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| Opening film | Poor Things (2023) |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Slow (2023) |
| Location | Leeds, England |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Most recent | 3–19 November 2023 |
| Awards | Audience award for feature films, jury awards for short films |
| Language | International |
| Website | http://www.leedsfilm.com |
The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is an annual film festival hosted in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It is the largest film festival in England outside of London. Founded in 1987, it is held in November in various venues throughout Leeds, including Hyde Park Picture House and Cottage Road Cinema.[1] In 2022, the festival showed 140 films from 78 different countries, shorts and features, both commercial and independent.[2]
LIFF features five programme sections: Official Selection, Retrospective, Cinema Versa, Fanomenon and Short Film City. LIFF is a qualifying film festival for the Academy Awards and the winning films in Short Film City's Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition and World Animation Award may thus be eligible for the academy's Short Film Awards. The festival's British Short Film Competition is BAFTA qualifying.[3]
The festival is supported by Leeds City Council and the festival office is based in Leeds Town Hall, together with Leeds Young Film Festival (LYFF) (formerly Leeds Children & Young People's Film Festival (LCYPFF)).
- ^ "Leeds International Film Festival". FilmFreeway. 20 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ "Leeds International Film Festival 2022". www.leedsfilm.com. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ BAFTA. "BAFTA QUALIFYING FESTIVALS LIST – BRITISH SHORT FILM" (PDF). awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 24 October 2023.