Dead By Dawn
Edinburgh

As much as historians try to make out the UK film industry's legacy is all period dramas, comedies and kitchen sink realism, they often ignore the fact that it's our horror films that have kept the cameras rolling. The days of Hammer are long gone, but this festival proves the genre is far from dead. Descent director Neil Marshall presents the UK premiere of his latest, Doomsday, UK shockers Outpost and The Vanguard are on the bill, and overseas splatter gets a vigourous nod with Dario Argento's Suspiria/Inferno sequel Mother Of Tears.
Phelim O'Neill

· Filmhouse, Thu 24 to Apr 27, see deadbydawn.co.uk

Censorship As A Creative Force
London

Three great directors Hungary's Istvan Szabo, Czech Jiri Menzel, and Poland's Agnieszka Holland, are gathered to open this season exploring the strange flowering of creativity under communism. Behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s and 60s, film-makers could face enforced early retirement, fines, imprisonment or even find themselves "disappeared" if guilty of cinematic dissidence, yet these directors claim they did their best work under such restrictions. When the going got tough the smart got sly, "hiding" their political and social ideology in plain sight (as in Menzel's Larks On The String). The discussion is preceded by a screening of Wojciech Marczewski's study of a Polish censor, Escape From The Liberty Cinema.
PO'N

· Barbican Screen, EC2, Fri 25 to Apr 30

Moves 08
Manchester, Lancaster

Now in its fourth year, this experimental short film festival concentrates on "the interaction of sound and movement in film", and explores the mechanics of storytelling in fiction and documentaries. With a variety of short films (such as Oscar-nominated I Met The Walrus), art installations (in particular, the world premiere of Moebius by Claudia Kappenberg) creative workshops and screenings in unlikely public spaces (June Stockins' photomontages will be on display at Piccadilly Metrolink station), Moves 08 explores the relationship between movement and story in an intellectual and original context.
Andrea Hubert

· Various venues, Tue 22 to Apr 26, see movementonscreen.org.uk

The Guardian Interview with Tony Curtis
London

There are few cross-dressing incarnations so enduring as that of a dragged-up-to-the-nines, bandy legged Tony Curtis as a gangster incognito in Some Like It Hot. But with roles like unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco in The Sweet Smell Of Success, a racist escaped convict chained to Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones, the brutal Boston Strangler, and the powerful slave Antoninus in Kubrick's Spartacus, living screen legend Curtis has earned his serious acting stripes, proving himself over the years to possess a far wider range than the frothy comedy parts he's most commonly associated with. Here the charismatic Curtis, 82, looks back over a mesmerising career spanning 50 years. He may also shed some light on his tempestuous personal life, including five ex-wives (his sixth is 42 years his junior), a famous daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis), and his successful second career as a painter.
AH

· BFI Southbank, SE1, Wed 23