Exchange between Frankfurt’s Lichter Festival and Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival

Anniversary_LogoAs part of the Birmingham-Frankfurt 50th anniversary programme, on the 1st of April the renowned Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International will be hosting a taste of Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival. Collaboration between these two festivals started several years ago but has been recently refreshed again as a result of the funding received from the Goethe Institut and the City of Frankfurt.

The repertoire, handpicked by the programmer Sam Groves, will include ten short films full of hypnotic animation, confounding experiments, dark and twisted comedy, and inventive music videos in several different languages such as English, Mandarin, Japanese, Dutch and Swedish. The whole set will total of 74 minutes and will be screened in Frankfurt during this year’s Filmmfest edition planned for 20 March – 3 April 2016.

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