Not only am I a week behind on updating Letterboxd but I forgot to merge my #LIFF2025 films into my Films Of The Year list so now need to figure out where they all go.

#LetterboxdFriday! Few more films from #LIFF2025 and then finally caught Bugonia! #LastFourWatched hopefully be able to catch Die My Love this week!

Keswick Film Festival - Home The friendly film festival in the beautiful surroundings of the English Lake District will return for the 26th year between Thursday 19 and Sunday 22 March 2026.

#LIFF2025 comes to an end and I'm straight into my work for #KeswickFIlm festival. Website refreshed for 2026 edition, more details coming soon...
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UNOFFICIAL #LIFF2025 LETTERBOXD AUDIENCE AWARD cont.

4.00 Bugonia
3.96 Blue Heron
3.88 Blue Moon
3.88 Sirāt
3.86 Follies
3.69 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
3.67 Die My Love
3.67 The Secret Agent
3.38 A Private Life
3.13 Queens of the Dead
3.08 Alpha

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LIFF2025: Unofficial Letterboxd Audience Award I collected all the ratings under the hashtags "liff2025" and "liff" (and a few others) from between 30 October and 16 November 2025. I kept only the films that received 5 ratings or more. This left 5...

UNOFFICIAL #LIFF2025 LETTERBOXD AUDIENCE AWARD

4.52 Sentimental Value 🥇
4.44 The Voice of Hind Rajab 🥈
4.44 Roman Holiday 🥉
4.30 Whitch
4.27 Pillion
4.25 The Testament of Ann Lee
4.15 Nouvelle Vague
4.10 Space Cadet
4.06 It Was Just an Accident

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An embarrassment of riches this year at @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social, but here are my top 5:

1. Sentimental Value
2. The Secret Agent
3. It Was Just An Accident
4. Pillion
5. A Poet

Honourable mentions: Nouvelle Vague, Rains Over Babel

See you next year, LIFFers! #LIFF2025

19. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS. #LIFF2025 rounds off in its usual fashion with a charming off-beat closer, a lovely, delicate Icelandic film about a family grappling with a divorce. Small but perfectly formed, with surreal moments that are totally earned. A perfect way to end a brilliant #LIFF2025. 4/5

‎My #LIFF2025 Ranked, a list of films by Stephen Brown • Letterboxd Ranking the films of Leeds International Film Festival as I see them.

Shuffled my #LIFF2025 list around a bit and added some post festival notes to some entries.

Top 5

1. Fwends
2. We Believe You
3. That Summer In Paris
4. Redux Redux
5. Pillion

Only one dud in the 54 films I saw

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BEST DOC: Ghost Elephants
BEST SHORT: The Spectacle
SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT: the “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” retrospective strand

AND: Thanks to the staff and volunteers of @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social #LIFF2025, without whom, etc.

#LIFF2025:
BEST FILMS: The Voice of Hind Rajab (for the power and importance of cinema) or Resurrection (for sheer celebration of it)
ALSO VERY GOOD: Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident, Nouvelle Vague, The Testament of Ann Lee, Is This Thing On?, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Some of my #LIFF2025 stats

‎My #LIFF2025 Ranked, a list of films by Stephen Brown • Letterboxd Ranking the films of Leeds International Film Festival as I see them.

I was going to shuffle this around a bit more but I'm going to sleep on it and have another look tomorrow

#LIFF2025

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LIFF 2025 Audience Award Winners | Leeds Film We received over 15,000 votes for the LIFF 2025 Audience Awards - thank you to all our audiences who voted on the films. LIFF 2025 Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature - top 20 1.  The Voice of Hin…

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A ★★★ review of The Love That Remains (2025) #LIFF2025 Film 54 Full of lots of great moments but never manages to come together as a satisfying whole. An odd, somewhat disappointing, choice to close the festival which I may have appreciated more...

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The Love That Remains 2025 ★★★

#LIFF2025 Film 54

Full of lots of great moments but never manages to come together as a satisfying whole. An odd, somewhat disappointing, choice to close the festival which I may have appreciated more earlier in the run.

