Flatpack
Film. And then some.
Ernest and Celestine
Charming, funny animated tale about a forbidden friendship between a bear and a mouse, by the duo behind ...
Subterraneans
Beneath our feet, the city is riddled with miles of underground roads, abandoned subways, service ...
Gangs of Digbeth
Later this year the BBC screen a new six-part drama by Steven Knight called Peaky Blinders, about the ...
Pedal-powered cinema
If you’re seeking entertainment and exercise on your lunchbreak, here’s both in one handy ...
Demdike Stare + Lee Gamble
Live AV sets by two of the best electronic acts around. Expect VHS horror, mangled jungle, fuzzed-out ...
Consuming Spirits
Beautifully detailed 16mm animation about a rust-belt town, fifteen years in the making.
Back to the Lab
Barring a Wikipedia entry you can barely find a trace of Birmingham Arts Lab online, but its influence on ...
Shynola: Collected Works
A chance to take stock of Shynola’s terrific back-catalogue, peek inside their sketch-books, and get a ...
Wadjda
Wadjda arrives weighed down not just with festival plaudits but plenty of history too, as the first film ...
The Name’s not Bond
NBCQ presents a panel celebrating a new era in our rich British film culture whilst asking - how do we ...
Invisible Architecture
Birmingham is a city known for its stark public buildings, planning misadventures and fervent commercial ...
Edgeless Shapes
The first of our animation programmes concentrates on the more hypnotic side of the art with an ...
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Dreyer's timeless marvel in Birmingham Cathedral, with live piano by Paul Shallcross.
Basha
Barbara ‘Basha’ Baranowska was part of the famed Polish Poster School that began in the late 1950s. ...
Moomins and the Comet Chase
Those delightful little hippo-like creatures are back and in delightful puppet-form.
The Mind of Evil
The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and his companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) visit Stangmoor prison to see the ...
Renga
**This event has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Apologies for any inconvenience ...
8mm Cine Club
Set up last year at Wednesfield Community Centre, 8mm Cine Club is a place to screen old film reels ...
Dissimilated Visions
Located in the Film Bug Hub, Dissimilated Visions is a single screen installation of some of the finest ...
Tilted Axis (Repeat)
Exploring their subjects with somewhat of a shifted perspective, things aren’t always as they seem in ...
One Mile Away
A fascinating documentary from Penny Woolcock on negotiations between rival gangs in Birmingham.
Sarah Angliss
An extraordinary performance from Sarah Angliss in the spirit of Bruce Lacey. Sarah will be performing ...
Departure Lounge: Strings
Rob Savage will join us for a screening of his much praised debut about the love -stumblings of four ...
Good Vibrations
This biopic of Terri Hooley sparkles with 70s fashion, oodles of charm and a brilliant soundtrack.
KINO 10: ROFLOL
Well, maybe not rolling on the floor, but there’s sure to be plenty of lolz in this selection of shorts ...
Consuming Spirits (repeat)
Beautifully detailed 16mm animation about a rust-belt town, fifteen years in the making.
Out of the Inkwell
Hailed as the master of Chinese animation, Te Wei (1915–2010) was a pioneering animator and cartoonist. ...
WR – Mysteries of the Organism
If you were looking to mainline the spirit of the late 60s counter-culture you could do a lot worse than ...
Oh To Be in England
Launching a bricolage of sounds, documentary films and memorabilia, exploring the anarchic spirit of the ...
Victorian Magic Lantern Show
Join the University of Birmingham for this experience in time travel back to the 1890s, with exciting ...
Unpacked
**Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. All advance ticket holders will be refunded in full.** ...
Grey Gardens
One-of-a-kind documentary by the Maysles Brothers, selected and introduced by Alice Lowe (Sightseers).
Prometheus’ Garden & Other Twisted Tales
A rare opportunity to see legendary underground animator Bruce Bickford's 1988 solo project.
The Gatekeepers
A documentary like nothing else at this year's festival with insights into Israel's security agency from ...
The Posters Came From the Walls
The impact of Depeche Mode is told through the quirky tales of the group's fans in this enjoyable documentary.
Opening of Kjersti G. Andvig & Lars Laumann: 999321
999321 is the first collaborative exhibition in the UK by Kjersti G. Andvig and Lars Laumann. The video ...
Cityscapes
Filmmakers explore the notion of the ‘city’ using animation, documentary, and abstract film in this ...
The Echo of Astroboy’s Footsteps
An affectionate documentary looking at the career of sound designer Matsuo Ohno in the 1960s.
Colour Box: Bugs and Beasts
Cunning birds, wriggly insects, and singing monsters light up this selection of animated shorts.
Colour Box: Flying Colours
Taking the aerial route, these shorts take us on a trip high up into the clouds with animals, people, and ...
Animation Station: Make Some Noise
SOUND EFFECTS WORKSHOPS Laura Kloss and Adam Mendez (Foley Sound Recordist ‘Fantastic Mr ...
Re-Animating a Dead Python: Animation Forum Talk
We’re joining forces with Animation Forum West Midlands again this year, and they’ve invited two ...
