We hope you like the site, and that you’ll find lots to entertain, engage and stimulate you in the wonderful programme that Director Tony Jones and his team of programmers and advisors have put together.

The full Cambridge Film Festival brochure will be available from 9 September. The current listing is below

Due to circumstance out of our control some events have changed – Riverside Screenings now taking place 10 & 11 September only – so do check the website for latest information.

This is the current listing. The full website will be live on Sunday 29 August

Friday, Sep 17:
A SWEDISH LOVE STORY (CFF-12A): 4:00
CAMBRIDGE/ EAST ANGLIA SHORTS (77M)/COMMON GROUND (33M) (15): 6:30
ENTER THE VOID (18): Late Show 10:00
FRESHER’S WEEK SCREENING (PG): 11:00am
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS I: TURNING POINTS (18): 8:30
MONTY PYTHON: ALMOST THE TRUTH (12A): 7:00
POLICE, ADJECTIVE (CFF-15): 6:00
STEPHEN FRY: WAGNER AND ME (CFF-PG): 4:00
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC (15): 1:00
THE WEIRD WORLD OF BLOWFLY (CFF-18): Late Show 10:30
TRIDENT FEST 2010 (CFF-18): Late Show 11:00
WINTER’S BONE (15): 10:30am
WORLD’S GREATEST DAD (15): 8:30

Saturday, Sep 18:

A TOWN CALLED PANIC (PG): 1:30
ANIMALS ARE MY FAVOURITE…. (U): 12:30
BEIJING PUNK (85M)/KISS BILL (28M) (CFF-18): 11:00
BRILLIANTLOVE (CFF-18): 8:00
DANCING DREAMS (CFF-PG): 4:30
DON’T BE AFRAID (KEINE ANGST) (CFF-18): 8:30
GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD (CFF-15): 9:00
GRAVYTRAIN (CFF-15): Late Show 10:30
HUMAN TERRAIN (15): 12:30
I MADE THIS 2010 (PG): Free Event 11:00am
IAN CHRISTIE: UNFINISHED SYMPHONIES (PG): 5:30
IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (CFF-18): 4:15
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION PROGRAMME (U): 4:30
LADIES & GENTLEMEN: THE ROLLING STONES (PG): Late Show 11:30
MR. NICE (18): 8:45
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (LA TETE EN FRICHE) (15): 6:30
SMALL FILMS FOR SMALL PEOPLE (U): 11:00am
THE BATTLE OF THE RAILS (LA BATAILLE DU RAIL) (CFF-PG): 3:15

Sunday, Sep 19:
BEGGARS OF LIFE WITH ACC. FROM THE DODGE BROTHERS (CFF-U): 4:00
BOB THE BUILDER: RACE TO THE FINISH (U): 11:00am
CRONOS (18): 6:00
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (PG): 6:30
HENRY OF NAVARRE (HENRI 4) (CFF-18): 9:00
HOI POLLOI PRESENT HUGH HUGHES: HOW I GOT HERE (PG): 6:00
LONDON 2012 FILM NATION: MAKE A FILM IN A DAY WORKSHOP: FOR 14-1 (PG): Free Event 9:00am
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (LA TETE EN FRICHE) (15): 1:00
NÉNETTE (CFF-PG): 8:30
RAINBOW MAGIC: RETURN TO RAINSPELL ISLAND (U): 10:30am
THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART (CFF-15): 3:30
THE DISPENSIBLES (DIE ENTBEHRLICHEN) (CFF-PG): 12:30
UK SHORTS I: THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME (15): 8:30
WORLD’S GREATEST DAD (15): 12:00

Monday, Sep 20:
AMNESIA (7M)/BAD COMPANY 2009 (90M) (CFF-PG): 6:00
BRILLIANTLOVE (CFF-18): Late Show 10:30
CITY GIRL (U): 7:00
FAMILY SHORTS (PG): 5:30
GRAVYTRAIN (CFF-15): 3:30
KUBRICK’S NAPOLEON (12A): 9:00
LONDON 2012 FILM NATION: SHORTS – FOR 19-2 (PG): Free Event 10:00am
SLADE IN FLAME (PG): Late Show 10:45
THE BATTLE OF THE RAILS (LA BATAILLE DU RAIL) (CFF-PG): 1:00
THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE (15): 3:00
THE FOURTH REVOLUTION: ENERGY AUTONOMY (CFF-15): 4:30
THE HUNTER (2010) (15): 8:30
THE MIRACLE OF LEIPZIG(DAS WUNDER VON LEIPZIG-WIR SIND DAS VOLK) (CFF-15): 6:30
THORN IN MY HEART (L’ÉPINE DANS LE COEUR) (CFF-15): 8:00
WORKSHOP WITH NEIL BRAND (PG): 3:00

