Above, a Polish artist used freedom of expression to create this unusual film poster of Hollywood actress Julia Roberts, and below, a still image from the Figuring Landscapes series of films about the UK and Australia

Film festival

Movie fans are in for a treat this month as GLIMMER – the Hull International Short Film Festival – gets underway.
This year's festival includes features about the cultural history linking the UK and Australia; a film focus on Israel; and a poster exhibition at the RED Gallery showing how posters were used in Poland to promote freedom.
The festival, organised by Hull Film, also includes the inaugural Anthony Minghella Award for Best International and UK Short in memory of the late director who graduated from the University of Hull.
Minghella directed The Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain, The English Patient and other acclaimed works before his death last year.
"I hope people make time in their diaries for this year's selection," says Laurence Boyce, director of Hull Film.
"It will be the perfect mix of drama and experimental and innovative film that GLIMMER is famous for."
Screenings take place at Reel Cinemas in St Stephen's and selected venues across the city.
GLIMMER runs from April 21-26.
For information on performances, prices and concessions, and to buy a £20 weekly pass, call Hull Film on 381512 or visit www.hullfilm.co.uk

Also visit Ferens Art Gallery in Queen Victoria Square; the Central Library in Albion Street; Pave and Zest in Newland Avenue; The Lamp in Norfolk Street and Reel Cinemas in St Stephen's to pick up a film schedule

Trawling through history More than £120,000 has been raised to pay for a fishermen's memorial statue. The statue, in memory of more than 6,000 trawlermen from the city who have lost their lives at sea in the last 100 years. The public will be consulted as to how they want the statue to look, before an artist is commissioned. Meanwhile, the city's fishing heritage comes into the spotlight this month with the seasonal opening of the Arctic Corsair trawler museum. Volunteer tour guides are needed for the museum, which has received a total of 25,000 visitors since it was set up 10 years ago. If you would like to be a guide contact STAND on Hull 324223. An insight into life on board Hull trawlers is also provided through photographs taken in the early 1900s. If you have any information about them, or would like to see similar photos, visit the website www.whatsthatpicture.com/hull-trawler-challenge.