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Click here to read about previous post-film discussions.
BIFS’ members have voted The Battle of Algiers (1966) as the most popular film shown by BIFS of last year. The result was decided from questionnaires filled out by BIFS members. Everyone who responded to questionnaires were enrolled into a draw with a DVD copy of The Battle Of Algiers as the prize. Congratulations to Robbie Smith whose name was pulled out of the hat during June's post-film discussion.
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BIFS organises Commonwealth Film Festival Event
BIFS was invited by the Commonwealth Film Festival which opened at Manchester on 28 April, to take part in a panel discussion on "Film Societies and Film Festivals for the Promotion of a More Diverse Cinema". BIFS also conducted a film poll by film societies under the British Federation of Film Societies to vote for the best commonwealth film, which will be screened after the discussion. BIFS has also got a member on the BFFS film jury!
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March 10th, 2006 - National Film Society of the Year Awards
Brighton International Film Society won the prestigious award for the Best New Film Society of the Year. The award instituted by the British Federation of Film Societies was received by BIFS’ chair Geetha J. from renowned filmmaker Anthony Minghella on Saturday night at a gala function at the National Film Theatre.
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Diego Mondella, an Italian journalist turned writer who has written the first Italian book on Peeping Tom ( Peeping Tom. Il Cinema Di Michael Powell. 2005. Falsopiano. Alessandria, Italy.) has kindly donated a copy of his book to Brighton International Film Society. We take this opportunity to thank him.
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To an excellent turn out of discerning film lovers in spite of the unusual cold and snow here, Atta Yaqub, the lead actor of Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss, inaugurated the Brighton International Film Society at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse. Reading out Ken Loach’s message as patron of BIFS, he also remarked how proud he was to be associated with a film society that was committed to good world cinema.
Read more and see event photographs
Read our chair's interview with actor Atta Yaqub here
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The world's leading social-realist filmmaker of such groundbreaking classics as Cathy Come Home, Kes, Land And Freedom and Sweet Sixteen is patron of BIFS. We look forward to welcoming Ken to speak at one of our forthcoming screenings in Brighton.
Ken was unable to make our inaugural event and instead kindly sent this message:
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"I’m very sorry not to be with you in Brighton for the launch of the Brighton International Film Society. Paul and I are currently engaged in a little mischief in Ireland - though none of the millions from the northern bank
robbery have found their way into our accounts yet.
Working with Atta and Eva on Ae Fond Kiss was an absolute delight. We were constantly amazed at how well they dealt with everything we threw at them - and revealed some secret talents in the process!
Film societies have a very important function - to remind us of the diversity of films that are made and how much we miss from the offerings of the multiplexes. In the cinema you should be able to hear many voices. It is a pity that the Americans drown out most of the others."
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BFI Ken Loach Gallery
Ken Loach Filmography
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