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Leeds International Film Festival

2007

A Man's Job is among the films screening at this year's festival.
A Man's Job is among the films screening at this year's festival.

Leeds International Film Fetival gets the key to the door this year, as it reaches 21. Running from November 7 to 18.

Fifteen feature films will vie for the Golden Owl Competition, while fantasy and horror fans will be lining up for the Fanomenon segment. Films from Spain, Poland, Ireland, Norway and the UK all line up for the third year of the Silver Melies competition, the winner of this will go forward along with others from festivals across Europe, to compete for the Golden Melies award.

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  • WAZ
    Review preview for WAZ

    Shankland dispenses with subplots almost as quickly as bodies, but his debut rattles along at a nice, taut pace.

    Richard Mellor · 2.5 out of 5
    A detective caught in a battle of wits with a killer is forced to pay for his past failings.
  • No Country For Old Men
    Review preview for No Country For Old Men

    Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    A man goes on the run from a psychopath in Texas after coming across a briefcase of stolen cash.
  • Silent Light
    Review preview for Silent Light

    Silent Light is a powerful, technically excellent piece of cinema.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A deeply religious, married man falls in love with another woman and has to question his whole life.
  • Silk
    Review preview for Silk

    When it comes to Japanese slo-mo sensuality, there is nothing you can do but admire the photography, because arousal has been dulled to death long before.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    19th century travels in search of silk worms introduces the perfectly naked Japanese concubine.
  • Planet Terror
    Review preview for Planet Terror

    Glorious, a hilariously stupid zombie fest that spoofs and honours grindhouse so much better than the tenuously related Death Proof.

    Ben Sillis · 4.5 out of 5
    Survivors take on infected zombies in the second part of the double-bill formerly known as Grindhouse.
  • Vexille
    Review preview for Vexille

    This might be familiar fare, but Fumihiko Sori and his team pull it off with sufficient visual aplomb to keep things highly entertaining.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    In 2077, Japan’s secretive, advanced bio-technology could pose an unimaginable threat.
  • A Man's Job
    Review preview for A Man's Job

    A Man's Job uses its simple story to probe a number of prevalent but subdued contemporary issues.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    An out-of-work father tries his hand at male prostitution to keep supporting his family.
  • The Darjeeling Limited
    Review preview for The Darjeeling Limited

    Chaotic, funny, beautifully shot and performed with a childlike deadpan.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Three brothers take a 'spiritual journey' across India by train.
  • The Orphanage
    Review preview for The Orphanage

    Sanchez and Bayona never lose sight of the requirements of the genre, providing plenty in the way of seat-gripping tension and finding suitable shocks in the everyday.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Ghost story about a family who live in an orphanage.
  • Faro - Goddess Of The Waters
    Review preview for Faro - Goddess Of The Waters

    The water rippling around the village mirrors the ebb and flow of relationships within Salif Traoré’s film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An engineer ties to lay old ghosts to rest when he returns to his home village.

A–Z of Leeds International Film Festival 2007 reviews