Name: The Slow Film Festival
Start: 2024-10-05T02:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-06T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Good Shepherd Studios

The Slow Film Festival is a yearly celebration of the creative potential of slowing down. We screen films that take their time and use long takes and a contemplative pace to explore their subjects. Held over the first weekend in October; the festival will consist of screenings, talks, artist masterclasses, sound walks and lots of moments to meet people and talk film!
*Not able to attend in person? We also have an online showcase so you will be able to book to get access to the programmed films from anywhere in the world!*
This year many of the films in the programme are connected in an exploration of the relationship between personal family histories and wider political events. They consider how history can be made comprehensible through a focus on everyday events, ordinary lives, and the stories families pass down. In Saturday Evenings film Weightless a woman travels around Rural Ukraine on foot (before the current conflict) scanning the images people hold in their family photo albums and collecting their stories, building up an archive that tells a complex story of Ukraine’s recent past. In the short film Hit Him On The Head With a Hard Heavy Hammer a woman reads from her father’s memoire recounting a childhood in rural wales, moving to London after WW2 and his experience of work, trade unionism and jazz.
Sunday evenings film is the UK premiere of multi award wining documentary The Landscape and the Fury. Not to be missed!
We hope to see you there!