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22nd CINECITY Brighton Film Festival

8th – 17th November 2024

Thu 31 Oct - Sun 10 Nov Open 4pm - 8pm daily.
CLOSED 6th November

Fabrica

Temple of Cinema #1: Sayat Nova Outtakes

“In the temple of cinema there are images, light and reality. Sergei Parajanov was the master of that temple…” Jean-Luc Godard Inspired by ancient manuscript... Read more

Fri 08 Nov / 7:30pm

Duke of York's

15

A REAL PAIN

When two Jewish cousins embark on a ‘Holocaust tour’ of Poland, they are simultaneously attempting to honour their late grandmother and to rekindle their once-strong... Read more

Sat 09 Nov / 11:15am

Depot

THE BIRTH OF 16MM FILM

2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of 16mm by Kodak in the UK. It was a new film gauge with its own camera and... Read more

Sat 09 Nov / 4pm

Duke of York's

12A

Mother Vera

For admirers of the stark beauty found in films by Béla Tarr and Andrei Tarkovsky, this stunningly beautiful documentary focuses on a young Orthodox nun... Read more

Sat 09 Nov / 6:30pm

ACCA

DEVO

Acclaimed filmmaker Chris Smith (Wham!, Fyre) captures the gloriously radical spirit of Devo – a rare band founded by a philosophy; a Dada experiment of high art... Read more

Sat 09 Nov / 6:30pm

Duke of York's

12A

Conclave

When a pope dies, it is traditional that a group of cardinals gather in Rome to sequester themselves away and decide who will take over... Read more

Sat 09 Nov / 8pm

Depot

18

The Girl with the Needle

In post WWI Copenhagen, Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a young seamstress, is struggling to survive on her own since her husband was declared missing in... Read more

Sat 09 Nov / 8:30pm

ACCA

Pavements

An examination of the cult 1990s indie band Pavement appears to be just another music documentary—until it isn’t. Part-documentary, part-biopic, part-stage musical – but all... Read more

Sun 10 Nov / 3:15pm

Duke of York's

12

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors + Kyiv Frescoes

A brand-new restoration of one of the most internationally acclaimed Ukrainian films, a highly colourful and beguiling mix of folklore, dream-like mysticism and religious iconography.... Read more

Sun 10 Nov / 4:30pm

Depot

12

Cinemas of the Mind – The Salt of the Earth

Co-directed by his son Juliano Salgado, this fascinating documentary portrait traces the career of outstanding Brazilian photographer, Sebastião Salgado. It spans 40 years of his... Read more

Sun 10 Nov / 6pm

Duke of York's

15

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

The lives of three nurses – Prabha, Anu and Parvaty – are at the heart of this luminous Mumbai-set drama. Winner of the Grand Prix... Read more

Sun 10 Nov / 8:30pm

Dukes at Komedia

Bogancloch

Bogancloch is the rundown farmhouse where modern-day hermit Jake Williams lives, surrounded by a Highland forest in Scotland. This intimate, observational documentary sees artist filmmaker... Read more

Sun 10 Nov / 8:30pm

ACCA

36-hour Film Challenge 2024

How long does it take to make a film? Weeks? Months? Years? What happens when you have 36 hours? That’s the challenge for students from... Read more

Mon 11 Nov / 6:15pm

Depot

Birdsong

Ornithologist Seán Ronayne from County Cork is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland – that’s nearly 200 birds.... Read more

Mon 11 Nov / 6:30pm

ACCA

18

Resistance: New Female Ways of Seeing from North Africa

A triple bill bringing together three remarkable feminist films from North Africa – the contemporary sci-fi feature Animalia and two short films from Algeria, which... Read more

Mon 11 Nov / 6:30pm

Fabrica

NEW VOICES

SHORT FILMS FROM LOCAL FILMMAKERS AGED 16-25 SELECTED FROM OPEN SUBMISSIONS SUPPORTED METFILM SCHOOL BRIGHTON.  THE SCRIPT DIR: KEITH TENDAI CHANAKIRA AND ALICIA GIACCONE-MUNN. 6... Read more

