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NFF 2025: Comedy, coffee and cake (12A)
2025-03-09 11:30 (Europe/London) | Delepre Abbey, London Rd, Northampton, Northants, NN4 8AW, United Kingdom
Films to make you smile! What better for a Sunday morning than just over an hour of joy and jokes. Oh, and of course drains.
Animation, drama and documentary.
Doors 11.30am, films 12pm. Please arrive in good time before 12pm if youâ€™re getting a coffee. There will also be a chance to discuss the films after the screening. The cafe will also be open throughout.
There will be a selection of cakes to choose from and instead of coffee you can have a tea or juice box if you prefer.
This film has a 12A certificate

NFF 2025: 'The House That Stood' feature film with filmmakers Q&A plus shorts 'Black Vultures Over Britain' + 'A Day in February' (15)
2025-03-09 14:00 | Delepre Abbey, London Rd, Northampton, Northants, NN4 8AW, United Kingdom
Doors open 2pm with the films starting promptly at 2.20pm. Your ticket comes with a glass of wine, a bottle of beer or soft drink. The Orangery cafe will also be open for additional refreshments.
Local Director Antonella Spirito and Producer Barnaby Spikings of â€˜The House That Stoodâ€™ will be with us for a Q&A after the screening so have your questions ready!

NFF 2025: 'Gama Bomb' documentary feature with shorts 'Decksdark' & 'National Treasures' (15)
2025-03-09 17:00 | Delepre Abbey, London Rd, Northampton, Northants, NN4 8AW, United Kingdom
Doors open 5pm with the films starting promptly at 5.20pm. Your ticket comes with a glass of wine, a bottle of beer or soft drink.
Contains strong swearing.

NFF 2025: Film Networking in association with the University of Northampton
2025-03-10 17:00 - 20:00 | University of Northampton, Waterside Campus, University Dr, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5PH, United Kingdom
Creative Hub, University of Northampton
Waterside Campus, University Drive, Northampton NN1 5PH
March 10, 2025, 5:00 â€“ 8:00 PM GMT

NFF 2025: A selection of University of Northampton shorts (18)
2025-03-10 18:00 | University of Northampton, Waterside Campus, University Dr, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5PH, United Kingdom
Creative Hub, University of Northampton
Waterside Campus, University Drive, Northampton NN1 5PH
March 10, 2025, 6:00 â€“ 6:30 PM GMT

NFF 2025: A selection of our Misfit and Maverick shorts (18)
2025-03-10 18:30 | University of Northampton, Waterside Campus, University Dr, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5PH, United Kingdom
Films that donâ€™t fit the narrative fiction or documentary mold. Lots of Northamptonshire connections too!

NFF 2025: Shortlisted narrative fiction short films (18)
2025-03-10 19:00 | University of Northampton, Waterside Campus, University Dr, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5PH, United Kingdom
Creative Hub, University of Northampton
Waterside Campus, University Drive, Northampton NN1 5PH
March 10, 2025, 7:00 â€“ 7:30 PM GMT

NFF 2025 short films: will it ever be easy? (18)
2025-03-11 20:15 | The Filmhouse, Derngate, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1TU, United Kingdom
Fitting in. Feeling like a misfit. Going along with the crowd. Forging your own path. Understanding who you are. Will it ever be easy? The answer is probably â€˜noâ€™ if this selection of drama and comedy is anything to go by.

NFF 2025: 'She Walks A Line' documentary feature with Director Q&A (15)
2025-03-12 17:30 | The Filmhouse, Derngate, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1TU, United Kingdom
Weâ€™ll be joined by the Director Tim Lovell afterwards for a Q&A so have your questions ready!

