Chichester Cinema at New Park

COMING SOON !

The South Coast Cinematic Event of the Year
18 days - over 75 films
3 Screens: Main Auditorium & Studio at New Park + 1 screen at Cineworld.



Opening Gala: Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces - direct from Cannes




Premieres, Previews, and New Releases of UK, USA, European and World Cinema.

Pre Festival Free Open Air Screening of Oklahoma. On the Cathedral grounds. Saturday 15 August from Dusk.




Focus on the Documentary including Tony Palmer’s film on Carl Orff Carmina Burana, and Walt Disney’s The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos.

Tribute to the late Natasha Richardson including Suddenly Last Summer and Comfort of Strangers.




Director Retrospective: Jacques Tati including his classics Jour de Fete and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, plus world premiere of a documentary on TATI produced and introduced by Mick Csaky.




Writer/director Retrospective: David Hare encompassing rare TV material including Saigon: Year of the Cat, My Zinc Bed, and Licking Hitler (introduced by David Hare) and his movies Wetherby and Plenty.

Actor Retrospective: Meryl Streep including Sophie’s Choice, Out of Africa, Dancing With Lughnasa, The Hours, The Devil Wears Prada, Evening, and Doubt.

Treasures from the Archives: Newly restored 35mm prints of Joseph Losey’s Accident, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, and the UK premiere of the restored full version of the rare Michael Anderson’s 1972 film She Who Would Be Pope (aka Pope Joan) starring Liv Ullman, Trevor Howard, Maximillian Schell and Jeremy Kemp.




Outside-in Art on Film: In partnership with Pallant House Gallery, Chichester - including Justin Edgar’s Special People and Jarvis Cocker’s TV series Journeys Into the Outside.

23rd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tour; 5 selected highlights from this tour with films from Czech Republic, France, USA, and UK.




Plus illustrated talks, visiting film-makers, and Q & A’s (+ sponsors etc to fill in)


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The 17th Chichester Film Festival Audience Award for Best Film from the preview and premiere films of which there were 42, went to 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. This was the World Premiere, surprisingly. Number two was 'Trip to Asia' and number three was 'Conversations with my Gardener' with Daniel Auteuil. 'Empties', a delicious Czech film, came fifth, the German film, 'The Wave', coming ninth. 'Hats Off' and 'Jar City' also made an audience impact, both coming high up in the list.

Interestingly, no less than four documentaries made it into the top ten including 'Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic', Mick Csaky’s film 'Amr Khaled: The Anti-Bin Laden' and 'Garbage Warrior'.

The panel discussion featuring GF Newman, Stephen Poliakoff and Kenith Trodd was one remarkable highlight as was Corin Redgrave, who, despite his past illness which has affected his memory, introduced his father’s film, 'The Stars Look Down' (dir. Carol Reed) with charming intensity. He has promised to bring his one man show, Oscar Wilde’s 'De Profondis', currently at the National, to the cinema so we’re on the road to becoming impresarios too!

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOU SUPPORT !!!!!!

CLICK HERE FOR FULL AUDIENCE AWARD RESULTS