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Leeds International Film Festival · 2024

Leeds International Film Festival 2024

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7 films · 2 reviews

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Grand Theft Hamlet

Review preview for Grand Theft Hamlet

The absurdity is one of its delights.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
Shot entirely inside the video game Grand Theft Auto, this documentary charts the story of two out-of-work actors as they try to stage a full production of Hamlet within this notoriously violent digital world.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane; Writer: Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane)

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How To Build A Truth Engine

A documentary about how our neurological development makes us susceptible to misinformation, and what we can do about it.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Friedrich Moser; Writer: Friedrich Moser; Stars: Michael Nikbakhsh, Christoph Koettl, Zahra Aghajan)

It Was All a Dream

A dive into hip hop history.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Dream Hampton)

No Other Land

Review preview for No Other Land

No Other Land brings humanity and particularity to a topic that is too often discussed in the abstract.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

(Country: Palestinian Territories; Year: 2024; Director: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor; Stars: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal)

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Rising Up At Night (Tongo Saa)

Portrait of the residents of Kinshasa with their faith, hopes and disappointments, immersed in the beauty of the nights in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(Country: Belgium, Germany, Qatar, Congo, Burkina Faso; Year: 2024; Director: Nelson Makengo)

The Stimming Pool

Documentary sees five neurodiverse artists create a visual project.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Sam Ahern, Georgia Kumari Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Steven Eastwood, Robin Elliot-Knowles, Lucy Walker)

Union

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) - a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island - takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionise.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Stephen Maing, Brett Story)