Wood Green is a working class area with a high immigrant population in the North London borough of Haringey and is not the first location you’d think of to stage a film festival, but this is their fifth and it begins on 20 April.
All the films are being shown at the CineWorld complex a few hundred yards down from Wood Green Underground station. The International Short Film Festival begins on Friday night with two groups of short films, at 7pm there are nine under the title Local Filmakers and at 9pm there are seven films in the British and Irish Shorts section.
On Saturday 21 April there are five sections the first being Children and Families, a programme of big screen international animation that’s said to be suitable for 0-10 year olds and which runs from 10am-1pm. That’s followed by Animation from 1pm-3.30pm featuring 13 animated movies.
Youth Film from 3.30pm offers up a selection of films by under 19 film-makers and that’s followed by an International Programme with shorts from Spain, France, Greece and Norway among others at 6pm. There’s a second British and Irish Shorts section beginning at 8pm and lastly you can round Saturday night off with nine Late Night Horror shorts starting at 10pm.
The programme for Sunday 22 April begins with Turkish at 2pm, a series of Turkish themed films made in England, Germany and Turkey and that leads into a second International Programme at 4pm. Finally at 6pm there’s a best of the festival and awards ceremony. Tickets for the festival are £4 and Wood Green is easy to get to at the northern end of the Piccadilly Line.
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