Our Opening Film

We are pleased to announce that the opening film for KFF25 will be Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late - winner of the Best International Feature at the 2023 Dublin International Comedy Film Festival.

When an indecisive people pleaser is running late for the world's busiest day, his misguided decisions escalate towards a single choice that risks everything he holds dear. Harvey Greenfield explores our need to please, and why it's sometimes healthy to, every now and then, just sit in a shed and play Subbuteo by yourself, eat biscuits and listen to Meat Loaf.

Adapted from Paul Richard’s one man show at the Edinburgh fringe, Harvey Greenfield features not only Paul reprising the title role but also a host of familiar faces, from Doctor Who, The Office, Red Dwarf, Ted Lasso and Blue Peter. Director Jonnie Howard will be joining us at the Alhambra with, we hope some members from this stellar cast, including Keswick singer Sophia Grice.

Oscar Hopefuls at Keswick Film Festival

Forgive us, but we are a bit chuffed with ourselves as a number of our selections for the KFF programme have been recognised as Oscar contenders.

Three films, The Brutalist, Nickel Boys and Emilia Pérez are all in contention for the Best Picture award and two, Flow and Seed of the Sacred Fig are nominated as Best International Feature. For an animated film like Flow (also up for the award in that category) to be nominated in a feature film category, is testament to the brilliance of the storytelling and the animator’s art.

Adrien Brody and Karla Sofia Gascón are up for Best Actor and actress for their roles in The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez and their respective co-stars Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones and Zoe Saldana are nominated as Best Supporting Actors. The films also feature as nominees in the Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay categories.

The one-of-a-kind movie Emilia Pérez even has two nominations for best original song. The Alhambra will be rocking on Sunday afternoon.

25th Anniversary Merchandise

To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, we thought it was time to have some new T shirts and we thought that you might like to look the part as well. Knowing what a well-turned out crowd you are, we reckoned you might like to coordinate that with a stylish tote bag, of such superb quality, it should last you until our 50th Anniversary!

If you would like to purchase one or more of these iconic, soon-to-be-collectors'-item pieces head over to our merchandise page and place your order for collection at the Festival.

Tickets and Passes on Sale from Friday 10th January

We are thrilled to announce that tickets and passes for KFF 2025 will go on sale from Friday 10th January, from the Alhambra Box Office.

Arrangements for passholders to book seats for individual films have changed and detailed instructions on how to do this will be made available.