Details of all the screening within the various programne strands in this year’s festival below. The iShorts Event in association with Creative England and MMU School of Art iShorts Conference (panel Discussion) Mon 22nd Feb, 70 Oxford street 4.00pm iShorts (Creative England) (15) FREE SCREENING Mon 22nd Feb, 70…
We are pleased to announce all the films screening in Kinofilm Festival 2016. Browse the A_Z List of films screening in this year’s Festival, for the day, time, venue and programme selection (download available below). Full programme details for the festival to be announced shortly. Down load A-Z films FINAL web 2016 copy3 Film Title…
Do you want to become part of the 14th edition of Kinofilm Festival 2017? We are urgently seeking volunteers to help with the planning of the 2017 short film festival, with programming, social media, marketing, sponsorship, photography and filming, and helping us to strengthen our links with Universities creating new partnerships and developing new audiences…
Kinofilm will be holding two advance preview events for the Manchester International Short Film & Animation Festival. The first of these will take place on Wed 27th January at Central Library. Come get a taste of what’s to come during Kinofilm Festival with a special selection of shorts from this year’s Festival. The screening takes…
Ok we’ve had an incredible busy last three months viewing all the festival submissions – thanks go out to our programming team. If you submitted a film to us then you should have heard from us by now if your film has been accepted. If you haven’t heard from us then sorry you probably won’t…
We have a jam packed programme of great films this month at Kino Manchester. Yes, Kino Shorts is back at the Three Minute Theatre this WED. Doors open from 7pm, programme starts at 7.3o.. Everyone is wellcome to attend and tickets are just £5 or £4 concessions (students/unwaged) – evidence must be shown please. Of…
So, we’re all set for this month’s Kino Shorts night and the full programme is announced below. KINO SHORTS IS BACK AT THE Three Minute Theatre on WED 1st April. Excited that we are gearing up in our 20th year of short film events in Manchester and following all the filmmaker submissions to this month’s…
Our Kino Shorts 55 event took place on Wed 25th February at the Three Minute Theatre in Manchester. This is what we showed to a packed audience. Filmmaker Philip Coleman was at Kino Shorts for a showing of his latest short EMPTY SPACE (10mins). Synopsis: As battle rages on, two lovers leave the planet in…
Our first event of the year took place on 28th January at the Three Minute Theatre in the Northern Quarter. Packed full of goodies the event went down a storm with a great selection of fillms. Here’s a summary of what was screened on the night. Our friends from MSI in Liverpool joined us with…
Tonight (WED) at Three minute theatre Manchester. It’s that time again: Manchester’s Kino presents the Northwest’s longest running short film night (1995 – 2014), Don’t forget it’s tonight at 7.30pm (doors open at 7.00pm) at The Three Minute Theatre and the last WED of every month. Great films. great friendly venue, networking and drinks. This…
Tonight (WED) at Three minute theatre Manchester. It’s that time again: Manchester’s Kino presents the Northwest’s longest running short film night (1995 – 2014), Don’t forget it’s tonight at The Three Minute Theatre and the last WED of every month. Great films. great friendly venue, networking and drinks. This month we have a great line…
KINO SHORTS 50. Wed 30th July 2014 @ the Three Minute Theatre We will be back next week with our last event before the summer break. We’re pleased to have a couple of really great 30 min shorts in this event. Normally we don’t allow more than 20 mins but these two shorts are just…
Submissions NOW OPEN for this month’s Kino Shorts on WED 25TH JUNE AT 3MT. AFTER OUR SUCCESSFUL FESTIVAL KINO SHORTS IS BACK FOR OUR MONTHLY SHORT FILM NIGHT FOR MANCHESTER AND NORTH WEST FILMMAKERS. We are open to all filmmakers in the North/North West of England but will also consider films from elsewhere in the…
So the festival is over, and we have announced this awards for this year, please see the poster of Award Winners 2014. We are pleased with the results of this year’s festval and would like to thank everyone involved, including all our volunteers, venues and partners, and of course, the participating filmmakers and audiences. We…
KINO FANTASY (Cert 15) @Anthony Burgess Foundation Centre Saturday 31st May, 8:30pm Kino Fantasy explores alternative realities, presenting visions of past and future worlds, and offering new perspectives on the present one. In the UK Premiere of Thierry Lorenzi’s haunting space opera ‘ON/OFF’, a memory of a life once lived on earth is all that…
Three Minute Wonders (Cert 15) @ Gullivers Sunday 1st June – 1.00pm Homey Dir/Writ; Ben Garfield, Prod; Harriet Harper-Jones, London, 2012, 2:57 mins. Homey is about a game of British Bulldog being played at an inner-city primary school. Visa Dir/Prod/Writ; Maryam Tafakory, London, 2013, 3:11 mins. Visa, is about recent immigration changes in the UK that…
