Yorkshire Silent Film Festival – Sunday

Yorkshire Silent Film Festival returns to Yellow Arch for their Sheffield weekender, in the White Room!

On The Bill:

THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED

Sunday 23rd October

11:00-12:10

The Sheffield Weekend continues with Lotte Reiniger’s beautiful silhouette animation; the perfect introduction to silent film for children, and an enchanting experience for all ages.

QUEENS OF DESTRUCTION; CINEMA’S FIRST NASTY WOMEN

Sunday 23rd October

12:30-13:50

Eighty minutes of mischief, anarchy, and destruction. These women are trouble.

FINDING LOST FILMS: ADAM BEDE

Sunday 23rd October

14:30-15:30

The first public screening of a recently rediscovered 1918 film of George Eliot’s Adam Bede.

THE BRIDE OF GLOMDAL

Sunday 23rd October

15:45-17:00

A palate cleanser for Sunday afternoon; melancholic Norwegian landscapes combine with nuanced human drama in Carl Dreyer’s beguiling film. Accompanied by one of the world’s finest silent film pianists; John Sweeney.

A WOMAN PASSED BY (UNE FEMME A PASSÉ)

Sunday 23rd October

17:30-18:30

French silent cinema is a favourite at YSFF and this is a gem; a delicately meandering, immersive tale of love and longing taking place on a barge as it glides slowly through the countryside.

BUSTER KEATON IN “OUR HOSPITALITY”

Sunday 23rd October

19:30-21:00

Buster Keaton’s 1923 comedy about feuding families in the American Civil War.

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Tickets are available through the YSSF website

Individual showings and weekend tickets available