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!

There is less than a month to go!

After some delays and negotiations the programme is finally in place and it looks like an exceptional one for our Anniversary - have you decided what you are going to see yet?

There are a few films that pencil themselves in from the start but amongst that long list there are some lesser-known gems waiting to be discovered. For example, we have Indian fantasy/horror with Sister Midnight, Iranian comedy drama with No End and an archetypal Scandi film with Stormskerry Maja. Let's not forget The Monk and the Gun from Bhutan - the word is that it is just as good as Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom. Will Pawo Choyning Dorji be the first Director to win two KFF Audience awards?

We have three of the finest animations that you could wish to see, from Ghibli's Spirited Away to the Oscar-tipped Flow by way of Robot Dreams; two programmes of short films - our own Osprey Awards and the Best of the Oska Bright Fest.

All that plus a sublime range of films in our Screen2/Take2 strand, from martial arts (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) to Mungrisdale (Radiator) - what impeccable taste our audience voters have!

The next few weeks will fly by - see you in Keswick very soon.

Featuring

News

  • Screen2/Take2

    8 February 2025


    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.
  • Our Opening Film

    27 January 2025


    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

    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.

Screen2/Take2

Posters for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Welcome To The Sticks, Spirited Away, The Elephant Man, Amelie, Whale Rider, Point Break and Radiator

Our new strand of films selected by our audence and students from Carlisle College.

Screen2/Take2

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.