The Oscar-qualifying film festival returns for another exciting year with some of the hottest titles on the festival circuit, including both features and shorts looking likely to win big awards in the months ahead. It also includes some fantastic retrospectives, with a particular focus on cult ozploitation classics.

The festival runs from 1 to 17 November.

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Conclave
Conclave
Drama surrounding the election of a new Pope.
Nightbitch
Nightbitch
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mother, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
Flow
Flow
An animated adventure about a group of animals who must work together to survive a catastrophe in a post-human world.
Anora
Anora
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
Toxic
Toxic
Two teenage girls, eager to escape from the bleakness of their industrial town, form an unexpected bond at a local modelling school that pushes their bodies to the limit.
Hard Truths
Hard Truths
Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation - only her sister understands and is able to help her.
Familiar Touch
Familiar Touch
Follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
I'm Still Here
I'm Still Here
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
Cloud
Cloud
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
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Leeds International Film Festival Features

A little unpredictability
Payal Kapadia on cinematic inspirations and All We Imagine As Light
Reflections of a cat
Gints Zilbalodis on Hayao Miyazaki, fairy tales and Latvia’s Oscar submission, Flow
'I’m still enjoying the process of talking about Julie and advocating for her silence'
Leonardo van Dijl on Belgian Oscar nominee Julie Keeps Quiet
Keeping it real
Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on the art of organic character creation in Hard Truths
Growing pains and gains
Saulė Bliuvaitė on developing and shooting Golden Leopard winner Toxic
A piece of cake
Yasuda Jun’ichi on sweetness and keeping it real in A Samurai In Time
All the buzz
Sander Maran and Peeter Maran on Chainsaws Were Singing
Breaking the mould
Memoir Of A Snail director Adam Elliot on creating textured underdogs and emotional conflict
At last Maddin makes mischief in Cannes
G7 satire star power for Rumours filmmaker
Arnold reveals the naked truth
Cannes award-winning director of Bird on how images spark imagination
Sorting fact from fiction
Roman Bondarchuk on fake news, politics and the situation in Ukraine in The Editorial Office
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