Events Calendar
Keep in the loop about the latest indie filmmaking events near you - from festivals to screenings, workshops and networking.
OPENING NIGHT OF THE CREATIVE NONFICTION FILM WEEKEND
We all have that one YouTube video we’re obsessed with. Or that one vine that we think about more than most movies.
Join us for a night of digital delights on the big screen: a programme of online video that showcases the stories Britain tells about itself through the internet. From vlogs to memes to uncategorisable curiosities, these v…
Now in its fifth year, Inspired25 is a packed day of screenings, talks and music, spotlighting POC filmmakers pushing boundaries in UK film. The daytime programme includes the New Voices short film showcase, a Q&A with Euella Jackson, Hard Food premiere with director Daniel Alexander, and Reel Talk hosted by Binge God. In the evening, don’t miss the Bristol premiere of Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy S…
A film festival that celebrates everything documentary can and should be.
After being appointed literary executor, Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Jozef Wittlin corresponded from 1957-1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Ha…
The films in the PLO Media Unit were supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – and they went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a road movie from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues as to the whereabouts of the lost archive. But, in her usual, inimitable way, she keeps finding …
The first feature-length film by Julian Castronovo follows a young filmmaker named Julian Castronovo who discovers a trail of clues related to the disappearance of a skilled art forger known as Fawn Ma.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Julian Castronovo, a 27-year-old filmmaker who made this DIY debut feature with a budget of just $900 USD.
A film festival that celebrates everything documentary can and should be.
This film will be introduced by Tom de Lancy Green, curator for Rhizome Spring, and followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jordan Lord.
Shared Resources depicts Lord’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker’s student debt. Following their parents’ day-to-day lives and their dad’s progressing disability,…
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Chloe Abrahams, moderated by filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky.
In her debut feature documentary, a cinematic love letter spanning time and generations, Chloe Abrahams probes at raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Therese Henningsen.
Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in North London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him. As her fat…