If you’re dipping your toes into the Flatpack bath for the first time then this is the screening ...
Barbara ‘Basha’ Baranowska was part of the famed Polish Poster School that began in the late 1950s. ...
There are some trailers which make viewing the complete film a new life-priority.
Join the University of Birmingham for this experience in time travel back to the 1890s, with exciting ...
Charming, funny animated tale about a forbidden friendship between a bear and a mouse, by the duo behind ...
Great Western Arcade becomes a cinema for the evening, playing host to a rip-roaring Harold Lloyd comedy ...
Lotte Reiniger's spell-binding 1927 animation, with live dulcimer score by Geoff Smith.
A converted shopping trolley that projects your face onto the nearest building.
Stereoscopic Saturday night hijinks.
Don your stiff upper lip and join us for a party to celebrate a smorgasbord of all things new, British ...
Behind the hidden door you’ll find a delightful little cinema, but how to find it?
Your first chance to see some of the best of this year's submissions.
We’re joining forces with Animation Forum West Midlands again this year, and they’ve invited two ...
This biopic of Terri Hooley sparkles with 70s fashion, oodles of charm and a brilliant soundtrack.
A high quality Scandinavian drama with a woolly jumper nowhere to be seen? Surely not!
A rare screening of Dennis Potter's original telvision play telling the story of Christ.
A live multidisciplinary event fuelled by a love of food and feasting.
A beautifully composed snapshot of two teenage Christian skaters in Suburban California played out to old ...
If you’re seeking entertainment and exercise on your lunchbreak, here’s both in one handy ...
Videomusician Gabriel Shalom discusses his approach to audiovisual composition and his theory of hypercubism.
As Flatpack 7 slips through our fingers, we gather in the Palais once more to bid farewell to the whole ...
A documentary like nothing else at this year's festival with insights into Israel's security agency from ...
Rob Savage will join us for a screening of his much praised debut about the love -stumblings of four ...
Harmony Korine brings his particular vein of controversy to this tale of a quartet of restless college ...
The third and final installment in Gary Hustwit's design trilogy.
One-of-a-kind documentary by the Maysles Brothers, selected and introduced by Alice Lowe (Sightseers).
If you were looking to mainline the spirit of the late 60s counter-culture you could do a lot worse than ...
A selection of short films and archive gems celebrating the joys of a night on the tiles.
999321 is the first collaborative exhibition in the UK by Kjersti G. Andvig and Lars Laumann. The video ...
Barring a Wikipedia entry you can barely find a trace of Birmingham Arts Lab online, but its influence on ...
A whistlestop tour of 1970s Birmingham.
Beautifully detailed 16mm animation about a rust-belt town, fifteen years in the making.
A celebration of the two-wheeled velocipede, featuring pedal-powered films, the Cyclotrope, bike polo and ...
Located in the Film Bug Hub, Dissimilated Visions is a single screen installation of some of the finest ...
A chance to take stock of Shynola’s terrific back-catalogue, peek inside their sketch-books, and get a ...
A lovingly curated programme featuring puppet, hand-drawn, cutout, shadow theatre techniques and computer ...
Beneath our feet, the city is riddled with miles of underground roads, abandoned subways, service ...
From playful pigeons to gormless goats, this shorts programme continues on the animal theme.
Little Earthquake present cult insect horror classic Empire of the Ants.
Wadjda arrives weighed down not just with festival plaudits but plenty of history too, as the first film ...
NBCQ presents a panel celebrating a new era in our rich British film culture whilst asking - how do we ...
A rare chance to see some almost-lost 3D treasures from the Soviet Union.
Taking the aerial route, these shorts take us on a trip high up into the clouds with animals, people, and ...
Dir: Various, 80 mins There are some trailers which make viewing the complete film a new life-priority. ...
Before Shipwrecked and Popworld, way back before Football Italia, Channel 4′s Sunday morning ...
An insight into the life and work of the founder of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sir Barry Jackson.
A spinoff from our Colour Box programme delving deep into the animal kingdom.
Another chance to catch our second animation programme.
In the thirty years since the Arts Lab press closed down we’ve seen the rise of digital printing, and yet ...
David Raymond Conroy / Benedict Drew / Matthew Ferguson Joanne Masding / Hannah Perry / Matthew Noel-Tod ...
Birmingham is a city known for its stark public buildings, planning misadventures and fervent commercial ...
