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Birmingham Anime Film Festival returns for its third year

Via Ryan for Birmingham Anime Film Festival (BAFF)

Birmingham Anime Film Festival (BAFF) returns on Thursday 25th September 2025 for a week full of anime delights. This year the main festival takes place across a week at The Mockingbird Cinema, in Digbeth, and Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Edgbaston from Thursday 25th September through until Thursday 2nd October 2025.

It features an eclectic mix of more than twenty films suitable for fans and casual movie goers alike, including classics such as Ghost in the Shell, family favourites like Penguin Highway, through to the latest animes such as Demon Slayer – Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle.

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 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, The Mockingbird Cinema said:

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 and Screen at 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.”

Birmingham Anime Film Festival will run from 25th September to 2nd October 2025. Find out more at baff.uk.

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