Leeds Film Festival – Nov 2025

The 39th Leeds International Film Festival will take place 30 October — 16 Novmeber 2025.

Established in 1987, Leeds International Film Festival is one of the largest annual film events in the UK and the longest, running for 18 days every November in venues across Leeds and West Yorkshire. Presenting over 250 features and shorts every year, with annual submissions of over 5000 from more than 120 countries, LIFF principally showcases and supports films from new and diverse filmmaking talent and which may not receive profile in the UK otherwise.

The LIFF programme is featured across five main sections: Official Selection for new narrative features; Cinema Versa for documentaries; Fanomenon for fantastic genre films; LIFF SHORTS; and LIFF Spotlights. LIFF has two competitions for features – in Official Selection and Fanomenon – and seven in LIFF SHORTS: Louis le Prince International Short Film Competition; World Animation Competition; British and Yorkshire Short Film Competitions; Leeds Queer Short Film Competition; Leeds Screendance Competition; Leeds Music Video Competition.

Mill Hill Chapel Leeds is one of the venues, to find out what is being shown there visit:-

https://www.leedsfilm.com/whats-on?start=&end=&locations%5B%5D=12#anchorFilters