • Page 18 French thriller and love story set in an unusual cruising spot for men during one hot summer.

The Future

20:30 • 94’ • Page 14 Accomplished adaptation of a cryptic Roberto Bolaño novel starring Rutger Hauer.

The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector 18:30 • 102’ • Page 50 MusicFilmWeb presents the documentary on the mad genius of pop, Phil Spector.

Harlem Street Singer

20:30 • 76’ • Page 53 The story of Reverend Gary Davis, the great American ragtime, blues and gospel guitarist.

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Leeds Film City: Invisible Cinema Walk

12:00 • 94’ • Page 55 A walk of discovery exploring of the secret picture houses of Leeds City Centre.

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Official Selection

Retrospectives

Cherry Kino Presents: Eco Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop

10.00-16:00 • Page 64 Workshop using Super 8 cameras and eco-friendly film developing.

Fanomenon

Cinema Versa

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Norte, The End of History

13:30 • 250’ • Page 17 Vivid moral philosophical drama about a man wrongly imprisoned for murder. Norte has been acclaimed by many of the world’s leading critics as the film of the year.

Guest Film Festival Focus: BAF!

14:00 • 90’ • Page 65 The UK’s longest running animation festival brings to Leeds a selection of their favourite animated shorts from this year.

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Classe Tous Risques

15:30 • 103’ • Page 22 Great French crime movie rediscovery from 1960 starring Lino Ventura and Jean Paul Belmondo.

The Third Man

18:00 • 93’ • Page 28 Atmospheric British masterpiece set in wartime Vienna written by Graham Greene.

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Le beau serge

16:00 • 98’ • Page 25 Claude Chabrol kickstarted the Nouvelle Vague with this masterful small town drama.

Lasting

16:30 • 95’ • Page 15 Impassioned and stylish Polish drama about a first relationship.

Soulmate

18:00 • 104’ • Page 44 In a remote cottage a young widow recovering from a failed suicide attempt is befriended by its ghostly owner.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

The Tenant Heli

18:30 • 105’ • Page 15 Amat Escalante won Best Director at Cannes for this unflinching tale ripped from Mexico’s bloodsoaked headlines.

17:00 • 76’ • Page 54 Stylish and intimate documentary portrait of the iconic actor and musician. 18.00

18:00 • 126’ • Page 45 Roman Polanski’s paranoid psychological thriller Grasp the Nettle about a tenant who fixates 18:30 • 91’ • Page 53 on his predecessor.

A vital grassroots documentary on activism and protest in austerity Britain.

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A Touch of Sin

20:00 • 133’ • Page 19 A startling and violent tale of four outcasts on the margins of a rapidly changing China who embark on a bloody and murderous rampage.

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Gloria

20:30 • 110’ • Page 14 A captivating film that sensitively portrays a woman facing the reality of ageing through the character’s unique, often hilarious perspective.

A World Not Ours

20:30 • 93’ • Page 59 An intimate, humourous, portrait of three generations of exile in a Lebanon refugee camp.

The Retrieval

20:30 • 92’ • Page 17 Understated and powerful American indie set during the U.S. Civil War.

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton 20:30 • 94’ • Page 56 Addictive profile of the innovative LA-based hip hop label Stones Throw Records.

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Rififi

13:30 • 122’ • Page 27

14.00 Classic French heist movie

from 1955 by blacklisted Hollywood director Jules Dassin.

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Lithuanian Short Film Panorama

14:00 • 100’ • Page 65 An exciting selection of the best and brightest from the burgeoning young film culture of Lithuania.

The Tenant 16.00

Expedition to the End of The Sun in a Net the World 16:00 • 90’ • Page 28

16:00 • 90’ • Page 52 An adventure film with a difference follows a crew 17.00 of artists and scientists to Greenland.

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Peeping Tom

18:00 • 101’ • Page 27 Michael Powell’s controversial cult classic about a serial killer with a 19.00 movie camera.

The first groundbreaking film from the Czech New Wave of the 1960s.

Fifi Howls from Happiness

16:30 • 96’ • Page 52 Documentary on the vivid, charismatic and combative Iranian artist Bahman Mohasses.

