First LIFF 2024 Details Revealed

We’re excited to reveal the first details of the 38th edition of the Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF), including a first look at two new Spotlight programmes featuring legendary actress Smita Patil and groundbreaking Leeds artist-filmmaker Stuart Croft.

LIFF 2024 will run from 1 to 17 November 2024 at various venues across the city, including Everyman Leeds, Vue Leeds in the Light, Hyde Park Picture House, and Howard Assembly Room. Additional venues will be announced closer to the festival.

Stuart Croft (1970-2015), a talented artist-filmmaker from Leeds, imaginatively collapsed the boundaries between the art gallery and cinema. His journey took him from Lawnswood School in Leeds to exhibitions in New York, Venice, and Beijing. Croft’s work subverts genre conventions and narrative expectations in a playful and thought-provoking way, drawing influences from groundbreaking art films to classic Hollywood cinema. In partnership with Leeds Art Gallery and The Stuart Croft Foundation, LIFF will present a special season of films that inspired Stuart’s unique vision, paired with his own looping moving image works. This season is designed to complement the immersive exhibition Stuart Croft: Eternal Return at Leeds Art Gallery (8 November 2024 – 6 April 2025).

In Celebrating Smita Patil: A Film Retrospective, we honour the work of the legendary performer Smita Patil. Smita Patil was just 31 when she passed away in 1986. With her screen debut in 1975, Smita Patil forged one of the most superlative bodies of work that an actor has ever produced. Across the space of 11 years, Patil collaborated with many of the best filmmakers of her generation. Her disarming beauty and acting prowess made her the iconic face of Parallel Cinema, India’s first post-colonial art film movement (1968 – 1995). This unique retrospective aims to open a door into the world of Smita Patil, celebrating her films, activism, and enduring stardom.

The full LIFF 2024 programme will be revealed in October, when tickets and passes will also go on sale. We are still accepting film submissions for LIFF 2024 until 12 August.

Published 17/07/24

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