Curator  /
Artistic Director

Overview

In 2000-2005 I curated Screen Station, a film club and programmed music documentary films at the Ritzy Cinema.
I worked with Africa at the Picture (2002-2003) and Tokyo African Film Festivals, 1998-2003).

In 2004-2008 I programmed the annual French Institute’s  Cine Lumiere Festival Mosaiques, increasing its venues from 1 to 6 in the 5 years of my role as Artistic Director. I worked with Unifrance to showcase its annual Renault French Film Festival annually.

I programmed smaller seasons including Reel to Real and Africa Film Focus.

In 2012 I curated the Marrakech Biennale Film Strand and in 2013 I was the Artistic Director of Film Africa, the UK’s largest African Film Festival.

In 2015-2023 I was the Course Leader at the Barbican Centre, running  a training in Film Curation. In 2025 I curated a bespoke library at a bijou guest house.

June 2025
I was asked to curate a Bespoke Library of DVDs at Mason and Fifth and asked 52 curators to make lists of their 7 favourite films to play a year long series.

Library DVD List 

https://www.facebook.com/Masonand5th/

EVENT DESCRIPTION: 7 September 2025
Join Suzy Gillett as she introduces Liliana Cavani's 'La Pelle/ The Skin' (1981).

“This week at M&F Cinema, we journey through the lens of Suzy Gillett — filmmaker curator, and lifelong conspirator of cinematic resistance. From her years guiding bold voices through the London Film School to her own radical storytelling across continents,
Suzy curates not with caution but with conviction. Her selections defy the flat and the familiar. These are films that trouble the surface, rattle history, and speak in tongues both
personal and political. Suzy’s programme is a tapestry of resilience and rupture.” Elliott Jack. 

November 2025 I joined the team of the Romanian Film Festival In London.

In 2025 I devised a futue Festival of Films for Peace, and began researching films.
Here is my first draft of research collating a list of films made about war.
Films for Peace

Artistic Director 

MOSAÏQUES FESTIVAL OF WORLD CULTURE

2004-2007

Mosaïques was the largest annual 10 day festival funded by the French Institute, I was given free reign to curate and to take risks in programming UK premieres of many first time directors, unknown at the time, but later to be celebrated worldwide. 

Venues: 
Ciné Lumière at the French Institute
(Institut Francais du Royaume Uni)
Ritzy Cinema 
Peckhamplex
Picturehouse Greenwich
British Museum
V&A

List of Films/Seasons I curated 

Mosaiques Festival  2004 

Mosaiques 2005

Mosaiques Festival 2006 

Reel to Real Documentary Season 2006

Mosaiques Festival 2007 

Africa Film Focus 2007



INTERVIEW Link in French for France Culture:

Carnet Nomad - France Culture

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WOMEN’S CINEMA FROM TANGIERS TO TEHRAN

In 2008 I co-curated Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran with James Neil of Parallax Media.
A 10 day festival with over 40 films, events and music. We also held a Film Symposium in partnership with the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) at Edinburgh University. 

Venues:
Ciné Lumière
ArtZone
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Leighton House Museum
London Film School
Rich Mix
Ritzy Cinema

Letterboxed full list of films in festival


Additional Funding came from Creative Europe’s Euromed fund - Medscreen
and Film London
In partnership with Arab Media Watch 

Following the success of the festival ArteEast toured the whole festival across the United States at Universities. 

2004
Mosaïques
Highlights 

Blissfully Yours - Apichapong Weerasethakul

Milles Mois - Faouzi Bensaïdi

Since Otar Left - Julie Bertucelli 

I Will Sing For You - Jacques Sarrasin 

The Agronomist - Jonathan Demme 

Untouched by the West - Raymond Depardon 

At Five in the Afternoon - Samir Makhmalbaf

2005 Mosaïques
Highlights

I Even Met Some Happy Gypsies - Aleksander Petrovic

Exiles & Les Princes - Tony Gatlif

Viva Laldjerie - Nadir Mockneche

Schizo
- Guka Omarova 

Les Statues meurent aussi & Sans soleil - Chris Marker 

Le Grand Voyage - Ismaël Ferroukhi 

2006 Mosaïques
Highlights

Une Matin bonne heure - Gahité Fofana 

Quand Les Hommes Pleurent & THe Sleeping Child - Yassmine Kassari

Nuit Noire, 17 octobre 1961 - Alain Tasma

La Trahison
Philippe Faucon

Saratan - Ernest Abdyshaparov

A Perfect Day
Khalil & Joana Hadjithomas 

Be With Me - Eric Khoo

2007
Mosaïques
Highlights

Glue - Alex dos Santos

Alan & Samir
Yann Demange

Bye Bye Africa & Darratt - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Transilvania - Tony Gatlif

Rome Rather Than You - Tariq Teguia

Wesh Wesh, What’s Up & Bled Number 1 - Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Highway - Sergei Dvortsevoy

Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo

2008 Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran  Highlights 
Caramel - Nadine Labaki

The House is Black  - Forough Farrokhzad

The Silence of the Palace - Moufida Tlatli

Leila and The Wolves - Heiny Srour

Like Twenty Impossibles - Annemarie Jacir

Bitter Water - Maysoon Pachachi

Inch’allah Dimanche - Yamina Benguigui

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Marrakech Biennale 2012

I curated the Film section of the 2012 Marrakech Biennale

Highlight
Masterclass with Hicham Lasri and Mohamed Bakrim following screening of The End

Venues across Marrakech


Mohammed Bakrim, Hicham Lasri, Suzy Gillett @ ESAVMarrakech

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Film Africa 2013

An annual 10 day festival I was hired to curate Film Africa 2013, the UK’s largest African Film Festival.

Highlight
Working with Ashley Clark who went on to become Senior programmer at BAM in NY.

Venues:
BFI Southbank
Ciné Lumière at the French Institute
(Institut Francais du Royaume Uni)
Ritzy Cinema
Rich Mix
South London Gallery
Hackney Picturehouse
University of Westminster


Full List of Films