A four-day film festival will highlight several films backed by Bermudian talent for the first time.

Crime Stoppers’ Bermuda will hold its 8th Annual Weekend Film Festival at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute’s Tradewinds Auditorium.

The festival serves as one of the charity’s major fundraisers and will showcase four Oscar Award and Bafta-winning films alongside three independent films made by local producers.

It will begin today with the 6.30pm showing of Anora, a comedic modern-day retelling of the story of Cinderella.

Conclave, a dramatisation about Catholic cardinals selecting a new Pope, will be shown tomorrow at 6.30pm.

On Saturday there will be a 2pm matinee showing of Flow, an animated film about a cat who teams up with jungle animals to find a new home after their old one was lost in a flood.

The film festival will then show the Bermudian-made film Waterboyz, at 6.30pm that evening.

Waterboyz tells the story of a man trying to make a living selling bottles of water on the rough streets of Atlanta, Georgia.

A question-and-answer session will be held with the filmmakers following the screening.

On Sunday, the film festival will show The Brutalist at 2pm. The film tells the story of a European architect escaping a Europe ravaged by the Second World War to make a life for himself in the US. It includes a 15 minute intermission.

Later that evening, at 6.30pm, organisers will show the Bermudian-produced film Bull Street.

Bull Street, which had been shown in Bermuda previously, follows a small-town personal injury lawyer who defends her family’s legal rights to their family home.

The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers.

Thoughts Become Things, a six-minute short film following a young Gombey encountering his ancestors, will also be shown before the screenings of Waterboyz and Bull Street.

Tickets can be bought on Ptix and at the BUEI gift shop.