The 2023 festival was a great success and we are very grateful to our collaborators , venues , volunteers and attendees for making it so.
The intention is to bring the festival back in November 2024. More news to follow. Thanks.
The festival is collaborating with MA Film students from the University of Exeter click here to see their FREE pop up cinema events.
Walt Disney Animation Studios (Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph) presents the SING-A-LONG version of Frozen, a stunning big-screen comedy-adventure inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen.
Come in fancy dress and enjoy refreshments and a sing along too!
Tickets: £10 (1 adult and 2 children upto 16 yrs of age)
Individual tickets: £5
Doors open at 10.30am to enjoy the cafe and lots of festive treats.
Five-year-old Lawand is on a quest to find a world where there are people like him – people who will understand him. Since birth, Lawand has been profoundly deaf and unable to communicate with those around him. He undertakes a treacherous journey with his family from Iraq to Derby, home of the Royal School for the Deaf. But this new life soon comes under threat when the family face deportation. Along with members of the Derby community, they begin a new quest – a fight to stay in the place they now call home. Employing a striking visual style that frames Lawand’s development, from being voiceless to a voice representing others in the Deaf Community, Edward Lovelace’s (The Possibilities Are Endless) documentary is an inspirational and touching coming-of-age story.
There will also be a chance to understand the work of the Deaf Academy and what Exmouth community can do, to make deaf young people welcome in and thrive in our town.
Tickets: £5
Doors open at 3pm and bring your own non alcoholic drinks and snacks.
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
This classic Christmas film is a firm favourite across the world. Come and enjoy it in the amazing surrounds of Holy Trinity Church.
Tickets: £5
Doors open at 2.30pm to enjoy the cafe and lots of festive treats
Acclaimed documentary and official film of Record Store day globally 2013.
The rapid rise of record shops in the 1960’s / 70s and 80’s, the influence of the chart, the underhand deals, the demise of vinyl and rise of the
CD as well as new technologies. Hear from over 20 record shop owners and music industry leaders as well as musicians including Paul Weller, Jonny Marr, Fat Boy Slim, Nerina Pallot, Richard Hawley and Clint Boon as they all tell us how the shops became and still are a part of their own musical education, a place to cherish and discover new bands and new music.
QA with The films Exmouth based Director Pip Piper and Author of the original book and film contributor Graham Jones. Vinyl DJ will be playing classic hits after the QA and bring your vinyl too to play. We are also hoping to have a pop up record shop. Bar available .
Tickets: £7
Doors open 6.30pm
The Age of Stupid stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage of seven real people from today and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? Age of Stupid has been funded and chosen by Exmouth Town Council’s Climate and Ecological Emergency Working Party. There will be a Q&A with the Director, Franny Armstrong, after the film.
Tickets: FREE but booking is essential as tickets are limited.
The Best of Two Short Nights
A screening of some of the best Exeter Phoenix short film commissions from Two Short Nights Film Festival. A number of the filmmakers will be there on the night too.
Exeter Phoenix’s annual short film commission has been supporting emerging filmmakers in the south west for over two decades. The commissions offer funding, development and support to give regional filmmaking talent a platform to develop and produce their ideas, and see them on the big screen. Commissioned films are premiered at Two Short Nights Film Festival, an annual showcase of the best national, international and regional filmmaking talent.
After the screenings join us for a drink at the Grapevine Pub in the strand.
Brilliant debut feature length film from BAFTA short film winner Charlotte Regan.
Living alone in her London flat, 12-year-old Georgie must confront reality when her estranged father, Jason, shows up out of nowhere. Uninterested in a sudden new parental figure, she remains stubbornly resistant to his efforts. As they both adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and Jason soon find that they still have a lot of growing up to do.
Join the festival team at The Grapevine after the screening.
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