Welcome to the 19th Bath Film Festival! Enjoy previews of new films, put your questions to visiting filmmakers and performers, take your pick of the latest documentaries or watch free short films on a sporty theme screened all day at Green Park Station on Sunday 15 November. Be quick to book for our packed ten day programme of the best in new cinema.
Diverse world views and new perspectives on the everyday – expect extraordinary films chosen to take you on a journey of the mind.
Highly anticipated new films from around the world screened in the heart of Bath at the Little Theatre Cinema. Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! sees Matt Damon on fine comic form. Un Prophete - a highlight of our opening weekend - took the Grand Jury prize at Cannes 2009. Stephen Poliakoff visits Bath to introduce Glorious 39. The Limits of Control is bizarre, brave and beautiful. A Serious Man - the latest from the Coen Bros. - a wry Jewish black comedy.
Our recommendation of the latest films which for some inexplicable reason never yet made it to a big screen in Bath. : a festival within the festival. Stunning Latin American dramas, a gentle Italian comedy, a Spanish mind-boggler, Japanese manga and more...
A celebration of dancers and choreographers on film - passionate, poised, perturbing and just plain gravity-defying. Put your questions to the filmmakers who work to capture dance on camera and discover more about the special synergy between dance and film.
Our student film programmers (funded by RELAYS) take a look at extreme sports on camera: this witty and eclectic mix of movies includes a horror cricket spoof, the politics of US baseball in Sugar, skate-board classic The Lords of Dogtown and the farcical female ferocity of British classic The Belles of St Trinian's.
Premieres of films from local first time filmmakers alongside international highlights from the Encounters Short Film Festival and free all day Running Shorts at Green Park Station on Sunday 15 November.
Seven new silent films on the theme of The Alchemy of Man accompanied by a live performance by SonVer- bespoke films from young independent European directors presented as a mesmerising fusion of film and sound.
Bath Film Festival 2009 is dead - long live Bath Film Festival 2010!
Although you are looking at what in large part is a fond reminder of last year's amazing and very successful festival, that one officially died at midnight on 31st March (our year end!). So it seems like an appropriate moment to let you know a little of what we are planning for the 2010 festival, which will run 12-20 November.
This will be the Twentieth BFF, so as well as looking forward, sideways, up and down, we will also be casting a glance back at festivals past, and including a couple of reminders of some unforgettable film experiences. Programming is at an early stage, but our documentary curator Alex Chapman is already getting worked up about some choice titles she'd like to include, and we are in touch with our favorite film distributors to size up their release slates for the latter part of the year. We are thinking about a particular country focus, and plan to work with Komedia, Chapel Arts and, of course, the Little Theatre and The Rondo once again. And we plan to launch our Friends of BFF scheme before the summer, so do get in touch if you would like to receive details when they are finalised. It will be a wonderful way to get the very most out of our Twentieth year!
Keep an eye on the homepage of the website for more news as it emerges, and follow us on Twitter - search for: bff20_2010 or visit http://twitter.com/bff20_2010
Bath Film Festival Friends - the 'Goodfellas'
To celebrate this year's 20th anniversary Festival, we are launching our very own Festival Friends’ scheme, the 'Goodfellas'.
As a Goodfella you will receive a whole range of benefits as well as the lovely warm feeling that comes from knowing your support is really helping the festival. Signing our Gift Aid declaration adds to both the feeling and the support by enabling us to claim a further 28.2% of your subscription from the Inland Revenue!
If you are on our e-mailing list you will shortly receive an invitation to join, and visitors to our website will be able to apply directly. Members of the Little Theatre will benefit from a special discounted joining rate!
We are putting the finishing touches to the scheme - revisit our website later in July, when full details of the scheme and a downloadable joining form will be posted.
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