Welcome to the 18th Bath Film Festival. Seeing a film at the festival isn’t like going to the cinema. As well as offering you the opportunity to see films that you won’t catch anywhere else, at a Bath Film Festival screening you’ll be one of a band of fellow travellers, gathered together in a spirit of celebration of everything the cinema has to offer…
Welcome to another excellent line up of British and international documentary films for 2008.
Contemporary Art Programming in association with Bath Film Festival is proud to present AMIE/08. This year AMIE/08
exhibits and screens performance-to-camera-based artists’ work.
Second Run DVD is dedicated to releasing important and award-winning films from around the world. Their titles include many gems of world cinema, some available on dvd for the first time. Clearly they love cinema as much as we do!
Birds Eye View is a creative platform for women filmmakers. Launched in 2005 as the UK’s first major women’s film festival, BEV presents a programme of stunning and inspirational features, documentaries and short films from around the world.
We are very excited about this year’s Sounds to Silents project, which sees us working with composer / performer Geoff Smith and Bath Spa Live at Bath Spa University on the World Première performance of a new score
for hammered dulcimer for Lotte Reiniger’s iconic The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Warner Brothers Studios celebrate 85 years in 2008. To mark the occasion (and the publication of a sumptuous book) we screen the documentary of the book You Must Remember This by Richard Schickel and George Perry and three Warners films from their ‘golden age’: the 1930s – ‘50s.
Inspired by our screening of The Adventures of Prince Achmed on Saturday 8 November, we’re offering some fabulous animation labs, and a celebration of inspirational animation Think About Animation – From Gertie to Wall-E.
Your comments invited...
It's great to have heard back from members of the festival audience with comment about some of this year's films. Thank you to all who have submitted your views via the filmnote tear-off slips and website facility, and to those that have completed our audience survey forms. We've been speaking to people emerging from screenings, and its clear that a lot of you have strong ideas about what you have seen at the festival. We'd love to receive your comments via the website (you can comment on any of the films at the foot of the appropriate events page), so that we can share them with other festival-goers. Read Mark Tuck's comments on Black Sun by clicking the link below...
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We would like to extend a big "thank you" to all our sponsors and supporters without whom it would not be possible to stage the Bath Film Festival.
Welcome to our new website!
Of course, you'll find full details of this year's festival right here at your fingertips, but we're intending the website to be much more than an online version of the festival brochure this year. As well as the festival blog there'll be more information about the films and events than you'll find in the brochure, and in due course you'll be able to download a filmnote for each screening in advance of showtime. When you've seen a film we'd love to receive your comments or your review, and we'll publish anything that isn't deemed downright offensive or irrelevant! Once the festival is underway we'll be updating on a daily basis, so this will become your fullest resource for information, discussion, insight and input about your festival. Get in touch soon....
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If you like the sound of any of the festival events, you'll find our further recommendations listed on the right of the event page. Sometimes the connection is obvious, and sometimes not so. We hope you'll like all the films at this year's festival, but our loose groupings identify some unintentional 'themelets' within the programme which we hope you'll find useful in planning your festival experience. If you find any hidden connections we haven't recognised, let us know via the comment-posting facility.
Blog
BEING THERE
Looking back at BFF 2008, the films we chose and how enthusiastically they were received by our audience: it is encouraging to see that two of them have also been selected as Film of the Month in Sight & Sound.
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