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Seven more days full of great films in venues and online...

We’re halfway through LIFF 2021 and there are

seven more days full of great films!

We hope you are enjoying your LIFF 2021 experience – in venues, online, or both. We have loved welcoming audiences back into venues to share new films on the big screen, with LIFF Passes as popular as ever and screenings of many films from across the programme selling out.

The second half of LIFF 2021 is set to be even busier, with 54 features and 12 shorts programmes still to screen including eagerly awaited films like Titane, Compartment No. 6, and The Souvenir: Part II. You can also watch many LIFF 2021 films on our streaming platform Leeds Film Player, with most available until 18 November.

Extra screening of LIFF 2021 Closing Film: Ali & Ava, LIFF 2021 Catalogue,

Film Hub North and BFI Network at LIFF 2021 & more...

LIFF 2021 Audience Award

Voting for the LIFF 2021 Audience Award is now open! You can add your scores to the online form for any feature films you are seeing: the scores will be saved if you leave the form and return to it later. The form is split into the LIFF sections - Official Selection, Cinema Versa, Fanomenon and Rear View. You do not have to vote for every film.

The deadline for voting is 10.30pm on Thurs 18 November

LIFF 2021 Catalogue

A limited quantity of the LIFF 2021 Catalogue will be available to collect from Vue in The Light from 6pm today (Friday 12 November). This splendid, 212-page publication designed by Lee Goater includes expanded information about all feature and short films in the LIFF 2021 programme, including information about film festival juries. The catalogue will be available on a first come first served basis, so we recommend early collection.

LIFF 2021 Closing Film:
Extra screening of Ali & Ava

Due to demand, we now have an extra screening of the LIFF 2021 Closing Film, Clio Barnard's joyful love story Ali & Ava on 18 November at 1pm. Tickets are now available (the screenings at 5.45pm and 8pm are sold out). Starring Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook and supported by Screen Yorkshire, Ali & Ava is set on the lived-in streets of Bradford and is laced through with deep feeling for all of love’s - and Bradford’s - complexity.

Thurs 18 November, 1pm. Vue in The Light

Film Hub North & BFI Network at LIFF 2021: Screening, talks and socials

Film Hub North with BFI NETWORK present a series of screenings, talks and socials for filmmakers at LIFF 2021. The full programme of events takes place online, is open to filmmakers from across the North of England, and every session is free to attend. These include sessions on making shorts and features, roundtables, panel discussions, industry mixers and more.

Meet Filmbankmedia at LIFF 2021:
Free networking and drinks reception

Filmbankmedia have a catalogue of over 15,000 films available to license for non-theatrical screenings. Rupinder, Sophie and Priyal from Filmbankmedia will be at LIFF 2021 to discuss how to arrange a film screening in venues or outdoors (including drive-ins!), the costs of setting up an independent screening and more. This special, free event at Everyman Leeds will be followed by a drinks reception and networking opportunity.

Weds 17 November, 4.30pm.
Everyman Leeds: Screen 4

The Criterion Collection Competition: Win November's releases on Blu-ray

Our exclusive monthly competition gives you the chance to win one of two bundles of the latest Blu-rays from The Criterion Collection. November's releases include Fantastic Mr Fox, Devi and The Thin Red Line. For a chance to win, answer the following question: What is the name of the actor who appears in both newly released features The French Dispatch and Dune? Email answers to leeds.film@leeds.gov.uk by midnight on Tues 30 November 2021.