Incoming Chair of BAFTA, Sara Putt, to lead jury at Cheltenham International Film Festival
BAFTA & Oscar 2023 winner – Tom Berkeley – joins the panel Incoming Chair of BAFTA, Sara Putt, will lead the BEST FILM competition jury at Cheltenham International Film Festival 2023. BEST FILM is open only to directors with one or two films on their C.V. Joining Sara on the panel, among others, are: Tom Berkeley, director of An Irish Goodbye which scored a double earlier this year, winning…
An Afternoon with
Dame Judi
Cheltenham International Film Festival IV is pleased to welcome Dame Judi Dench to Cheltenham during which we shall Celebrate her career as one of Britain’s finest actresses. The highlight is “An Afternoon with Dame Judi” before a live audience, in conversation with Jonathan Dean of Sunday Times Culture Magazine. Throughout the film festival, we shall celebrate some of Dame Judi’s most memorable performances, screening and streaming films which have become…
The Crying Game
Every year, Cheltenham International Film Festival will include retrospectives to recognise the contribution made by filmmakers, actors, films to the legacy of great cinema. We kick off our first retrospective with The Crying Game, released 30 years ago and premiered at Venice Film Festival in 1992. The film was directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley and starred Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jaye Davidson and Oscar-winning actor,…
A Special Focus on Ukraine
Every year, Cheltenham International Film Festival selects one country for our “Country in Focus” strand of the festival. This year, we could not miss the opportunity to recognise Ukrainian films and filmmakers – to shine a light on a country which for too long has been under the radar. Among the films we plan from Ukraine are: Reflection, Olga, Rhino and Stop-Zemelia. Rhino was co-produced by Dariusz Jablonski who will…
Celebrate
Every year the Festival shall celebrate the career of one of our great actors. In 2022, we Celebrate Dame Judi Dench by hosting “An Evening with Dame Judi” in conversation with Sunday Times Culture Magazine, senior writer, Jonathan Dean. “An Evening with…..” will take place on 26 May, more details to follow.
20% discount offer for Key Workers
Cheltenham International Film Festival 2020 – now enjoying a successful run around the living rooms of the UK – are offering key workers 20% off when booking any film in the Festival programme. The Festival is in full swing and all films are still available to watch. The programme includes films from around the world and has attracted some big names for its audience Q&As including Simon Pegg, the in-betweeners/Friday Night Dinner…
365 Mindful Days
Close your eyes. Turn your attention to your breath as it flows in and out. If your attention wanders, turn it gently back to your breath. Keep doing that. You are doing mindfulness. With practice, this simple technique (there are many variants) will quieten the nagging voice in your head, which tends to amplify the stresses and worries of your everyday life. My Year of Living Mindfully, which starts on…
On the weird side
Every film festival needs at least one bonkers film, and you’d go a long way to find a better example than Cook F**k Kill (Žáby bez jazyka). Jaroslav K, a puzzled and slightly paranoid everyman, needs to open a gate to enter a property where his children are hiding. To get inside, he undergoes a series of tests and trials that become weirder as time goes on. And that’s about as…