Cambridge Film Festival
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| Status | Active |
| Genre | Film festival |
| Date(s) | 20-27 October 2016 |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Venue | Arts Picturehouse Cambridge |
| Location(s) | Cambridge |
| Country | England |
| Years active | 39 |
| Inaugurated | 1977 |
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The Cambridge Film Festival is the third-longest-running film festival in the UK. The festival historically took place during early July, but now takes place annually during Autumn (20 - 27 Oct in 2016) in Cambridge.
Established in 1977 and re-launched in 2001 after a 5-year hiatus, the Cambridge Film Festival shows a range of UK and international films that debuted at leading film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival, as well as hosting UK premieres of films, alongside a broad range of specialist interest, archive, and retrospective strands. All films are open to the public to watch.
Each year the Festival awards audience awards to the Best Feature (The Golden Punt Award), Best Documentary (Silver Punt Award), and Best Short Film (Crystal Punt Award).
The Cambridge Film Festival is a celebration of film - past, present and future that prides itself on showing film from all over the world from all different kinds of filmmakers.
The Festival has a long running relationship with Woody Allen which has seen him offer the UK premieres of many of his films, including Crimes and Misdemeanors, Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine and in 2014, Magic in the Moonlight which marked the Woody Allen's 20th preview at the Cambridge Film Festival.
Other UK premieres at the Festival have included Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs in 1992, Pirates of the Caribbean starring Johnny Depp, and Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers with Bill Murray.
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