Details of the 2012 Cambridge Film Festival will appear here shortly

Jos Stelling, filmmaker, cinema owner, visionary. At the age of seven he was given a projector and started to show films to children in the neighbourhood, developing a profound passion for film. He spent all of his spare time filming with an 8mm camera, and after 10 years experimentation began his first feature. Released in 1974, MARIKEN VAN NIEUMEGHEN - ultimately a collaboration with 800 people - was selected for the Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival. No film from the Netherlands has received this honour since. His subsequent features have followed a unique and often bizarre vision.

Although popular on the festival circuit, none of his films have achieved distribution in the UK. Cambridge Film Festival presents a chance to catch up with a unique vision of cinema, and meet the man himself.

Jos Stelling will talk about his career and fascination with art and culture, interrupted by his three short films THE WAITING ROOM, THE GAS STATION and THE GALLERY, with opportunities for the audience to ask questions about his work.