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Belfast punks, Filipino gangsters and Disney girls gone bad. Films from Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Sardinia and Preston. A captivating 16mm animation that took 15 years to make, and a freewheeling debut by a 19 year old from Shrewsbury.


Safety Last!

Great Western Arcade becomes a cinema for the evening, playing host to a rip-roaring Harold Lloyd comedy ...

Chasing Ice

Established in early 2010 The Birmingham Co-operative Film Society and The Co-operative ...

Keyhole

World cinema purveyors, Birmingham International Film Society present Guy Maddin’s Keyhole.

Good Vibrations

This biopic of Terri Hooley sparkles with 70s fashion, oodles of charm and a brilliant soundtrack.

Urbanized

The third and final installment in Gary Hustwit's design trilogy.

Flying Blind

A post-9/11 take on the paranoid thrillers of the Cold War, with a dash of sexual drama.

The Gatekeepers

A documentary like nothing else at this year's festival with insights into Israel's security agency from ...

Babeldom

Using footage and visual data gathered from all over, Paul Bush constructs a vision of a future city that ...

Consuming Spirits

Beautifully detailed 16mm animation about a rust-belt town, fifteen years in the making.

Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine brings his particular vein of controversy to this tale of a quartet of restless college ...

One Mile Away

A fascinating documentary from Penny Woolcock on negotiations between rival gangs in Birmingham.

Departure Lounge: Strings

Rob Savage will join us for a screening of his much praised debut about the love -stumblings of four ...

Moomins and the Comet Chase

Those delightful little hippo-like creatures are back and in delightful puppet-form.

The Lebanese Rocket Society

The incredible story of the Lebanese space race.

MondoManila

This delirious, trashy slum voyage has emerged from a wave of fresh, street-level filmmaking coming out ...

Piercing Brightness

A tale of alien emissaries and interracial love... in Preston.

Vanishing Waves

This distinctive Lithuanian sci-fi follows a scientist through neural transfer into the consciousness of ...

The King

A familiar story is told in an unfamiliar way in this Italian film about Jesus' last days.

Wadjda

Wadjda arrives weighed down not just with festival plaudits but plenty of history too, as the first film ...

The Echo of Astroboy’s Footsteps

An affectionate documentary looking at the career of sound designer Matsuo Ohno in the 1960s.

A Hijacking

A high quality Scandinavian drama with a woolly jumper nowhere to be seen? Surely not!