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Friday 7th March
The latest news and other things from Keswick 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.
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.
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.
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.
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: