30 October – 16 November 2025
Join us for the 23rd Edition of CINECITY Film Festival!
Taking you on adventures in world cinema, bringing you the best in festival previews, live cinema and archive treasures.
For two weeks every November, CINECITY brings the best in world cinema to Brighton and the South Coast with a festival programme of premieres and previews, artists’ cinema and installations, treasures from the archive, live soundtracks, talks and special events.
Described by The Guardian as ‘eclectic and imaginative’, CINECITY also explores ideas around the ‘cinematic’, the space where different practices including music, visual arts, photography, storytelling, literature, design and digital culture, can converge.
ADVENTURES IN WORLD CINEMA:
CINECITY presents a host of award-winning titles, all playing locally for the very first time in special one-off screenings ahead of their UK release. There are feature films from around the world including Brazil, Iran, Nigeria, Japan, Morocco, Tunisia, Australia, France, Norway, Iceland, Spain. Some highlights include: Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s five star portrait of Stalinist insurrection, Two Prosecutors. My Father’s Shadow a coming-of-age tale set in 1993 Nigeria from British-Nigerian film-maker Akinola Davies. Romería, the latest work from Alcarràs director Carla Simón and Hlynur Pálmason (Godland) also returns with another visually striking drama with The Love That Remains.
The celebrated Icelandic novelist Sjón will be in-conversation with the writer, Amy Raphael. Sjón is an award-winning author and has been translated into more than 40languages. He is also a poet and librettist who was Oscar-nominated for his lyrics for Bjork in the film Dancer in the Dark (2000). He also co-wrote the acclaimed films Lamb (2021) and Robert Eggers’ The Northman (2022).
CINECITY film screenings at Depot
Sat 8 Nov 16:00