NORTH WEST SHORTS (Cert 15) @ Anthony Burgess Centre Sunday 1st June, 6.15pm North West Shorts presents a diverse selection from the current crop of home grown talent. Catch ‘The King is Dead’ by Richard Higson, ‘My Life’ by Martin Chart, and ‘Blind Faith’ by Gino Evens. Join us for an evening of thought provoking…
Student Shorts (Cert 15) @ Three Minute Theatre Monday 2nd June – 6.00pm Give us a round of applause for the debut works of these student films. Making their entrance are Celia Wickham with ‘Mother’, Participating filmmakers from LEEDS MU with both ‘Fall Out Shelter’ and ‘Ink’, and Bola Akande, MA student from Manchester with ‘Unearthed’, just…
To check the screening times and venues see the full calendar here. For details of what’s on check back soon and for details of the Library programme see here. Our festival opens in a super new space at Central Library with three days of screening at this great new venue, with three days of screenings…
A_Z List of films screening at Kinofilm 2014. So here is the official selection of films for Kinofilm inalphabetical order, scroll down for titles and across for which strand the film is in, the day of screening, time and venue. Full programme details of all films to be announced shortly. Title Director Strand Day Date…
FILMMAKERS! YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET INVOLVED IN AN EXCITING NEW OPPORTUNITY AT KINOFILM MANCHESTER The KINOFILM Manchester International short film festival is due make its return at the end of May/early June of 2014. This is Kino Manchester’s last call for submissions to the festival. Entries across all online sites closed on 31st March…
Want to get involved in the return of the Kinofilm Festival? Our first international edition for three years is next week and we urgently need a few extra volunteers to help. We are also looking for enthusiastic dedicated folks who want to help during the festival week from Tuesday 27th – Monday 2nd June. You…
Kino Shorts is this WED 26th at the Three Minute Theatre in Manchester. Some great films in store. Here’s the programme confirmed for Kino 46 showing in this order. Part 1: ACID TONGUE (MAT MOTTE) – music video with Matt Motte & Gemma Deerfield – followed by a surprise short by Gemma. ASSASIN – Action…
A selection of the photos taken at Kino Shorts last week at the Three Minute Theatre in Manchester on 29th January 2014. Was a fantastic night, completely sold out, great films, interesting Q&A’s and much fun and networking was achieved. Looking forward to the next one on 26th Feb.
Submissions by Women Filmmakers Wanted Now. Our third Women in Film this year on Wed 16th October at the Black Lion, and this one is going to focus on women filmmakers, writers and actors. So if you’r a female director that’s great, but not all, if your short film is writen by a woman or…
NOTE: ARCHIVE PAGE WEDNESDAY 17TH MARCH – KINO SHORTS SPECIAL OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW. Our second event at Black Lion this year takes place on Wed 17th April and will focus on animation, music videos and experimental work. We’re inviting entries over the next 10 days. Work must have been completed within 2012 to date…
This Wed 11th Sept. Kino present Kino Shorts 40, Manchester and North West Short Film Showcase. The event takes place at the Three Minute Theatre on Oldham Street in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quanter. Featuring a great selection of films on offer including Jordan McGibney’s rather excellent dramatic short “Richard III: A Memoir of a…
Kino’s Aaben Cult Cine Club is back in action this Wed 18th Sept and has two cult movie screenings as part of the national Scalarama Festival taking place throughout September. The two screenings take place at the Black Lion, Chapel Street, Salford, 5 mins from Deansgate. First on WED 18th Sept is Jindrich Polák’s pioneering…
Kino was founded originally in 1993 as the Kino Film Club, set up to carry on the work of the legendary Aaben Cinema in Hulme, known for its showing of art house, classic and cult movies throughout the 1980s. Kino started life as a gorilla film club screening movies in venues throughout Manchester, from pubs…
UPDATE: 30th April 2015 Please note this is an archive page. The student festival below took place in 2013 and has not taken place as a dedicated festival since. Kino Exposed is now (for the time being) combined as specific strand of the main KINOFILM FESTIVAL. All students can submit to KINOFILM (via Filmfreeway) at…
Ok we have been a bit quite this month, having a much earned rest but we will be back with Kino Shorts 38 next Wednesday 31st at the Three Minute Theatre. Programme is partly announced on the page and we are just selecting the final ones. We have some newcomers to the event and some…
Don’t forget, Kino Shorts is WED night (29th) at the Three Minute Theatre. We have a cracking programme of films lined up and all the filmmakers will be there to do Q&A’s to discuss the films after their screenings. We expect a busy night so please be early if coming to the event. For more…