Kwaidan

18:00 • 125’ • Page 25 Masaki Kobayashi’s lavish and widescreen production Kwaidan is one of the most meticulously crafted supernatural fantasy films ever made.

15:30 • 126’ • Page 45 Roman Polanski’s paranoid psychological thriller about a tenant who fixates on his predecessor.

Spanish Crisis Shorts

The Retrieval After Lucia

18:30 • 103’ • Page 12 Dark and masterful Mexican drama about the escalating effects of school bullying.

18:00 • 92’ • Page 17 Understated and powerful American indie set during the U.S. Civil War.

17:00 • 80’ • Page 66 Imaginative short films showing a range of different responses to the economic crisis in Spain.

Film To Change 4

18:30 • 90’ • Page 52 Our collaboration with Arts & Minds returns with new shorts about mental health.

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Nebraska

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21.00 Alexander Payne’s

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Nebraska is a meditative and often hilarious delight about a cantankerous old man on a road trip with his son.

Child’s Pose

20:30 • 112’ • Page 12 Winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, Child’s Pose is an intense satire of Romania’s high-class lifestyles and low-level corruption.

Summer House

20:30 • 83’ • Page 18 A fresh and dynamic ensemble drama set during a summer party weekend in Sweden.

The Stuart Hall Project + My Afghanistan - Life in Panel Discussion the Forbidden Zone 20:30 • 102’ • Page 58 The astonishing life story of one of the foremost intellectuals of the British Left.

20:30 • 88’ • Page 56 Inspirational film experiment inviting ordinary Afghan people to film their own everyday lives.

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HIFI YaDig? Night featuring So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?

19:00 • 120’ • Page 59 American folk film, So You Wanna Be a Rock’n’Roll Star + Serious Sam Barrett.

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European Documentary Shorts 13:00 • 100’ • Page 65 The best European Documentary Shorts that shake like little earthquakes with drama, passion and intrigue.

A Touch of Sin

15:00 • 133’ • Page 19 A startling and violent tale of four outcasts on the margins of a rapidly changing China who embark on a bloody and murderous rampage.

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Le beau serge

15:00 • 98’ • Page 25 Claude Chabrol kickstarted the Nouvelle Vague with this masterful small town drama.

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Grey City Yesterday Girl + Brutality A World Not Ours in Stone 17:00 • 93’ • Page 59 Le cercle rouge

17:30 • 140’ • Page 25 Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic heist thriller starring Alain Delon and Yves Montand.

17:00 • 88’ • Page 29 Groundbreaking first film of the new German cinema from 1966.

An intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in a Lebanon refugee camp.

Blue is the Warmest Colour

20:30 • 119’ • Page 36 A blockbuster success in South Korea, Cold Eyes is a dizzyingly intense and masterfully-crafted action-thriller, featuring extraordinary stunt scenes and thrilling chases.

The Human Scale

17:00 • 83’ • Page 54 Documentary on architect Jan Gehl and rethinking urban space from a humanist perspective.

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Computer Chess

19:00 • 72’ • Page 18 A fresh and distinctive domestic drama set in one Berlin apartment at a family get together.

18:30 • 92’ • Page 13 19.00 Warm and funny mumblecore period piece Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction set in a geeky computer 19:00 • 76’ • Page 54 convention in 1980.

Stylish and intimate documentary portrait of the iconic actor and musician. 20.00

Breathing Earth

Ghost Graduation

The Strange Little Cat

Cold Eyes

16:30 • 85’ • Page 53 Stylish documentary on the frontlines of the graffiti wars in Sao Paulo.

19:30 • 179’ • Page 12 The Palme d’Or winner is a very powerful and beautifully-crafted love story about a deeply passionate relationship between two young women.

20:30 • 97’ • Page 50 Beautiful documentary on the Japanese artist Susumu Shingu’s windmill sculptures.

20:30 • 88’ • Page 39 The Breakfast Club meets The Sixth Sense in this hugely entertaining comedy about a haunted school.

Finding Hillywood + Godka Cirka

20:30 • 68’ • Page 52 A unique, inspiring doc about the growth of Rwanda’s film industry.

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13:00 • 100’ • Page 64 Absurdity and Reality go side by side in this sparkling programme showcasing the very best of Belgian short filmmaking.

