LIFF Shorts: Leeds Music Video Competition

The best music videos have always been something more than just a visual accompaniment to the main attraction…

LIFF Shorts: Fanomenon Horror Shorts

Horror is a genre that relies more than most on its creator’s ability to create an atmosphere that ensnares its audience…

LIFF Shorts: Yorkshire Short Film Competition

The selection of Yorkshire shorts at this year’s Leeds International Film Festival is a diverse one, featuring documentaries, narrative fiction, and one piece described as a ‘spoken word/documentary hybrid.’

LIFF Shorts: Polish Animation Focus

If the collection of films contained in the Polish Animation Focus Strand of LIFF 2020’s short film programme can tell us anything, it’s that surrealism is popular with the country’s animators.

LIFF Shorts: A Lover’s Discourse: International Shorts 2

A Lover’s Discourse is the title given to the second strand of this year’s International Short Film Competition, the six films included here united by their exploration of love and lust…

Leeds International (Online) Film Festival 2020

Today marks the start of the 34th annual Leeds International Film Festival…

Review: Rocks

Made with a 75% female cast and crew, and a unique development process that began not with a script, but with a casting process that scoured East London schools for first-time actors capable of conveying the ideas and themes the filmmakers wished to explore, Rocks is certainly a film with an unconventional entry into the world.

Review: Ride Your Wave

When 19-year-old surfer Hinako moved to a seaside town to pursue her passion, she never expected the waves to be this choppy…

Review: Days of the Bagnold Summer

Based on the graphic novel by writer Joff Winterheart, Days of the Bagnold Summer tells the stories of fifteen-year-old Daniel Bagnold (Earl Cave) and his mother Sue (Monica Dolan), who are forced to spend the summer holiday together after Daniel’s trip to visit his father’s new family in Florida is cancelled.

Review: Come To Daddy

The screen is black. Onto it appears a quote: ‘The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children’ – William Shakespeare. Beat. Another quote: ‘There’s no-one like my daddy’ – Beyoncé.