Saturday, 8 February 2025

Screen2/Take2


Screen2/Take2 is the chance to bring two generations of festival-goers together - our regular audience has had the chance to select some of their favourite films from previous festivals and our newest audience, evolving out of our partnership with Carlisle College and its students, has had an input into the selection of films that they would like to see at a Festival. The two selections are not mutually exclusive - the message from KFF is 'try something different, something out of your comfort zone!'

The selection is:

Friday 7th March
Saturday 8th March
Sunday 9th March
Screen2/Take2 has been made possible by support from the BFI and Film Hub North, the Alhambra's state-of-the-art facility will be the perfect place to revisit old favourites or see something entirely new.

Monday, 27 January 2025

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.


Friday, 24 January 2025

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.

Tuesday, 21 January 2025

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.

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

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.

Saturday, 19 October 2024

Osprey Short Films - Call For Entries

We are now accepting entries for the Osprey Short Film Awards at the 25th Keswick Film Festival in March.

To be considered for the awards a film must be under 10 minutes and have a significant connection to Cumbria. Our panel of judges select the best entries to show the the Festival where the winners will be announced.

For full details on how to enter please visit our FilmFreeway page.

Friday, 8 March 2024

Audience Award & Scores

Well, what a weekend that was!

There were some surprise hits, as always – My Sailor, My Love was really popular as was Ajoomma. Io Capitano was gripping. The Awards contenders did some heavy lifting too, with The Zone of Interest and American Fiction both scoring well. For a while it looked as if The Taste of Things would take the Audience Award but on Sunday morning a small-ish audience at Rheged were blown away by Tótem, scoring it at 89.7% - a worthy winner.

For once a documentary didn’t get the highest score, but Mayor, Four Daughters and Scala!!! were all well-received.

The full results are on the website but here is the top 10:

  1. Totem - 89.6
  2. The Taste of Things - 86.7
  3. Mayor - 86.6
  4. American Fiction - 86.3
  5. Io Capitano - 84.1
  6. My Sailor, My Love - 81.4
  7. Four Daughters - 81.2
  8. The Zone of Interest  - 76.9
  9. Ajoomma - 76.8
  10. Scala!!!  - 73.4