As the 15th Edition of KINOFILM Festival comes to a close, it’s time to look back and reflect on the amazing array of short films we were proud to showcase this year. With over 300 shorts in a bumper programme, each of an exceptional standard, it was no easy task for the jury to decide…
We have a packed day of films today with 9 programmes of mind blowing, ground breaking short films.. Come on down and enjoy our British New Wave selections in four programmes with films from across Britain. Plus programmes of Middle Eastern shorts, LGBT shorts, our Alumni shorts programme, a repeat of our opening Gala programme…
In addition to our spectacular Animation day at Partisan today (Friday 30th) we have another super day on offer today at Niamos, with our special WOMEN IN FILM day. We kick of the day with morning coffee at 11.00 followed by a panel discussion Women Rising: Moving On Up Panel Event at 12noon with rising female filmmakers…
Friday is our spectacular Animation Showcase! We’re hosting the selection of Programmes from 12 – 9:30pm at the wonderful venue Partisan Collective in Green Quarter, under 10 minute walk from Manchester Victoria Station! The full address is 19 Cheetham Hill Rd, Manchester M4 4FY. The Showcase includes; Animation Masterclass: Chris Shepherd 12pm – 1.30pm Free Tickets…
It’s Sat the 24th November and it’s time for our opening night at the great new and historic venue NIAMOS (formally Nia Centre/BBC Playhouse/Grand Junction Cinema. The activities kick of at 6.30pm with a drinks reception with live music from some fab local talent. Marc Constantine will be playing his unique instrument Hang and following will do…
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The Subject Screening and Q&A with Sarah Barker Get Tickets here 1.30pm-3.30pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU As part of our showcase of the best new work by women in film, we present ‘The Subject’. A debut feature by Yorkshire-based filmmaker Sarah Barker, who will join us for a post-screening Q&A.…
It is with great pleasure, we can share with you all the Official 2018 Festival Trailer. It provides a mere snapshot of what will be shown at this years event but we hope it’ll get your juices flowing! A BIG thank you to Patrick Foster for putting this together for us.
Join us at the 15th edition of the KINOFILM Awards Gala as we acknowledge and celebrate the standout films of this year’s festival across 11 categories. Sunday 2nd December, 7pm – Late NIAMOS, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Get Tickets here After a nine day short film marathon, there’s no better way to see out…
Following on from the Film Formula and Meet the Festivals events throughout Wednesday (information for these can be found here), you now have the knowhow and understanding or the inner working of a Film Festival, we are pleased to champion two of our friends and partner festivals by showing a selection of their finest crop of 2018. Niamos…
With over 1000 films submitted and some really high quality shorts from around the world it was an incredibly hard task to make this year’s selection, and we have some really great shorts on show this year for your enjoyment. We have almost 300 short films, 2 features and 45 screenings over 9 days. We…
Transitions Panel Free Tickets here 12.00-1.30pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Join us as we speak to filmmakers who have successfully made the transition from shorts to features and discover the trials and tribulations they faced on the way to the finished product. Chee Keong Cheung, who has successfully distributed…
Angela Torresan discusses how the Granada Centre of Visual Anthropology members combine audio-visual media and anthropology in their practice 11.30am-1pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU GET FREE TICKETS HERE As part of the talk, Angela will show Views of Vidigal, a series of short films on the recent securitization policy…
Morning Coffee + Networking 10.30am – NIAMOS, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Join us before the day’s events begin for a caffeine injection and chance to mingle with fellow filmmakers and industry professionals. Trade Secrets from Festival Formula Free Tickets here 11am-12.30pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU…
Morning Coffee + Networking 10am – NIAMOS, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Join us before the day’s events begin for a caffeine injection and chance to mingle with fellow filmmakers and industry professionals (please note due to building access times Morning coffee has been pushed back half an hour till 10am) BFI in Conversation:…
