Flatpack 2022

Flatpack 2022 was our first in-person festival since 2019 (due to the pandemic). We popped up all over Birmingham with everything from comedy, cocktails and chemistry to punk puppet shows and cinema walks. Here's everything that happened in just two minutes:

News

Flatpack 2022: Call for volunteers!

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to make Flatpack’s sixteenth festival (sweet sixteen!) a roaring success.

7 Mar 2022

Archive

Joe Lycett's Curiosities with Shaun Keaveny

Gorgeous comedian, TV personality, writer, artist, gardener, and lover, Joe Lycett has in recent years also been making some daft films.

May 17 at 7:30pm, 2022

Birmingham Town Hall

Short Film Competition: Vertigo

Full to the brim with striking style and smart concepts, this selection of films amuse, surprise and mesmerise.

May 18 at 6pm, 2022

The Mockingbird Cinema - Screen 1

Mid-Length Films: Territory

In the first of our mid-length programmes, we discover a mysterious island, follow a wolf through the forest, and cross bridges with people who (literally) meet each other halfway.

May 18 at 6pm, 2022

Flatpack Hub

Wonderland Cinema Walk

If you want a primer on our Wonderland project, this is a very good place to start.

May 18 at 6:30pm, 2022

Snow Hill Station

Overlap

Birmingham’s joyfully chaotic animation show and tell night returns to the Flatpack Hub - where it all began, back in May 2019.

May 18 at 7:30pm, 2022

Flatpack Hub

Bergman Island

Mia Hansen-Løve’s enchanting new film about love, cinema, and Ingmar Bergman sways gently between fantasy and realism.

May 18 at 8pm, 2022

The Electric Cinema Screen 2

Film Camp

We launched Film Camp back in 2017 - an annual one-day training event exploring some of the latest innovations in cinema exhibition.

May 19 at 11:30am, 2022

MAC

Mid-Length Films: Encounters +Q&A

This contemplative double-bill takes us on an emotional journey from Berlin to Birmingham, with chance encounters along the way.

May 19 at 5:45pm, 2022

Flatpack Hub

Short & Suite: Boxer Short Films, Live!

What do you do when it feels like the whole world’s out to get you? Birmingham’s (probably) newest animation night teams up with Flatpack to try and find the answer with another evening of off-kilter animated shorts from around the world.

May 19 at 6pm, 2022

Printmakers Arms

PechaKucha Birmingham: Wonderland Special

After a pandemic-shaped hiatus PechaKucha Birmingham returns to the city with another enjoyable and mind-bending lineup of guest talks.

May 19 at 7:30pm, 2022

Flatpack Hub

Short Film Competition: Legacies

What makes us who we are? And what traces do we leave behind?

May 19 at 8pm, 2022

The Mockingbird Cinema - Screen 1

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit with Luisa Omielan

Brummie comedian Luisa Omielan has an unwavering passion for Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (who doesn’t?!), and she’s bringing the film to this year’s Flatpack.

May 19 at 8pm, 2022

The Electric Cinema Screen 1