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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
  • 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.

  • PAN’S LABYRINTH

    PAN’S LABYRINTH

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    Date(s): FRi 24 Oct 8pm

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    Fantasy, Foreign Language, Period, The Chapel

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    Fantasy, Foreign Language, Period, The Chapel

    In Guillermo Del Toro’s dark fantasy, fairy tales are for those who still believe in monsters.

  • THE BOTANIST

    THE BOTANIST

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    Date(s): SUN 26 Oct 6pm

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    Coming of Age, Fantasy, Foreign Language, The Chapel

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    Coming of Age, Fantasy, Foreign Language, The Chapel

    Travel to a breathtakingly beautiful world and into the mind of an impressionistic boy consumed by botany and the first pangs of love.

  • AFTER LIFE

    AFTER LIFE

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    Date(s): THURS 23 Oct 6pm

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    Drama, Fantasy, Foreign Language, Japan, Retrospective, The Chapel

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    Drama, Fantasy, Foreign Language, Japan, Retrospective, The Chapel

    If you could choose one memory to live in forever, what would it be?

  • THE BOY AND THE HERON

    THE BOY AND THE HERON

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    Date(s): SAT 25 Oct 3pm

    Tags

    Animation, Family, Fantasy, The Chapel

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    Animation, Family, Fantasy, The Chapel

    Hayao Miyazaki’s last and most probably final film takes a boy into a world of talking birds, fire girls, and flying dreams.

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