Dream Palaces - Where are they now? 'Dream Palaces - Where are they now?' is a short film presentation by local art enthusiast and cartoonist Al Welch which compares historic Southampton picture houses with what they, or their locations, look like today. In 1996, to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the […]
We are grateful to BFI FAN and The National Lottery for funding to support this event. Please complete this survey so that we can feed back to them. 'knit the walls' In 2018 SFW: Shorts, Southampton Film Week's own short film competition, received a submission from it's youngest ever filmmaker, 13 year old Imogen […]
Right of Way (2022) Thursday 17 November 2022 at 3:00pm Dir. Various | UK | 1hr 30m | 12A | Archive footage & New Artist Film | Captioned for the hard of hearing We’re told we all have a right to roam in the countryside – but does that apply to everyone equally? Right of […]
My Mexican Bretzel (2019) Friday 18 November at 3:00pm Dir. Nuria Giménez | Spain| 1hr 13m | PG | Docu-Fiction | English Subtitles Exquisite archive footage combines with the mid 20th century diary of a socialite, as she and her husband travel the world. As the film draws us into their jet-set world, Vivian Barrett’s […]
Gateway to the Archive with Zoë Viney Join Zoë Viney, Film Curator Wessex Film and Sound Archive for a selection of footage from this regional film and sound collection based at Hampshire Record Office in Winchester. With an introduction to the vast and fascinating holdings of the archive Zoë will share footage from 1960s Southampton […]
This November, it's 60 years since the birth of the longest-running science fiction series in the universe - DOCTOR WHO.
To mark this significant event, Southampton Film Week will be screening two films in celebration of this remarkable show.
'Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.' directed by Gordon Flemyng in 1966 and newly regenerated in out of this world 4K.
As part of SFW 2022, City Eye supported local art enthusiast Al Welch to create a short film presentation that compares historic Southampton picture houses with what they look like today as a follow-up to the much beloved 1996 book 'Dream Palaces - Going to the Pictures in Southampton'. Free Drop-In Screening
WOMEN IN FOCUS Cert U | Archive Film plus Q&A| 63 mins Reclaiming a Hidden Film Heritage For Southampton Film Week 2023, join Professor Keith M Johnston as we present a screening of amazing archive films from UK women amateur filmmakers whose work has, until now, been unacknowledged and underrepresented. These films were recently digitised […]
Drop-In Workshop| Archive Film Screenings
Cert U | 1926 | Dir. Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman | Action Comedy | US | 78 mins Experience the magic of classic cinema like never before with a special screening of the 1926 silent film masterpiece, The General, presented with a live score from Donald Mackenzie at the Compton Organ! Step back in […]