Food and film events will come together the annual Food For Real Film Festival in Liverpool next month, as leading venues such as Mowgli, The Pen Factory and A Small Cinema host events for the festival.

The free four-day festival, labeled the UK’s only urban film festival, will host a series of events across the city from 19 to 21 March including the first ever screening of the Food For Real Film awards at A Small Cinema on the final day of the festival.

Over 30 events will take place at city restaurants and other venues, including food-related talks on tiffin culture and salt-making Mowgli on Bold Street and The Pen Factory, the new Hope Street venture from the former Everyman Bistro team, respectively.

A celebration of scouse will take place in the form of DiscoScouse, which combines disco dancing with a mass scouse-making party using food that was previously heading to landfill.

Other highlights include a screening of cult film Solent Green at Unit 51 on 19 March, Asian-inspired food and a film screening at Constellations in the Baltic Triangle on 20 March, and an open air food festival to celebrate the Spring Equinox on Windsor Street in Toxteth on 21 March.

The events 22 March include a screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at the Odeon in Liverpool ONE and a Make and Grow produce market at Constellations.

Clare Owens of Squash Nutrition, the company behind the festival, says: “Join us this spring for an action-packed Food for Real film festival. We are really excited about the tasty programme of free, food focused films and activities, including screenings and workshops about spring seed sowing, food waste, salt, sugar, and breastfeeding.”

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