Kinofilm Festival proudly presents its 18th Edition which boasts thirty programmes and over two-hundred short films from across the globe over the course of twelve days from 19th-30th October.
The festival begins with a two-day stretch on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th October at the Instituto Cervantes with the Spanish Shorts and Italian Shorts Programmes. These two programmes are completely free and a good starter for things to come.
On Friday 21st October the festival hosts the official Opening Event at MediaCityUK in
collaboration with the University of Salford at their Digital Performance Lab – a remarkable
venue with state-of-the-art equipment. From 6-7pm there will be a wine reception for
filmmakers and film fanatics to meet, discuss and network, and from 7-8:30pm the first
screening of Manchester Shorts will take place in the 110 seat venue.
The Manchester Shorts programme includes a sneak preview of a new short film by top
Manchester Film and TV director Jason Wingard, and a unique archive made short
documentary ‘Oluwale’, by Salford University lecturer and documentary filmmaker,
Jeremiah Quinn. It’s the first documentary to ever tell the controversial story of David
Oluwale a Nigerian immigrant drowned in the River Aire by Leeds police in 1969, and made
entirely using archive film footage.
After the Opening Event, the Festival moves to Mini Cini, the unique boutique cinema
located in the Ducie Street Warehouse complex near Piccadilly for the next nine days of the
festival. Packed with short films from all different countries, genres and formats, the festival is sure to be a feast of the eyes for lovers of short film with everything from tales of romance to tales of horror; films made by local students to short films made by Polish students from the world famous Lodz Film School; and stories from Eastern Europe to stories from Iran to appeal to local mixed communities.
As always, Kino aims to engage with BAME and LGBTQ groups, and has got programmes celebrating filmmakers from those communities.
Every programme is a gem on its own, but each one is also part of one of the following
carefully curated sections: Animation, British Panorama, Eurocine, International, Kino Tales,
Outside In, Student, and Women in Film. These section titles help you to see the immense
breadth that the International Film Festival covers, as well as understanding that each
programme is part of a bigger whole.
The Festival even has an Eastern European programme including films from the Ukraine and the Russian Federation, uniting filmmakers across the war-torn divide.
Kino cannot wait to get the ball (or rather, camera) rolling on this Festival, and hope to see as many film enthusiasts as possible!
More information: www.kinofilm.org.uk
