CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival
Each year, CINECITY takes you on adventures in world cinema, bringing you the best in festival previews, live cinema and archive treasures.
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CINECITY ROUND UP - 2024 cine-city.co.uk
CINECITY 2024 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
Chris Smith's DEVO was voted as our 2024 Audience Award Winner.
CINECITY 2024 PROGRAMME cine-city.co.uk
Ukraine on Screen announced as part of this year's festival cine-city.co.uk
CINECITY ROUND UP - 2023 cine-city.co.uk
Lists
CINECITY Audience Award Winners 16 films
Each year, CINECITY gives out an award to the audience’s favourite film of the festival.
CINECITY 2024 31 films
The 22nd edition of CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival 8th - 17th November 2024.
CINECITY 2023 29 films
The 21st edition of CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival 10th - 19th November 2023.
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CINECITY 2024 – STUDENT REVIEW
Written by Lucy Raggett
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” - Leo Tolstoy
All Happy Families is a witty and relatable rom-com drama following the Landry family and their interwoven dramas and personal obstacles. While this family’s unhappiness is unique, the film is extremely relatable in its exploration of generational divide along with modern gender politics.
Graham is the younger brother of the Landry family, trying to…
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CINECITY 2024 - STUDENT REVIEW
Written by Lucy Raggett
We Live in Time, directed by John Crowley, follows Almut (Florence Pugh), a professional chef, and Tobias (Andrew Garfield), a Weetabix representative, who meet in an unconventional turn of events and fall in love. The film illustrates their life together - moving through fragments of time in a nonlinear fashion - along with Almut’s fight against ovarian cancer.
The narrative of this film is constructed in such a powerful way that…
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CINECITY 2024 – STUDENT REVIEW
Written by By Anya Snowball
Motherhood is often celebrated as a time of boundless joy, fulfilment, and unconditional love; where a mother and her perfect, beautiful child share an effortless bond of pure connection and bliss. But is this really the full, true picture?
Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch swiftly dismantles this rosy, idealised portrayal, instead revealing the challenging reality of motherhood through the surreal and primal transformation of an unnamed “mother” (played by Amy Adams). Blending…
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CINECITY 2024 – STUDENT REVIEW
Written by Anya Snowball
What are Witches? Who are they? And why were so many women killed for being labelled as such? In Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches, the enlightening yet haunting documentary recalls the filmmaker’s personal experience of postpartum depression following the birth of her child. Through real accounts of psychosis, anxiety, OCD, depression and PTSD tied to motherhood, Sankey draws meaningful connections between the struggles faced by mothers with the condition today - often overlooked…
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fleabag meets motherhood but make it feral
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Spirit of Independence Film Festival 2024.
Absolutely lovely road movie across Laos with an abandoned child leaving his temple home in search of his mother, accompanied by a teenage runaway with ambitions of photojournalism. Shot for £80k on 16mm, this looks fantastic and shot with a respectful vibrancy than still draws on the beauty of the environment. Great lead performances and despite the familiarity of some of the road movie tropes, this still draws a heavy emotional punch with unexpected plot turns. A delight.
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that capybara is the most emotionally stable character in the history of film
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finally an accurate portrayal of the relationship between a student writing their dissertation and their supervisor
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