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Peeping Tom

16:00 • 101’ • Page 27 Michael Powell’s controversial cult classic about a serial killer with a 17.00 movie camera.

15:00 • 96’ • Page 29 A stunning war movie, feature debut of the late Russian master Aleksei German from 1971.

Breathing Earth Festen

17:00 • 105’ • Page 23 The first Dogme film from Denmark, classic dysfunctional family tragicomedy.

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Mistaken for Strangers

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16:30 • 97’ • Page 50 Beautiful documentary on the Japanese artist Susumu Shingu’s windmill sculptures.

Fifi Howls from Happiness

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Here Was Cuba

19:00 • 75’ • Page 55 Intimate rockumentary on the road with The National by the singer’s roadie brother.

20:30 • 119’ • Page 36 A blockbuster success in immersive documentary South Korea, Cold Eyes that takes you deep inside is a dizzyingly intense the dangerous world of and masterfully-crafted commercial fishing. action-thriller, featuring extraordinary stunt scenes 22.00 and thrilling chases.

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18:30 • 96’ • Page 52 Documentary on the vivid, charismatic and combative Iranian artist Bahman Mohasses.

Wakolda

20:30 • 93’ • Page 19 Inspired by true events, the Argentinian Wakolda is a gripping revelation about a mysterious German physician in ‘60s Patagonia.

16:00 • 78’ • Page 54 A landmark documentary exploring the Cuban Missile Crisis.

My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone

Love & Hate: Fanomenon Shorts Special

18:00 • 100’ • Page 41 A programme of shorts about relationship breakups, family breakdowns and a bit of cannibalism for good measure.

Painless

20:30 • 100’ • Page 42 In the Spanish Civil War children unable to feel pain are locked up with startling consequences for the future.

17:00 • 88’ • Page 56 Inspirational film experiment inviting ordinary Afghan people to film their own everyday lives.

Secret City

19:00 • 72’ • Page 57 An investigation into the hidden history of economic institutions in the City of London.

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector 20:30 • 102’ • Page 50 MusicFilmWeb presents the documentary on the mad genius of pop, Phil Spector.

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20:00 •84’ • Page 51 Great documentary on the powerful family band, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

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Here Was Cuba

14:00 • 78’ • Page 54 A landmark documentary exploring the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Le cercle rouge

15:00 • 140’ • Page 25 Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic heist thriller starring Alain Delon and Yves Montand.

15:00 • 100’ • Page 65 A selection from the incredibly rich and fascinating world of mini French film dramas, comedies, and fantasies.

Festen

17:00 • 105’ • Page 23 The first Dogme film from Denmark, classic dysfunctional family tragicomedy.

Jaws

18:00 • 124’ • Page 39 One of the biggest Hollywood movies of all time on a suitably big screen at the Town Hall.

Stuff and Dough

20:30 • 122’ • Page 37 Special 40th anniversary screening of arguably the greatest horror film of all time.

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Ghost Graduation

16:00 • 88’ • Page 39 The Breakfast Club meets The Sixth Sense in this hugely entertaining comedy about a haunted Vive le tour! school.

17:00 • 66’ • Page 67 Special classic short doc programme in celebration of the Tour de France starting in Leeds next year.

Harmony Lessons

18:00 • 120’ • Page 14 An intense drama of corruption and violence set in a Kazakh village schoolyard.

19:00 • 90’ • Page 28 The first Romanian new wave film from 2003, a spikily written road movie social drama.

The Exorcist: The Director’s Cut

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French Short Film Panorama

Finding Hillywood + Godka Cirka

18:30 • 68’ • Page 52 A unique, inspiring doc about the growth of Rwanda’s film industry.

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Santa Sangre

20:30 • 123’ • Page 43 Incendiary, hallucinatory The Future parable by master cult 21:00 • 94’ • Page 14 filmmaker Alejandro Accomplished adaptation Jodorowsky. of a cryptic Roberto Bolaño novel starring Rutger Hauer.

William and the Windmill

20:30 • 88’ • Page 59 Insightful documentary about a young African who builds a power generating windmill.

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The Rocket

Of Time and the City

The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears

Samurai Rebellion

Mr & Mrs Kabal’s Theatre

14:00 • 102’ • Page 45 The directors of Amer return with another 15.00 hypnotically beautiful, giallo-inspired slasher film.

