Following the success of last year’s launch we are back with a bigger programme and twice as many films, highlighting the best of cinema from around the world.
The festival features a global mix of previews and premieres of new releases, treasures from the archive and classic reissues, the latest adventures with the digital moving image, new live soundtracks to silent films, film-maker and education events and much more.
In the NEW FEATURES strand we present a host of new titles all screening in Brighton for the first time. This is your chance to see the latest films before they go on national release and to catch others in special one-off UK screenings. CINECITY opens with Mike Leigh’s eagerly anticipated new film VERA DRAKE, winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
At the core of the programme we continue to explore celluloid cities around the world. Musician and author Nick Cave has curated for CINECITY a selection of features and documentaries featuring Berlin and its unique screen presence.
Over a century ago, the Hove Pioneers played a crucial role in the development of cinema. Today Brighton & Hove is home to a thriving media community and we screen an exciting selection of this new work. We also present a 25th anniversary screening of cult classic QUADROPHENIA and are delighted to welcome members of the cast and crew to celebrate this landmark in British cinema.
2004 is also the centenary of Graham Greene’s birth so we travel to two cities in ‘Greeneland’ -Vienna and Brighton - as part of these celebrations. We host a travelling exhibition from Austria on THE THIRD MAN and re-visit the film together with BRIGHTON ROCK as part of a day dedicated to Greene’s work.
Cinema, like the city, is constantly evolving. While the basic technology behind both making and showing films has remained largely unchanged since the time of the Hove Pioneers, today increasing digitalisation is rapidly changing the moving image landscape. In CINECITY, onedotzero show highlights from their annual digital festival and we present with Arts Alliance Media the latest digital projection technology at the Duke of York’s, to showcase new digital productions and restorations of classic films.
CINECITY screens right across Brighton & Hove in all the city’s cinemas and also in a wide range of other venues including Brighton Fringe Basement, City College Brighton & Hove, Hanbury Ballroom, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Joogleberry Playhouse, The Old Market Hove, Pavilion Theatre and The Sallis Benney Theatre at the University of Brighton.
Special thanks to Nicky Beaumont, Rebekah Polding, Blake Smith and Jason Wood at City Screen, the CINECITY advisory group and festival volunteers, the distributors and film-makers who have contributed films and all our partners, funders and supporters.