She Walks A Line
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She Walks a Line is a gripping documentary that reveals the harrowing journey of thousands of young Nepali women and girls who are coerced across the border into India each year.
Once across the notoriously porous 1,000-mile frontier, most are sold into the sex industry, forced into domestic servitude or subjected to organ and skin harvesting. This border has become one of the worldâ€™s most prolific human trafficking routes.
Amidst international indifference, one Nepali woman, Shanta Sapkota, has taken a courageous stand to combat this humanitarian crisis. Driven by heartbreak and a fierce determination, she leads a team of female anti-human trafficking operatives at the Mahendranagar crossing, a critical checkpoint where the fate of many young lives hangs in the balance.
This exclusively nonwhite, female-led documentary takes the audience deep into the heart of this mission. Through the eyes of rescuers, victims, and traffickers, we witness the raw emotions, heart-wrenching struggles, and moments of triumph that define this battle against human trafficking.
At its core, She Walks a Line is a story of empowerment—of women fighting for justice, of traffickers manipulating the vulnerable, and of a divine calling that has inspired one woman to stand her ground in the face of adversity. This film not only tells a story; it ignites a movement.
Director Biography - TIMOTHY STUART LOVELL
Timothy Lovell is a highly accomplished professional in the film and television industry, with a career spanning over three decades. A multi-award-winning editor, he has contributed his expertise to critically acclaimed international feature documentaries, including Mugabe and the White African, Hawking, and Outbreak. In recent years, Timothy has expanded his skill set to encompass self-shooting and directing, further enriching his ability to craft compelling narratives.
Passionate about ethical filmmaking, Timothy Lovell is committed to creating and amplifying stories that highlight underrepresented voices. His recent projects include the critically acclaimed anti-human trafficking documentary You Are Beautiful and the award-winning Operation Goldilocks.
Through his work, Timothy continues to champion impactful storytelling, using film as a powerful medium to address vital social issues and inspire change.
Accolades / Credits include:
Awarded Membership
The Guild of British Film and Television Editors, GBFE
Winner of the following International Awards:
BAFTA, EMMY, GRIERSON, SCRIPPS HOWARD, ONE WORLD MEDIA
Nominated for the Royal Television Society Award
Outbreak: The truth about Ebola
BBC Television / PBS Television
Winner of the Royal Television Society Award
Nominated for BAFTA
The Hunt Natural History Documentary Series
BBC Television & international broadcast
Winner of the Royal Television Society Award
Best Natural History Film of 2014
Africa’s Giant Killers
BBC Television and international broadcast
OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS
SXSW, EDINBURGH AND CAMBRIDGE
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA RELEASE & international broadcast
HAWKING Feature documentary
Winner of the following International Awards:
BIFA, SILVERDOCKS, AMNESTY, HAMPTONS, GRIERSON
Shortlisted for ACADEMY AWARDS (Oscar),
Nominated for BAFTA
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA RELEASE & international broadcast
Mugabe & the White African Feature documentary
Director Statement
To gather the footage for this film, I was required to embed myself with the Peace Rehabilitation Center (PRC) border operatives in Southwest Nepal. My ambition was to document their courageous fight against prolific human trafficking endeavors along that notoriously porous border. I wanted to unpack on camera the complexities of human trafficking, the lies, mysteries, triumphs, and heartache the team faces every day.
PRCâ€™s team in Nepal has enough challenges without all the inconvenience of a filmmaker documenting their every move. However, they accommodated my needs with grace and patience. In bringing this story to the screen, I firmly believe they withheld nothing from me about their mode of operation. This transparency is to be applauded.
During the process of filming, I was greatly impacted by the very real risks these female operatives take every single day to find and recover children being cruelly sold for sex. They exhibit a profound compassion for these children and an unquenchable passion to do everything in their power to intercept them before they are lost over the border.
I would like to thank the Peace Rehabilitation Center (PRC) team in Nepal for allowing me to film with them and produce this intimate insight into their exhausting, dangerous, and hugely inspiring work.

