Keswick Film

SOUND OF FALLING one of many great films showing at #KFF26
Fri 20 Mar 3:30pm - Alhambra S1

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Plus a unique opportunity to spend time with the amazing Lake District filmmaker Terry Abraham (Life of a Mountain series) and watch rarely seen footage from his work.

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#KFF26 at Rheged presents family films KANGAROO & BUGSY MALONE, the immersive & beautiful THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR, the UK premiere of ALL AND NOTHING, one of the first chances to see the hiking film THE NORTH and the Oscar nominated SIRAT.

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Only two more films before #KFF26. This weekend's Film Club is NO OTHER CHOICE the latest from Park Chan-wook.

“I thought it was genuinely remarkable.” - Mark Kermode

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A ★★★★★ review of The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Audience Score: 92.7% "'The Voice of Hind Rajab' served as a reminder of the human cost of the conflict in Gaza, by focussing on one, true-life incident. News coverage is full of images of buildings…

Biggest score of the year for The Voice of Hind Rajab on Sunday with 92.7% from our audience.

Ian's review is on the website and can be accessed via our Letterboxd page.

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After Glasgow, Orwell 2+2=5 comes to Keswick as part of #KFF26

Fri 20 Mar 1pm - Alhambra S1
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No Other Choice Sunday - 8th March 5pm Park Chan-wook's latest is the South Korean entry for the Oscars this year. He has brought us some great thrillers - 'The Handmaiden', 'Dec...

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Sirât review: All about that bass A father in search of his lost daughter enters a world of illegal desert raves in the Spanish director’s teeth-rattling sensorial experiment.

“Sirāt opens at an illegal rave in the shadow of the mountains, where throbs of deep bass reverberate off the rock and shake the audience into a trance state beyond conscious thought”

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Another 5 star review for Sirât

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Film Club today at 5pm is THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB

"Whatever your views on the fighting in Gaza, this little girl demands that we should care, and this film echoes that demand. Not to be missed..."

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I saw it at Leeds Film Festival last year and glad we get to show it to more people in Cumbria. Enjoy!

‘Sirât’: behind the scenes on the most intense film of the year Director Óliver Laxe takes us onto the set of his Oscar-nominated road trip epic

'Like its small convoy of nomadic ravers traversing the north African desert, the year’s most startling slice of cinema is rolling into cinemas. It is, put simply, like nothing else you’ll see this year'

Time Out goes behind the scenes with SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe
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SIRÂT is showing at #KFF26

Sun 22 Mar 5pm - Rheged
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"Jaw-dropping” @thetimes.com

Experience SIRĀT on the big screen. In cinemas today. 

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This Sunday's film club is real life drama in its scariest form. Taking you beyond the news broadcasts about the war in Gaza, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB demands that you see the violence in its everyday form.

"About as powerful as cinema gets" - Empire

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An extraordinary picture, Film of the Month in @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

We're excited to be showing SIRÂT on the big screen at Rheged as part of #KFF26

The film is out today and we're hearing lots of great things about it

Sun 22 Mar 5pm - Rheged
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Sirât (dir. Óliver Laxe) - Film Feeder Our ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the mind-blowing adventure movie Sirât, about a group of ravers travelling across the desert during the apocalypse!

"Captivating excellence"

Click the link to read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the mind-blowing adventure movie Sirât, out in UK cinemas February 27!

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‘Cinema is place of transformation’: Oliver Laxe on his desert rave film Sirat Sirat tells the story of a father’s search for his missing daughter in the Moroccan desert.

“This is my fourth film and my work reflects a radical belief in and trust in cinema"

Great piece with SIRAT director Oliver Laxe📰

SIRAT is in cinemas tomorrow!

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A 5 star review for SIRÂT, coming to #KFF26 in March

Sun 22 Mar 5pm - Rheged
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SIRÂT is one of the many great films showing at #KFF26

Sun 22 Mar 5pm - Rheged
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Our Oscar nominated film this Sunday , THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, could be ‘the most indispensable film of the decade’. From the director of ‘Four Daughters’ it received a 23 minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival

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Mark Kermode on KANGAROO:

“You'll have a very warm bonding experience between child and parent. I thought it was really sweet, really charming and really surprising how much I liked it ”

Showing at #KFF26
Saturday 21st March 11:00 AM - Rheged

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A ★★★★ review of Sentimental Value (2025) Audience Score: 75.9% "I, for one, loved it; an almost 'old-fashioned' drama of thoughts more than actions, the director Joachim Trier gradually builds the audience's view of what happened in the…

Another big audience and score of 76% for SENTIMENTAL VALUE which also won the Best Film Not in the English Language BAFTA later that evening.

Vaughan's review is on our website and can be accessed via our Letterboxd page.

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Welcoming KE Adventure - our World Premiere Film Sponsor

KFF is pleased to be working with KE Adventure to bring the special screening of When Life Gives You Lemons … Everyone’s Everest to this year’s Festival.

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The Voice Of Hind Rajab - Sunday 1st March 5pm Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, Oscar nominated for her 'Four Daughters' that we had at the 2024 Festival, and produced by Brad Pitt, Jonath...

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Come along to Film Club today at 5pm to see for yourself if SENTIMENTAL VALUE deserves all the award nominations . The BAFTAS are taking place after the film so we'll get to find out how many of the 8 awards it wins.

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Kleber Mendonça Filho on 'The Secret Agent': “I wanted complete immersion into 1977” - A Rabbit's Foot The Secret Agent has become a blockbuster in Brazil for its pithy portrayal of a dissident under dictatorship. Now a serious contender at this year's awards circuit, the film—which also captures the h...

I had the absolute privilege to speak with Kleber Mendonca Filho about his brilliant film The Secret Agent, for A Rabbit's Foot Mag: a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

THE SECRET AGENT one of many great films showing at #KFF26
Sat 21 Mar 4pm - Alhambra S1
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