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Text Film Festival Season

Exercise1. Look at these questions

1. In which cities are the festivals?

Leeds London Sunderland Sheffield

2. What is the main difference between the two festivals?

Read the news article to find the answers

In England it is currently film festival season. This week Sheffield hosts the

International Documentary Festival, and next month there is the London Film Festival. Both festivals show new films from all around the world, with one essential difference. The London Film Festival shows fiction films, the Sheffield

Festival shows factual films.

The Sheffield festival is now 11 years old, and it has grown from a small weekend festival into a week long festival that not only shows new documentary films, but also runs training workshops for new directors and has interviews with important film makers. Normally documentaries are only seen on TV, so, this festival, which shows the films in a modern cinema in Sheffield, is a great opportunity to see documentary films on the big screen.

There are films from all over the world, from Japan to Australia, from West Africa to Russia. In all, over 70 films are showing at the festival. The Chairman of the festival, Christopher Hird, says he is proud of how many different cultures and lives are represented in the film schedule.

The London Film Festival is a rather different affair. It has been running for nearly 50 years and it lasts for two weeks. The festival takes place in the largest cinemas in London and the attendance figures are high. It attracts many glamorous stars to the premieres of the bigger movies that are being shown in the festival.

The festival is an international showcase of cinema, but this year the opening and closing films are both British. The opening film is “Dirty Little Things” - a thriller set in the immigrant community in contemporary London. The final film is ‘The Heart of Me’ – a love story set in 1930s England, involving two sisters who are in love with the same man.

All in all, this is set to be a fabulous month for those who love to see the world up there on the big screen.

1. The Sheffield festival lasts…

a. …two days

b. …seven days

2. The Sheffield festival…

a. …only shows films

b. …offers films and other events

3. In England, it is common to find…

a. …documentaries at the cinema

b. …documentaries on the TV

4. The Sheffield festival takes place in…

a. …one cinema only

b. …several cinemas

5. The London Film Festival is…

a. …bigger than the Sheffield festival

b. …smaller than the Sheffield festival

6. The films at the London Festival are…

a. …watched by a few people

b. …watched by many people

7. At the London festival…

a. …some famous people go to see the films

b. …no-one who is famous goes to see the films

8. At this year’s London festival the first film is…

a. …from Hollywood

b. …from Britain

9. At this year’s London festival, the final film is…

a. …a comedy

b. …a romance

10. Which film would you prefer to watch?

a. Dirty Little Things

b. The Heart of Me

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