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12:00 • 96’ • Page 17 This fable-like family drama set in Laos is the story of young Ahlo and his mission to build a rocket.

14:00 • 128’ • Page 27 Masaki Kobayashi’s last major film Samurai Rebellion is arguably his greatest masterpiece and stars legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune.

Silver Méliès Short Film Competition

16:00 • 100’ • Page 44 Your chance to vote for the best short in this selection 17.00 of fantastic films from the UK and Europe.

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The Strange Little Cat

16:30 • 72’ • Page 18 A fresh and distinctive domestic drama set in one Berlin apartment at a family get together.

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

18:00 • 95’ • Page 19 Tense thriller meets dreamlike symbolism in this dark and distinctive Canadian drama.

Chimères

Big Bad Wolves

21:00 • 109’ • Page 36 Incredibly tense thriller from Israel about a suspected child murderer, 22.00 a dirty cop and a vengeful father.

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11:00 • 74’ • Page 26 A special presentation of Terence Davies’ personal film elegy for Liverpool, with producer Sol Papadopoulos.

14:00 • 80’ • Page 26 Two absurdist animated cut-up fantasies from Polish master Walerian Borowczyk.

Blanche

19:00 • 80’ • Page 36 Following an accident and blood transfusion in Romania, Alex may be 20.00 turning into a vampire.

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The Battery

12:00 • 101’ • Page 35 Two mismatched survivors wander America in the aftermath of the zombie 13.00 apocalypse.

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16:00 • 92’ • Page 22 Polish master Walerian Borowczyk’s transcendent medieval melodrama.

Little Fugitive

18:00 • 80’ • Page 25 Low budget gem from the 50s about a seven year old boy, who runs away to Coney Island.

Harmony Lessons

Notations - A Film by Vicki Bennett

20:00 • 120’ • Page 14 An intense drama of corruption and violence set in a Kazakh village schoolyard.

The Tax Free Tour + How We Live

18:00 • 68’ • Page 58 An eye opening primer on the tax evasion of multinational corporations.

Music is the Weapon + Miniyamba

20:00 • 69’ • Page 56 Classic 1982 French doc on the legendary bandleader and creator of Afrobeat.

21:00 • 80’ • Page 56 A unique live film/music collage performance by Vicki Bennett and guest improvisers.

Wake in Fright

23:30 • 114’ • Page 45 Shocking 1970s Australian drama about a middleclass man’s descent into depair and depravity.

ESA Cherry Kino Presents: Colour Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop

10:00 - 16:00 • Page 64 Workshop about using Super 8 cameras and shooting colour negative Super 8 film.

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City centre access for traffic will be very limited on this morning due to the Abbey Dash run, which starts from Leeds Town Hall on The Headrow.

We advise you to use public transport to reach Leeds Town Hall for the start of the Anime Day.

13:00 • 99’ • Page 42 The English Premiere of the new anime feature from Yasuhiro Yoshiura, the director of Time of Eve.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 13:00 • 208’ • Page 24 One of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema, Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is showing in three parts.

Steins;Gate the Movie: Loading Area of Déjà Vu 15:00 • 90’ • Page 44 The time travelling Steins;Gate phenomenon spawns its first full-length anime movie, receiving its English Premiere in Leeds.

Akira - 25th Anniversary Screening

19:30 • 124’ • Page 34 A special 25th anniversary presentation in the unique setting of Leeds Town Hall for one of the greatest anime feature films ever made.

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12:00 • 80’ • Page 25 Low budget gem from the 50s about a seven year old boy, who runs away to Coney Island.

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Walerian Borowczyk: Animated Shorts

14:00 • 100’ • Page 29 A selection of influential Polish animator Walerian Borowczyk’s greatest animated shorts.

Basha: Film Poster Talk 14:30 • 60’ • Page 35 A short talk about the unsung hero of Polish poster art.

16:00 • 75’ • Page 26 A brand new doc about the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker.

Carlos Saura’s exhilarating flamenco Carmen is a bold version of the classic novel and features music The Forest from Bizet’s most famous 18:00 • 90’ • Page 38 opera.

