What is Scalarama? A month of film: 30 days in which cinemas across the world celebrate watching motion pictures together; where cities, towns and villages are transformed with screenings popping up in unexpected places; and where classic, rare or locally made films get an annual showing impotenzastop.it/. Since 2011, every September, cinemas, film clubs and […]
“I felt I needed to invent my cinema. With La Pointe Courte, I just jumped in, in the most radical fashion.” Anticipating the style and attitude of the French New Wave by a number of years, Agnès Varda’s directorial debut remains as fresh and as original as the day it was made. La Pointe Courte […]
Shot in Paris during the height of the Sixties, Varda’s second film Cléo from 5 to 7 tells the story of Cléo, a pop singer who passes her time drifting through different locations and conversations while awaiting the results of a vital and potentially life-changing medical examination. A forerunner to the French New Wave, Cléo from […]
During the dawn of the digital age in the late 1990s and early 2000s, The Gleaners and Iemerged as one of the first true masterpieces to evolve from the new and (at the time) relatively unexplored format. Taken from the old pastime of gleaning (collecting leftover crops from fields after they have been harvested), Varda’s […]
“I’ve had friends who’ve been very important in my life. In L’Une chante, l’autre pas I’ve told their story as if it were a novel.” After a hiatus from making feature films to focus on having a family, Varda’s return to filmmaking was largely inspired by her involvement in the French Women’s Movement of the 1970s, which […]
Mortido is a short film by Miska Morning, it explores childhood imagination and memories in a tale of mourning a loss of a father, set somewhere between dark horror and a bittersweet fairy tale.
Brighton based film collective, Octopus Films, presents 12 short film monologues covering the full range of human experience. Funny, mysterious, surreal, tragic and heartwarming - just like life. Octopus Films are a Brighton based short film collective made of up of professional filmmakers, keen enthusiasts and students. We have been working together since 2015 and […]
Ever wanted to talk back to the film Me Before You, abelism and 'cripping up'!? Now is your chance! Presented in partnership with Fabrica, The Other Screen invites you to our most interactive live cinema event yet. In the style of midnight movies and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, each audience member will be given a […]
Fresh Perspectives and Fabrica present the Battle of Algiers as part of Uprising: the Spirit of '68. More info to follow Doors from 7pm, feature starts at 7:30pm
Yes, community cinema is Staying Alive, and we’re going back to 1959 California with the fantastic and ground-breaking musical drama Grease. Directed by Randal Kleiser this 1978 film starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It tells the story of Danny and Sandy who fall in love at the beach, only to find themselves very much […]
As #MeToo and #TimesUp shine a light on the film industry's dark side, Women Over 50 Film Festival fights back with short films that amuse, astound and agitate, celebrating the work of older women on both sides of the camera. WOFFF18 presents 2 feature films, over 50 short films, an all-female panel event and a […]
Marking the 108th anniversary of the Duke of York’s and the 90th anniversary of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s powerful masterwork The Passion of Joan of Arc, Scalarama and the Duke’s are presenting this seminal silent film from a rare 35mm print with a new and original live score performed by Heliopause and This Ship Argo. This […]
As #MeToo and #TimesUp shine a light on the film industry's dark side, Women Over 50 Film Festival fights back with short films that amuse, astound and agitate, celebrating the work of older women on both sides of the camera. WOFFF18 presents 2 feature films, over 50 short films, an all-female panel event and a […]
1970: England is preparing for the defence of the World Cup. Bromley FC had seen better days: playing and crowd support are embarrassingly poor. David, nevertheless, is a big fan; he longs to be in the inner sanctum of his beloved club. Teams opposing Bromley lose count of the number of goals conceded. Gambler-Manager McQueen […]
More beautiful than ever in a new 4K digital restoration, Jean Cocteau’s spellbinding, sensuous and poetic masterpiece was recently described by Guillermo del Toro as ‘the most perfect cinematic fable ever told’. A hapless merchant, lost in a dark forest, seeks refuge in the castle of a hideous monster who threatens to kill him unless […]
Winner of Best Screenplay at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is a beguiling and luminous magic realist fable which echoes the surrealist films of cinematic masters like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini and Derek Jarman. Beautifully shot on super 16mm, the film follows the sweet natured peasant Lazzaro […]