The organizers for the Birmingham Anime Film Festival (BAFF), a movie festival that sees a wide-variety of anime films shown in cinemas across Birmingham, will return this September and October. More importantly, the full line-up of films has been revealed with tickets now available to book online.
This year the Birmingham Anime Film Festival will take place between Thursday 25th September 2025 and Wednesday 1st October 2025, with films being screened at The Mockingbird Cinema, in Digbeth and Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Edgbaston. Tickets start from as little as £10, with films such as COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing, Ghost in the Shell, and Gundam Seed FREEDOM being screened throughout the event. Majority of the films will be shown in Japanese with English subtitles, but the full details can be found on the BAFF website.
Schedule:
Midlands Art Centre (MAC):
Thursday 25th September 2025:
Ghost in the Shell
Friday 26th September 2025:
Paprika
Saturday 27th September 2025:
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing
INU-OH!
Sunday 28th September 2025:
A Letter to Momo [Dubbed]
Okko’s Inn [Dubbed]
Penguin Highway [Dubbed]
Wednesday 1st October 2025:
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie -Infinity Castle-
Mockingbird Cinema:
Friday 26th September 2025:
Berserk (1997) [Episodes 1 & 2]
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Spirited Away
Saturday 27th September 2025:
The Place Promised in our Early Days
5 Centimeters Per Second & The Garden of Words
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Your Name
Weathering With You
Sunday 28th September 2025:
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
The End of Evangelion
Monday 29th September 2025:
Witchblade [Episodes 1 & 2]
ONE PIECE FILM RED
Wednesday 1st October 2025:
Serial Experiments Lain [Episodes 1 &2]
The Birmingham Anime Film Festival is organised by Birmingham-based media collective Geeky Brummie, Mockingbird Cinema and Midlands Arts Centre and all are proud to once again bring this cinematic anime festival to Birmingham.
Ryan Parish, Founder of Geeky Brummie says:
““We loved bringing a varied variety of anime to the big screen in 2023 and 2024, and for year 3 we feel we’ve brought an even greater variety of content for everyone across both venues.””
Lee Nabbs, Director of The Mockingbird Cinema comments:
“We’re happy to be bringing back BAFF for a third successive year. As an independent cinema that focuses on providing a wide range of contemporary, classic and cult cinema,we’re happy to bring a range of anime for all to our audience.”
David Baldwin, Producer – Cinema & Screen, Midlands Art Centre says:
“Midlands Arts Centre is very pleased to be a part of Birmingham Anime Film Festival for year 3. As in previous years we’re looking at an eclectic mix from the darker side of anime through to family favourites, each bringing their own take on the Genre””
Further details relating to the Birmingham Anime Film Festival (BAFF) can be found on the official website, but in the meantime the full 2025 schedule can be found here.
