FESTIVAL PASSES ON SALE NOW HERE. We’re thrilled to announce that the Kino festival will return to celebrate its 25th Anniversary with its first online premiere Edition taking place from 10th – 16th May, promising an exciting global short film celebration! Due to COVID-19, Kinofilm has been subject to three postponements which, as an independent…
Here’s a selection of posters from the films we showed in this year’s festival. Some really great art work.
Kinofilm Festival Diary – 22nd-28th February (now updated 17/2) Here you can view the Programme Calendar and Programme Strands schedule. Plan your festival diary here, you can download a Festival diary by clicking here on Programme Calendar. Tickets for all Kinofilm Festival screenings and events are available now on line at our Skiddle page or at…
Fri 26th Feb, Gullivers 2.00pm Tickets now available here. DOCUMENTARY SHORTS (12) FREE SCREENING Family secrets and traumas, dying traditions, factories, fish, environmental concerns and a little bit of parody in a selection that proves once again that most of the best stories tend to be true. Seven Days A Week NORTH…
Wed 24th Feb, Anthony Burgess Foundation 8.30pm Tickets are on sale now here. Animation 3: O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS 2015 Polish Animation (CERT 18) Please note not suitable for children so this has been advised a 18 certificate. Traditionally curated by “the biggest Jury in the world”, O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS- is back! Entertaining viewers…
Wed 24th Feb, Anthony Burgess Foundation 6.30pm Kino Exposed 2 (UK Student Shorts) (15) Tickets on Sale Now Here We’ve racial tensions, family tragedies, Internet paranoia, mermaids, mad artists, clones and social etiquette for serial killers in this selection of new student work from up and coming UK talent… One Day In Whitechapel Dir /…
Wed 24th Feb, Central Library 6.00pm Tickets now available here. Animation 2: “SPECIAL SELECTIONS” (15) From a mischievous raccoon, to Trick or Treat gone mad, enjoy these shorts specially selected for the Kinofilm Festival. Be amused, entertained, touched and informed by films that have made their way around the world, including the Oscar nominated ‘A…
Wed 24th Feb, Central Library 4.00pm Animation 1: “DARK & LIGHT” (12A) Tickets now available here. Tales about addiction, greed, death and war presented alongside stories on wonder, creativity and unshakeable friendship. From day-to-day life, to outer space, these are the stories life is made of. Dacryphilia BRITISH Premiere Dir: Rene Chandler, Wri: Amanda…
Wed 24th Feb, Central Library 2.00pm Tickets on sale now here. KINO EXPOSED 1 (INTERNATIONAL STUDENT Shorts) (15) The space race, competition, and family relationships feature heavily in this selection of some of the best student work from around the world. Against Night NORTH WEST Premiere Dir / Wri:…
Tues 23rd Feb, Anthony Burgess Foundation 8.30pm Kino Tales 4: Bizarre Tales (18) Tickets now available here. From writers on the rampage to monstrous medical malpractice, from festive psychosis to disturbing dental obsession, here’s a selection to shake you out of your cinematic comfort zone… Rest Stop NORTH WEST Premiere Dir:…
Tues 23rd Feb, Central Library 6.00pm Tickets now available here. KINO TALES 3: ROMANTIC TALES (15) Love is on the rocks, it’s on a road to nowhere, and yet it transcends death in this series of relationship-themed shorts. Conversations with Strangers Dir /Prod: James Sampson, Prod: Marcus Crouch, Wri: Jonathon Nobbs, Siobhan Callas, Stephanie Wessell…
Mon 22nd Feb, 70 Oxford Street, 7.50pm FREE SCREENING Tickets for Monday now available here. Tues 23rd Feb, Central Library, 4.00pm (Repeat Pay screening) Tickets for Tuesday now available here. MADE IN MANCHESTER in Association with MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART Women boxers, killer garden ornaments, traumatised war veterans, police investigations and stalkers. Ah, Manchester. So…
Mon 22nd Feb, Central Library 6.00pm Tickets for Monday available now here. Tues 23rd Feb, Central Library 2.00pm (repeat screening) Tickets for Tue available here INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA SHORTS 1 (15) We’ve feckless fathers and desperate daughters, unsettling encounters and exploitative directors, and a man’s bone-chilling glimpse of his own immediate future in the first of…
Mon 22nd Feb, 70 Oxford Street 5.50pm FREE SCREENING Tickets for Monday available here preceded by iShorts Conference on Monday 22nd at 4.00pm at 70 Oxford Street. Thur 25th Feb, Central Library 3.00pm (repeat Paid screening) Tickets for Thursday available here iSHORTS 2015 (15) in Association with MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART and CREATIVE ENGLAND…
Mon 22nd 2.00pm at Central Library Kino Tales 1: COMEDY SHORTS 1 Tickets available here There’s triumph over adversity, muscle, music, unfortunate medical conditions, spies and lots of cake in the first of our films in a lighter vein – which is not to say that some of the humour isn’t pretty…
Kinofilm Festival Manchester Diary – 22nd-28th February Plan your festival diary here, you can also download a festival diary by clicking on this Programme Calendar Monday 22nd Programme Title Programme Strand Venue 11 am – 1.00pm Union Street Workshop Evt Education Event Central Library 2.00pm Comedy Tales 1 Kino Tales Central Library 4.00pm Future Tales…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Submissions NOW OPEN for this month’s Kino Shorts on 30th April at 3MT. We are open to all filmmakers in the North/North West of England but will also consider films from elsewhere in the UK as long as the filmmaker is able to attend the screening and partake in a Q&A.. Submissions should be in…
Kino Shorts is back up and running for 2014 with the first event this WED at the Three Minute Theatre, with a fantastic line up which is going to command a capacity audience. Those coming should be early to be sure of getting a seat. Top of the bill is the world premier of Mike…
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…
We are now accepting entries for our next season which will continue throughout 2014 on the last Wednesday of each month (except August) at the Three Minute Theatre. Now is the time to submit your flims. In July we will also be holding our 4th Women in Film event. Women filmmakers, come together for the…
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…