Morning Coffee + Networking 11am – NIAMOS, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Join us before the day’s events begin for a caffeine injection and chance to mingle with fellow filmmakers and industry professionals Women Rising: Moving On Up Panel Free Tickets here 12-1.15pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester…
A selection of recent short films from the MA students in Visual Anthropology that will take us into the social and cultural lives of people from around the world. For the last thirty years, The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester has been widely recognised as the world’s leading centre for…
Eaten by Lions Feature Screening and Q&A with Jason Wingard Get Tickets here 1-3.30pm – NIAMOS Screen 1, Chichester Street, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Jason’s second feature film ‘Eaten By Lions’ was completed earlier this year. It had its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival and went on to win best feature at the London…
(Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) There’s bureaucratic nightmare and brutal bereavement, maximum penalties paid and afterhours liaisons made, murderous art and the art of murder, femmes fatales and amour fou in this showcase of the next generation of British filmmakers. All Films Cert 15 Saturday 1st December at…
(Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) We’ve delusions of grandeur and lives of cloistered contemplation, dreams given form and dreams turned sour, self-image issues and emotional problems, plus fast-breeding infections, both literal and metaphorical, in our second programme of Polish Shorts, these from the students of the famous Polish…
Please note the screening time of this programme has changed from 4pm to 6pm Alienated teens and abandoned lovers, filial responsibility and parental failings, a life in snapshots and a goldfish with a memory, plus romantic interludes for sex addicts and embarrassed introverts alike in this selection of short films from the next generation of…
Following last year’s successful focus on New Iranian Cinema by the countries new young directors we dedicate a whole day to Iranian Cinema in the wonderful Nia Centre. Come witness a selection of strong and powerful short films on Iranian culture, wonderful stories and unique ideas from the new emerging filmmakers of Iran. The day…
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We’ve erotic anticipation and the tawdry reality, romantic imagination and a sour reawakening, village gossip and a teenage rebellion, a birthday message and a night at the movies. All this, plus a house to get lost in, in our second female-centred programme of international shorts. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November 8.30pm NIAMOS sc.1 (Nia…
A face from the past, and a confused recollection, the pursuit of nirvana and a chance of salvation, youthful dreams and ambitions and the tyranny of ageism, the immigrant experience and the dance of life, all in our programme of the best of British women filmmakers. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November 6.00pm NIAMOS sc.1…
The pressures of childhood and the perils of peer groups, the search for the self and conformity conquered, self-mythologising machismo and one last great romantic gesture in the first of our programmes celebrating female creativity around the world. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November 4.00pm NIAMOS Sc.2 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15…
(Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) There’s young love and sexual experimentation, tourism and flirtation, punk rock, magic, morticians, awkward mornings after and embarrassing maternal interference in our LGBT programme. Advisory Cert 15 Saturday 1st December at 6.00pm NIAMOS 2, Chichester Rd/Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Get Tickets here ISABELLA…
(Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) Advisory Cert 15 Sat 1st Dec 2.00 NIAMOS 2, Chichester Rd/Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Get Tickets here THE HOUSE Dir: Giulia Gandini, Prod: Ibrahim Kamel, Wri: Charlie Tidmas, Cast: Josie Kidd, Ava Emery UK, 14 min 48 sec A house stands aside from…
What does it mean to be a refugee? To lose everything – home, country, friends, family. To gamble everything on the hope of a new life, somewhere alien and possibly hostile. To try to hold on to something of who you are and where you came from in spite of everything you have had to…
Sometimes, brevity is the soul of wit. And of concise and incisive filmmaking. This programme is designed to demonstrate this. We’ve mobile phone films and music videos, documentary snapshots and experimental oddities, punchy animations and compact dramas. All they have in common is their brief length. And the intelligence with which they explore and exploit…
