Waller Jeffs, showman extraordinaire, popularised the moving image and brought the cinematograph on a large scale to the people of Birmingham through his shows at the Curzon Hall.  Working with a series of travelling exhibition companies and...

Our first shorts selection is roughly themed around ‘films-about-film’ - but it’s less navel-gazing than that might sound, and manages to cover coming-of-age comedy, super 8 experiments, nostalgia, slapstick and Bolshevik...

In 1971, at the height of his international fame, Klaus Kinski took to the stage of a huge auditorium in Berlin to deliver his account of the life of Christ. It was planned as the first show in a one-man world tour, but Kinski had barely...

The tale of singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan has solidified into legend over the past couple of years: a brief flirtation with fame in the 60s and a debut LP which barely registered...

Anyone who has stumbled around the back-alleys of Zizkov after dark will find plenty to recognise here - although you may not have come across a parsnip fairy or a man snorting ants. An apartment block in the Prague district is a focal point...

A very special double-bill to launch our family programme. Firstly there’s a performance by The Paper Cinema, who use cut-out drawings to make a film before your very eyes. The story is called Night Flyer, about a boy on a bike, with live music provided by Kora.

Then we go from bikes to balloons, and a film made in Paris fifty years ago...

After being given a camera, Komaneko discovers that animation can be really fun; and hard work too. Later on she takes her camera out into the woods near her house and tries to get a shot of the Bigfoot that lives there.

The name apparently...

Films you can dance to! A selection of short films and TV clips which all feature great music, starting with a classic Bagpuss story. Emily brings a dirty old ballet shoe back to the shop...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in partnership with ScreenWM is proud to present a screening of the nominated short animated films from the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009. The award is open to entries from the UK only, with hundreds of short...

Turn the corner of certain streets in Philadelphia and you may have to pinch yourself. Plastered (literally) across thousands of feet of wall is the life-work of Isaiah Zagar, a series of mosaics using scattered words, images, shards of glass and...

Here’s one way to get over a relationship. Dumped by her boyfriend after he met someone else on a business trip to India, comic-strip artist Nina Paley spent five years on her PC crafting this tale of man-troubles across the ages. In...

Truly bizarre horror film about an American woman (Bastian) investigating Balinese black magic who ends up under the power of a shrieking Yoda-like witch character in the woods. Includes some of the most clunky and yet creepy special effects...

We’ve already had cats and mice, and now here’s a whole herd of animal films...

A volcano erupts in Moomin Valley and heavy floods force the Moomin family to leave their house. They hitch a ride on a mysterious building which turns out to be a floating theatre. Meanwhile Snufkin goes into battle against a grumpy...

As with the last Flatpack, we close the lid on our shorts programmes with a round-up of some of the best animation we’ve come across recently...

Back in the suburbs where he grew up after a few years away, Chris (Mays) hooks up with school-friend Shifty (Ahmed) and spends the day ‘shadowing’ him as he deals coke and crack around the local housing estate. Steering well...

Mory and Anta are a young couple on the Senegalese coast, skint and dreaming of Europe.  They cruise dusty roads on a moped, with Josephine Baker’s ‘Paris’ a faithful soundtrack to their escape fantasies.  Making...