NFF 2025: 'All This Time' feature film with filmmaker Q&A (15)
2025-03-13 17:30 | The Filmhouse, Derngate, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1TU, United Kingdom
Trapped with a mysterious vampire in an endless time loop, Grace must unlock the secrets of the house, the previous night’s party, and her own past, to find any hope of escaping and returning to her normal life and young child.
Winner â€“ Best Director Feature Film â€“ HorrOrigins Film Festival
Winner â€“ Best Production Design Feature Film â€“ HorrOrigins Film Festival
Winner â€“ Dead Northern Award â€“ Dead Northern Film Festival
Director Biography - Rob Worsey
Rob Worsey is a Director born and bred in the North of England. Along side his day job as a camera operator for corporate and commercial work, he spends time working in the Independent Film Scene, focusing on writing and directing.
His debut feature film Among the Living (2022) won the best feature film award at Crystal Palace International Film Festival, saw a brief theatrical opening in the US, and reached streaming internationally including Sky Store, Prime, and Tubi.
All This Time (2025) is Robâ€™s second feature film, and is built upon everything he and the team learnt on their first film. It is a larger budget, with more ambitious scope, and an engaging mind bending narrative.
Director Statement
I am incredibly excited about this film, as I believe weâ€™ve managed to create something new, exciting, and emotional. It is inspired by films such as The Others (2001), A Ghost Story (2017), Groundhog Day (1993), and Dracula (2020). It blends the time bending thriller elements together with a gothic atmosphere and emotional core into a twisting film that keeps the audience guessing throughout, and once revealed, makes them want to watch it all again to see what clues they missed. I love the type of films that have you clutching at clues and story strands, trying to piece the narrative together, and then completely pull the rug out form under you in the last act. This is what we have tried to make, and from early feedback, it feels like we might have pulled it off.

NFF 2025: 'Algorithm Party' spoken word feature doc (18)
2025-03-14 18:00 | The Creative Place, Northampton Market Square
This is a screening in The Creative Place, the smallest arts centre in the world. It is based on Northampton Market Square and only has 10 seats. Therefore we may run additional screenings of this film on this day.
We are a very small space so if you have a large wheelchair or require space for mobility aids etc. please get in touch before booking so we can ensure we can make your visit a pleasurable one! And if weâ€™re too full, we can run another screening to accommodate demand.

Algorithm Party

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Algorithm Party chronicles the spoken-word performances of Liverpoolâ€™s Roy.
Director Biography - Roy Boulter
Roy is an acclaimed feature film producer and TV scriptwriter. Alongside Sol Papadopoulos, he founded Liverpool based production company Hurricane Films in 2000. His credits as a producer include:
‘Of Time & The City’, directed by Terence Davies. Premiering at Cannes, prizes included New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Documentary, and the film featured in Time’s ten films of the year.
â€˜Sunset Song’ directed by Terence Davies. Shot in New Zealand, Scotland and Luxembourg, the film premiered at TIFF. Cast included Agyness Deyn and Peter Mullan.
‘A Quiet Passion’ directed by Terence Davies. Starring Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine, the film premiered at Berlinale. An “absolute, drop dead masterwork”( New Yorker Magazine).
‘A Prayer Before Dawn’ shot in Thailand â€“ directed by Jean Stephane Sauvaire, starring Joe Cole. Premiered at Cannes.
‘Sometimes Always Never’, written by Frank Cotterell Boyce, directed by Carl Hunter. Starring Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Jenny Agutter and Alice Lowe. Premiered at the London FF.
‘The Last Bus’, shot in Scotland, directed by Gillies McKinnon, starring Tim Spall was released in Summer 2022.
The company were named by Creative England and The Telegraph as one of the top ten most influential creative companies and ‘Future leaders’ – and also named as one of three non-London production companies to make the Screen Daily’s Brit 50.
Algorithm Party is Roy Boulterâ€™s directorial debut.
Director Statement
As an admirer of the spoken word performer â€˜Royâ€™ (PJ Smith), I’ve always felt that his visceral tales of extraordinary working class Liverpool life, were not just visual but cinematic. Despite the seemingly parochial, down-at-heel settings, there is an abstract beauty to it all, which put me in mind of the great Liverpool director Terence Davies’ early work – whom I worked with on three of his films, which I produced. Despite Terence and PJ being very different, they both depict the world with a bleak rawness while retaining an inherent humour.
Roy / PJ is a former substance abuser turned artist, campaigner, mentor and all-round force for good. He performs extensively and has been approached by leading television companies about adapting his work for TV dramas.
While deciding on how best to capture Roy’s performance of his debut publication “Algorithm Party’, I kept thinking about another performance piece, Spalding Grey’s classic â€˜Swimming to Cambodiaâ€™. Using that as a template, I found a way to depict Roy’s unique take on working class life – his compelling stories featuring vivid, authentic characters. The film is shot mostly on location in the iconic St Georges Hall concert room in Liverpool â€“ where Dickens and other notable writers performed, and where we shot scenes for Terence Davies’ multi-award-winning feature documentary â€˜Of Time And The Cityâ€™.
Algorithm Party is an authentic, forthright glimpse into working class life, straight to camera with a blunt honesty – while retaining its humour and compassion.
Roy Boulter, director. April 2024.

