About the Festival

First established in 1977, the Cambridge Film Festival Festival has been committed to delivering high quality independent films to the widest possible audience. It has firmly established its reputation alongside London and Edinburgh as one of the UK’s major film events. Since July 2007, the Festival has been run by a registered charity, the Cambridge Film Trust, as the highlight of a year-round programme of events that aim to bring challenging and provocative cinema to Cambridge and the Eastern region. Previously held in July, the Festival moved to September in 2008 and we celebrated these new dates with a series of exciting and innovative outdoor screenings throughout Cambridge.

The Festival Archive

For almost 30 years, the Festival has presented an incredible range of screenings and welcomed hundreds of filmmakers from around the world. The Cambridge Film Trust is now developing an online archive to showcase this work and some of the thousands of posters, photographs and recordings which have been accumulated over the years. But we also need your help! We want to show what the Cambridge Film Festival means to you, its audiences – would you be willing to share your memories of previous Festivals with us? If so, please email us at archive@cambridgefilmtrust.org.uk.

Festival photos

To gain a sense of what the Festival is really like, you can find photos of the 2008 edition by visiting an online gallery specially created by our resident photographer, Cambridge photographer Tom Catchesides.