1990's
The Festival launches;
Alec Guinness and Kathleen Turner visits;
Audience Awards introduced.
The Chichester International Film Festival has grown over 30 years to become one of the most ambitious Film Festivals in terms of programming in the country. With Retrospectives and Tributes to some of the leading figures of our wonderful art form, honoured Film Makers who have paid the Festival a visit, and of course the countless Premieres and Previews of films from around the globe, some lucky enough to have been garnered the Audience Award for Best Film, which was introduced in 1999.
There has always been a strong musical theme running through the years, and below we include the Live Music Events that have graced our Festival. The first Open Air screenings took place at Chichester Cathedral’s front lawn in 2008 (moving to Priory Park in 2010), and in 2009 the Festival introduced the ‘Surprise Film’, of which two have won the Audience Award.
We hope this archive will serve both to document the history of ‘our’ Film Festival, as well as to remind us of the wonderful moments the Festival has given us over the past years.
The Festival launches;
Alec Guinness and Kathleen Turner visits;
Audience Awards introduced.
1992
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Christine Edzard (As You Like It)
1993
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Michael Relph (Saraband for Dead Lovers)
The Gas Giants (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Richard Attenborough (7 Film Retrospective)
1994
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Michael Relph (Smallest Show on Earth)
Censorship Debate (Margaret Ford, Brian Baxter)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Mike Leigh (9 Films)
1995
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Neil Brand (Blackmail – Silent Version)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Ken Loach (9 Films)
Early British Hitchcock 1930-38 (8 Films)
1996
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Alec Guinness (Intro – Il Postino)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Stephen Frears (8 Films)
H.G. Wells Centenary (3 Films + Talk)
Musical Portraits (1st) Tony Palmer (7 Films)
Events with Live Music
Archive Eve with Neil Brand
Blackmail (Silent) with Andrew Youdell
The Last Laugh with Gas Giants
1997
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Kathleen Turner (War of the Roses)
Neil Brand (Archive Programme)
Julian Richards (Darklands)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
David Puttman (6 Films)
Foreign Oscar Winners 1988-96 (8 Films)
1998
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
John Schlesinger (Filmed Interview)
Simon Callow (Scarlet Tunic)
Simon Relph (Producer Land Girls)
Keith Baxter (Chimes at Midnight)
Tony Palmer (Parsifal – And Most Years Following)
Derek Malcolm (Censorship)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
John Schlesinger (9 Films + Interview)
Invitation to the Dance (4 Films)
Censorship Debate
1999
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Greta Scacchi (Red Violin, Tom’s Midnight Garden)
Ian Bannen (Waking Ted)
John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)
Phil Davies (Hold Back the Night – Director)
Andrew Eaton (Wonderland – Producer)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Hitchcock & Charles Laughton Centenaries (+ 2 Talks)
Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare on Film (4 Films)
Michael Caine/Mike Hodges Retro (3 Films)
Musical Portraits (2nd) Tony Palmer (3 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Run Lola Run
Mike Leigh, Michael Winner & Ronald Harwood Visits;
Open Air Screenings begin at Chichester Cathedral;
First Surprise Film.
