Festival Focus 2024: South Korea
The Country in focus for our 2024 Festival is: South Korea For the 2024 edition of Cheltenham International Film Festival, we are excited to make Korea our country of focus. South Korean cinema is perhaps the most vibrant film industry in the world at the moment and, while Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite, Mother, The Host) and Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave) might have garnered most attention for their…
CIFF 2023: Round Up
Cheltenham International Film Festival celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2023… Cheltenham International Film Festival celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2023. Festival No.5 was our most successful to date in terms of creative accomplishments, audience participation, public awareness. One of the proudest accomplishments was the launch of our CineYouth programme, drawing in and reaching out to youth across town with a programme of film screenings and events. It is now fair…
CineYouth at CIFF 2023
CineYouth Launched on several fronts… CineYouth launched on several fronts. We selected a programme of short films from young filmmakers and edited them into one feature length screening called “On The Dark Side” at The Everyman. Demand was such that we quickly had to programme a second screening on the same day attended by students from the University of Gloucestershire. Feedback from the young attendees was very positive. It is…
On the Dark Side: CIFF Shorts
Tues 19 Sept – 7pm
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…
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,…
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.
Free To Watch Films
Cheltenham International Film Festival is delighted to offer four films – Free To Watch – from the Festival’s 2020 festival programme which was put online in June; CIFF.Shift72.com. The four films, Days of the Bagnold Summer, Lost Transmissions, The Beautiful Game and One More Jump are not available on any other streaming platform. Free To Watch is directed at front line health and care workers through to charities and students and is part…
Rust never sleeps
If Ladies of Steel is anything to go by, Finnish songs are extraordinarily gloomy. Birthday songs, love songs, patriotic songs, songs of celebration: they are all as miserable as sin. And yet, the nation has a knack of producing strong comedies and Ladies of Steel (available until 21 June at 19:30) is one of those. Old people in films are either the butt of jokes or they are feisty battlers,…
Animal Magic
How many British children, inner-city children especially, have ever seen a circus? It’s different on the continent, where around 2,000 troupes travel around constantly. Nonetheless, this ancient art-form lives on in illustration, story-telling and idiom. Do people still say they are going to “run away with the circus”? Let us hope so, because that is the promise held out in Nevia, a rather lovely Italian film that is available until…