CineCity opens with Clio Barnard and closes with Andrew Scott's Elsinore

CineCity^1,2,3,4,5,6, the Brighton Film Festival, has published its full programme. The 24th edition runs from 6 to 15 November at the Duke of York’s, Dukes at Komedia, Fabrica, the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) and Lewes Depot. Tickets for every screening are on sale from the venues.

It opens at the Duke of York’s at 6pm on Friday 6 November with I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. Clio Barnard’s drama follows five old friends in Birmingham, now in their 30s, dealing with money worries and unfulfilled dreams. Enda Walsh wrote the script. There is a second screening at ACCA on Wednesday 11 November at 6:30pm.

The closing night film is Elsinore, at the Duke of York’s on Sunday 15 November at 9pm. Andrew Scott plays Ian Charleson, the Chariots of Fire actor who was asked to play Hamlet at the National Theatre in 1989 after Daniel Day-Lewis pulled out. Charleson was dying of AIDS, which most people did not know.

Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care, which the festival says is “widely rumoured to be the last that he will direct”, is on at the Duke of York’s on Friday 13 November. Danny Boyle’s Ink is about Rupert Murdoch acquiring The Sun in 1969 and his partnership with its editor, Larry Lamb. It is on at the Duke of York’s at 6pm on Thursday 12 November. Jack O’Connell and Guy Pearce star. Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter, from a Colm Tóibín short story, is on at the Duke of York’s at 5:30pm on Sunday 15 November, followed by a live satellite Q&A with Haigh.

Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy The Debut and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s first French-language film, All of a Sudden, are also in the programme.

The programme also takes in Hove’s place in film history. George Albert Smith and Laura Bayley lived and worked at St Ann’s Well Gardens in Hove from 1893 to 1903. CineCity says their experiments led to “the invention of film editing”.

On Saturday 21 November the film historian Frank Gray leads free walks at 1:30pm and 3pm to the site of their film studio. Each lasts about 45 minutes and starts at the café in the gardens. Book by emailing pippa@fosawg.org.

Gray is back at the Garden Cafe at 6:30pm on Thursday 26 November to present the Smiths’ films, from comic sketches to their editing experiments. It runs for about two hours and costs £7, booked by the same email and paid on the night. A free display of photographs and film stills is in the café every day from 21 to 30 November. The Friends of St Ann’s Well Gardens put on the Film Factory events with Screen Archive South East and CineCity.