Posts by jonkino

International Panorama One

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,[…]

American Independent 26/11/18 – 6pm at Niamos sc1

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,[…]

French Programme 29/11/18

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[…]

German Programme 29/11/18

Presented in Association with Europia        (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) We’ve got a heist with[…]

Italian Programme 28/11/18

Presented in Association with Dante Alighieri Manchester and Europia       We’ve awkward goodbyes and overdue reunions, snotty philosophical musings and suspect religious conversions, an[…]

Spanish Programme 28/11/18 & 29/11/18

Presented in Association with the Instituto Cervantes and Europia              We’ve methods of mourning and coping with grieving, flights from responsibility[…]

Animation 3 – Family Kid’s Corner 02/12/18

Gather round and tune in for some tales of adventures in the clouds and under the sea; of lost turtles finding their way home, and[…]

Polish Programme One 27/11/18

Presented in Association with Europia     (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) There’s toxic masculinity and provincial patriarchy,[…]

Pan European 26/11/18 – 8pm at Niamos Sc 2

Presented in Association with Europia     (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) The perils and pressures of parenthood[…]

Pan Eastern European 26/11/18 – 6pm at Niamos Sc 2

Presented in Association with Europia     (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) There are supernatural communications and arcane[…]

North by North West Shorts 29/11/18

(Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) We’ve improbable artists and feline detectives, romantic encounters and independent pensioners, workplace stress[…]

British Three: Connecting Tales 01/13/18 at 8.30pm

The problems of human interaction in all of its rich complexity: the kindness of strangers and the randomness of romance; unexpected moments of bonding and[…]

British Two: Uneasy Tales 01/12/18 at 6.15pm

We’ve stalkers and trolls, clowns and killers, predators and prey, delusional gangsters, creepy clowns, and risky online relationships in this collection of queasy, uneasy tales,[…]

Documentary Shorts One 28/11/18

Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to the University of Manchester and is now taking place at 5.30pm Meditations on mortality and family:[…]

Documentary Shorts Two 28/11/18

Please Note: This Screening has moved from GOOODSTOCK to the University of Manchester There’s life after radioactive disasters, journeys into gold prospecting, graffiti artists struggling[…]

O!PLA Polish Animation Programme

The POLISH ANIMATION FESTIVAL “O!PLA”, meaning:” Oh! Polish Animation “, has been running since 2013. Its objectives are to promote the work of Polish animators,[…]

Animation 2: Dark & Light 30/11/18

Tales of war-time romance, and film noir too. Cynical old gents, and ones with fond memories to share. Demented potatoes, tortured artistes, and a boy[…]

Animation 1: Special Selections 30/11/18

Come one, come all for a special show. Tales of the future, the past, family and friends. To adapting to one’s environment, or ruining it,[…]

We Love Manchester 26/11/18 & 30/11/18

Presented in Association with Work.Life.     A tribute to our much-loved home city, a wide-ranging selection of locally produced shorts, which tries to capture the[…]

British One: Comedy Tales 01/12/18 at 4.00pm

We’ve pranksters and romancers, dietary fads and social trends, communication breakdowns and claustrophobic spaces, online etiquette and religious obligation, supermarket romance and a drastic plan[…]

25 Years Slovak Animation – A Retrospective

Advisory Cert 12A Friday 30th November at 4.00pm  Partisan, 19 Cheetham Hill Rd, Manchester M4 4FY Get Tickets here Explore Slovak animation with a special[…]

Official Selection 2018

  We’re excited to be able to announce our official selection for the 2018 film festival. From well over a 1000 entries we have selected[…]

KINO AT THE POLY Falmouth, 19th & 20th Oct

We are delighted to present a selection of 5 programmes from the Kinoflim International Short Film Festival 15th edition in a special advance two day festival[…]

Submissions: 15th Edition 2018 -Submissions now closed: 7th July

Submissions to out 15th Anniversary Edition taking place 26th Nov – 2nd Dec 2018 are now closed.  *LATEST CLOSING OFFER* DEADLINE EXTENDED FROM 2nd –[…]

Kinofilm 2017 Awards Winners, Runners Up and Special Mentions.

Following November’s 14th Kinofilm Festival we announced our winners and special mentions on our Facebook page. We are pleased to announce here the award winners and Special mentions[…]

14th Edition Kinofilm Festival Award Nominations, Ceremony and Screening. 26/11/17

Below you will find who has been nominated for our awards, taking place at our awards gala tonight at 6pm (arrival)  with the presentations beginning[…]

Bafta Presents Red Road + Q&A with editor, Nicolas Chaudeurge 26/11/17

The BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer goes to.. As part of the 70th anniversary celebrations, BAFTA present a screening[…]

Stars in Shorts Programme: 12.00 Sun 26/11/17

Where would film be without its stars? Even in the world of shorts, we find famous faces. Whoopi Goldberg and Peter Mullen, Shia LeBeouf and[…]

Horror Shorts Programme: 8.30pm Sat 25/11/17

Guilty family secrets and sinister furniture, the perils of the bar-room pick up and the alienation of the morning after, a challenge to the food[…]

THE WHITE MAN’S A BURDEN: WHAT FUTURE FOR TV ANTHROPOLOGY? 2017 Event

Talk and Preview Screening by BAFTA award winning director Gavin Searle. Television is one the main ways British people encounter The Other, but in an[…]

British New Wave Prog 3: 6.30pm Sat 25/11/17

We’ve bereavement and bad timing, depression and self-delusion, bucket lists and bloody-mindedness in our third British Programme. EDITH  (Dir: Christian Cooke, Wri: Ray Robinson, Prod:[…]

British New Wave Prog 2: 4.30pm Sat 25/11/17

We’ve an agoraphobic romantic and a merry widow, a hapless detective and a frustrated filmmaker, a brace of vengeful sons and a nightmare job interview[…]

British New Wave Prog 1: 2.30pm Sat 25/11/17

We’ve unusual houseguests and unexpected encounters, a West Country Western and a Liverpool revenge-noir in the first of our British Programmes. IN THIS HOUSE    (Wri[…]

Brit Films for the weekend – In Another Life, Sat 25/11/17

Kicking of at 12.00 noon screening and discussion of local filmmaker Jason Wingard’s first feature IN ANOTHER LIFE. Following the screening Jason and co-producer Hannah[…]

Programme Manager’s Thursday Recommendations!

SPECTACULAR SHORTS AND EYE-OPENING SEMINARS AT THE KINOFILM FESTIVAL. Today at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, we’ve fatal femmes and has been boxers, border-jumpers and[…]

Get Ready! The Opening Gala is here! (Sat 18th Nov 2017 7-11pm)

It’s Sat the 18th November and it’s time for our opening night at the Odeon Great Northern Cinema (formally AMC Cinema). The activities kick of[…]

Kinofilm Festival Opens Saturday 18/11/17 at ODEON, Great Northern!

Join us this Saturday as we kick start 14th Edition of Kinofilm Festival 2017 at ODEON, Great Northern. A night to be remembered with a[…]

Manchester’s International Short Film Festival Returns for the 14th Edition! Nov 2017

14th Edition KINOFILM FESTIVAL 18TH TO 26TH NOVEMBER We are just over 2 weeks away from our opening ceremony and we’re excited to announce that[…]

Festival Hosts – Attention!

Remember when you were in school and were asked to do the German exchange and you said “yes! I want to go and stay in[…]