A story of love, betrayal and parallel worlds set during the Spanish Civil War in this Del Toro style Vic + Flo Saw a Bear epic.

19:00 • 95’ • Page 19 Tense thriller meets dreamlike symbolism in this dark and distinctive Canadian drama.

Love Eternal Dirty Wars

21:00 • 87’ • Page 51 Powerful documentary on reporter Jeremy Scahill’s investigations into America’s covert wars.

20:30 • 94’ • Page 41 A man obsessed with death preys on suicidal women in this dark but moving love story.

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Obscure Pleasures: Walerian Borowczyk

Evangelion 3.0: You Can Carmen (Not) Redo 17:00 • 102’ • Page 22 17:00 • 96’ • Page 37 The latest feature film in Hideaki Anno’s Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, the biggest Japanese anime of the last year.

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Little Fugitive

11:00 • 100’ • Page 38 A special mini double bill of brand new anime.

Patema Inverted

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Wavemakers

17:00 • 97’ • Page 59 Captivating documentary on one of the earliest electronic instruments, the Ondes Martenot.

How We Played the Revolution

19:00 • 70’ • Page 54 The story of a Lithuanian band who became figureheads for a revolution.

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20:30 • 70’ • Page 53 An insider’s view of the tiny totalitarian communist state, the Pridnestrovian Moldovian Republic.

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10:00 - 16:00 • Page 64 Workshop about using Super 8 cameras and shooting colour negative Super 8 film.

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Faust

13:00 • 85’ • Page 23 A free screening of F.W. Murnau’s dizzying masterpiece with live 14.00 organ accompaniment.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

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14:30 • 181’ • Page 24 One of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema, Louis le Prince Masaki Kobayashi’s International Short Film mammoth humanist 16.00 Competition 2013 - Pt. 1 drama is showing in three 15:30 • 100’ • Page 66 parts.

More than 30 outstanding short films compete in the prestigious Louis le Prince competition over 6 17.00 programmes.

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World Animation Award Silence 2013 - Programme 1 18:00 • 87’ • Page 18

18:00 • 100’ • Page 67 The hugely popular annual international 19.00 animation competition; a truly global look at the last year in animated short film.

Poetic drama about an Irish sound recordist returning home to record nature.

After School Midnighters 16:00 • 95’ • Page 34 After School Midnighters is a brilliantly inventive and hilarious Japanese animated joy, bursting with enough pleasures to delight all ages.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

18:00 • 156’ • Page 35 Jay Oliva’s widely acclaimed and faithful animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s hugely influential graphic novel screened as one fulllength feature film.

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Rio 2096: A Story of Love Sean Noonan: A and Fury Gambler’s Hand

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A breathtaking adult animated epic from Brazil, with a love story spanning 600 years – winner of the top award at the Annecy 22.00 Film Festival.

20:30 • 120’ • Page 57 A live collision of music, film and storytelling featuring New York drummer Sean Noonan.

Wavemakers

17:00 • 97’ • Page 59 Captivating documentary on one of the earliest electronic instruments, the Ondes Martenot.

Secret City

19:00 • 72’ • Page 57 An investigation into the hidden history of economic institutions in the City of London.

The Human Scale Masterpiece: Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns

21:00 • 79’ • Page 41 A fascinating account of the history of Frank Miller’s influential graphic novel.

20:30 • 83’ • Page 54 Documentary on architect Jan Gehl and rethinking urban space from a humanist perspective.

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Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition 2013 - Pt. 2 13:00 • 100’ • Page 66 More than 30 outstanding short films compete in the prestigious Louis le Prince competition over 6 programmes.

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer 15:00 • 190’ • Page 24

One of the most Louis le Prince International Short Film staggering achievements Competition 2013 - Pt. 3 of Japanese cinema, 15:30 • 100’ • Page 66 More than 30 outstanding short films compete in the prestigious Louis le Prince competition over 6 programmes.

Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is showing in three parts.

16:00 • 90’ • Page 38 A story of love, betrayal and parallel worlds set during the Spanish Civil War in this Del Toro style epic.

We are the Best!

World Animation Award Stranger by the Lake 2013 - Programme 2 18:30 • 97’ • Page 18 18:30 • 100’ • Page 67 The hugely popular annual international animation competition; a truly global look at the last year in animated short film.

