Derby Film Festival 2024

After resting in 2023 Derby Film Festival returns in November 2024.

Derby Film Festival is one of the leading regional film festivals in the UK. Bringing together film fans, filmmakers and industry figures, Derby Film Festival is four days long and will run from 7 to 10 November 2024.

Screening schedule:

Thursday 7 November

7:30pm: Conclave (12A) – Preview screening

Friday 8 November

5:00pm: Shorts Programme 1 (Adv. 15)
7:00pm: Kes (PG) + David Bradley Q+A

Saturday 9 November

11:00am: Satu – Year Of The Rabbit (Adv. 12A)
1:00pm: A Place For Everyone: A Virtual Climate Reality (18)
1:00pm: A Place For Everyone: A Virtual Climate Reality – Adaptive VR Version (18)
1:30pm: Your Monster (15) – Preview Screening
4:00pm: Dead Man’s Shoes (18) – 20th Anniversary Screening with Q+A
4:05pm: The Contestant (Cert. TBC) – Preview Screening
6:00pm: Mermaid Legend (18)
7:00pm: Dead Man’s Shoes (18) – 20th Anniversary Screening with Q+A
9:45pm: One Night Rental (Adv. 18)

Sunday 10 November

11:00am: Masked Conspiracy (Adv. 15)
12:15pm: Amongst The Wolves (Adv. 15)
2:45pm: Rumours (15) – Preview Screening
5:15pm: Shorts Programme 2 (Adv. 15)
7:15pm Scarlet Blue (Adv. 18)

Tickets for the majority of screenings are priced at £7.50 (standard) & £6:00 (concessions). Preview screenings are priced at QUAD’s regular cinema ticket prices. Q+A screenings are individually priced.

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What's On

What's On

Derby Film Festival Preview: Conclave

12A

A thriller set around one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – the selection of a new Pope.

07th Nov 2024

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Derby Film Festival Shorts Programme One

15

Part one of the very best of the many short films submitted from around the world for inclusion in this year’s ...

08th Nov 2024

Derby Film Festival Shorts Programme One

15

Part one of the very best of the many short films submitted from around the world for inclusion in this year’s ...

08th Nov 2024

Derby Film Festival Preview: Rumours

15

The seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies meet at a summit and end up lost in the woods.

10th Nov 2024

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Event Cinema

Dead Man’s Shoes – 20th Anniversary Screenings With Special Guests

18

Celebrating one of East Midlands cinema’s most enduring cult films.

09th Nov 2024

Dead Man’s Shoes – 20th Anniversary Screenings With Special Guests

18

Celebrating one of East Midlands cinema’s most enduring cult films.

09th Nov 2024

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Event Cinema

Kes + David Bradley Q+A

PG

David Bradley joins us to discuss a British film classic.

08th Nov 2024

Derby Film Festival Preview: Your Monster

15

An actress encounters a terrifying, yet weirdly charming, monster living in her closet.

09th Nov 2024

Derby Film Festival Preview: The Contestant

12A

The true story of a man who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room,  completely unaware that his life was be...

09th Nov 2024

Mermaid Legend

18

When a fisherman is killed by greedy developers for blocking expansion plans, his wife seeks violent payback.

09th Nov 2024

Satu – Year Of The Rabbit

12A

Teenager Bo flees the capital of Laos in pursuit of a life in photojournalism and encounters Satu, a Buddhist orphan.

09th Nov 2024

One Night Rental

18

In a small Derbyshire, a VHS tape leads two video shop owners into some very dangerous territory,

09th Nov 2024

Masked Conspiracy

15

A conspiracy theorist captures what he believes to be an alien on camera.

10th Nov 2024

A Place For Everyone: A Virtual Climate Reality – Adaptive VR Version

18

Join us for a unique VR experience, which reacts to your brain patterns.

09th Nov 2024

A Place For Everyone: A Virtual Climate Reality

18

Join us for a unique VR experience.

09th Nov 2024

Amongst The Wolves

15

An ex-soldier homeless in Dublin, meets Will, a teen fleeing a drug gang.

10th Nov 2024

Derby Film Festival Shorts Programme Two

15

Part two of the very best of the many short films submitted from around the world for inclusion in this year’s ...

10th Nov 2024

Scarlet Blue

18

A woman undergoes hypnosis therapy which sends her into her past, in search of the devastating moment that changed ev...

10th Nov 2024

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