CineMisfits Film Festival

Come with us on a journey through the weird, the wonderful, the cult and the long forgotten... into the world of mystery film. Nobody knows what the film will be until the lights drop and the opening titles roll.

It’s 1943 and so far, the inhabitants of the "Isle of Todday" have escaped the worst of wartime rationing, but when the supply of whisky runs out, despondency descends until the good ship SS Cabinet Minister runs aground on a foggy night.

Academy-award-winning director Danny Boyle’s black comedy set in urban Edinburgh is regarded as one of the best Scottish films of all time, making it a perfect fit for this year’s Burns Night.

Based on the 1963 classic children’s book by Maurice Sendak, director Spike Jonze’s imaginative adaptation is an emotional, gritty and magical adventure of wonderful creatures and life lessons.

Chaplin's classic silent comedy is a wild roller coaster and hilarious turn of events, emotions and absurd set pieces which take you from the high-top snowy mountains of Klondike to a wondrous winter town on the gold trail.

“Honour our roots. Honour our dead” is the motto that guided Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (founding members of At the Drive In and The Mars Volta) through 30 years of friendship and a boundary-breaking music career.

Beautifully shot in black and white with music by Satyajit Ray, Merchant Ivory’s luminous second film is loosely based on the real-life exploits of actor-manager Geoffrey Kendal’s titular theatre company.

CineMisfits has partnered with Phoenix’s monthly Platform event to bring you a selection of the best student-produced shorts followed by a networking event.

Test your film knowledge with our popular monthly film quiz, this month will be run by the DMU Film students behind CineMisfits Film Festival.

Settle in for CineMisfits Film Festival's Late Night Friday double bill, featuring 2000s classic Donnie Darko and Jordan Peele's 2019 eerie horror Us.

Living in suburban Virginia, Darko narrowly avoids a freak accident and becomes plagued by visions of a monstrous bunny who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.

Set in Santa Cruz California, this film takes us back to 1986 where Adelaide Thomas is forever changed by a chance encounter in a  funhouse. Winner of over 80 global awards, Us has been cited as one of the best horrors of the 21st century.

A brilliant adaptation of his own novel by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being Wallflower follows Charlie as he navigates mental health, relationships, adolescence, sexuality, abuse and the fear of not fitting in while trying to find his place in the High School hierarchy.