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Cheltenham Film Festival: Friday 30 October To Sunday 8 November 2026.

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Cheltenham Film Festival: Friday 30 October To Sunday 8 November 2026.

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Cheltenham Film Festival:
Friday 30 October To Sunday 8 November 2026.

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Drama Foreign Language Cineworld The Chapel Period Comedy Retrospective Thriller Fantasy featured Biopic Coming of Age LGBTQ+ Q&A Art Event Family Musical Animation Documentary Melodrama Cheltenham Playhouse Japan Politics
  • A PRIVATE LIFE

    A PRIVATE LIFE

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    Date(s): Fri 24 Oct 6.30pm, Sat 25 Oct 4.30pm

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    Cineworld, Comedy, Foreign Language

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    Cineworld, Comedy, Foreign Language

    Jodie Foster is on fine comic form as  a psychoanalyst turned detective.

  • RENTAL FAMILY

    RENTAL FAMILY

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    Date(s): Sat 18 Oct 2pm, Sun 19 Oct 1pm

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    Cineworld, Comedy, Drama, Event, Q&A

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    Cineworld, Comedy, Drama, Event, Q&A

    Brendan Fraser gets Lost in Translation in a heartwarming tale of a struggling American actor searching for a connection in Tokyo.

  • IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

    IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

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    Date(s): Sat 18 Oct 7pm, Mon 20 Oct 4pm

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    Cineworld, Comedy, Drama, Thriller

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    Cineworld, Comedy, Drama, Thriller

    Rose Byrne is a gives a knockout performance as a mother unravelling in a motel room — who possibly finds herself.

  • NOUVELLE VAGUE

    NOUVELLE VAGUE

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    Date(s): SUN 19 Oct 8pm, MON 20 Oct 2pm

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    Biopic, Cineworld, Foreign Language, Period

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    Biopic, Cineworld, Foreign Language, Period

    All you need is a girl, a gun.... and Richard Linklater.

  • IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

    IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

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    Date(s): TUES 21 Oct 6.20pm, WEDS 22 Oct 2pm

    Tags

    Cineworld, Foreign Language, Thriller

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    Cineworld, Foreign Language, Thriller

    Jafar Panahi’s triumphant Cannes winner.

  • PETER HUJAR’S DAY

    PETER HUJAR’S DAY

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    Date(s): Mon 20 Oct 6.15pm, Weds 22 Oct 4pm

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    Art, Biopic, Cineworld, LGBTQ+, Period

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    Art, Biopic, Cineworld, LGBTQ+, Period

    Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall recreate a day in the life of influential New York photographer Peter Hujar.

  • CIELO

    CIELO

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    Date(s): SUN 19 Oct 3pm, THURS 23 Oct 2pm

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    Cineworld, Drama, Fantasy, Foreign Language, Q&A

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    Cineworld, Drama, Fantasy, Foreign Language, Q&A

    A ravishing odyssey through magic, myth, memory and the otherworldly landscapes of the Bolivian Altiplano.

  • THE COLOURS OF TIME

    THE COLOURS OF TIME

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    Date(s): SUN 19 Oct 5.30 pm, TUES 21 Oct 4pm

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    Art, Cineworld, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Period

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    Art, Cineworld, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Period

    Four estranged cousins inherit a house and discover a lost impressionist masterpiece in this time hopping story of art and ancestry.

  • THE HISTORY OF SOUND

    THE HISTORY OF SOUND

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    Date(s): TUES 21 Oct 8.20 pm, THURS 23 Oct 4.15pm

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    Cineworld

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    Cineworld

    Paul Mescal and Cheltenham’s Josh O’Connor star as two young men who set out to record America — and fall into something deeper.

  • ORWELL 2+2=5

    ORWELL 2+2=5

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    Date(s): WEDS 22 Oct 6 pm, FRI 24 Oct 4.15pm

    Tags

    Biopic, Cineworld, Documentary

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    Biopic, Cineworld, Documentary

    Truth is fragile — and Orwell’s warning has never rung louder.

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