Mon 11 Nov / 6:45pm

Duke of York's

Rumours

At the G7 summit in Saxony, world leaders including the German chancellor (Cate Blanchett), US president (Charles Dance) and European Commission secretary-general (Alicia Vikander) are... Read more

Tue 12 Nov / 6pm

ACCA

12A

BLUE ISLAND

The ’blue’ in  Blue Island is the colour of melancholy reflection—specifically, reflection on the political unrest that has engulfed Hong Kong since the 2014 Umbrella Movement.... Read more

Tue 12 Nov / 6:30pm

Fabrica

CINECITY OPEN

LOCALLY-MADE SHORT FILMS SELECTED FROM OPEN SUBMISSIONS TO THE FESTIVAL.  WIRED DIR: WILL JEWELL. 18 MINS. When Becca loses her job and partner, she retreats... Read more

Tue 12 Nov / 8pm

Duke of York's

15

LA COCINA

Loosely based on Arnold Wesker’s 1959 play The Kitchen, director Alonso Ruizpalacios (Güeros) moves the action to New York, and a busy Times Square restaurant called... Read more

Tue 12 Nov / 8:30pm

Depot

When the Light Breaks

Oscar-nominated director Rúnar Rúnarsson showcases the majesty of his native Iceland in this heartbreaking tale of coming-of-age through grief, set over 24 hours in Reykjavík. ... Read more

Wed 13 Nov / 1pm

Fabrica

15

INTO FILM – THE HOLDOVERS

Alexander Payne’s delightfully funny and perceptive, award-winning film.  A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms... Read more

Wed 13 Nov / 6pm

Depot

12A

Merchant Ivory

Merchant-Ivory: the name has become shorthand for a certain flavour of genteel British drama, all period costume and romantic disillusionment. Behind the scenes, however, the... Read more

Wed 13 Nov / 6:30pm

Fabrica

CINECITY OPEN (DOCS)

LOCALLY-MADE SHORT FILMS SELECTED FROM OPEN SUBMISSIONS TO THE FESTIVAL.  DEER PARK DIR: ANDREW FINCH. 15 MINS. Deer Park is a short film exploring the... Read more

Wed 13 Nov / 6:45pm

Duke of York's

Bring Them Down

Oscar-nominated Barry Keoghan and Girls star Christopher Abbott are magnificent as a pair of feuding farmers in this gripping rural revenge thriller set in the... Read more

Wed 13 Nov / 7pm

The Rose Hill

SYNCH PULSE

The astonishing wonders of science as presented through a lens of experimental filmmaking. Synch Pulse No. 10 is themed around mind-boggling science and technology, a... Read more

Wed 13 Nov / 8pm

ACCA

PG

EARTH (Zemlya)

A mesmerising and beautiful hymn to nature, Earth is recognised as one of cinema’s supreme visual masterpieces. It is a uniquely poetic cinema of the... Read more

Thu 14 Nov / 6:30am

Depot

Flowers of Ukraine

UK PREMIERE SCREENING  Natalia, 67 years of age, lives happily in her green paradise, a plot of land situated between blocks of flats in Kyiv.... Read more

Thu 14 Nov / 7pm

Fabrica

GLIMMER WARNING & THE CREATIVE HIGH 

FOUND dir.  Angus Cameron. UK.  7 mins  THE CREATIVE HIGH dir.  Adriana Marchione. US . 75 mins.  An inspiring and reflective evening of music and film, led... Read more

Thu 14 Nov / 8pm

Horatios Bar

Catalyst Club

What better location to explore and celebrate our love of horror films than the end of Brighton Pier, perched over the cold, forbidding waters of... Read more

Thu 14 Nov / 8:45pm

Duke of York's

Witches

Drawing on her own experience of postpartum depression and anxiety, Elizabeth Sankey’s latest documentary blends cultural and cinematic histories to argue a compelling link between... Read more

Fri 15 Nov / 4:45pm

Depot

I’m Still Here

Christmas 1970, Brazil. The country has been living under a military dictatorship for six years. For the liberal, well-off Paiva family, the political situation feels... Read more

Fri 15 Nov / 5pm

Fabrica

DRAW TO FILM – Sayat Nova Outtakes 

A one-off ‘Draw to Film’ event for anyone who wants to explore drawing, mark-making, music and film in new ways. Suitable for all skill levels, from beginners... Read more

