With full details of LFF 2025 and more below:
Leeds International Film Festival 2025 |
LIFF returns from 30 October to 16 November 2025
We are thrilled to confirm the dates for the 39th Leeds International Film Festival. From Thursday 30 October to Sunday 16 November 2025, you can join us for an epic film selection over 18 days at venues including Hyde Park Picture House, Vue in The Light, Everyman Cinema, Howard Assembly Room, and Cottage Road Cinema.
The LIFF 2025 programme launch, where we present a trailer reel featuring over 40 film highlights and reveal the programme guide, is on Thursday 9 October. You can book free tickets for the launch from Wednesday 1 October, and tickets and passes for LIFF 2025 are available from the launch date.
For fans of our fantastic genre film marathons, Day of the Dead this year is on Saturday 1 November and Night of the Dead is on Friday 14 November.
We will announce more details over the next few weeks and we can’t wait to see you at #LIFF2025.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE MONDAY 6 OCTOBER
Volunteer for LIFF 2025
Applications are now open to volunteer for LIFF 2025 where you can be part of one of the UK's leading film events. As a LIFF volunteer you can gain experience of helping on a major festival, develop valuable skills, and make new connections. You will also have the chance to see some of the film programme with an allocation of free tickets.
FRIDAY 29 AUGUST 2025 / HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE
The Ceremony at Hyde Park Picture House with filmmaker Q&A
The Winner of Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Sean Connery Award in 2024 is coming to Hyde Park Picture House, after its sell-out premiere in Bradford. The Ceremony, from director Jack King, is part crime story, part road-movie, part-surrealist drama about two troubled migrant workers in a Bradford car wash who are dragged into an escalating moral crisis as night falls. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with director Jack King & producer Hollie Bryan.
THURSDAY 21 AUGUST 2025 / KIRKSTALL ABBEY
Frontier Sapiens Film Festival returns to Leeds
The Frontier Sapiens Adventure Film Festival is back at Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds this August.The outdoor cinema event showcases five of the best adventure, cultural and environmental short films of the year. Think big-wall climbing in Norway, cycle touring across Africa, fell running and lots more. See the full programme of films and find out more by clicking the button below.
1 — 23 AUGUST / PICTUREVILLE CINEMA
The Epic Yorkshire film season in Bradford showcases stories made and shaped by those who call this place home - from gritty urban dramas to romantic windswept landscapes. Alongside a packed programme at Pictureville, you can enjoy special screenings and experiences presented with brilliant local partners, alongside beloved Yorkshire brands.
22 & 23 AUGUST AND 13 SEPTEMBER
Step into a cinematic wonderland – immersive screenings of cult and classic films under the stars with Wild Rumpus. Witness Ilkley Lido and Thornton Viaduct as you’ve never seen them before – and then catch open-air screenings of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Sexy Beast and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
SUNDAY 17 AUGUST 2025
American football star Flash Gordon and his companion Dale Arden are kidnapped by Dr Hans Zarkov and launched into distant space to investigate strange galactic goings on. What they don't expect to stumble into are wonderful, strange and dangerously camp new worlds, tyrannically ruled over from the planet Mongo by ruthless Ming the Merciless. Can Flash save the day and lead the warring factions to victory?
This screening is in partnership with Scalarama Leeds for their 2025 Festival launch.
SATURDAY 16 AUGUST 2025
Straight from Kampala, Uganda, comes the cult DIY action film, Who Killed Captain Alex. Partially based on director Nabwana’s real experiences growing up during the Ugandan Bush War (1980s), the film was shot entirely on location with no film permits and assembled using a computer built from spare parts, resulting in an extremely fun audience experience.
This screening is a partnership between Cinema Africa and Leeds LASSN who supports refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds.
Leeds Film is supported by the British Film Institute.
Leeds Film is proud to have achieved the BFI Diversity Standards.
Leeds International Film Festival is part of Leeds Ticket Hub, the city's cultural ticket office: Leeds Ticket Hub, Carriageworks Theatre, The Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD.
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