6 Amazing Festivals in May 2025
Travel Begins at 40 rounds up the best festivals in May 2025 from around the Globe, from Cuba to Australia, so wherever you are join in the celebrations. Cultural Festivals…
8 Festivals in January 2025 Around the World
Travel Begins at 40 rounds up the best festivals in January 2025 across the Globe, from Benin to the Shetlands, so wherever you are there is no reason to avoid…
Derby Film Festival 2024, Derby
The Derby Film Festival, a premier regional film festival in the UK, will be uniting film enthusiasts, filmmakers and industry professionals once again in November. Derby Film Festival 2024 Programme…
Ukrainian Film Festival 2024: Reflections
The Ukrainian Film Festival is set to return to London from September 19 to 22 2024. Hosted at Curzon Soho, this year’s theme, ‘Reflections,’ explores the quest for identity during…
The UK Dracula Film Festival 2024, Derby
Derby will be the setting for the UK Dracula Film Festival this September, as part of the city’s programme of events celebrating the centenary of the first staging of the stage play Dracula…
Italian Neorealism and BFI Retrospectives
From March to June, the BFI Southbank will have a series of retrospectives as well as a programme of Italian Neorealism. The retrospectives will be on Gene Tierney, Victor Erice…
Festivals in Colorado 2024: Nine of the Best
We all love a good festival. To give you a helping hand, here is our round up of nine of the best festivals in Colorado in 2024. Frozen Dead Guy…
Denver Film Festival 2024 Colorado
The Denver Film Festival is one of the major film festivals in the United States. Held in November across 10 days the festival is an amalgam of filmmakers and creatives working in cinema…
Festival Premiers Plans, Angers, France
Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers is an international film festival held in Northern France each January. This year marks the 37th edition of the festival which was established with the aim…
Flood Barrier by Catherine Yass
With the continuing threat of rising water levels in the UK caused by climate change Flood Barrier is a timely moving image commission created by Catherine Yass, which will be…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) 2024
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival or PÖFF (Pimedate Ööde filmifestival) is the leading film festival in Estonia. Held from 8 to 24 November 2024, it is one of 15 A-list film festivals…
Manufaktura and the Movies: Łódź the Manchester of Poland
After visiting the Polish capital of Warsaw, Mark Bibby Jackson takes the train to Łódź, the Manchester of Poland, and finds himself unexpectedly moved. I knew something of the Warsaw…
The Magnificent 7 Best Film Festivals 2023
With your mind firmly focused on Yul Brynner riding with six fellow cowboys into a dusty town we give you our round up of the seven best film festivals from…
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will screen at the Barbican Cinema 1 at 6:30pm on 27 January, followed by a talk with its director Laura Poitras. Sonia Zadurian, curator…
Black Cyclone: Africa and Her Diaspora’s Love for the Bicycle
Showing in February Black Cyclone: Africa and her Diaspora’s Love for the Bicycle is the fourth screening in the Barbican Cinema’s Emerging Film Curators…
London Short Film Festival (LSFF) 2024
Founded in 2003, the London Short Festival (LSFF) is a an independent short film festival. In January the LSFF presents some 250 to 500 UK and international shorts, as well…
Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, UK, 2024
Supported by BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the Wildscreen Festival is the leading natural world storytelling event. This year marks the 42th anniversary of the biennial festival, with the theme…
Raindance Film Festival 2023
The largest independent UK film festival, The Raindance Festival returns to London for its 31st edition in October. Whereas the BFI London Film Festival is the biggest show in town, Raindance…
Paddington: The Story of a Bear, British Library
The world’s favourite bear returns to London from the depths of darkest Peru for an exhibition at the British Library to celebrate his 60th birthday. Paddington: The Story of a Bear, featuring…
Thamesmead Festival, Southmere Park 2021
Thamesmead Festival returns to Southmere Park this August. With last year’s festival creatively parlayed into a series of markets, the return of this unique, community-minded festival is eagerly anticipated by…
Redoubt: Matthew Barney, Hayward Gallery
The focal point of Matthey Barney’s first solo exhibition in the UK for more than a decade, currently showing at the Hayward Gallery on Southbank London, is the feature length…
Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema
The pioneering and unparalleled work of Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013), the cinematic titan whose films shaped the face of modern cinema, is the focus of a new exhibition. Ray Harryhausen: Titan…
Cannes Film Festival 2025, France
Probably the most famous – and certainly the most glitzy – film festivals in the world, the Cannes Film Festival, or Cannes Festival to give its official title, is held at the coastal town in southern France…
Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale 2025
The Berlin International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale, takes place every year and is one of the most important and most visited film festivals on the planet with films screened from all…
