We've had plenty of fantastic work submitted to next years festival and there is still time to get yours in before our final deadline on November 16th. 2016 was a stunning year for MANIFF and 2017 is set to be even better with a wide range of films from around the globe.
Check out the video below and see what you can expect from one of the fastest growing festivals on the circuit.
To submit go to FilmFreeway or Withouabox
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The Manchester International Film Festival has been founded to become an annual event to showcase strong and inventive film-making. Running alongside the established and world renowned Manchester International Festival, which brings over 200,000 people to the city, the inaugural Manchester International Film Festival will take place on July 10th - 12th 2015 across 2 screens at the AMC Cinema in the Great Northern Warehouse and various original and cool venues in and around the vibrant and creative city of Manchester.
The founders’ objective is to provide a platform to represent independent films in an organic and true form. The organisations quest is to champion great story telling that translates brilliantly onto screen. Up-and-coming writers, directors and producers, along with established industry professionals, and film lovers alike are all invited to celebrate independent cinema, which will make The Manchester International Film Festival a hybrid event to discover new and exciting film-making talent from around the globe.
Running alongside the Manchester International Festival means the city will be full of over 200,000 performance art enthusiasts and both national and international press, meaning the short-listed films and film-makers will gain maximum exposure.
Elaine Moss, celebrity photograph hunter, is on the verge of breaking a world record: a personal collection of thousands of photographs of herself taken with celebrities over several years. Michael David, a local journalist, has come to cover the story on the day Elaine prepares to have her record breaking photo taken with celebrity number 3,237. As the big moment arrives, and Elaine's obsession intensifies, Michael ...
Director: Nick Gillespie.
The Chariot is a darkly humorous short film which pits a scared, sickly old man against the urban jungle. Old Raymond sets out on a quest across the city, forcing him to fight for the one thing he truly loves: his Shopmobility
Director: Nick Gillespie.
Born off the back of the "credit crunch" Imagining Love is an ambient short film which works as a puzzle between 4 very different characters, each of them offering up ideas of imagination, false reality, escape from modern day pressures, and love.
Kinofilm European Short Film Festival – MANCHESTER (Feb 2010)
LATEST NEWS: Calling all Short Filmmakers – the ‘early-bird’ deadline to KINOFILM has now passed. Filmmakers now have until the end of September to get their films in the post (although we will accept the arrival of films for this deadline in our office upto 2nd October to allow for postal delays in the current British postal dispute in some parts of the country). The cost of submitting films to this deadline is £15.00 ...
We would lke to announce the new Kinofilm Festival will be competive with awards in 8 categories.
Best European Short
Best UK Short
Best North West Short
Best New Director
Best Animated Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Debut Feature
Best International Short Film (non-National)
Additional Awards may be added.
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URGENT CALL: Kurdish Diaspora in Europe
For inclusion in a special Kinofilm programme as part of the
Manchester Kurdish Film Festival, Kino is seeking urgently, short
films from Kurdish filmmakers residing in any part of Europe. This is
special European programme to show how Kurdish filmmakers have
intergrated into Western Film industry and to show participation between Kurdish /
European filmmakers and collaborative co-productions.
The programme is to take place in three weeks ...
Kinofilm showcases the best of short films from around the world on both film and video, hi/low/no budget shorts, underground cinema,also seminars, forums, networking events and industry events.Competitive festival.