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A ★★★★ review of The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) #LIFF2025 Film 53 For some inexplicable reason I often have issues with films set in this time period, often to do with their dialect choices so combined with tiredness, a relatively long running time...

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The Testament of Ann Lee 2025 ★★★★
#LIFF2025 Film 53
For some inexplicable reason I often have issues with films set in this time period, often to do with their dialect choices so combined with tiredness, a relatively long running time and attempts at a mancunian accents...
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A ★★★ review of Compensation (1999) #LIFF2025 Film 52 I doubt I would have normally seen this but was intrigued by the trailer. I can understand all the praise but it didn't quite work for me. I'm glad I saw it but thought it lacked som...

Compensation, 1999 - ★★★
#LIFF2025 Film 52

I doubt I would have normally seen this but was intrigued by the trailer. I can understand all the praise but it didn't quite work for me. I'm glad I saw it but thought it lacked something and went on a bit too long.

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– Given the general fate of dogs at #LIFF2025, I’m happy to reveal the spoiler that nothing bad happens to Panda in this film.
– Second film of the festival where a depressed single father is haunted, and indeed violently assaulted, by a giant animatronic bird that symbolises his inner turmoil.

THE LOVE THAT REMAINS / Ástin Sem Eftir Er 🇮🇸 Like last year, #LIFF2025 ends not with a big bang but with a gentle wind-down. This one is a warm-hearted, funny, ultra-low-stakes family drama, with occasional fantastical bits. Panda is a very good dog. ★★★★

#LIFF2025 I'm not looking forward to trying to remember what I'm supposed to do for a living tomorrow...

#LIFF2025 Best new-to-me films of the festival:

Sirât
Holiday
Bye Bye Brazil
Pixote
It Was Just an Accident
Dandelion's Odyssey
Sentimental Value
A Useful Ghost
Sholay
The Secret Agent
Fwends
Perla
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
A Poet

#LIFF2025 Film 69* - The Love that Remains: A real poetic feel, and a good way to round out the festival.

*Nice

#LIFF2025 Film 68 - Nouvelle Vague: It's very charming, but that's really my problem with it. It's a very cosy and safe film, and never gives a proper impression of how dangerous and risky that era of filmmaking was. It's like getting Rev Richard Coles to do an account of the making of Fitzcarraldo

#LIFF2025 Film 67 - We Believe You: The main body of the film is very powerful, and the use of Academy ratio really made the witness testimonies stand out. I felt the ending slightly undermined the film though.

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Daringly staged sort-of-musical about the Shaker spiritual movement. I liked the boldness with which it tried to get across what 18th-century religious ecstasy might have felt like. (Some of the singing voices were too modern-American, though.) ★★★★ #LIFF2025

WE BELIEVE YOU / On vous croit 🇧🇪 Tense family-court drama. Very well acted, but felt more like a play than a film to me. ★★★ #LIFF2025

Only 3 more #LIFF2025 films for me, thankfully all in the same venue so no rushing around.

My Leeds International Film Festival journey is over! I've had a fantastic time. Only one dud!:

21 films
7 Queer led/featuring films
6 animated films
5 #CocksOfLIFF
4 films featuring public sex
3 films featuring people riding pillion
1 mention of Leeds university
1 haunted vacuum cleaner

#LIFF2025

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 🇺🇸 An unpleasant time at the cinema. I was stressed-out, tense and uncomfortable for the whole two hours, and did not enjoy myself. Four stars! ★★★★ #LIFF2025

GHOST ELEPHANTS 🇺🇸🇦🇴🇧🇼 Werner Herzog documentary about the search for giant elephants in the highlands of Angola. I liked that it didn’t shy away from the weirdness of the place, without straying into mocking or gawping or (except in one very funny but knowing moment) romanticising it. ★★★★ #LIFF2025

#LIFF2025 Film 66 - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You: Creates a brilliant sense of claustrophobia, and I really liked the interactions with bureaucratic officiousness disguised as help. I didn't feel the ending quite worked though, which was a shame.