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15th - 24th September 2023
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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
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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
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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
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CHELTENHAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WELCOMES BIG NAMES
Cheltenham International Film Festival marks its fifth anniversary, moving to new dates 15-24 September and new home at Cineworld, premiering, previewing and screening films new and classic. Among a list of guests attending the festival this year are Sir Stephen Frears, Ken Loach, Timothy Spall, Carol Morley, Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Fanny Ardant and cast of the
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Special Events Line Up
CHELTENHAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 15 – 24 SEPTEMBER 2023 Sir Stephen Frears – A Director’s Tribute Inaugural recipient of the CIFF Director Tribute is Sir Stephen Frears, who we welcome to the film festival on 23 September. The Tribute includes a retrospective of Stephen’s work, an in conversation with broadcaster/journalist, Matthew Sweet, followed by an
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Chair of BAFTA, Sara Putt, leads jury at Cheltenham International Film Festival
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
Cheltenham International Film Festival marks its 5th anniversary in 2023, moving to new dates, 15-24 September, and to a new home at Cineworld in Cheltenham town centre. The festival will screen new films from around the world, plus film classics and is adding television, and new live events to its programme, along with guest celebrities.
Spain – Country in Focus
Highlight of our Spanish season in 2023, is On The Fringe, an emotional drama about a woman with a young son living on the edge, and fighting eviction from her home, starring two of Spain’s biggest stars, Penelope Cruz and Luis Tosar.
Ken Loach – UK premiere of his final film
Ken Loach, has announced his retirement with his last film, The Old Oak, a tale about traditional communities and the changing profile of those communities in Britain. We screen the UK premiere on 18 September in the presence of the director, Ken Loach.
Sir Stephen Frears – A director’s tribute
The film festival launches it’s Director’s Tribute to the newly-knighted Sir Stephen Frears who joins us on 23rd September. The occasion includes a retrospective of Stephen’s work, plus a conversation with broadcaster and journalist, Matthew Sweet, in front of a live audience
Timothy Spall – Bolan’s Shoes
Popular actor, and winner of Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award, Timothy Spall, is coming to Cheltenham on 16 September with his latest film, Bolan’s Shoes. Fans of Timothy and lovers of Marc Bolan and T. Rex music are going to love this film.
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Incoming Chair of BAFTA, Sara Putt, to lead jury at Cheltenham International Film Festival
BAFTA & Oscar 2023 winner – Tom Berkeley – joins the panel
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Cheltenham International Film Festival 2023
The film festival announces new dates with a planned programme of special events, new strands and a line up of guests in the works
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Sara Putt : Chair
Sara, Managing Director of Sara Putt Associates, established the agency in 1989. SPA is the leading agency representing behind the camera technical and production talent, from producers and directors through to Heads of Department and crew. Sara became Chair of BAFTA in 2023 and is a BAFTA Trustee. She also sits on the Board of the British Film Commission.
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Tom Berkley
Tom, along with co-director, Ross White, both from Gloucester, won an Oscar and a BAFTA for short film, An Irish Goodbye, in 2023. An Irish Goodbye was the first short film in 30 years to win both an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Live Action Short Film. And, Tom (and Ross) are the youngest British filmmakers to win an Oscar.
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Jonathan Dean
Jonathan is senior writer at The Sunday Times culture section, where he spends a lot of time meeting very famous people. For instance, Paul McCartney told him about the time he saw God, and Martin Scorsese was convinced that he looked just like his friend. In his spare time he tries to get his children into the music of Vampire Weekend. It’s a hobby.
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Laurie Bell
Laurie is CEO of The Cheltenham Trust, lead provider of culture and leisure in Cheltenham. The Trust manages venues, Pittville Pump Room and Cheltenham Town Hall, among others, where it co-presents live events bringing notable talent from music, drama, comedy to the town. The Trust is also guardian of Cheltenham’s heritage sustaining and developing its venues.
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Michael Bourne
Michael is Chair of Cheltenham Film Society (CFS), founded in 1945, and is the oldest and largest film society in the UK. The society is dedicated to screening independent films from all over the world. The object of the society is “to advance the education of the public in the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts, particularly the art of film and allied visual techniques”.
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Carl Hunter
Carl received critical success with his debut feature Sometime Always Never, starring Bill Nighy, which premiered at Cheltenham International Film Festival in 2019. He has collaborated with author/screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce on projects like Grow Your Own and is also busy as documentary filmmaker; bass player with Liverpool pop band, The Farm; a Senior Fellow at The Institute for Creative Enterprise; and a member of BAFTA.
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Neil Ramjee
Neil is Community Manager for the British Film Institute (BFI) hub in the South West and West Midlands of England. They are both part of the BFI Film Audience Network, an initiative to support the independent cultural exhibition sector and boost film audiences across the UK for specialised and independent British film.
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Stephen Frears
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