Closing the curtain on Sheffield Film Festival

How do we wrap up the last weekend of the first Sheffield Film Festival? The same as any good band, play the hits and leave you asking for more. And this is quite the encore. There are a whopping twelve films out at Showroom Cinema on the last weekend of August.

Let's start with the new ones. Great stories coming from all corners of the map. Black Dog is a beautifully shot story of one man and his dog, who he saves from the local dog patrol team, clearing strays before the Beijing Olympics. Touch is a thrilling, time-jumping romance, following one man's emotional journey from Iceland to Japan to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago.

Widow Clicquot is based on the true story of the “Grande Dame of Champagne”, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, who stirred the fledgling wine company to international champagne success after her husband's untimely death. Sing Sing is the prison drama courting early awards buzz with its inspiring story of incarcerated men finding freedom through stage acting. All four start at Showroom on 30 August.

Two ice-cold classics also return to the big screen that weekend. The Italian Job (1969) stars an untouchable Michael Caine as charming gangster Charlie Crocker, planning a big bank score during a Turin football match. While The Terminator (1984) sees Sarah Conner chased down by an unkillable machine, sent from the far future.

Rounding off our Béla Tarr season, catch 2007’s The Man from London in stunning 35mm. Tilda Swinton joins the cast of this mystery crime thriller about a man who finds a briefcase full of money.

We tie up Sheffield Film Festival with events for everyone. From a £5 family-friendly screening of the anime take on northern children's story Mary and the Witch's Flower to the noughties nostalgia of Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. QTIBPOC Cinema hosts food and films celebrating queer voices from the global majority in Voices Unbound.

Yorkshire comedian Lucy Beaumont presents 1976’s Nuts in May and 1977’s Abigail’s Party in a special live event My Favourite Films with... Lucy Beaumont. We end with Ken Loach and Barry Hines’ Look and Smiles. Filmed and set in Sheffield, the feature is a perfect time capsule for the city in the 1980s.

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