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 - 12-21 November
We think we've put together one of strongest festival programmes for years! About a quarter of the screenings will be previews, often accompanied by the creative 'talent' in person, alongside a selection of the best of recent documentaries, a strand devoted to dance in cinema, some very sporty films and a chance to catch up with some recent gems that have not screened in Bath before. We've a solid presence at the Little Theatre Cinema, and we're very excited to be presenting screenings at Komedia and at the newly-refurbished Chapel Arts (Invention Studios as was) for the first time this year.
The 2008 website has been archived - you'll can still access it, together with those from several years past.
By The Way...
Day Ten: SonVer at the Michael Tippett Centre
SonVer perform live at the Michael Tippett Centre at the Bath Spa University Campus, Newton Park.
Blog Updates
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