Tuesday, Sep 21:
ANIMALS ARE MY FAVOURITE…. (U): 10:30am
BABIES (BÉBÉS) (CFF-U): 6:00
CHICKEN HEADS (15M)/DIVINE PIG (60M) (CFF-15): 8:30
DESTINO: A CONTEMPORARY DANCE STORY (56M)/THE ART OF DOING NOTHI (CFF-PG): 4:00
GARBAGE DREAMS (CFF-PG): 9:00
GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD (CFF-15): 1:30
HENRY OF NAVARRE (HENRI 4) (CFF-18): 12:00
IN CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN FREARS (CFF-PG): 6:30
LADIES & GENTLEMEN: THE ROLLING STONES (PG): 11:00
MONSTERS (CFF-15): Late Show 11:00
NEUKÖLLN UNLIMITED (15): 6:45
O LUCKY MAN (CFF-15): 3:00
THE ART OF THE MID-LENGTH (18): 6:30
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18): Late Show 10:30
THOMAS AND FRIENDS – HERO OF THE RAILS (U): 11:30am

Wednesday, Sep 22:
A TASTE OF HISTORY ON FILM: LUNCHTIME ARCHIVE SHOW (PG): CFC Special Screening 1:00
BACK TO THE FUTURE (RE-RELEASE) (PG): 8:00
CELL 211 (18): 3:30
EMPIRE OF SILVER (CFF-15): 5:30
EMPIRE STATE (CFF-18): 8:15
PAN’S LABYRINTH (15): Late Show 10:45
ROUND IRELAND WITH A FRIDGE (CFF-15): 6:00
THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK (PG): 6:00
TWO IN THE WAVE (DEUX DE LA VAGUE) (PG): 4:00
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (SOMOS LO QUE HEY) (CFF-18): Late Show 10:30

Thursday, Sep 23:
BEHIND THE SCENES OF TODAY’S FILM AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY (PG): 10:00am
CAMBRIDGE FILM MAKER’S WORKSHOP (APPLE) (PG): 11:00am
FAREWELL (L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL) (CFF-15): 9:00
FIX ME (CFF-18): 3:00
GIARDINI DI LUCE (12M)/NOKOTAHEART (60M) (CFF-18): 8:30
HISTORY OF CINEMA PART 1 (MAGIC LANTERN/SILENT/70MM/CINERAMA) (U): 5:30
HISTORY OF CINEMA PART 2 (PG): 7:30
ROCK AND ROLL FUCK’N'LOVELY (CFF-18): Free Event 10:30
SCREEN EAST 2009 (PG): 4:00
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (15): Late Show 11:15
THE HILLSIDE CROWD (CEUX DE LA COLLINE) (CFF-15): 5:30
THE TRIP (2010) (CFF-15): 8:00
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (SOMOS LO QUE HEY) (CFF-18): 1:30
YOU, THE LIVING (15): 5:00

Friday, Sep 24:
CROSS CHANNEL (105M)/DISCREPANCY (10M) (CFF-18): 6:00
DARK SOULS (MØRKE SJELER) (CFF-18): 9:00
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS II: WISHFUL THINKING (18): 8:00
MASKS OF MER (PG): 4:00
MUNDANE HISTORY (JAO NOK KRAJOK) (CFF-15): 6:30
PLUG AND PRAY (15): 8:30
SUPERHERO ME (15): 10:30
TRUE LEGEND (SU QI-ER) (CFF-15): Late Show 10:30
UK SHORTS II – RELATIONSHIPS: THE ETERNAL RIDDLE (15): 3:00
VOICES UNBOUND: THE STORY OF THE FREEDOM WRITERS (CFF-15): 4:00

Saturday, Sep 25:
BEIJING PUNK (CFF-18): Late Show 10:30
DIRT (12A): 5:30
HARVEST (CFF-15): 6:30
PROMISE AND UNREST (CFF-PG): 4:00
SOUL BOY (CFF-15): 3:00
THE BEST OF THE FESTIVAL 2010 (PG): 12:30
THE BUTCHER’S SON (LA SOGA) (CFF-18): 8:30
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (CFF-15): 9:00, Late Show 11:00
THE GRUFFALO (U): 10:30am
THE MESSENGER (CFF-15): 6:30
THOMAS AND FRIENDS – HERO OF THE RAILS (U): 11:30am
TRUE LEGEND (SU QI-ER) (CFF-15): 3:30
WRITER’S WORKSHOP (KIDS) (U): 11:30am
YOU, THE LIVING (15): 8:00

Sunday, Sep 26:
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO (PG): 8:30
DARK SOULS (MØRKE SJELER) (CFF-18): 12:30
HARVEST (CFF-15): 1:30
MADE IN DAGENHAM (15): 9:00
PLUG AND PRAY (15): 3:30
SUPRISE FILM (18): 4:00
THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS (CFF-15): 6:30
THE SECRET OF KELLS (PG): 10:30am
VOICES UNBOUND: THE STORY OF THE FREEDOM WRITERS (CFF-15): 3:00

Download the 2010 Preview programme (PDF)

Please note that it’s not final, some things have changed already and the dates/times will be announced later this weekend.

TRIDENTFEST Trailer! from Carl on Vimeo. Music by Will Haven;

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The silent disco screening of the smash hit musical rhapsody on the theme of Abba’s songs was not only entertaining, but it also proved that culture and nature can go together in perfect harmony bringing, at the same time, lots of fun to the audience who could experience film outside a dark cinema room.

