Keswick Film Festival

03/04/2026

🗳The votes have been tallied, and we are thrilled to reveal the final audience scores for the 2026 Festival as determined by our audience ratings 🏆

Once again documentaries have scored highly with Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk coming out on top with 90.9% and All And Nothing not far behind with 89.7%. When Life Gives You Lemons...Everyone's Everest and Common Ground both scored 82% and The Shepherd And The Bear 79%.

Our family films went down well with everybody who saw them, resulting in big scores for Kangaroo (90.4%), Bugsy Malone (87%) and Happy Feet (80.9%). The students from Carlisle College picked highly rated modern classics giving There Will Be Blood 90% and Waves 87.9%.

Of the new non-documentaries Sirāt scored the highest with 87.3% followed by The Last Viking (80.6%), DJ Ahmet (80.3%), A Private Life (79.9%) and The President's Cake (79%)

You can see all of the scores on our website

🔗https://keswickfilm.org/festival/2026/scores

27/03/2026

DJ Ahmet
All And Nothing
Orwell 2+2=5

All get their UK release today after going down well at last weekend.

Posters inspired by these and other films by students from .college are still on display at in the Speed Of Life exhibition

23/03/2026

📣Well that's it for another year. A massive thanks to everyone who made KFF26 a great success: the audience who were yet again appreciative of the effort that goes into putting on the Festival - thank you for your continued support; the guests who came along to give the stories behind the stories in the films and really helped bring the films to life; our partner venues Rheged and Theatre by the Lake; and of course thanks to the Festival cast and crew, the dedicated volunteers who make the KFF a great experience.

Check out how the films scored here https://keswickfilm.org/festival/scores

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23/03/2026

A big thanks to KE Adventure for sponsoring the World Premiere of When Life Gives You Lemons... Everyone's Everest

23/03/2026

Steve Fairclough from LA1 Shorts

23/03/2026

22/03/2026

Thanks to LA1 Shorts for bringing such a wonderful selection of short films to Keswick

Thanks Keswick Film Festival, Theatre by the Lake , and Keswick Alhambra Cinema, had a great time! 👏👏👏

22/03/2026

Thanks to everyone at the Alhambra for helping us show so many great films this weekend.

22/03/2026

Don't forget to buy your merch before you leave today

Mugs £12.99
Totes £9.99

Available from the Festival desks

21/03/2026

Keswick Film Festival is in full swing across the town...

With a fantastic line-up of world cinema, premieres, award-winners and hidden gems, there’s still plenty to discover today, whether you’re catching a single screening or making a full day of it.

A brilliant celebration of film in all its forms across three venues - here with us at TBTL, the Keswick Alhambra and Rheged.

Take a look at what’s on and dive in: https://keswickalhambra.co.uk/KeswickAlhambra.dll/Home