Submissions Now Open!
The Norwich Film Festival have carefully picked a selection of Independent Feature Films for you to come and enjoy. With a selection of Regional Premiere’s, Award Winning Films, Retro Screenings this will be your opportunity to come and see something new (and old) during this year’s #NFF2018.
Private: OPENING EVENT: In Conversation with Christopher Eccleston Plus Shallow Grave Screening (18)
We are delighted to launch #NFF2018 with the wonderful Christopher Eccleston. Come and join us for a screening of Shallow Grave (18) followed by an In Conversation with the man himself. Book Early to avoid missing out!
Private: Blade Runner – The Final Cut (15)
Part of our Ridley Scott Session at this year’s Norwich Film Festival will showcase a screening of this Sci-Fi masterpiece Blade Runner – The Final Cut. .
Private: Alien (18)
Concluding our evening celebrating a selection of the work by Ridley Scott is a screening of the ground breaking Film – Alien.
Private: Waiting For You (12A) Plus Q&A (Regional Premiere)
A lyrical mystery drama, by first time Feature Director Charles Garrad showcases this spellbinding feature debut starring Colin Morgan (Merlin, Testament of Youth) and one of French cinema’s most celebrated performers, Fanny Ardant (The Woman Next Door).
Private: The Isle (18) Regional Premiere
When three sailors survive a horrible shipwreck, the locals of a remote Scottish island offer them shelter as they await rescue. However, as they wait for a boat back to the mainland, the eerie history of the once vibrant island comes to light.
Private: Power in Our Hands (PG)
Power in Our Hands is a ground-breaking documentary – containing newly digitised archive footage available to the public for the first time – on the Deaf community’s fight for civil rights and principally, the right to be heard.
Private: Losing Ground (15)
Losing Ground by Kathleen Collins, is one of the first African-American women to direct a feature film. This beautiful, thoughtful picture of a romance at the crossroads of a New York summer, it’s also a story of black lives of a sensitivity rarely seen even today.
Private: Pin Cushion (15) Plus Q&A
British writer-director Deborah Haywood’s first feature Pin Cushion tells the story of a unique mother-daughter duo: two glittering misfits who are knitted together in a relationship that is as kitsch and comforting as it is suffocating.
Private: Eaten By Lions (15) Regional Premiere
Omar (Antonio Aakeel) and Pete (Jack Carroll) are half brothers. When their parents are eaten by lions they embark on a journey to find Omar’s real father. What follows is a funny, heart-warming journey of self-discovery for both boys…in Blackpool. This film also stars Johnny Vegas & Asim Chaudhry
Private: The Big Knights (U)
In the far off land of Borovia, where dragons are fierce, witches are wicked, scientists are insane, the economy is bad and television is in black & white, stands Castle Big: home of The Big Knights.
Private: Sea Sorrow (15) Plus Q&A with Vanessa Redgrave
Sea Sorrow marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director and is a very personal, dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners and children mixing past and present in its reflection on the importance of human rights. This event has been sponsored by Dipple & Conway.