The screening of MAMMA MIA!, with the movie soundtrack played by portable radios handed out to the audience in the beginning of the show,  turned the film into an actual “beyond – the –screen event” in a natural context.

Having a picnic and singing aloud families and groups of friends actively participated in the plot – telling of this visually flamboyant, exhilarating, warm, candy-sweet musical romantic comedy set on an idyllic Greek island to which shores the “tide washes in”, as a result of a little “conspiracy”, three men (Brosnan, Firth and Skarsgard) – potential fathers to Sophie (Seyfried) who is about to get married and wants her true father to give her away.

The aim of the musical as a genre is to entertain. The screening in the pastoral setting of the Meadows on a purple-sky Sunday night brought the experience of Mamma Mia onto an extraordinary, non – conventional and certainly magical level.

Review by Marta Machala

Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema screens on the riverbank flickering into life as you approach. Welcome to our Riverside Screenings – a much-praised addition to the 2008 Festival programme, back this year.

Embark from Grantchester at dusk on a chauffeured punt to watch our selection of specially curated films, each evening based around a different theme. We provide champagne, warm blankets and the promise of a memorable and magical event.

Check in at the Red Lion pub in Grantchester from 7.30pm where you can enjoy a drink or pre-punt supper. Once checked in, you’ll be escorted to the punts, which will be departing at 15 minute intervals between 8.00pm and 9.00pm.

What’s on

Thursday 10 September, 7.30pm | HEARTLAND (CFF PG)
Nurture your inner romantic with a series of shorts and excerpts focusing on love. In keeping with the dramatic setting, the programme explores the theme of romance and its melodramatic qualities.

Saturday 12 September, 7.30pm | UP TO THE SOUTH (CFF PG)
At once challenging and touching, personal and political, Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra’ad’s UP TO THE SOUTH (TALEEN A JUNUUB) provides a lyrical insight into the minds, hearts, and lived reality of the people of southern Lebanon – and tests the border between art and documentary. This screening is part of CARTES POSTALES: FROM BEIRUT WITH LOVE, a selection of artists’ moving image film and video works specially curated for the Festival.

Monday 14 September, 7.30pm | PAST TIME (CFF PG)
Take a trip back into the region’s past with an archive programme featuring East Anglia in days gone by. Poignant, nostalgic, captivating – with a few comedic touches along the way.

Thursday 24 September, 7.30pm | DARKLIGHT (CFF 15)
A programme of creepy clips to chill the blood and make you wonder whether that owl you heard really was an owl. Do you dare?

Tickets

Tickets: Adults: £25, Picturehouse Members / Concessions: £20

Includes chauffeured punt from Grantchester Meadows to Dead Man’s Corner and complimentary champagne.

For only an extra £5 you can purchase a return punt trip.

How to book

Booking is through the Arts Picturehouse, either in person at the box office, over the phone on 0871 704 2050* or online.

*Calls cost 10p per minute from a landline

Wednesday 23 September 7.30pm Ely Cathedral | In association with Screen East

The Cambridge Film Festival are delighted to welcome four-time BAFTA nominee and two-time BAFTA winner Michael Palin as he joins The Culture Show’s Mark Kermode on stage at Ely Cathedral for a special, one-night-only BAFTA event celebrating his film career. For this exclusive BAFTA: A Life in Pictures interview, Palin will share anecdotes and unheard stories from his decade in the film industry in the 1980s. The event will be illustrated with film clips from his body of work and Palin will be in attendance at an exclusive signing of his book Halfway to Hollywood Diaries 1980-1988 taking place at 6.15pm in the South West Transept of the Cathedral.

About Michael Palin

Michael Palin established his reputation with MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS and RIPPING YARNS. His work also includes several famous films with Monty Python, as well as THE MISSIONARY, A PRIVATE FUNCTION, AMERICAN FRIENDS, FIERCE CREATURES and an award-winning performance in A FISH CALLED WANDA. His television credits include two films for the BBC’s GREAT RAILWAY JOURNEYS, the plays EAST OF IPSWICH, NUMBER 27 and Alan Bleasdale’s GBH. He has written bestselling books to accompany his seven very successful travel series, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, POLE TO POLE, FULL CIRCLE, HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE, SAHARA, HIMALAYA and NEW EUROPE. He is also the author of a number of children’s stories, the play The Weekend and the novel Hemingway’s Chair. In 2006 the first volume of his acclaimed diaries, 1969-1979: The Python Years, spent many weeks on the bestseller lists.

Book Signing

Copies of Palin’s book Halfway to Hollywood Diaries: 1980-1988 go on general release from September 17 from Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely, and there will be an opportunity to buy copies at Ely Cathedral on the evening of the event. The book signing will start at 6.15pm.

Tickets

Tickets are now on sale via the Arts Picturehouse website or by calling 0871 704 2050 (10p per minute from a landline). Tickets are also available to buy in person at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

This event will be filmed and by purchasing a ticket you agree to your image being used.