NFF 2025: 16yrs and Under films (PG then 12)
2025-03-15 12:00 | The Guildhall, St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DE, United Kingdom
We are showing a selection of films which are in competition for Best Film at NFF 2024. Plus weâ€™ll be premiering our litter hero films made with Castle Academy supported by West Northamptonshire Council.
Weâ€™ll start with U and PG certificates then have a short interval after which weâ€™ll screen the films with a 12 certificate meaning you can come to the first half whatever your age. Anyone under 12 will need to leave at the interval.
Filmmakers, we hope you will all join us for our awards ceremony starting at 3pm at The Guildhall on the same day to see if your film has won!

NFF 2025: Awards Ceremony Part 1 - hosted by NFF's Youth and Youth Disability Advisory Boards (PG)
2025-03-15 15:00 - 17:00 | The Guildhall, St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DE, United Kingdom
Learn more about Northampton Film Festival and meet filmmakers from Northampton and around the country. Weâ€™ll be announcing the awards for Best Film in the following categories: 16yrs and Under as well as announcing the winner from our Oska Bright Film Festival selection as chosen by our Youth Disability Advisory Board AND the winner of our new Youth Advisory Board award.
We will also be celebrating local litter heroes which NFF has been working with local young people from Castle Academy to chronicle through film.
Doors 3pm with awards starting at 3.30pm.
This is a relaxed event aimed at young people, families and those with sensory sensitives which will avoid loud music and flashing lights. There will be a quiet space available. A bar will be available.
All our venues are wheelchair accessible. However it is not possible to have step-free access to the stage in this venue so in the event that someone who is a wheelchair user or cannot climb the stairs wins a prize, we will come to you on the main hall floor.

NFF 2025: Awards Ceremony Part 2
2025-03-15 18:30 - 21:00 | The Guildhall, St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DE, United Kingdom
Learn more about Northampton Film Festival and meet filmmakers from Northampton and around the country. Weâ€™ll be announcing the awards for Best Film in the following categories: 17-23yrs New Filmmakers, Misfits and Mavericks, Narrative Fiction and Documentary.
Doors 6.30pm with awards starting at 7pm.
We would recommend this event for people who are 16yrs and above. There will be a bar available on the night.
All our venues are wheelchair accessible. However it is not possible to have step-free access to the stage in this venue so in the event that someone who is a wheelchair user or cannot climb the stairs wins a prize, we will come to you on the main hall floor.

Great Fire Community Spirit Season: Fires Were Started
2025-06-08 15:45 | Northampton Filmhouse
Screening Dates:
Sun 8 June 3:45pm

Director: Humphrey Jennings
Starring: Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton, Loris Rey, William Sansom
In Humphrey Jennings propagandist documentary about heroism, filmed with real fire fighters, we meet a new man that joins the civilian firefighters at a London unit during the Second World War. He bonds with his fellow firemen and firewomen and even manages to enjoy some leisure time with them, until he goes on his first mission with the crew as it attempts to save an explosives warehouse on Trinidad Street near the London docks.
89 on the BFI’s Top 100 British films

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Great Fire Community Spirit Season: Brassed Off
2025-06-22 15:00 | Northampton Filmhouse
Screening Dates:
Sun 22 June 3:00pm

Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald
In North Yorkshire, a local colliery band led by Danny (Pete Postlethwaite), prepare for the National Brass Band championships, at a time when the pit’s miners face redundancy. When the daughter of a former band leader named Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) arrives, her return to the band raises their spirits, alongside a blossoming relationship with one of the band’s younger members (Ewan McGregor).
With Gloria leading on the flugelhorn, this pivotal scene showcases the band performing Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Combining the yearning, pining quality of brass band music with the film’s dry humour, politics and human stories, Brassed Off reminds us that it’s the music that matters.
85 on the BFI’s Top 100 British films

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