There’s repressed emotions and subconscious animals, mental illness in a hand-painted realm, the parasitical pathology of a hypochondriac, a compulsive cuboid’s battle with a belligerent red ball and a terrific triffid stop-motion takeover. Plus, Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor coming back to life as we’ve never seen them before, chaos incarnate and chance-based filming mounted…
(Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) A selection of tales of childhood; of innocence lost and found, of dreams betrayed and dreams fulfilled, of communication across barricades and misunderstandings across generations, of cultural traditions preserved and the unifying possibilities of sport, in this selection of stories from across the…
There’s malevolent social media and toxic technology, the horrors of alienation and the terrors of too much interaction, a visit to an oracle and a confrontation with one’s darkest self, an uncomfortable anatomy lesson, and every parent’s worst nightmare, in this shudder-inducing selection of scary stories. Advisory Cert 18 Thursday 29th November at 8.30pm NIAMOS…
We’ve mermaids and angels, sea monsters and alien abductions, a macabre model village and a bus ride to the future, a nightmarish job interview and a corporation with access to our innermost selves, in this collection of fantastic fables. Advisory Cert 15 Tuesday 27th November at 6.00pm, University of Manchester (Student Screening), John Casken Lecture…
There’s young love in Tuscany and a chaotic classroom cupid, a lazy morning after, and a bittersweet comedown, classical literature come to life, and a dirty joke made flesh, a fleeting moment of connection and a fleeting phantom of femininity, in this selection of sharp cinematic arrows targeted right at the heart. Advisory Cert 15…
There’s wise guys in crisis and young men out of their depth, robberies gone wrong and suicides gone South, a journey into the night and a view from a window, and all the dark deceptions of the photographer’s art, in this selection of sinister and shadowy crime shorts. Advisory Cert 15 Wednesday 28th November at…
We’ve loving pastiches and rib-nudging parodies, soft-focus evocations and sharp recreations, picture-palace nostalgia and multiplex misery, wistful romance, deadpan comedy, and the healing power of film, in this celebration of the cinematic art. Advisory Cert 15 Tuesday 27th Nov 8.30pm Niamos Sc 1, Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Get Tickets here LE CHAT DORE…
A search for the right words, an old man’s stoic struggle for survival, musical rivalries and clumsy male bonding galore in our second International Programme. Advisory Cert 15 Sunday 2nd December at 4.00pm NIAMOS sc.1 (Nia Cultural Centre) Get Tickets here SWAN SONG UK Premiere Dir / Wri: Guy Mansfield, Prod: Annie Parnell, Wri:…
Memories of childhood, of lost love and life gone by, the pressures of family duty and obligation, the failings of feckless fathers and overworked mothers, a dream gone sour and a friend indeed that you really don’t need, in the first of our International Programmes. Advisory Cert 15 Sunday 2nd December at 2.00pm NIAMOS sc.1…
There’s familial loyalty and filial frustration, manipulative mothers and absentee fathers, traumatic memories and concrete metaphors, voices in the head and doubts in the mind, fitting memorials and magical exits in our selection of the best new American Independent shorts. Advisory Cert 15 Monday 26th November at 6.00pm NIAMOS sc1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick…
Presented in Association with the Alliance Francaise and Europia The thoughtless cruelty of children, a relationship breaking down, and a pick-up gone sour, shifts of perspective and visions of possible futures, cops in crisis, and soldiers in search of love, in this collection of Gallic shorts. Advisory Cert 18 Thursday 29th November at 6.00pm…
Presented in Association with Europia (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) We’ve got a heist with a bizarre twist, a study of guilt in a police officer, the job interview from hell, two tales of extra-marital affairs gone bad, a tragic miscarriage and the process of…
Presented in Association with Dante Alighieri Manchester and Europia We’ve awkward goodbyes and overdue reunions, snotty philosophical musings and suspect religious conversions, an expressionist nightmare, and two very different meditations on the immigrant experience, in our Italian Programme. Advisory Cert 15 Wednesday 28th November at 7.00pm INSTITUTO CERVANTES, 326-330 Deansgate, Campfield Avenue Arcade, Manchester…