2000
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Mike Leigh (3 Films)
Mike Figgis (Miss Julie)
Jennifer & Gree Gossman (Tao of Steve – Co-Directors)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Catherine Deneuve (8 Films)
Luis Bunuel Centenary (7 Films + Talk)
New Chinese Cinema (5 Films + Talk)
Musical Encounters (8 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Billy Elliot
2001
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Terence Davies (House of Mirth & Retro)
Michael Winner (Chorus of Disapproval & 5 Films)
John Madden (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)
Jan Harlan & Tony Palmer (Kubrick Retro)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Terence Davis (7 Films + Interview)
Stanley Kubrick (9 Films + 2 Talks)
Michael Winner Day (5 Films + Interview)
1st Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on Tour (6 Films)
1st Late Night Extreme Cinema (7 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Amelie from Montmartre
2002
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Don Boyd (My Kingdom)
Nick Moran (Christie Malory’s Own Double Entry)
Alex Cox (Revenger’s Tragedy)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Akira Kurosawa (6 Films + Talk)
Claude Chabrol (8 Films +Talk)
Audience Award Winner
Mrs Caldicott’s Cabbage War
2003
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Bertrand Tavernier (8 Films + Talk)
Anthony Minghella Day (3 Films) & Ripley’s Talents (4 Films + Talk)
New Asian Cinema (12 Films + Talk)
Visconti Weekend (4 Films + Talk)
Audience Award Winner
Calendar Girls
2004
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Kerry Fox (Angel at My Table & Intimacy)
Hamish McAlpine (Censorship / Tartan Films)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Daniel Auteuil (12 Films + Talk)
Alan Bennett (9 Films + Talk)
1st Focus on the Documentary (7 Films)
Meet the Censor Debate (3 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Best of Youth
2005
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
David McKenzie (Asylum)
David Warner (Suitable Case for Treatment)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Maggie Smith (11 Films +Talk)
Andrei Tarkovsky (7 Films +Talk)
New African Cinema (7 Films)
South Bank Show Celebrates British Cinema 4progs
Audience Award Winner
March of the Penguins
2006
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
West Wittering Affair (Cast and Crew)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Judi Dench (12 Films + Talk)
Eric Rohmer (6 Films + Talk)
Harold Pinter (7 Films + Talk)
Carol Reed Centenary (2 Films + Talk)
Audience Award Winner
Kekexili Mountain Patrol
2007
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Ronald Harwood (The Dresser & Retro)
Billy Eltringham (Mrs Radcliffe’s Revolution – Writer)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Isabelle Huppert (10 Films + Talk)
Ronald Harwood (6 Films + Interview)
Branagh & Olivier’s Shakespeare (9 Films + Talk)
Ken Russell on TV (5 Films + Talk)
Audience Award Winner
Day Watch
2008
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Mark Harman (Boy in the Striped Pyjama’s)
Ken Trodd, Pat O’Connor (Month in the Country)
Stephen Poliakoff – Writer, Peter Duffel – Director (Caught on a Train)
Corin Redgrave (Stars Look Down)
Julian Richards (Summer Scars)
Matt Lidsey (Caught In the Act)
Meneka Das (Little Box Of Sweets)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Ken Trodd (18 Films + Panel Discussion)
Michael Redgrave (7 Films + Talk)
Vanessa Redgrave (7 Films + Talk)
David Lean Early Films 1942-55 (7 + Talk)
1st Open Air Screening: High Society
Audience Award Winner
Conversations with my Gardener
2009
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
David Hare (Licking Hitler & Retro)
Ken Russell (Gothic & Miranda Richardson Tribute)
Bernard Rose (Kreutzer Sonata)
Kurt Unger & Billy King (She Who Would Be Pope)
Jan Dunn (The Calling)
Peter Duffel (England Made Me)
Derek Malcolm (Discussion)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
David Hare (10 Films & Q&A)
Meryl Streep (12 Films + Talk)
Jacques Tati (7 Films)
Natasha Richardson Tribute (5 Films + Ken Russell)
Outside In On Film with Pallant House Gallery (5 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Séraphine
Surprise Film
Julie and Julia
Open Air Screening
Oklahoma (Chi. Cathedral)
Virginia McKenna, Derek Jacobi, Daniel Brühl, Carl Davis, John Lithgow, Steve Coogan & Ralph Fiennes visits;
First Drive-In screening;
Audience Awards expanded;
First Gothic film with live musical accompaniment at St John's Chapel;
New Venues.