Bicycle Dreams
Stephen Auerbach's magnificent documentary charts the epic challenge of the Race Across America.
NBCQ hosts New British by Night
Don your stiff upper lip and join us for a party to celebrate a smorgasbord of all things new, British ...
Animation Station: Make Some Movies
HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION WORKSHOPS A chance to make your very own animated film with Peter Millard and Ben ...
MondoManila
This delirious, trashy slum voyage has emerged from a wave of fresh, street-level filmmaking coming out ...
Six Men featuring John Madin
A fascinating portrait of architect John Madin in 1964, with the city in the palm of his hand and Central ...
Only The Young
A beautifully composed snapshot of two teenage Christian skaters in Suburban California played out to old ...
Picture Houses: exhibition opening
Photographer John Fallon has spent a number of years tracking down former cinemas in varying degrees of ...
Screen-printing workshop
In the thirty years since the Arts Lab press closed down we’ve seen the rise of digital printing, and yet ...
The Bruce Lacey Experience
A chance to delve deeper into the world of Bruce Lacey with this off-beat portrait.
Cartoon Rock
Get Saturday started off on the right track, with free films and free cereal, as we turn the Palais into ...
Songs and Dances of Death
Over the course of three weeks Birmingham Opera Company are presenting a series of pop-up performances ...
Cyclomania
A celebration of the two-wheeled velocipede, featuring pedal-powered films, the Cyclotrope, bike polo and ...
Brummies, Boozers and Bruisers
Join Friction Arts and local resident Ray O’Donnell for a kebab and a scuffle. As part of ...
Spring Breakers
Harmony Korine brings his particular vein of controversy to this tale of a quartet of restless college ...
Chasing Ice
Established in early 2010 The Birmingham Co-operative Film Society and The Co-operative ...
Tilted Axis
Exploring their subjects with somewhat of a shifted perspective, things aren’t always as they seem in ...
Colour Bugs: Animal Magic
A spinoff from our Colour Box programme delving deep into the animal kingdom.
The Polish Poster and Film
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in graphic, non-photographic film poster art. The ...
Lars Laumann works
Grand Union and Flatpack present a brief introduction to Lars Laumann’s moving image work. Morrissey ...
International Space Orchestra
A group of space scientists from NASA form an orchestra, to perform a piece based on the Apollo 11 mission.
Eyes on the Prize
As Flatpack 7 slips through our fingers, we gather in the Palais once more to bid farewell to the whole ...
Making Music with Objects
Videomusician Gabriel Shalom discusses his approach to audiovisual composition and his theory of hypercubism.
Birmingham Arts Lab Sessions
An atmospheric audio installation featuring rare interviews with key players from the Birmingham Arts Lab ...
The Quiet Pioneer
An insight into the life and work of the founder of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sir Barry Jackson.
A Taste of Flatpack
If you’re dipping your toes into the Flatpack bath for the first time then this is the screening ...
The Phantom Tollbooth
The late, great Chuck Jones' only full-length feature comes in the form of this charming oddity.
Bring Out Your Dead Easter Special
A subsidiary of independent Birmingham label First Fold, Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD) is an AV collective ...
Kabaddi
Before Shipwrecked and Popworld, way back before Football Italia, Channel 4′s Sunday morning ...
Eastern Lo-Fi
Dir: Various, 80 mins There are some trailers which make viewing the complete film a new life-priority. ...
Flying Blind
A post-9/11 take on the paranoid thrillers of the Cold War, with a dash of sexual drama.
Lithuanian Animation Retrospective
A lovingly curated programme featuring puppet, hand-drawn, cutout, shadow theatre techniques and computer ...
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Lotte Reiniger's spell-binding 1927 animation, with live dulcimer score by Geoff Smith.
The Queen Ant Made Me Do It!
Little Earthquake present cult insect horror classic Empire of the Ants.
Eastern Lo-Fi (Repeat)
There are some trailers which make viewing the complete film a new life-priority.
Vanishing Waves
This distinctive Lithuanian sci-fi follows a scientist through neural transfer into the consciousness of ...
While it Lasts
David Raymond Conroy / Benedict Drew / Matthew Ferguson Joanne Masding / Hannah Perry / Matthew Noel-Tod ...
Safety Last!
Great Western Arcade becomes a cinema for the evening, playing host to a rip-roaring Harold Lloyd comedy ...
Babeldom
Using footage and visual data gathered from all over, Paul Bush constructs a vision of a future city that ...
Possession
Zulawski's psycho sexual break-up melt-down movie mingles horror, tragedy and humour in an unprecedented way.
Surreal Enigmas
Screening to mark his recent centenary, Surreal Enigmas (dir: Silvano Levy, UK 1995, 15 mins) features an ...
Colour Bugs: Creature Features
From playful pigeons to gormless goats, this shorts programme continues on the animal theme.
Flatpack Palais Opening
After a week of exciting events in equally exciting places Flatpack is coming home to the Flatpack ...
Sol Cinema
A caravan converted into a solar-powered picturehouse - easily the smallest cinema at this year's ...