The British Silent Cinema Festival, now in its 11th year, is a celebration of British cinema before 1930 and is organized in collaboration with the British Film Institute.
The Festival aims to showcase the vast collection of films, fiction and non fiction, produced in Britain before the advent of sound, principally from the collection at the BFI National Archive, the UK's national repository of film and television. Many of the films are 're-discoveries' and will not have been seen in public for several decades.
In 2008 the theme is Rats,Ruffians and Radicals: The Globalisation of crime and British Silent Film