2010
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Billy King (Made in Dagenham – Writer)
Nick Moran (The Kid & Telstar)
Gordon Roddick (In the Land of the Free & BrightWide)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Joseph Strick Tribute 1923-2010 (4 Films)
Colin Firth Retro (10 Films + Talk)
Akira Kurosawa Centenary 1910-98 (5 Films +Talk)
Viva Mexico & Surrealist Cinema (9 Films + Talk)
BrightWide Docs / Gordon Roddick (4 Films)
Filming East Festival (Chinese) (5 Films + Talk)
Audience Award Winner
The Secret in Their Eyes
Surprise Film
Certified Certificate
Open Air Screening
My Fair Lady (Chi. Cathedral)
2011
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Michael Winner (One Man Show)
Brock Van Den Bogarde & John Coldstream (Dirk Bogarde Tribute)
Robert Marshall (The Avengers)
David Hare (The Browning Version-Intro)
Laura Mulvey (Frida and Tina)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Terence Rattigan Tribute 1911-77 (14 Films + Talk)
Claude Chabrol Tribute1930-2010 (8 Films)
Frida & Diego/Pallant House Gallery (7 Films)
Mahler & Film Centenary 1860-1911 (7 Films + Talk)
Dirk Bogarde Tribute (4 Films + Talk)
Ian McKellen in Chichester (4 Films)
Peter Postlethwaite Tribute 1946-2011 (5 Films + Talk)
Audience Award Winner
The Help
Surprise Film
Jane Eyre
Open Air Screenings
Carmen (ROH)
West Side Story
2012
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Derek Jacobi (Love is the Devil & Retro)
Sarah Miles (Term of Trial)
Lisl Russell (Tribute to Ken Russell)
Virginia McKenna (Lewis Gilbert – Retro)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Lawrence Olivier & Chichester Theatre (+ Talk)
Sarah Miles & Olivier (4 Films)
Derek Jacobi in Chichester (6 Films)
Theo Angelopoulos Tribute (6 Films + Talk)
Ken Russell Tribute by Lissie Russell (3 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Untouchable (Surprise Film)
Surprise Film
Untouchable
Open Air Screenings
Brave
Guys and Dolls
2013
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Kevin Brownlow (It Happened Here)
Marcus Markov (Papadopoulos and Sons)
Tony Britten (In Love with Alma Cogan)
Tristan Lorraine (Shady Lady)
Robert Mullen (Letters to Sofia and Gitel)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Kristin Scott Thomas (8 Films + Talk and Discussion)
Charlotte Rampling (9 Films + Talk)
Francois Ozon (8 Films + Talk)
6 Wine Films to Savour
Live Jazz & Film: Bobby Wellins
Chichester Festival Connections (4 Films +Talk)
Audience Award Winner
Any Day Now
Surprise Film
Blue Jasmine
Open Air Screenings
Planes
The Great Escape
2014
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Andrew Eaton (Michael Winterbottom-Retro)
Daniel Brühl (Rush)
Hannes Schule (Lauda)
Asli Bayram (Shanghai Gypsy)
Tony Palmer (Dvorak in Love)
Michael Cowan (Night Train to Lisbon & Lauda)
Andrew Sinclair (Under Milkwood)
Alistair Audsley & David Armstrong (Watchmaker’s Apprentice)
David Shiel – Director (David Jones)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Michael Winterbottom/Andrew Eaton (9 Films + Talk)
Dylan Thomas Centenary (3 Films)
East Meets West (20 Films)
Live Jazz & Film: Stan Tracey / Bobby Wellins
Audience Award Winner
Pride (Surprise Film)
Halima’s Path (East Meets West Audience Award)
Surprise Film
Pride
Open Air Screenings
Oh What a Lovely War (Postponed due to Rain)
Some Like It Hot
2015
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Ralph Fiennes, Natalia Ivanova & Vera Glagoleva (Two Women)
Carl Davis (On Chaplin)
John Lithgow (Love Is Strange)
Martha Fiennes (Onegin)
Sylvia Collier (Tasting My Future)
Robert Mullen (We Will Sing)
John Woolf (Park Lane Group & William Alwyn)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Julianne Moore (7 Films + Talk)
Orson Welles Centenary (10 Films)
Czech Cinema / New Wave (12 Films + Talk)
Polish Cinema / New Wave (7 Films)
New Russian Cinema (12 Films + Talk)
William Alwyn Film Music / Live Music (10 +Talk)
Live Jazz & Film Latin American / Chico & Rita
Audience Award Winner
Tangerines
We Shall Sing (Low Budget Independent Audience Award)
Surprise Film
The Irrational Man
Open Air Screenings
Inside Out
Sound of Music
2016 (25th Anniversary)
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Elaine Paige & Kevin Short (Speed Love)
George Galloway (The Killing$ of Tony Blair)
Derek Malcolm (Truly, Madly, Deeply)
Tony Britten, Christian McBride (ChickLit)
Tony Palmer (The Beatles and WW2)
Carl Davis (Chaplin, Lloyd & Keaton)
Paul Forest, Andrew Martin, Edmund Kingsley (Capsule)
