Forget Cannes, It’s Time For Keswick Film Festival
Forget Cannes, It’s Time For Keswick Film Festival
The 2017 Keswick Film Festival is set to return this February, bringing with it another adventure fuelled programme.
Celebrating its 18th year, the popular event will attract hundreds of film fans to the heart of the Lake District as venues, Theatre by the Lake, Alhambra Cinema and the Rheged Centre highlight the very best of world cinema.
Taking place between 16 and 19 February, this year’s festival will take its audience on a visual journey across the globe, featuring thought provoking documentaries, innovative short-films and plenty of special guests. Films will be shown on four screens – at the historic Alhambra and Theatre by the Lake, plus the huge IMAX screen at Rheged.
Opening with a New Zealand family saga, The Patriarch, this year’s festival will also feature a strong showing from the USA including Manchester by the Sea which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year and sees a superb performance from Casey Affleck, and from the director of Whiplash, La La Land is described as a “beguiling musical romance” starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. On Saturday February 18, the festival comes to the big screen at Rheged showing Paths of the Soul and Wolf Totem.
The joyous Paterson and Reaching For The Moon are part of this year’s Poets theme while Loving tells of persecution of an inter-racial couple in 1950s Virginia. Throughout the weekend, the festival will also feature the work of prolific director Michael Curtiz including Casablanca and Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Also, new to this year’s programme is the Critics Choice Award which will see three top film critics present their ‘film of the year’ before the audience gets the chance to vote on their choices. In the run up to the festival and over the course of the weekend there will be an ongoing, online conversation about their choices.
The Keswick Film Festival also celebrates short films with the prestigious Osprey awards. A panel of judges are shown a selection of films from local film makers and reward the best with the Osprey award. The competition is open to film makers with a connection to Cumbria or Keswick Film Festival. All submissions must be received and entry fees paid by Sunday January 1 2017.
Passes for the 18th Keswick Film Festival are now available from the Theatre By The Lake box office. Tickets for individual films and events will be on sale after the full programme times have been announced.
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