Skip to content
19/11/23 19/11/23
LIFF 2023 Closing Film: Slow

Winner of Best Director at Sundance Film Festival 2023, Marija Kavtaradzė’s second feature is a beautifully tender exploration of sexuality, intimacy…

Continue reading
03/11/23 08/11/23
LIFF 2023 Opening Film: Poor Things

Visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Dogtooth) invites audiences on an absurdist global odyssey celebrating female pleasure and…

Continue reading
04/11/23 08/11/23
Mambar Pierrette

A seamstress in Douala, Pierrette raises her children alone and looks after her mother. She is used to living hand to mouth, but she still has to…

Continue reading
09/11/23 12/11/23
Milk

After delivering a stillborn baby, Robin’s (rising Dutch star Frieda Barnhard) breasts continue to produce milk. With no option but to pump, and…

Continue reading
11/11/23 19/11/23
The Monk and the Gun

Pawo Choyning Dorji's sharply comic satire, The Monk and the Gun tells the story of democracy arriving in the Kingdom of Bhutan in 2006. Bhutan is…

Continue reading
05/11/23 09/11/23
Monster

In mountainous Nagano, we see a building mysteriously ablaze. Concerned single mother Saori (Sakura Andō) has confronted her son’s primary school…

Continue reading

Leeds 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.

BFI Screen Culture 2033