Jim Gillespie (Take Down)
Rea Mole (Hide & Seek)
Emily Harris (Love is Thicker than Water)
Simon Dixon, Gareth Coulam-Evans (Tiger Raid)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Iranian Cinema (13 Films + Talk)
Chinese Cinema (14 Films + Talk)
Alan Rickman (7 Films + Talk)
Ingrid Bergman (3 Films)
Andrei Tarkovsky (7 Films + Talk)
Focus on the Refugee (3 Films)
World of Animation (5 Films)
Audience Award Winners (8 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Insyriated (Premieres/Previews)
Maudie (New Releases)
An Inconvenient Sequel (Documentaries)
The Shepherd (Indies)
Surprise Film
Café Society
Open Air Screenings
Calamity Jane
Finding Dory
Drive-In Screening
Casablanca
Live Music & Film
Bobby Wellins Quintet (Tribute to Tubby Hayes)
John Sweeney (Laugh Along with Laurel and Hardy)
Ben Hall (Faust)
Buster Birch (Buster Plays Buster)
2017
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Mick Csaky (Retrospective of his films)
Anwen Hurt (John Hurt Tribute – That Good Night)
Phil Grabsky (David Hockneyat the Royal Academy)
Shubashish Bhutiani (Hotel Salvation)
Michael Rosel (Dolores)
Stephen Cookson (Stanley: A Man of Variety)
Erik Stein (Blue Velvet Revisited)
Brian Ashby (Interlude in Prague)
Gareth Jones, Fiona Howe (Delerium)
John Sanders, Anna Mottram (A Change in the Weather)
Alex Child, Ananta Ishaya (A Mindful Choice)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Tilda Swinton (8 Films + Talk)
Andrzey Wajda (3 Films + Talk)
Mick Csaky (9 Films + Talk)
New Romanian Cinema (6 Films + Talk)
John Hurt Tribute (9 Films + Talk)
Centenary of the Russian Revolution (5 Films + Talk)
Serial Boxes (2 Films)
David Lynch (5 Films)
Audience Award Winner
Insyriated (Premieres/Previews)
Maudie (New Releases)
An Inconvenient Sequel (Documentaries)
The Shepherd (Indies)
Open Air Screenings
Cars 3
Dirty Dancing
Live Music & Film
Claire Martin & Friends (Bobby Wellins Tribute)
Buster Birch (Steamboat Bill Jr)
John Sweeney (October 1917)
Stephen Horne (The Lodger)
2018
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Steve Coogan, Andrew Eaton (Ideal Home)
Canon Dr Anthony Cane (Monty Python’s Life of Brian)
David Wood (If…)
Tupaq Felber (Tides)
Robbie Moffatt (Oh My God)
Sophie Gospill (The Receptionist)
Dom Lenoir (Winter Ridge)
Charles Garrad (Waiting for You)
David Wilkinson (Postcards from the 48%)
Hugh Stoddart (To the Lighthouse)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Daniel Day-Lewis (7 Films + Talk)
Virginia Woolf (4 Films + Talk)
Ingmar Bergman (9 Films + Talk)
Steve Coogan (8 Films)
Nordic Noir (9 Films + Talk)
Agnes Varda (4 Films + Talk)
Bernstein in Chichester (5 Films + 2 Talks)
Audience Award Winner
The Children Act (Premieres/Previews)
Leonard Bernstein Conducting West Side Story (Documentaries)
West Side Story (Classics)
Steel Country (Indies)
Surprise Film
Cease Fire
Open Air Screenings
Grease
Incredibles 2
The Greatest Showman
Live Music & Film
Ben Hall (Vampyr)
Georgia Mancio (Ella, Dizzy & Monk)
2019
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Michael Radford (Il Postino)
Maria Peters, Christanne de Bruijn, Dave Schram (The Conductor)
Robert Mullen, Adam Paul Harvey, Caitlin Innes Edwards (This Weekend Will Change Your Life)
Tony Palmer (I, Berlioz)
Phil Grabsky (Leonardo, The Works)
Paul Anton Smith (Have You Seen My Movie)
Mark Banks, Ele Berrie, Daniel Lane (Pictures of Lily)
Jeremy Marre (Count Bassie)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Canada Now (6 Films)
Albert Finney (8 Films + talk)
Hirokazu Kore-eda (5 Films + talk)
Re-discovering Women Directors (15 Films)
Michael Radford (7 Films)
Graphic Novel to Screen (4 Films)
Bernardo Bertolucci (6 Films + talk)
One Film Tributes (7 Films)
Nichola Roeg (6 Films + talk)
Audience Award Winner
Never Look Away (Premieres/Previews)
Meeting Gorbachev (Documentaries)
Il Postino (Retros/Classics)
The Last Inhabitant (Indies)
Surprise Film
Light of my Life
Open Air Screenings
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Lion King
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Live Music & Film
Vimala Rowe (Annie Ross – No One But Me)
Stephen Horne (The Cat and The Canary)
With the advent of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the normal Festival was cancelled in 2020 - but in it's place, a successful season of Drive-In Screenings in association with the Chichester Festival Theatre. 2021 saw a scaled down Film Festival, and from 2022, we were back to our pre-Covid levels.
