In Bologna, 1858, ordinary citizens were ruled directly by Pope Pius IX. In the middle of the night, a small Jewish child is suddenly taken from his…
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Winner of the Burning Lights Prize at Visions du Réel film festival, this visually audacious documentary is an immersive and unique experience. Shot…
Continue readingBased on the classic Émile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine was one of the legendary director’s greatest popular successes, released in…
Continue readingIn Tuscany during the early 80s, Arthur (Josh O’Connor), a melancholic British archeologist, is recently released from prison and yearning for his…
Continue readingMathieu Kassovitz’s explosive 1995 classic La haine was something bracingly new for French cinema, showing a different side of Paris, the ‘banlieue’…
Continue readingAn impoverished artist loses a winning lottery ticket, and the wheels are set in motion for a dazzling chase across the streets of Paris. This…
Continue readingLeeds Film is supported by the BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund which supports ambitious audience-facing independent UK and international film and broader screen activity of national scale. The fund is part of the BFI's ten-year Screen Culture 2033 strategy.
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