French thriller and love story set in an unusual cruising spot for men during one hot summer.

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The Forest

18:00 • 102’ • Page 19 Lukas Moodysson returns with this raucous and ebullient tale of three preteen outcasts who form an all-girl punk band.

Music is the Weapon + Miniyamba

17:00 • 69’ • Page 56 Classic 1982 French doc on the legendary bandleader and creator of Afrobeat.

How We Played the Revolution

18:30 • 70’ • Page 54 The story of a Lithuanian band who became figureheads for a revolution.

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Unplugged + Doctor Bucketman World Animation Award The Resurrection of a 2013 - Programme 3 Bastard 20:30 • 100’ • Page 67 The hugely popular annual international animation competition; a truly global look at the last year in animated short film.

20:30 • 90’ • Page 43 A ruthless and violent gangster starts to question his existence following a life-changing incident.

The Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari

20:30 • 106’ • Page 12 An energetic celebration of love, of womanhood and of the joy of life in a delightful mosaic of twenty-two short tales.

20:00 • 65’ • Page 58 A playfully offbeat Serbian doc about the bizarre traditions of folk music.

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17.00 16:30 • 100’ • Page 66 Check leedsfilm.com for More than 30 outstanding the latest information. short films compete in the prestigious Louis le Prince competition over 6 programmes.

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Once Upon a Time in the West introduced by Sir Christopher Frayling

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European Catalyst Film Seminar

HK: Forbidden Super Hero

16:00 • 90’ • Page 39 A deviant new hero arises in Japan, wearing fishnet stockings, a mankini, and a mask of knickers, in this hilarious superhero spoof.

Masterpiece: Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns

18:00 • 79’ • Page 41 A fascinating account of the history of Frank Miller’s influential graphic novel.

19:00 • 175’ • Page 26 Sir Christopher Frayling

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Unplugged + Doctor Bucketman

17:00 • 65’ • Page 58 A playfully offbeat Serbian doc about the bizarre traditions of folk music.

Harlem Street Singer

18:30 • 72’ • Page 53 The story of Reverend Gary Davis, the great American ragtime, blues and gospel guitarist.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

classic, operatic western.

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Film Festival Extra 21.00

15:00 • 90’ • Page 23 The University present a round table discussion to complement our European Catalyst films season.

The Tax Free Tour + How We Live

20:30 • 68’ • Page 58 An eye opening primer on the tax evasion of multinational corporations.

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British Short Film Competition 2013 Programme 1

14:00 • 100’ • Page 64 Spread over two exciting programmes, this prestigious competition celebrates new talent emerging across Britain.

British Short Film Competition 2013 Programme 2

16:00 • 100’ • Page 64 Spread over two exciting programmes, this prestigious competition celebrates new talent emerging across Britain.

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Final Cut, Ladies and Gentlemen - LIFF27 Closing Film

20:30 • 84’ • Page 13 Collage film using snippets from hundreds of movies to tell the ultimate love story.

Yorkshire Short Film Competition 2013

18:30 • 100’ • Page 67 A celebration of the bold and beautiful filmmaking talent of our fair county, including laughs, tears and everything in-between

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Love Eternal

16:00 • 94’ • Page 41 A man obsessed with death preys on suicidal women in this dark but moving love story.

The Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari

18:00 • 106’ • Page 12 An energetic celebration of love, of womanhood and of the joy of life in a delightful mosaic of twenty-two short tales.

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Revenge of the Mekons 21:00 • 95’ • Page 57 A rich and illuminating account of great, innovative and enduring Leeds band, The Mekons.

20:30 • 102’ • Page 19 Lukas Moodysson returns with this raucous and ebullient tale of three preteen outcasts who form an all-girl punk band.

