2025 Festival


26th Keswick Film Festival
19th - 22nd March 2026

We are delighted to reveal that the dates of the 2026 Festival will be …drumroll…

19th to 22nd March 2026

Our new KFF Director Julia Vickers says:

"In usual Keswick Film Festival style, we'll be showing a fabulous selection of films from across the world in our favourite places - the Alhambra Cinema, Theatre by the Lake and Rheged. Save those dates!"

Short Films

Osprey Short Film Awards

We will be accepting entries for the 2026 Festival soon

2025 Films & Winners


Photos From The 2025 Festival

Photos by David Malkin, Tony Marsh, and Stephen Brown

News

  • Keswick Film Festival 2026 Dates Announced

    24 June 2025

    We are delighted to reveal that the dates of the 2026 Festival will be

    ……. drumroll …….. 

    19th to 22nd March! 

    Our new KFF Director Julia Vickers says: “In usual Keswick Film Festival style, we’ll be showing a fabulous selection of films from across the world in our favourite places – the Alhambra Cinema, Theatre by the Lake and Rheged. Save those dates!”

     

     

  • Scores & Awards

    11 March 2025

    That was quite an Anniversary!

    Thank you to all of you who came to Keswick last weekend to make it such an enjoyable weekend. It is always lovely to see people renewing acquaintanceships 12 months on – and to welcome so many new faces to KFF.

    There was an incredible range of films on offer, which made it hard to choose at times – and the scores reflected the quality of the films in the programme.

    Eventually, it was The Marching Band that took the audience award – the third consecutive year that a film at Rheged has taken the prize. The Monk and the Gun wasn’t far behind. You can see the Top 15 films here on the website.

    The Ospreys continue to amaze with their demonstration of film-making prowess. The selection gets better each year – and what a treat to have Ian Picken, KFF’s first Festival Director, to announce the Audience Award was won by Stuart Armstrong for Lay-by. Harvey Greenfield director Jonnie Howard presented the Student Award to Asa Pegler for It Get's Better and the Open Award went to Juliet Klottrup for Travelling Home, which if you missed can now be seen on the Nowness platform.


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.