Birmingham, 1901. Electric trams are making their debut on the Bristol Road, councillors are plotting to bring water all the way from Wales, and at the Curzon Hall in Suffolk Street a showman named Waller Jeffs has just begun his first...

It’s Friday night. To mark this momentous occasion, Floodgate Kino will be opening its doors for an evening of performance, film and music to shake your very foundations. We welcome two very special guests:

PAPER CINEMA & KORA...

A very special double-bill to launch our family programme. Firstly there’s a performance by The Paper Cinema, who use cut-out drawings to make a film before your very eyes. The story is called Night Flyer, about a boy on a bike, with live music provided by Kora.

Then we go from bikes to balloons, and a film made in Paris fifty years ago...

Justice like to whip their audiences into a frenzy, pummelling them with flashing lights and apocalyptic basslines until they’re pretty much ready to do anything. This candid tour-film shot on the road in North America last summer...

We’re very happy that filmmaker Guy Sherwin is here to introduce a selection of his work. Sherwin studied painting and then went on to teach printing and processing at London Film-Maker’s Co-op (now LUX), where he began an...

The end! Watch the weekend gently slide away in the company of live guests July Skies and an unofficial 'best of the fest'. Presented in association with Colour...