Strawberry Fields Forever UK Premiere Feature Film Competition: C-Films in Focus Synopsis: An imperfect love story, featuring liquid emotions. Eve is in London, unemployed after graduation, her relationship with Monkey foundering. Breaking up with Monkey, she meets Dex. This low-budget, poetic film presents the uncertainty, incompleteness, and asymmetry of reality, like an unfinished flight, and ...

Running alongside the MINT Chinese Film Festival, enjoy a whole series of free complementary events to celebrate Chinese New Year and all things Chinese and Asian. Our Asian Arts, Craft & Food Market runs in Keswick Market Square from 10am to 3pm: browse and buy arts and crafts, play some games, enjoy some snacks and delectable Asian food (we define Asian very broadly here: we've got Indian, Ko...

An Unfinished Film UK Premiere Special Screening Synopsis: January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown due to the covid pandemic. An 'ode to film-making', Lou Ye’s film also documents the experience of the pandemic in China. Audiences of different nationalities and ...

Running alongside the MINT Chinese Film Festival, enjoy a whole series of free complementary events to celebrate Chinese New Year and all things Chinese and Asian. At 11.30am and 12.30pm on Sunday 23rd you'll be able to see an amazing Lion Dance in Keswick's Market square, c/o the Lancaster-based Northern Dragons Lion Dance team, sponsored by the Lancaster Confucius Institute. OTHER FREE ACT...

Short Film Competition 2 Q&A with the filmmaker after Saturday's screening. Remains of the Hot Day Director(s) Wenqian Zhang Year of production 2024 UK Premiere Synopsis Qi, a six-year-old girl, resides with her mother's original family all year round since her father works in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China and rarely visits home. On a hot day at noon, at the end of the 20th century...

Shahid England Premiere UK Premiere Feature Competition: Asian Sparks *We plan to announce the list of winners of the 2025 competition section before this screening. Synopsis: Shahid (2024) is a political drama and a desperate comedy at the same time. It features historical heroes, contemporary criminals, and modern women having to deal with both. Shahid (2024) is a personal film by an Iranian re...

Running alongside the MINT Chinese Film Festival, enjoy a whole series of free complementary events to celebrate Chinese New Year and all things Chinese and Asian. At 2pm Sunday 23rd you can enjoy a Chinese music performance , at the Methodist Church Hall on Southey Street CA12 4HH, and at At 3pm you can join in a Chinese tai-chi demonstration , also at the Methodist Church Hall Southey Stre...

Short Film Competition 1 The Second Child UK Premiere Meng Qin's daily life revolves around taking care of her 11-year-old son who has a rare genetic disease. Already four months pregnant, Meng Qin is both hesitant to tell her son about the pregnancy and fears for the health of the second child. The Stag UK UK Premiere At a deer farm in Changhua County, a middle-aged man is asked to cut ...

Running alongside the MINT Chinese Film Festival, enjoy a whole series of free complementary events to celebrate Chinese New Year and all things Chinese and Asian. 3pm you can join in a Chinese tai-chi demonstration , also at the Methodist Church Hall Southey Street CA12 4HH (just head from the market square along Station Street, less than 3 mins walk) OTHER FREE ACTIVITIES GOING ON FOR CH...

All, or Nothing at All UK Premiere Feature Film Competition: C-Films in Focus Synopsis: On an urban island in Shanghai, Yoyo starts secretly following Lan Tian. In a parallel world, Lan Tian is quietly observing Yoyo in the distance. Trapped in a twin-towered shopping complex, they experience two variations of encounters, as affections, desires and other feelings start to appear. The film is set ...

In this beautiful film chosen by the Alhambra's co-owner Carol Rennie as the closing film for the MINT Chinese Film Festival weekend, and as her farewell to the Alhambra, we return to one of the first films ever shown by the club in 2001. Winner of more than 40 awards when it was released, including best actor and cinematography at Cannes, and rave reviews such as "probably the most breathtakingl...

Killing The Violet UK Premiere Feature Film Competition: C-Films in Focus Synopsis: On a normal day, a stranger breaks into Sumire's apartment and assaults her. Sumire reacts incredibly calm to the incident, but still feels the dangers and uncertainties creeping upon her. All that seemed to be peaceful and ordinary starts to collapse. As everything slips toward the unexpected, Sumire starts wr...

Bridget's back in Keswick in the fourth of the series of Helen Fielding's brilliantly observed frivolous, frothy and fun films about one of our favourite characters. Now a widowed mother of two in her fifties, Bridget Jones feels lost in the world of app-based dating. However, romance unexpectedly sparks with her son’s science teacher… and a much younger man. This time there's also more depth. T...

Frankenfish by the River UK Premiere Feature Film Competition: C-Films in Focus Synopsis: This is the urban-nautical tale of three young people. After experiencing romantic setbacks, actress Jia returns to her hometown to reunite with her two best friends. The comfort and familiarity at home allow Jia to breathe and pause from the hectic life of the city. Meanwhile, the Fish Monster begins its mi...

Short Film Strand: Woman, Snake and Love’s Bite Q&A with the filmmaker after Saturday's screening Love is not always a gentle comfort; sometimes it is suffocating, uncomfortable, and harmful. It slithers like a cold snake across the skin, triggering shivers and resistance; it acts like a poison, disguised as "for your own good," seeping into the body and leaving scars. Under the lens of contempor...

New from the Dreamworks studio is Dog Man. He's p art dog , part man , all hero. When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve—and fetch, sit and roll over. As Dog Man embraces his new identity and strives to impress his...

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the highly secret and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall. The suspense is killing..... well, you'll just have to wait and s...

1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter of the teacher, instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and an un...

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this absolutely joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find...

The North West Film Archive presents Lakeland on film, another chance to see this bespoke selection of films from the archive’s collection, showing the industries, cultures and traditions of the central lakeland area over the last 100 years. Presented by a member of the archives staff, this evening event will be sure to be popular with lovers of local history. Shown with descriptive closed caption...