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Spotlighting some of the region’s richest cinematic fruit, Feast from the East is a celebration of the food, feasts and famously fertile soil of Eastern Europe. Streaming on the Cinema of Ideas from 27 June - 11 July, the programme includes Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates, Oleksandr Dovzhenko's Earth and Mykola Shpykovskyi's Bread, as well as a 'dinner-table’ discussion with experts on Soviet cinema, and a cooking masterclass with chef and activist Alissa Timoshkina. Tickets are free, but we encourage donations, which will be split between two fundraising campaigns in support of Ukraine.
In this second blog of two, we highlight a few more of our favourite titles from this year's 75th Cannes Film Festival, including new work by Park Chan-Wook, Agnieszka Smoczynska and Ruben Östlund, as well as several impressive feature debuts.
In this first blog of two, we highlight some of our favourite titles from this year's 75th Cannes Film Festival, including new work by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kelly Reichardt, Mia Hansen-Løve and more.
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In this blog, the Barbican's Alex Davidson considers Benediction in the context of The Terence Davies Trilogy and Davies' wider filmography - an incredible body of work which includes some of the most beautiful and haunting images in the history of British cinema.
Spanning a chicken giblets factory in Kirkby, a downtown Liverpool disco and the Kremlin, Letter to Brezhnev is a tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. We're streaming it on the Cinema of Ideas until 19 May, alongside a live Q&A on the making of the film with editor Lesley Walker, producer Janet Goddard and season curator Pamela Hutchinson on Wednesday 18 May. In this blog, writer, curator and actor Jonathan Keane reflects on his memories of growing up around Liverpool, discovering Letter to Brezhnev as a teenager, and watching the film again today.
In this blog we hear from Tanya Charteris-Black, one of our recent cohort of FEDS Trainees based at Tyneside Cinema, about the complex certification history of Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks, the nature of censorship, and the evolving attitudes towards disability on screen.
There is just one round of funding for the BFI NETWORK Short Film Fund this year, with applications closing soon on Monday 2 May. In this blog we hear from Tuli Litvak, producer of the BFI NETWORK South East supported Bingo Queens, about how their budget changed shaped between the application and production stages, and how they overcame the resulting challenges. At the end of the blog, you will find download links to both the original and final budget for Bingo Queens.
In this blog we hear from the ICO’s Assistant Film Programmer Eliza Sealy, who reflects on her experiences of attending film festivals both in-person and virtually during her recently completed FEDS Traineeship, and the positives and negatives of delivering a festival online.
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