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…
Presented in Association with the Instituto Cervantes and Europia We’ve methods of mourning and coping with grieving, flights from responsibility and retreats from reality, a past ever-present and a future on hold, romantic regret and parental neglect, unrealistic expectations and dancing on air, in this year’s Spanish selection. Advisory Cert…
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 birds learning to fly in most unusual ways. There’s a compact, highly entertaining history lesson, and a garbage bin that eats too much. With a selection of films from nine…
Presented in Association with Europia (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) There’s toxic masculinity and provincial patriarchy, cinema romance and the cold comfort of strangers, rekindled relationships and awkard reunions in the first of our Polish Programmes. Advisory Cert 15 Tuesday 27th November at 4.00pm NIAMOS 2, Chichester…
Presented in Association with Europia (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) The perils and pressures of parenthood and the fraughtness of family life from first to last, form a unifying thematic thread through this selection of European shorts. Advisory Cert 15 Monday 26th November at 8.00pm NIAMOS…
Presented in Association with Europia (Please Note the venue has changed from GOODSTOCK to NIAMOS Screen 2) There are supernatural communications and arcane rituals, misinterpreted signals and mistimed declarations, journeys within and journeys without, in our selection of shorts from Eastern Europe. Advisory Cert 15 Monday 26th November at 6:00pm NIAMOS Screen 2,…
(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 and insensitive bureaucracy, a grim and Gothic past and an uncertain future in this varied selection of films by Northern Talent. Thurs 29th Nov 8.00pm NIAMOS 2, Chichester Rd/Warwick St, Manchester…
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 the challenging complexities of a fraught family life, in a series of films about connection… or the failure to find it. Saturday 1st December at 8:30pm NIAMOS sc. 1 (Nia…
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, guaranteed to unsettle and unnerve. Advisory cert 18 Saturday 1st December at 6:15pm NIAMOS sc. 1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Get Tickets here SPEED DATE…
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: mourning, memorials, and medical ethics; the need for closure, the desire to move on, and the impossibility sometimes of ever doing so. All this, plus the disruptive effects of a…
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 against government corruption and death threats in the cult of Saint Death. Plus fables from the rainforests of the Congo and nomadic tales from the mountains of Tajikistan. All in…
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, both at home (O! PLA INNOVATION) and abroad (O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS), by means of special screenings for viewers of all ages, lectures, meetings with creators and animation workshops. The…
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 who turned being bullied into a victory. These and many more are the ups and downs, ins and outs, the dark, and the light. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November…
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, these films say it all. And, of course, there’s a ragingly funny take on everyone’s favourite upcoming ‘divorce’. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November at 6:00pm Partisan, 19 Cheetham…
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 wit, the grit, the manic energy, the romance, the dance, the willingness to take a chance, the darkness and the light, the threat and the regret, the poetry and the…
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 to escape a lonely Christmas, in this collection of British shorts with a distinctly comic flavour. Advisory Cert 15 Saturday 1st December at 4:00pm NIAMOS 1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester…
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 selection 25 Years in Slovak Animation! On the occasion of the 25th anniversary years of Slovakia’s independence, Slovak Film Institute and International Animation Festival Fest Anča prepared the compilation 25…
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 300 short films for your enjoyment and to celebrate the art of short film. All films showing in the festival are listed below (if you don’t see the whole document…
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 at the Poly Cinema, Falmouth, Cornwall. A chance to get some feedback on our film selections, network with the Festival Director and our South West correspondent George Green, and see…
Submissions to out 15th Anniversary Edition taking place 26th Nov – 2nd Dec 2018 are now closed. *LATEST CLOSING OFFER* DEADLINE EXTENDED FROM 2nd – 7th July you can get a massive 50% off your submission on both WITHOUTABOX and FILMFFREEWAY using the following code now: 50percentoffKino The code can be used for any category including already discounted categories…
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 to the rest of the world. Thanks to all our jury members for the task of viewing and appraising all the films. We hope you agree they have made some…
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 at 6.30pm apx at International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Our jury have been working hard to make their decisions and we would like to thank them for their hard work and…
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 of Red Road, a BAFTA-winning debut film directed by Andrea Arnold, in partnership with Kinofilm Festival. This is an unique opportunity to see this outstanding British debut on the big…
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 Jane Birkin, Ewen Mackintosh and Denise Welch can all be found strutting their stuff in this star-studded selection. PALACE (Wri / Dir: Marcus C. W. Chan, Wri: Sam Icklow, Prod:…
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 chain and an unfortunate medical condition – and various methods for disposing of bodies – in this sinister selection of shorts. LET ME IN (Dir: Max Dawiczewski, Wri: Ed Thwaites, Prod: Tobias Jones,…
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 age where Love Island and The Bake Off dominate the schedules can anthropology still cut the mustard on TV? Showing clips and a preview of his upcoming BBC series, The Last…
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: April Kelley, Sara Huxley, Fiona Neilson, Star: Peter Mullan, Michelle Fairley, Elliott Tittensor, UK, 2016, 15 min) Since his wife Edith’s death four months ago, Jake has fallen into a…
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 in our second selection of British films. INBOX (Wri / Dir: B Welby Delimere, Wri: Rory Fleck Byrne, Prod: Helen Gladders, UK, 2017, 7 min 30 sec) When an agoraphobic…
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 / Dir: Owain Hopkins, Prod: Alan Humphreys, UK, 2016, 13 min 5 sec) An elderly couple live out their strange and beautiful existence together, in a relationship where not everything…
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 Stephenson will have a Q&A with Festival Programmer Steve Balshaw. SYNOPSIS: …
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 avenging cabbies, robberies gone wrong and time bent out of shape, and all manner of shadowy criminality in our KINO NOIR programme, which will be kicking off, in more ways…
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 at 7pm with a drinks reception with live music from Greater Manchester singer-songwriter James Holt. Meet the stars and have your photos taken on our red carpet – make it a night…
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 red carpet arrival, press, photo opportunities and more! Don’t miss out for just £10 a ticket that can be bought via this link on the ODEON Website! Celebrity guests include…
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 we have finally finalised our schedule of short films, events and some special screenings of feature films too. We have events from BAFTA, BBC Writersroom, Women in Film and TV…
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 someone’s house” and then, a year later, they said “do you want someone to stay at yours?” and you shouted “yes!”. Well, we have an opportunity just like that. A…
Have you ever fancied taking part on a film jury to decide the winner of an award for a film festival? Maybe you already have! The 14th edition of Kinofilm Festival 2017 is looking for a jury panel to decide on our winners, by watching a selection of films and voting in November. Some experience…