Horror and Genre thrills at Leeds International Film Festival, November

Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) has announced the full programme for its 2024 edition which includes UK premieres, new A-List and innovative new Festival strands showcasing the best in world cinema, retrospectives genre films and documentaries. LIFF is supported by the BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Award.

 

Established in 1987, Leeds International Film Festival is one of the largest annual film events in the UK and one of the longest, running for 17 days every November in venues across Leeds and West Yorkshire. Presenting over 250 features and shorts every year, with annual submissions of over 5000 from more than 120 countries, LIFF principally showcases and supports films from new and diverse filmmaking talent and which may not receive profile in the UK otherwise.

The 38th edition of the Festival will run from 1st to the 17th November 2024 at venues across the city including events and screenings at Everyman Leeds, Vue Leeds in the Light, Hyde Park Picture House and Howard Assembly Room. Tickets and passes are now on sale.

Fanomenon is the home at LIFF for fantasy, sci-fi, horror, dark comedy, cult films, the unclassifiable, and much more. Fanomenon opening film is the UK premiere of writer/director Yang Li’s Escape from the 21st Century which uses a dizzying array of special effects, and choreographs kinetic action that brilliantly integrates comic-book animation with magnificent martial art prowess. The Fanomenon closing film is The Killers, a wildly inventive and entertaining collection of four crime stories from South Korea.

Fanathon film marathons return for LIFF 2024 with Sci-Fi day on 2 November with four new features, including two UK Premieres - mind-bending sci-fi tale The A-Frame and U Are the Universe, screening as a UK premiere, a moving and comic story about an astronaut’s search for connection after he is left alone in space when Earth explodes. 

Day of the Dead is back on 9 November with four acclaimed new horror films from Belgium, Nigeria, Taiwan and USA showing at Hyde Park Picture House. Including the UK premiere of Else, smart and suspenseful The Weekend, hilarious dark comedy Dead Talents Society and Dead Mail, a surreal horror thriller that blends retro analogue aesthetics with a twisted tale of obsession, murder, and electronic keyboards. The ultimate all-night horror marathon, Night of the Dead returns with a new mix of wild films guaranteed to deliver plenty of thrills, gore, and chills. Screenings include the world premiere of Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round, produced by Joe Swanberg, and Dark Match, an action-packed horror that puts a small-time group of ‘80s pro-wrestlers in a desperate battle for survival.

Previously announced as screening in the Fanomenon competition, showcasing mind-expanding new genre cinema will be: Niles Atallah’s modern queer fairytale Animalia Paradoxa; Ivana Gloria’s Chlorophyll; Thibault Emin’s mesmerising body-horror debut Else; Benjamin Pfohl’s cosmic coming-of-ager Jupiter; Yannis Veslemes’s psychedelic time travel horror She Loved Blossoms More; Pavlo Ostrikov’s post-apocalyptic Ukrainian sci-fi romance U Are the Universe; Joel Potrykus’s jet-black punk rock comedy Vulcanizadora.

Retrospective collection The Weird of Oz explores the wild and often groundbreaking scene of Australian new wave cinema from the 1970s onwards, expressing the growing pains of the country and garnering attention around the world. There’s highway adventures of Mad Max 2, Road Games and Stone; the hyperreal pop images styles of BeDevil and Razorback; vengeful nature in Lost Weekend and The Last Wave; individuals against the world in Celia and Wake in Fright. 

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