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Now rebranded as FilmChelt, a nonprofit organisation, this festival continues to collect some of the best films on the international festival circuit for its home audience.
The festival runs from 18 to 26 October.
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Cheltenham Latest Reviews
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
A Yorkshire village’s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war... leaving it forced to change its rules.
In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.
A president faces choices in his final months in office.
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia find refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and first love.
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
How far would you go to reach heaven? Santa, a young indigenous girl, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother out of a life of hardship and into eternal paradise.
After a group of distant relatives inherit a house, they begin to investigate the life of their predecessor.
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