2025 Festival

Passes and tickets are now available from the Alhambra


25th Keswick Film Festival
6th - 9th March 2025

Welcome to the 25th Keswick Film Festival!

As you would expect, we are trying to make our Silver Anniversary an event to remember, combining our traditional banquet of the best of world and independent cinema with a few extra courses - family screenings (but ones that will bring joy to the hearts of all children aged 7 to 70), short films, animations and films chosen by you - our audience.

We have picked some of the best films from Keswick over the last 20 or so years (plus a couple that never made it but probably should have) and we'll be asking you to pick the ones you would like to see again, or one you missed first time around. We'll show the most popular in the Alhambra's screen 2 over the course of the weekend.

We are also asking some young Cumbrians as to what they would like to see in screen 2 - their choices will add a different dimension to KFF.

See you in Keswick, in March.

Featuring

News

  • Oscar Hopefuls at Keswick Film Festival

    24 January 2025

    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

    21 January 2025


    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

    7 January 2025

    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.

Merchandise

25th Anniversary Merchandise

We have new T-shirts and tote bags to celebrate our 25th Anniversary, order yours by 7th February for collection at the Festival.

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Keswick Film Club
Theatre By The Lake
Alhambra Cinema
Rheged Centre

Keswick Film Festival is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.



Film Hub North
BFI Film Audience Network

All programme and film details are correct at the time of publishing but may be subject to change.