Dates confirmed for 2013

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This year will be the FIFTH Sherborne International Film Festival and we are already well on the way towards selecting 10 glorious films for your pleasure.

Dates have been confirmed as Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th October at the Powell Theatre. Put them in your diary now! More later…

The results 2012

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Attendance ranking

  1. A Royal Affair
  2. Headhunters
  3. Trishna
  4. The Big Picture
  5. Habemus Papam
  6. Where do we go now?
  7. The Kid with a Bike
  8. In a Better World
  9. In Darkness
  10. Carancho

Most popular (highly rated)

  1. In a Better World
  2. Headhunters
  3. The Kid with a Bike
  4. The Big Picture
  5. In Darkness
  6. Where do we go now?
  7. A Royal Affair
  8. Carancho
  9. Trishna
  10. Habemus Papam

Quite surprising really in that it shows that some films did not live up to expectations i.e. high attendance but relatively low ranking e.g. Trishna and even A Royal Affair.

Habemus Papam was the film with the most varied rating or divided opinion. The films with the most consistent ratings – and the highest number of 5s – were In A Better World and Headhunters. In Darkness and The Kid with a Bike also scored consistently well.

 

Your comments on 2012 Festival

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Many thanks to those who completed the feedback form as it does help us address any issues that come to light and it is always important to know if you are enjoying things the way they are or not! Here are some of your comments(and my observations if appropriate):

The Mayor, Margaret Balfour and Rotary President, Nick Wigham, at the official opening

  • Warm friendly reception. Good introduction before performances.
  • Excellent reception session. Good choice and very varied.
  • Excellent opportunity to see films not otherwise available in the area.
  • Keep up the good work. What about a retrospective?
  • Lovely evening but seats a bit hard.
  • Keep it up! Terrific for the town and an opportunity to catch those good foreign films.
  • Fabulous to have an introduction to the film prior to screening.
  • As always very well organised with a great variety of films.
  • I get a numb bum on these seats – suggest a warning! But so many thanks for such variety. (Good idea; we should suggest bringing cushions, as people often do in the Abbey.)
  • Lovely theatre – would love to come again.
  • Great idea!
  • Fantastic choice of films.
  • Excellent films. Very poor seating. Intervals should be longer (to recover from seating). Some films too long.
  • We missed the ice-creams from last year. Very nice ploughman’s and good value. (We dropped the ice-creams this year as we don’t sell many: for re-consideration next year.)
  • Could the sub-titles be shown at the top of the screen? Really appreciated the well presented introduction to each film.
  • Please start the films at standardised times. (Not possible due to the differing length of films; also need to take into account the finishing time of the last film, so usually work back from there.)
  • Too near in time to the Literary Festival. (This is the 4th year of the Film Festival – and the first for the Literary Festival. We have no option other than half-term as the Powell Theatre is only available to us at this time.)

All films now confirmed

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It has taken a while but all of our films have now been confirmed, even the one that was only supposed to be issued in January! You can see details under the FILMS tab.

We have a couple of innovations for 2012. First, we shall be screening a children’s film for the first time. Mind you, if you haven’t seen the animated film RIO you might want to come along as well. The plan is to show the film on the Saturday morning and it will be FREE for all children under 12. However, children must be accompanied by a paying adult who is responsible for the children in question (up to four per adult). So if you love macaws, if you like colour, music and fun, then make sure you don’t miss this fantastic film.

The second change this year will be the fact that our printed programmes are going to be put on sale at £1-00 each. There will be a free information handout but if you would like to read detailed background information – and help to support our charities – then the official programme is for you. A tough decision but costs are going up and we have held the cost of the films for the fourth year so hopefully this small charge will help recoup some of the printing costs, thus maximising the surplus available for charity.

Timings will be put up later and tickets won’t be on sale until late September but check out the films and start agonising over which ones to see: there’s a great choice!

Welcome to Sherborne’s FOURTH International Film Festival!

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It’s early August and the films for this year’s festival have been selected. Now it’s a question of getting them booked and so far we have seven out of ten confirmed. Hopefully you will find the line-up for this year as varied as usual with light-hearted comedies, more serious dramas and the inevitable gripping thriller.

Details of each confirmed film will be uploaded over the next few days, starting with the opening night film, IN A BETTER WORLD, by the Danish producer, Susanne Bier, whose film ‘After the Wedding’ was screened last year. This film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.

Keep checking the website for updates!