Cinecity - The Brighton Film Festival
Published 3rd Nov 2006 by Admin

Welcome to the 4th edition of CINECITY and our biggest festival programme yet. CINECITY presents the very best in international cinema and features a global mix of premieres and previews, treasures from the archive, artists' moving image and installations, the latest digital adventures, education events and much more.

CINECITY screens right across Brighton & Hove in all the city's cinemas - Duke of York's, Cineworld, Odeon and Gardner Arts Centre - and in a host of other venues. We have also again created a temporary 'micro-cinema' to further extend the number of screens available during the festival. The Brighton Fringe Basement in the heart of the North Laine is home to a range of screenings and events and is the centrepiece of the artists' moving image programme. For the first time CINECITY expands beyond the borders of Brighton & Hove with a weekend of screenings at the modernist masterpiece the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, the first time films have been seen there on the big screen.

In the NEW FEATURES strand we present a selection of 30 new titles all screening in Brighton for the first time. This is your chance to catch these films before they go on national release and to see others in one-off UK screenings. Several of the screenings will be followed by Q&A's with the filmmakers so please check with the venues for full details.

We open and close the festival with two previews of major and eagerly anticipated titles: BABEL directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal and BLACK BOOK, Paul Verhoeven's World War Two drama.

At the core of its programme each year, CINECITY dedicates a strand to one celluloid city. In 2006 we explore Shanghai, the first great city of the 21st Century, through a diverse selection of moving images including artists' installations, features, documentaries and shorts.

The Festival runs from 16 November to 3rd December 2006. To keep fully up to date with this year's programme and for exclusive festival podcasts visit
www.cine-city.co.uk

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