& please vote for Cambridge Film Festival!!!
It proves we can't ever really know... what's going on. |
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A February update and a little request (at the bottom) | CFF had an extraordinary 2025, our most successful festival in a decade. Thank you to everyone who booked tickets, volunteered, shared a recommendation, or turned up for a film you knew nothing about. Those small leaps of faith are what give Cambridge Film Festival its spark. We’ll announce the 2026 dates soon, but our work continues between editions. As a charity, we run year-round activities that keep film part of everyday life in the city: opportunities for young people to learn about cinema, free events that make space for families to watch together, and partnerships that help more people feel that a cinema is a place for them. Here’s a February round-up of what’s coming up. |
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| Our Youth Lab film education programme for 16–24 year olds is hosting a free screening of THE FISHERMAN, winner of the 2025 Youth Lab Jury Award. After a spirited debate, the jury was won over by its warmth and offbeat humour, and audiences at CFF44 took it to their hearts too. |
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| We’re also heading back into the community with a free family afternoon of crafts and cinema: A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON at Meadows Community Centre, Arbury, on Monday 16 February 2026. These screenings sit at the heart of our work: taking cinema beyond the usual venues, and making space for families to watch together, locally, at no cost. Places for this event are being coordinated through local partners and outreach, but if you work with a school, youth group or community space and want to partner on a future screening, we’d love to hear from you. |
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| Calling all filmmakers: submissions for CFF45 are now open. We’re always looking for films with a clear point of view, whether that’s a first feature finding its first festival home, a short that takes a risk, or a documentary that opens a conversation we’ve been avoiding. If you’d like your film to be considered for CFF45, submit it today. Please do share the link to a filmmaker you admire, or with someone who keeps saying, “I don’t know if it’s ready”. There are several discounts, including full submission waivers, for Cambridge-based filmmakers! |
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| Awards season is in full swing, and several films that screened at CFF44 are showing up across the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards nominations. HAMNET is up for Best Film, with PILLION also recognised in Outstanding British Film. In the performance categories, Jessie Buckley (HAMNET), Emma Stone (BUGONIA) and Rose Byrne (IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU) are nominated for Leading Actress, while Jesse Plemons (BUGONIA) and Ethan Hawke (BLUE MOON) are nominated for Leading Actor. We’ll be cheering for everyone involved, on-screen and behind the scenes. |
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| We are super proud to have been shortlisted in the Cambridge Edition People’s Choice Awards. If you’ve enjoyed CFF or year-round events, a quick vote is a lovely way to back the work we do as a local arts charity. |
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| Cambridge Film Festival is presented by Cambridge Film Trust, a registered charity with a mission to foster film culture and education for the benefit of the public, in Cambridge and the Eastern region but also throughout the UK | | By becoming a Friend or Patron of the Cambridge Film Festival, you support not only the UK’s third longest-running film festival but also a year-round programme of activities and events bringing the best British and independent international cinema to Cambridge. | |
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