(BAFF) Birmingham Anime Film Festival Returning To City This Autumn

After a successful first year. Birmingham Anime Film Festival (BAFF) has announced it will be returning to Birmingham this autumn.

For 2024, the main festival will be taking place over three weekends at The Mockingbird Cinema, in Digbeth and Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Edgbaston from Thursday 19th September through until Sunday 6th October 2024.

It will feature an eclectic mix of more than 30 films suitable for fans and casual movie goers alike including seminal classic ‘Redline’ by Takeshi Koike to Oscar-award-winning hit “The Boy and The Heron” by Studio Ghibli. Films from popular series like Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball and Jujustu Kaisen, to cult classics like Perfect Blue and Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis will also feature throughout this year’s edition of the festival.

Tickets start at less than £10 and can be found on the festival’s website alongside the full schedule.

Birmingham Anime Film Festival is organised by Birmingham-based media collective Geeky Brummie, Mockingbird Cinema and Midlands Arts Centre.

Ryan Parish, Founder of Geeky Brummie says:
“We had an incredible response to BAFF 2023 last autumn, and so are really pleased we could
bring it back again. We want the festival to fly the flag for Anime in the Midlands region and
show there’s an anime for everyone.”

Lee Nabbs, Owner of The Mockingbird Cinema comments:

“As the home of Commercial, Classic and Cult Cinema in Digbeth, we’re proud to come back
with another barnstorming selection of anime to feast your eyes upon!”

David Baldwin, Producer – Cinema & Screen, Midlands Art Centre says:

“As shown by the success of our 2023 festival, the world of anime is no longer some niche
genre. MAC is very pleased to be a part of Birmingham Anime Film Festival, with a focus on
some of the more unique titles from across the history of anime.”

Birmingham Anime Film Festival will run from 19th September to 6th October 2024 across Thursday to Sunday each week.

Find out more at www.baff.uk

For enquiries, please contact baffuk@geekybrummie.com