2020 (Covid-19)
Drive In Screenings
Grease
Some Like it Hot
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Onward
Singin’ in the Rain
The Greatest Showman
2021
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Timothy Spall (The Last Bus – Actor)
Phyllis Logan (The Last Bus – Actor)
Gillies MacKinnon (The Last Bus – Director)
Tony Palmer (Towards the Unknown Region – Director)
Neil Monaghan (Election Night – Director/Writer)
Tony Klinger (Sisters – Producer)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Federico Fellini Centenary (10 Films + Talk)
Black Directors Matter (5 Films + Talk)
Christopher Nolan Retrospective (7 Films +Talk)
DisAbility Strand (8 Films)
All That Jazz (7 Films inc. 2 Live Gigs)
Dirk Bogarde Centenary (3 Films + Talk)
Bertrand Tavernier Tribute 1941-2021 (5 Films + Talk)
Malcolm Arnold Centenary (2 Films)
Audience Award Winner
The Collini Case
Surprise Film
The Collini Case
Open Air Screening
South Pacific
In The Heights
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Live Music & Film
John Sweeney – Piano (The Golem)
Spike Wells & Trio (A Love Supreme)
Balcon Manouche Duo (Django)
2022
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Derek Malcolm (Film Critic)
Phil Grabsky (Mary Cassatt – Producer)
Matt Jones (Silver Spitfire – Protagonist)
Andrew Eaton (Munich: Edge of War – Producer)
Jane Mote (My Bones Are Woven – Featured Artist)
Tony Palmer (Vangelis & O Thou Transcendent – Director)
Richard Dee-Williams (The Reverend and Mrs Simpson – Director)
Tony Palmer (Vangelis & O Thou Transcendent – Director)
Rebecca Pearson (Blackbird – Location Manager)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Olivia Colman Retrospective (10 Films + Talk)
Andrew Eaton Presents (3 Films inc Q&As))
Alain Resnais Centenary 1922-2014 (3 Films +Talk)
Homage to Ukranian Cinema (10 Films + Talk)
Made in Sussex (7 Films + Talk)
David Gulpilil Remembered 1953-2021 (6 Films + 1 Talk)
Peter Bogdanovich Remembered 1939-2022 (7 Films + Talk)
Monica Vitti Remembered 1931-2022 (1 Film)
Jean-Paul Belmondo Remembered 1933-2021 (6 Films + Talk)
Ennio Morricone Remembered 1928-2020 (2 Films)
Ralph Vaughan Williams Anniversary (3 Films)
Pier Paolo Pasolini Centenary (7 Films + Talk)
Audience Award Winner
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Surprise Film
Rabiye Kurnaz Vs George W Bush
Open Air Screening
Elvis
West Side Story
Lightyear
Live Music & Film
Ben Hall – Organ (Nosferatu)
Andrew Cleyndert Jazz Quintet (Charles Mingus)
Stephen Horne – Piano, Flute & Accordion (Earth)
2023 – Roger Gibson’s final year as Artistic Director
Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors
Hugh Bonneville Retrospective (Actor)
Retrospectives/Tributes/Centenaries/Themes
Hugh Bonneville Retrospective (x Films)
Audience Award Winner
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Surprise Film
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Open Air Screening
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Live Music & Film
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OK -
Not everyone was happy that our normal 2020 Festival was cancelled, and that they had to go to the Drive-In.