It's the city's annual celebration of cinema - and it starts tonight (Friday November 14).
The 18th instalment of Southampton Film Week gets underway with the launch at Mayflower Studios featuring a programme of exciting, expanded and experimental cinema.
It continues on Sunday at the same venue with a red carpet event the very best in international, regional and local filmmaking. SFW: Shorts Screening and Awards is your chance to see all films shortlisted in this year’s competition and to find out who the judges have chosen to win in each category including Best Fiction, Best Documentary, Best Music Video and Best Artist Film.
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You will also see nominations for the best Regional Filmmaker and Best Animation, and can take part in the Audience vote to choose your favourite on the night. The overall winner, chosen from all categories will be presented with The Michael Fuller Award for Best Film.
Other highlights from the event include a Southampton Film Week tradition. The lively, and fiercely competitive, Film Week Quiz takes place at Mettricks Guildhall on Saturday November 22. Bring your team and put your film knowledge to the test!
Māori tribal leader Ned Tapa takes a group of friends and family on a canoe trip down the Whanganui River in Aotearoa, New Zealand, the first river in the world recognised as a legal person in I Am The River, The River Is Me, being shown at St Denys Church on Monday (November 17), followed by a Q and A and panel discussion. Actor Jim Murray MBE, a passionate advocate for Hampshire's chalk rivers, will be among the speakers.
Southampton Film Week ends with an awe-inspiring silent film and live music experience on Wednesday November 26.
Step into the shadows of the O2 Guildhall for The Phantom of the Opera (1925) — the legendary silent horror masterpiece that defined cinematic terror. It will be screened with live musical accompaniment on the city's famous Compton Organ by Donald Mackenzie.
Southampton Film Week was launched in 2008 as part of an initiative by community filmmaking charity City Eye to foster a greater appreciation of film and moving image within Southampton and the wider area.
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