Director : Karel Zeman // Year : 1962// Nationality : Czech Republic (In Czech with subtitles) When Tony the astronaut lands on the moon, the last thing he expects to find there is Baron Munchausen enjoying a glass of wine. Our fantastic voyage with this odd couple combines animation and live action in a dazzlingly […]
Bees Make Honey are proud to present a one-off screening of Pan's Labyrinth from the visionary director, Guillermo Del Toro. The film will be screened in the basement of Nottingham Writers' Studio. There will be a dark fairytale theme to the evening with work by local artists and themed drinks to celebrate this strange and […]
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The first selection is Brazil's first horror film- At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) - which features the first appearance of Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) of the Coffin Joe Trilogy. A wicked undertaker whose […]
Inspired by Ugandan Author Monica Arac de Nyeko’s 2007 Caine Prize-winning short storyJambula Tree, Wanuri Kahiu’s acclaimed Rafiki (meaning ‘friend’ in Swahili) is a tender love story about the blossoming romance between two young women amid familial, societal and political pressures. In Nairobi, Kena (Samantha Mugatsia) is helping her father campaign for a local election […]
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 […]
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The second offering of this collection is comedy Macunaima (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1969. Based on the 1928 book by Mário de Andrade, the modern-day parable follows the misadventures of Macunaima, a black man who is […]
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The final installment in this mini-series will be How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971). A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a […]
Beatside presents: Dreamers & Rebels This is an event for the mad ones – those who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to dance, and mad to dream and to rebel. To kickstart our series, we are delighted to present a slice of Latvian culture and history with an eerily timely screening of […]