Fri 15 Nov / 6pm

Duke of York's

12A

Hard Truths

After his large-scale historical dramas (Mr Turner, Peterloo), Mike Leigh has returned to chronicling the lives of ordinary people in contemporary Britain in this collaboration... Read more

Fri 15 Nov / 8pm

ACCA

Scanner: Harry Smith at 100

Harry Smith (1923–1991) was a great American eccentric, experimental filmmaker, musicologist, graphic designer, bohemian and anthropologist. He was also a collector of found objects and... Read more

Fri 15 Nov / 8pm

Dukes at Komedia

15

The Universal Theory

The Swiss Alps in 1962. Doctoral student Johannes heads to a prestigious conference of Europe’s leading quantum physicists. But the keynote speaker doesn’t show, another... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 11:30am

ACCA

UKRAINIAN SHORT FILMS – 1

Two programmes of recent short films made by Ukrainian filmmakers, at home and abroad. Curated by Sasha Prokopenko, Head of Programming, and Olga Gusiatynska, Programmer,... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 1:30pm

ACCA

UKRAINIAN SHORT FILMS – 2

Two programmes of recent short films made by Ukrainian filmmakers, at home and abroad. Curated by Sasha Prokopenko, Head of Programming, and Olga Gusiatynska, Programmer,... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 2pm

Dukes at Komedia

All Happy Families

The Landrys are an ordinary family. Like all ordinary families, they love each other, keep secrets, fight and misunderstand each other.  The drama begins when... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 2:30pm

The Dance Space

Yn y Golau (In The Light)

Based on the science of photonics (the physical science of light waves), Yn y Golau (In the Light) follows two dancers on a journey through different... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 3:30pm

Duke of York's

U

Flow

Anthropomorphic animals have dominated animated film ever since Steamboat Willie first spun his ship’s wheel in 1928. What is more rare, however, are cartoon animals... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 4pm

ACCA

REAS

A creative queer musical where the former inmates of a women’s prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them through song... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 4:30pm

The Dance Space

Homegrown: Screen Dance by Local Artists

Join us as we celebrate the wealth of local talent in the South East and present a series of films by local artists making dance... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 6pm

ACCA

The Captain

WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING Fergus, a retired sea captain, is placed under house arrest after robbing his local newsagent on a mobility scooter. While confined to... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 6pm

Duke of York's

We Live In Time

An inventively structured romantic drama from director John Crowley (The Goldfinch, Brooklyn) that explores how to make the most of our time in this world.  With... Read more

Sat 16 Nov / 7pm

The Dance Space

PG

The Best of London International Screendance Festival

The best of London International Screendance Festival returns to Brighton Screendance Festival with a selection of the most inventive and curious independent short films from around... Read more

Sun 17 Nov / 10:30am

The Dance Space

U

Nature Inside

Join us on an adventure exploring nature with a morning for children aged 2-8 years and their families to be inspired by screen dance and... Read more

Sun 17 Nov / 12pm

Dukes at Komedia

PG

The Colour of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)

Following the international success of Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965), Sergei Parajanov was commissioned by Armenfilm Studios in Yerevan to make a film about... Read more

Sun 17 Nov / 3pm

The Dance Space

PG

Invisible landscapes

Join us for an afternoon of films from international artists which engages with the things that aren’t necessarily visible in the landscapes and environments in... Read more

Sun 17 Nov / 3:30pm

Duke of York's

18

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Lawyer Iman (Missagh Zareh) is initially pleased to receive a promotion to the position of state investigator in Tehran. His wife and two teenage daughters... Read more

Sun 17 Nov / 4:45pm

Depot

Satu – Year of the Rabbit

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF START TIME. THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN MOVED TO A BIGGER SCREEN AND WILL NOW BE AT 4:45PM.  Shot on location... Read more

Sun 17 Nov / 6pm

The Dance Space

15

FAME

“I wanna live forever. I wanna learn how to fly…high!” Take a step back in time to 1980s New York where the hair is big... Read more

Sun 17 Nov / 7pm

Duke of York's

18

Nightbitch

Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood) and Amy Adams are a formidable... Read more