Film season

Welcome to Film Season at City Lit.

Whether you want to learn more about cult classics and world cinema through Our Film Studies programme or if you’ve always wanted to learn how to write, create or edit your own films, we have the course for you.

Browse our selection below for courses in film studies, screen writing, filmmaking, animation and screen acting.

New for this year, check out our Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 12 weeks (and throughout the academic year in terms 2 and 3), we will watch and discuss film.

If you are passionate about all things film then join us this term for some exciting and unique film related courses.

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  1. Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
  2. Screen acting: beginners
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Robert Cavanah
    Build your confidence and strengthen your camera technique to create truthful ‘on screen’ performances in this practical course.
    Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00
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  3. Cultureplex ciné-club
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks, we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
  4. How to read a film: a beginners' guide to cinema
    Course start date:  Mon 12 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    This course will develop your critical appreciation of the cinema by teaching you how to read and understand film texts. We will look at the elements that underpin film form – narrative, mise en scène, cinematography, editing and sound – alongside its historical development. We will consider film style by exploring classical, post-classical and art cinema and we will examine influential critical modes of analysis, such as genre, authorship and spectatorship.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  5. Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
  6. Full fee £529.00 Senior fee £423.00 Concession £344.00
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