The incredible story of the Lebanese space race.
An extraordinary performance from Sarah Angliss in the spirit of Bruce Lacey. Sarah will be performing ...
Screening to mark his recent centenary, Surreal Enigmas (dir: Silvano Levy, UK 1995, 15 mins) features an ...
**Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. All advance ticket holders will be refunded in full.** ...
Later this year the BBC screen a new six-part drama by Steven Knight called Peaky Blinders, about the ...
Another chance to see our first animation programme.
A chance to delve deeper into the world of Bruce Lacey with this off-beat portrait.
HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION WORKSHOPS A chance to make your very own animated film with Peter Millard and Ben ...
Lo-fi, crass and genuinely funny truncated versions of popular feature films.
Zulawski's psycho sexual break-up melt-down movie mingles horror, tragedy and humour in an unprecedented way.
A familiar story is told in an unfamiliar way in this Italian film about Jesus' last days.
Get Saturday started off on the right track, with free films and free cereal, as we turn the Palais into ...
Launching a bricolage of sounds, documentary films and memorabilia, exploring the anarchic spirit of the ...
**This event has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Apologies for any inconvenience ...
Here comes the second helping of the best of this year's submissions.
Exploring their subjects with somewhat of a shifted perspective, things aren’t always as they seem in ...
Some of the best of 2012's music videos from all over the world.
Beautifully detailed 16mm animation about a rust-belt town, fifteen years in the making.
Well, maybe not rolling on the floor, but there’s sure to be plenty of lolz in this selection of shorts ...
Filmmakers explore the notion of the ‘city’ using animation, documentary, and abstract film in this ...
A group of space scientists from NASA form an orchestra, to perform a piece based on the Apollo 11 mission.
Cunning birds, wriggly insects, and singing monsters light up this selection of animated shorts.
SOUND EFFECTS WORKSHOPS Laura Kloss and Adam Mendez (Foley Sound Recordist ‘Fantastic Mr ...
Exploring their subjects with somewhat of a shifted perspective, things aren’t always as they seem in ...
Stephen Auerbach's magnificent documentary charts the epic challenge of the Race Across America.
This distinctive Lithuanian sci-fi follows a scientist through neural transfer into the consciousness of ...
This delirious, trashy slum voyage has emerged from a wave of fresh, street-level filmmaking coming out ...
Established in early 2010 The Birmingham Co-operative Film Society and The Co-operative ...
Photographer John Fallon has spent a number of years tracking down former cinemas in varying degrees of ...
Those delightful little hippo-like creatures are back and in delightful puppet-form.
Join Friction Arts and local resident Ray O’Donnell for a kebab and a scuffle. As part of ...
Grand Union and Flatpack present a brief introduction to Lars Laumann’s moving image work. Morrissey ...
A post-9/11 take on the paranoid thrillers of the Cold War, with a dash of sexual drama.
The impact of Depeche Mode is told through the quirky tales of the group's fans in this enjoyable documentary.
A fascinating documentary from Penny Woolcock on negotiations between rival gangs in Birmingham.
Dreyer's timeless marvel in Birmingham Cathedral, with live piano by Paul Shallcross.
Set up last year at Wednesfield Community Centre, 8mm Cine Club is a place to screen old film reels ...
Vincent Price in 3D, complete with whirring buzzsaws!
A rare opportunity to see legendary underground animator Bruce Bickford's 1988 solo project.
Over the course of three weeks Birmingham Opera Company are presenting a series of pop-up performances ...
The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and his companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) visit Stangmoor prison to see the ...
Using footage and visual data gathered from all over, Paul Bush constructs a vision of a future city that ...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in graphic, non-photographic film poster art. The ...
Our second animation programme promises both joyous and sombre takes on life.
The late, great Chuck Jones' only full-length feature comes in the form of this charming oddity.
An atmospheric audio installation featuring rare interviews with key players from the Birmingham Arts Lab ...
A fascinating portrait of architect John Madin in 1964, with the city in the palm of his hand and Central ...
A tale of alien emissaries and interracial love... in Preston.
A caravan converted into a solar-powered picturehouse - easily the smallest cinema at this year's ...
World cinema purveyors, Birmingham International Film Society present Guy Maddin’s Keyhole.
The first of our animation programmes concentrates on the more hypnotic side of the art with an ...
A chance to see the best of the latest shorts from IdeasTap members.