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KIFF 2025
6-8 JUNE 2025
CINÉ SCHOOLS SCREENING AND AWARDS
10:00 AM
Venue: Rose Main Auditorium
The Ciné Schools Screening and Awards Gala will include films from last term, film camps and masterclasses with filmmaker Q+A’s on stage. The inaugural awards will be presented by Ciné Schools Funder, George Young, with awards presented by a special guest. Ciné Schools provides film education for primary school children across the UK. It delivers film Clubs and Camps that cover every facet of the filmmaking process and empowers children aged eight to 11 to produce films from concept to full production.
SELECTION OF INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS
12:00 PM
Venue: Rose Main Auditorium
RoButler - Short Comedy, Directed by James Button
Bisected - Short Sci-Fi, Directed by Danny Pineros
The Closet Point - Short Drama, Directed by Dilesh Korya
The Soldier on Smithdown - Short Drama, Directed by Barney Pell Scholes, Thomas Harnett O'Meara
The Drop - Short Thriller, Directed by Jack Parr
The Same Colour as Water - Short Drama, Directed by hossein hadinezhad
My Week With Maisy - Short Comedy, Directed by Mika Simmons, STARRING JOANNA LUMLEY
Still from 'My Week With Maisy'
OZI: VOICE OF THE FOREST
17:00 PM
Venue: Rose Main Auditorium
We have an exclusive UK Festival premiere screening of Ozi: Voice of the Forest, as this year's festival closing film. This star-studded animated feature produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, features the vocal talents of Laura Dern, Amandla Stenberg, Donald Sutherland, RuPaul and Dean Charles Chapman. (Ozi is a captivating tale of courage and hope about a spirited young orangutan named Ozi, who embarks on an epic adventure to save her forest home).
Not included in the festival or day pass, as it's a charity screening.
Still from 'Ozi'
SELECTION OF UNDER 18 SHORT FILMS
12:30 PM
Venue: Rose Studio
The Rencounter - Short Drama, Directed by Noah Boyce
Shadows of Soho - Short Drama Directed by Lucas Dinnin
Meelo - I'd rather - Music Video, Directed by Hari Coles
Me - Short Drama, Directed by Adam Flannelly
Feeling Blue- Short Drama, Directed by Alex Larner
Sock of Terror - Short Drama, Directed by Tom Colley
Still from 'Feeling Blue'
The Appleton Ladies Potato Race
15:30 PM
Venue: Odeon Cinema
The Delivery - Short Comedy, Directed by Tope Babalola
The First Time I Never Met You - Short Drama, Directed by Eric Kole
Internal Abyss - Short Drama, Directed by Heléna Antonio
The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race - Feature Comedy, Directed
by Lynn Hegarty
Still from 'The Appleton Ladies Potato Race'
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