Following on from her feature debut Diva, Anna Biller directed, wrote, produced, scored and created all of the sets and costumes for her next film, The Love Witch. As that title suggests, Elaine (Samantha Robinson) is a witch who uses magic potions and spells to make men fall madly in love with her, and usually […]
Based on Jack Ritchie’s short story The Green Heart and directed by the great Elaine May, A New Leaf stars Walter Matthau as Henry, a once-rich bachelor who has spent his entire inheritance. Desperate to marry into further financial support, he meets Henrietta (May), a shy, awkward, though independently wealthy botany professor. What follows is […]
From the director of Ratcatcher and We Need To Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here is the brutal and defiantly masterful new film by uncompromising British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, and stars an ever-excellent Joaquin Phenoix as a damaged Gulf War veteran and former FBI agent turned assassin for hire, tasked with rescuing a […]
France’s answer to Fleabag sees Laetitia Dosch explode onto the screen as Paula in Léonor Serraille’s debut film Jeune Femme, a live-wire comedy and an excessive exercise in humour and urgency which explores modern life’s everyday misfortunes. Back in Paris after a long absence and finding the key to her boyfriend’s apartment no longer works, Paula […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This 90-minute programme, presented by Leeds Animation Workshop, will include the premiere of a new short film made at the Workshop, as well as a couple of old and new favourites from the local women’s collective, set up 40 years ago. Also showing: a selection of films by women animators from the UK, and around the […]
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 […]
A sensorial and immersive trip into a teen’s psyche, Madeline’s Madeline boldly dissects mental health, racial tensions, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance. Starring Miranda July, Molly Parker, and standout newcomer Helena Howard, this is relentless, electrifying cinema that solidifies Josephine Decker’s position at the forefront of contemporary experimental filmmaking. Sixteen-year-old Madeline has […]
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 […]
Seahorse (Jeanie Finlay, 2019) 1hr 31m Queer Classics and Matchbox Cineclub are delighted to screen Jeanie Finlay's documentary, Seahorse, the story of a dad who gave birth, which follows Freddy McConnell's journey through the pregnancy and birth of his son. Seahorse is an intimate documentary following Freddy McConnell's journey as a pregnant trans man, from […]
Alert!! #newrelease2019 As charming and funny as it is thought-provoking, Hail Satan? chronicles the extraordinary rise of one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history, The Satanists. Hail Satan? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). Director: Penny Lane Year 2019. Duration […]