Dir: Godfrey Reggio | USA | 1982 | 86mins | Cert: U Taking its title from a Hopi word meaning ‘life out of balance,’ Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi – eight years in the making – displays the lack of balance between humans and our relationship with our environment. Reggio’s breath taking ‘tone poem’ marries experimental …
Dir: John Chester | USA | 91mins | Cert: PG The Biggest Little Farm follows the Chesters as they swap the big city for a (not so) little farm. Envisioned as a self-contained eco-system, Apricot Lane Farms is the Chester family’s attempt to show how easily we could do things differently. Besides a moral …
Dir: Viktor Kossakovsky | Norway | 93mins | Cert: PG From the director of the climate documentary Aquarela, this aesthetically stunning film follows the lives of the eponymous Sow, as well as two cows and a chicken, as they live out their daily lives. Depicting the emotional lives of his animal subjects, Kossakovsky’s tender …
Dir: Slater Jewell-Kemker | USA | Cert: U Since she was 14 years old, Slater Jewell-Kemker has been travelling around the world as a Climate Activist, meeting and interviewing other youths from this enormous network of international trailblazers. 2018 saw the rise to prominence of Youth Climate Activism with Greta Thunberg, but Jewell-Kemker’s …
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 …
Join us for the SFW: Shorts Screening and Awards Ceremony, one of the jewels of Southampton Film Week programme. Since its launch in 2012 the competition has attracted the work of filmmakers and artists from every corner of the planet resulting each year in an inspiring and eclectic collection of films for our judging panel …
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 …
Maisie (2021) Sunday 13 November 2022 at 7:00pm Dir. Lee Cooper | UK | 1h 16m | 15 | Documentary | Subtitles ‘Old Age can be a Drag.’ An intimate portrait of ageing and friendship as Maisie Trollette, Britain’s oldest drag act, prepares for his 85th birthday and meets 87 year old Darcelle XV, Guinness …
A Bunch of Amateurs (2022) Monday 14 November 2022 at 7:00pm Dir. Kim Hopkins | UK | 1hr 35m | 12A | Documentary Only a miracle can save Britain’s oldest amateur film club from its final demise. Sometimes miracles come from unexpected places. Members of Bradford Movie Makers, the most quintessentially British working-class filmmaking club, …
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 …
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