Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is set to be honoured at a film festival hosted at the former Bristol IMAX cinema. Forbidden Worlds festival is returning this May to the giant 18m x 15m screen hidden inside Bristol Aquarium in the city centre.
Launched by 20th Century Flicks last year, Forbidden Worlds is Bristol’s first genre film festival dedicated to screening repertory fantasy, action, science-fiction and horror films from around the world and celebrating the people that made them. The film festival has helped contribute to the resurgence of the former IMAX, which had been largely unused as a cinema prior to 2022 for some time.
In 2022, the festival saw over 1,100 attendees enjoy genre classics and cult curios, giving viewers the chance to see films on a screen this size for the first time ever or in decades. This year will be no different and will celebrate some of cinema’s most iconic stop-motion pioneers and world-class puppeteers and their cinematic creations from May 18-21, 2023.
