The Ealing Film Festival (EFF) returns for its fifth year, 'bigger and better than ever'.

Organisers say that this year EFF received 458 films from all over the world with an impressive number from the UK and the London area.

Ealing Picturehouse 'Green Planet' - Monday, 25 November at 6:30pm. 

The festival expands to the new Ealing Picturehouse this year, showcasing a Green Planet category which offers a diverse selection of films exploring the natural world.

Green Planet Films:

• Shorebirds
• Nature Matters
• The Generators
• THATCH to the FUTURE!
• The Elements
• Out of Time
• A new world on Earth
• Living Australia
• Sandcastle - The Secret Life Of Potter Wasps  

The festival will also screen "Beavers in Paradise," which is a project that reintroduced beavers to Paradise Fields in Ealing, and the first of its kind in the UK.

This is followed by a panel discussion with:

• Dr. Sean McCormack: Conservationist, Veterinarian, and Presenter
• Matt Brierley: Filmmaker
• Nadya Mirotnitchenko: Project Ecologist

Tickets and more info here

ActOne 'Homegrown' - Tuesday, 26 November at 6:30pm.

The cinema has a special category for 'Homegrown' entries this year which will feature ilms either made by local people or filmed within the borough of Ealing.

From these, the best films in this category are to be screened at ActOne and at the end of the evening we will be awarding the trophy for the Best Homegrown Film.

In its second screening ActOne will be featuring another selection of new films, this time from across the UK, demonstrating the "imagination and the skills" of the countries filmmakers.

'Homegrown' Films:

• Level Par
• Would You Rather
• Attrition
• Make Me Murder
• Scraps
• The Other Guy
• Ride The Line
• Rocket Girl

UK Films:

• Hallowed
• Neutopia
• Belladonna
• Evenfall One
• The Friend
• Reminders
• We're Not Really Here

Tickets and more info here

ActOne 'UK Filmmakers' - Wednesday, 27 November at 6:30pm

UK Filmmakers:

• Whit's Fur You
• The Nun Slayer
• The Girl With A Cigarette Earring
• The Sin Eater
• Tipping Point
• Florescence
• Saviour of our Streets
• Last Orders
• The Black Dune

Tickets and more info here

Pitzhanger Manor 'Animation, VFX and Experimental' - Thursday, 28 November at 5:30pm

Several of the films submitted to EFF this year have included AI content so EFF is bringing together some of its festival judges - all industry professionals - for a panel discussion about what AI means for the future of film and cinema.

A.I Films:

• Tiff
• The Dance of Being
• Colors
• Hot Mess
• A City is also a Wounded Body
• The Holiday Maker
• The Last Run
• In Depth
• Me & You
• Stressy Squishy
• Crave
• The Flow of Shadows
• Le Charade
• Screening of The Future Can Be Yours & Panel Discussion with EFF 2024 Judge Simon Winstanley & Susan Stein

Tickets and more info here

Ealing Picturehouse 'Student' - Friday, 29 November at 6:30pm

The final day of the EFF and student category brings the best entries from students across not just Ealing but London. Films will be screened at Ealing Picturehouse.

Student Films:

• Threads of Life
• Time Between Us
• Soul Mates
• THE MAD AFTERS
• Brothers
• How Do I Say Goodbye
• Peace Process
• Under Heavy Lead
• Out Like a Lamb
• Last Fare

Tickets and more info here

Ealing Picturehouse 'Block 1' - Saturday, 30 November at 1pm.

Films include:

• Give Me Your Phone
• Art. Is. Remedy.
• Pasture & Storm
• Richard Long: Ultimate Speedwalker
• The Cloud
• Dream Car Wash
• Fighting Chance
• So Wrong
• Deserters

  Tickets and more info here

Ealing Picturehouse 'Block 2' - Saturday, 30 November at 3:30pm.

Films include:

• Chimera
• Hometime
• Alleged
• Diary of a Ghost
• Didn't It Rain
• I am Kanaka
• Vexting
• Firefly
• Florida Plates
• The Soldier on Smithdown Road
• The Golden Boy

  Tickets and more info here

Ealing Picturehouse 'Block 3 & Awards' - Saturday, 30 November at 6:30pm.

Following the screenings, the winners of the 2024 Ealing Film Festival Awards will be announced. 

Films include:

• Elixir
• Botching
• Skulk
• Message
• Night Intruders
• Tea Party
• A Farewell on Time
• Teardrops From A Clown
• One For The Road
• How to Build a Life
• Simon
• The Book Of Love
• Little Fire
• The Sea

  Tickets and more info here

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