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Until the line-up for 2010 is announced, we are keeping 2009's A to Z in place, so that visitors to the site can find out more about the films screened in our previous festival.

 

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BACK TO THE FUCHSIA

In the garden of love, he’s sowing seeds of doubt, laced with jealousy. But she has ripe manure to feed his trust and hopefully help their relationship flower. Based on a poem by the Bard of Salford, John Cooper Clarke. Showing as part of CAUGHT SHORT ONE: LAUGH THIS OFF!

 

BUMP

A woman realises she is pregnant when she hears the sound of construction coming from her stomach… Showing as part of CAUGHT SHORT ONE: LAUGH THIS OFF!

 

BROKEN BRITAIN

Lewis, Sick Boy, Tommo and Terry are on a night out. They are returning soldiers, drinking to a fallen friend. But the sign outside the club says “No Soldiers”, and the bouncers are openly aggressive. Frustrations mount, passions run high, and as things move towards an inevitable showdown, the question is who will crack first? Showing as part of CAUGHT SHORT TWO: SHOTS FROM THE NORTH WEST UNDERGROUND

 

BOY

A lonely man struggles with unwanted, forbidden desires… Showing as part of CAUGHT SHORT THREE: FAULTY CONNECTIONS

 

BRYAN'S BLOOD BORNE

 

STARRING…THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD

Born in 2003 the Salford Film Festival paid special attention to the huge variety that Salford communities are famous for, and in encouraging their involvement in film-making both on screen and behind the camera, paved the way for five more seriously succ

STEVE BALSHAW INTERVIEW

My primary role is to select, source and secure the films, and to build these into a programme of screenings and related events that will hopefully attract an audience - so I deal with filmmakers and producers, and often with the various screening venues,

INNOVATE, DON’T IMITATE!

Manchester prides itself on being “The City of Innovation”. Benjamin Disraeli famously stated that “What Manchester does today, the rest of the world will do tomorrow

THE ORSON WELLES OF SALFORD

He was Salford's Welles and King of Manchester Exploitation movies. He was a pioneer of independent filmmaking in the region. And now there's a book. You should own it.

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

In our past is our future. Understand one, and you can better visualise the other. This selection of films from the North West Film Archive offers a glimpse of the world that was, here in Salford - some of it now lost forever, some of it simply altered be