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INDEX 100 Bloody Acres 2001: A Space Odyssey After Lucia After School Midnighters The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector Akira Andy Votel: Kleksploitation Antisocial Apples of the Golan Basha: Film Posters + Talk Batman: The Dark Knight Returns The Battery Battleship Potemkin Belgian Short Film Panorama Big Bad Wolves Blanche Blue is the Warmest Colour Breathing Earth British Short Film Competition 2013 Brothers Hypnotic The Bucuresti Experiment Bushido Man Carmen The Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari Cherry Kino Presents: Colour Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop Cherry Kino Presents: Eco Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop Child's Pose Chimères Circles Classe Tous Risques Cold Eyes Computer Chess Concrete Night Dalit Freedom Network Presents ‘Kavi - Not All Prisons Have Bars’ Deadlock Dirty Wars European Catalyst Films and Cinema Worldwide Seminar European Documentary Shorts Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo The Exorcist Expedition to the End of the World Fanomenon Anime Day 2013 Fanomenon Day of the Dead 7 Fanomenon Night of the Dead 13 Faust Festen Fifi Howls from Happiness Film to Change 4 Final Cut, Ladies and Gentlemen LIFF27 Closing Film Finding Hillywood + Godka Cirka The Forest Fortress French Short Film Panorama The Future Garden of Words + HAL

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Ghost Graduation Gloria Grasp the Nettle Gravity in 3D - Opening Gala Grey City Guest Film Festival Focus: BAF! Harakiri Harlem Street Singer Harmony Lessons Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Heli Here Was Cuba HK: Forbidden Super Hero How We Played the Revolution The Human Condition I: No Greater Love The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer The Human Scale Ikarie XB-1 Irish Arts Presents: The Films of Thaddeus O’Sullivan Jaws Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce 1080 Bruxelles Kwaidan Lasting Le beau serge Le cercle rouge Leeds Film City: Invisible Cinema Walk Leviathan Lithuanian Short Film Panorama Little Fugitive The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition 2013 Love & Hate: Fanomenon Shorts Special Love Eternal Masterpiece: Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns Mistaken for Strangers Mr & Mrs Kabal's Theatre + The Concert Short Music is the Weapon + Miniyamba My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone My Sweet Pepper Land Nebraska Norte, the End of History Notations – a film by Vicki Bennett Obscure Pleasures: Walerian Borowczyk Of Time and the City On Air Once Upon a Time in the West Only the Young Ossessione Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This is Stones Throw Records)

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Painless Patema Inverted Peeping Tom Possession The Resurrection of a Bastard The Retrieval Revenge of the Mekons Rififi Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury The Rocket Samurai Rebellion Santa Sangre Savaged Sci-fi: Fanomenon Shorts Special Sean Noonan: A Gambler's Hand Secret City Sign Painters Silence Silver Méliès Short Film Competition Sleepless Nights Soulmate Spanish Short Film Panorama Steins;Gate the Movie: Loading Area of Déjà vu The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears The Strange Little Cat Stranger by the Lake The Stuart Hall Project + Panel Discussion Stuff and Dough Summer House The Sun in a Net The Tax Free Tour + How We Live The Tenant They Will Outlive Us All The Third Man This Sporting Life Trial on the Road A Touch of Sin Unplugged + Doctor Bucketman Vic + Flo Saw a Bear Vive le tour!

Wake in Fright Wakolda Walerian Borowczyk: Animated Shorts Wavemakers We are the Best!

William and the Windmill World Animation Award 2013 A World Not Ours Yadig? Night featuring So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?

Yesterday Girl + Brutality in Stone Yorkshire Short Film Competition 2013

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Classic film screenings in December on the giant screen in Leeds Town Hall

Monday 9th December

4pm A Touch of Evil • 6pm Gremlins • 8.15pm The Terminator

Tuesday 10th December

3pm Great Expectations • 5.30pm The Princess Bride • 7.45pm It’s a Wonderful Life

Wednesday 11th December

3pm The Apartment • 5.30pm Singin’ in the Rain • 7.45pm Brazil

Tickets £7 / £5. Book now on leedsfilm.com or call 0113 224 3801

Masaki Kobayashi Retrospective

The Human Condition • Harakiri • Kwaidan • Samurai Rebellion Rare screenings of the major works of Japanese master Masaki Kobayashi, including the full 579-minute The Human Condition and a new 35mm print of Samurai Rebellion.

Leeds International Film Festival in partnership with The Human Condition © 1959 - 1961 SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

Harakiri © 1962 SHOCHIKU., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

Kwaidan © 1965 TOHO CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

Samurai Rebellion © 1967 TOHO CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.