2025 Specials
AUTUMN
August / September
Locations across Birmingham
Mix of Movies
Birmingham Anime Festival will take place in two of the city’s most iconic venues. The Mockingbird Cinema provides film fans with a unique cinematic experience, nestled within the creative hub of Digbeth’s Custard Factory and surrounded by a host of independent food and drink places, all close to Digbeth coach station and Birmingham’s Bull Ring.
September / October
Cardiff & Aberystwyth
Mix of Movies
The Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival was created by organizer Ms Eiko Meredith. Launched in November 2010 at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, UK, the festival screens the best in Japanese animation and culture to a wide audience.
Our mission is to spread the joy of Japanese animation and, to this end, we strive to be as accessible and inclusive as possible. Likewise, the films we showcase come from a diverse pool of Japanese creators. We normally screen our films in the original Japanese with English subtitles.
October/November
Picture House Locations across Scotland And London
Mix of Movies
What began as a single screen cinema over 40 years ago has become Scotland’s most diverse and best publicly attended independent cinema in Scotland, with Glasgow Film Festival one of the top three film festivals in the UK.
Glasgow Film is a national centre for film and moving image media where audiences and filmmakers experience and debate cultural practice and ideas through diverse, unique and quality programmes that transform the way people see the world, through film.








