2017

POSTER BOOK
LIFF 2017 is presented by

Leading Funders

Leading Partners

Major Partners
Introduction
Since the beginning of commercial cinema, posters have been an integral part of the film
production process and one of the distributor’s most important marketing tools. Even in the
current digital age, movie posters remain one of the key selling tools to attract an audience.

Over the years several artists have become famous for their film posters including Saul Bass,
Richard Amsel and Drew Struzan - the work of these artsts is immediately recognisable and
can be found hanging on living room walls around the world. Other artists gained notoriety
for their reinterpretation of Hollywood movie posters, such as Basha (Barbara Baranowska)
from Poland for her psychedelic version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The
current trend for graphic artists redesigning studio posters is led by artists such as Olly Moss.
The humble film poster, once purely a promotional tool, has been elevated to fine art.

This booklet brings together the posters of all 135 feature films screening in LIFF 2017. The
collection includes many original language posters, as well as some artists’ reinterpretations,
plus a few that have been created especially for LIFF, as official posters don’t yet exist for
these films. Several of the posters for classic films are instantly recognisable, such as the
iconic The Silence of the Lambs and James Bond posters, while Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger
and Jean Cocteau’s Orphée hark back to an earlier time when posters were lovingly hand-
drawn and painted.

Enjoy browsing through the collection – maybe some of these posters will one day end up
hanging on your walls at home.

Dogwoof Film Poster Exhibition

If you like this collection, why not check out the LIFF 2017
Film Poster Exhibiiton at North Bar, which showcases a
number of recent film posters from Dogwoof, the leading
documentary sales agent and UK theatrical distributor,
including many that have screened at LIFF in the past. The
exhibition is free and runs daily until December 13.
ARCADIA
Director – Paul Wright
Producers – John
Archer, Mark Atkin,
Adrian Cooper
UK 2017
78min

Arcadia is
a new film
about our
changing
relationship
with the land,
crafted from
footage in
the British
Film Institute
National
Archive.
BEAST
A Film by Michael Pearce
Geraldine Connor Foundation presents
An Ashley Karrell Film

Carnival
Messiah
 Film á Cinq.
ARTE France
and
Magnum Photos

CINEMA
present

THROUGH THE EYE OF A film by

MAGNUM
Sophie
Baxter
DARK
RIVER
A film by Clio Bernard
A DISTANT ECHO
A film by George Clarke
El Mar
la Mar
A film by Joshua Bonnetta and J.P.Sniadecki
THE ENDLESS
A FILM BY JUSTIN BENSON AND AARON MOORHEAD
THE RIDER
A FILM BY CHLOÉ ZHAO
A
SONG
OF
GRANITE
A Film by Pat Collins
J OAQUIN P H O E N I X

YOU WERE NEVER

REALLY HERE
A FILM BY LYNNE RAMSEY
5 October Fixed The Science/Fiction of Human Mutafukaz
69 Minutes of 86 days Enhancement My Friend Dahmer
Amélie The Flight Nikita
Animals The Florida Project Normal Autistic Film
Aparajito Gabriel and the Mountain The Nothing Factory
Arcadia Game of Death Oh Lucy!
Atelier de Conversation Gaza Surf Club Orphée
Attack of the Adult Babies The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Party and the Guests
Bad Genius Glory Perfect Blue
The Ballad of Shirley Collins Gods Own Country A Prayer Before Dawn
The Bar Goldeneye Red Riding 1974
Battle of the Sexes Good Time The Rider
Beast The Gospel According to St Rift
Matthew
Beuys A River Below
Habit
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales Sami Blood
Happy End
Big Fish & Begonia Scary Mother
Headhunters
Blade of the Immortal Seven Days in January
The Headless Woman
The Breadwinner The Silence of the Lambs
If I Think of Germany at Night
Brimstone and Glory Song of Granite
In the Cut
The Cakemaker The Sower
Investigation of a Citizen Above
Call Me By Your Name The Square
Suspicion
A Cambodian Spring Stalker
It's Not Yet Dark
Canaries State of Siege
Jane
Carnival Messiah: The Film A Story of Sahel Sounds
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond
Casino Royale Is Unbreakable - Chapter 1 The Stuff of Dreams
Cinema Through the Eye of Journeyman Such is Life
Magnum Summer Time Machine Blues
Kasia's Enchanted Forest
Claire's Camera Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Cold Skin Taste of Cherry
Let There Be Light
Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise The Teacher
A Life in Waves: Suzanne Ciani
Dark River Thelma
The Line
Dave Made a Maze Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
The Lives of Others
The Day of the Jackal Missouri
The Lodger
The Deputy Tokyo Ghoul
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Diamonds of the Night Tracking Edith
Loveless
A Distant Echo Under the Tree
Lover for a Day
Diva Untitled
Lu Over the Wall
Djam The Vanishing
Mademoiselle Paradis
Don't Torture a Duckling Veronica
The Man on the Roof
Downrange Volver
The Mansion
DRIB The Wages of Fear
The Mattei Affair
El Mar la Mar Western
The Mimic
Endless The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
The Mole Song: Hong Kong
Ex Libris - The New York Public Capriccio Wonderstruck
Library You Were Never Really Here
Mon Mon Mon Monsters
Fashionista Z
Mother
Félicité Zabriskie Point
Mountain
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
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were made in Leeds
in 1888.

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