Archives: CIFF Years

The festival featured:

• Blue Valentine
• The Illusionist and Round Ireland with a Fridge (Double bill)
• The Headless Woman
• Fish Story
• The Kreutzer Sonata
• I Am Love and
• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (With live piano accompaniment!)

The festival featured:

• A Royal Affair (*)
• No
• Amacord
• Gainsboug – A Heroic Life and
• The Deep Blue Sea

(* Also shown as part of the 2012-13 CFS Season.)

The festival featured:

• Mao’s Last Dancer (*)
• I’m So Excited
• The Great Beauty
• Even The Rain (*)
• Paris-Manhattan
• The Deep and
• Fitzcarraldo

(* Also shown as part of the 2013-14 CFS Season.)

The 2014 CIFF was also the very first to include the Chester Animation Festival.

The festival featured:

• Before The Winter Chill (*)
• Museum Hours
• Barbara (*)
• Calvary
• Of Horses and Men and
• Rome, Open City

(* Also shown as part of the 2014-15 CFS Season.)

The 2015 CIFF also included the 2nd Chester Animation Festival.

The festival featured:

• Wild Tales (*)
• Brooklyn (*)
• Phoenix (*)
• Timbuktu (*)
• The Wonders and
• Me, Myself and Mum

(* These films were also shown as part of the 2025-26 CFS Season.)

The CIFF also included the 3rd Chester Animation Festival.

The festival featured:

• Julieta
• Hunt for The Wilderpeople
• The Clan
• Fire at Sea
• Dheepan
• Embrace of The Serpent and
• Hell or High Water

The CIFF also included the 4th Chester Animation Festival.

The festival featured:

• Loving Vincent
• In Between
• I Am Not a Witch
• Menashe
• On Body and Soul and
• The Nile Hilton Incident

The CIFF also included the 5th Chester Animation Festival, the Audience Award for which went to “Death of a Fruit Fly”.

The festival featured:

• Burning
• Dogman
• Waru
• Wajib
• Polina and
• Mug

Th CIFF also included the 6th Chester Animation Festival, the Audience Award for which went to “Pilipka”.

The 2020 CIFF (see teaser video below) was hosted by Storyhouse.

The festival featured:

• The Farewell
• Rojo
• Balloon
• Monos
• And Then We Danced (*Audience Award*)
• The Whistlers and
• Permission

The CIFF also included the 7th Chester Animation Festival, the Audience Award for which went to “Rain”.

The festival featured:

• Hive
• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
• The Worst Person in The World
• Balloon
• Arracht and
• Compartment No. 6 (*Audience Award*)

The 2022 CIFF also included the 8th Chester Animation Festival, the Audience Award for which went to “Black Slide”.