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Wasatch Mountain Film Festival celebrating 10th year of adventure films

by Kristen McPeek, KUTV

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Wasatch Mountain Film Festival is gearing up to welcome adventure fans with films from all around the world.

Multiple screening blocks will take place from September 19-22 at Westminster University.

There will be 49 films from local and international filmmakers from all around the world. Impacting stories are told through the eyes of explorers, authors, photographers, and filmmakers.

An anticipated film, "Between Earth & Sky," will show an Oscar Shortlisted film. The film tells the story of renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni as she studies what grows back after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy.

Another highlight, "Champions of the Golden Valley," premiered in June at the Tribeca Film Festival. It shares stories about the Afghan ski racing community.

The festival will also host workshops from accomplished filmmakers and industry professionals. An artisan market will also be set up as a base for families and festivalgoers.

Tickets can be bought online at wasatchfilmfestival.org . Use the code 'welovekutv' through Wednesday morning September 11th, for 50% off a ticket purchase.

The festival relies entirely on volunteers. Organizers say they are always looking for people to help out in various roles during and outside of the festival.

For more information, visit the Wasatch Mountain Film Festival website .

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A Chill Out Adventure - The Adventure Travel Film Festival review

31 August, 2022

Have you ever heard about The Adventure Travel Film Festival? Luckily contibutor, Jenny-Anne, visited the festival this year and gives you the low-down on her thoughts and experience. If you love films and the great outdoors, this could be perfect for you!

The Adventure Travel Film Festival is my kind of festival. It’s compact, laid-back, well-organised and there’s a man serving iced coffee. And thank goodness he’s here, because it’s topping 33c on the thermometer every day.

For three sweltering days in a stunning rural Cotswolds location, short films on all manner of travel and adventure are being eagerly enjoyed by a select bunch of intrepid travellers.

It's more than just adventure

Through the carefully curated films on offer, I’ve experienced the ardour of a cycle across the peaks of Tajikistan, urbex in the wastelands of Chernobyl, the lives of extraordinary Rio residents and a not-so potted history of the Airstream. Screenings take place throughout the afternoon and evening but there’s so much more besides these wonderful films to inspire and excite.

Guests can choose to bring their own supplies or take advantage of the excellent catering on offer. The on-site menu takes you on a world of taste adventures and after dark there’s live music and a movie on the lawn, from which tired legs tramp back to their respective beds and bivvies. In the morning there’s a gentle yoga session on the lawn to ease you into your day, if you so desire.

You make it happen

This festival can’t happen without a formidable team of volunteers, who provide the bedrock of this ten-year-old annual adventure-fest. In return for around 12 hours of your best friendly face, you’ll be fed, watered and free to explore all the three days have to offer, but be warned, if the food runs out, you’ll need to have a stash of your own as it’s a very remote location. 

The first day begins at a reasonable 10.30am for a series of intense briefings on the lawn. It’s a case of information overload at times, but there are so many experienced volunteers on hand that it never feels overwhelming.

This year our volunteer team ranges in age from 14 to 75 years old, the vast majority of which (unlike me) are previous punters, volunteers or both. In fact, at least half the crowd have come to at least five festivals. That’s some retention rate.

Sleep where, and how, you wish

Tents, camper vans, hammocks and bivvies are all welcome, with plenty of space to build or park your preferred weekend home. Due to popular demand, this year there’s even a special area for bike tourers. With only around 500 attendees in total, it’s not hard to find your way back to your tent and never a long walk to the facilities.

Being an inexperienced outdoor sleeper and also a frustratingly indecisive person, it took until after the sun had gone down on that first night for me to adopt the tree house, at the very centre of the festival hub, as the place for me to roll out my mattress. It served as the unofficial royal box from which to watch the evening screenings on the lawn. I never imagined I could fall asleep while a motorcycle movie played to an audience of hundreds directly beneath me, but miraculously I woke at 6am and the show was well and truly over.

All are welcome, no experience necessary 

Chatting to attendees throughout the weekend, I’m reassured that there’s no requirement for me to have circumnavigated the globe astride a vehicle of my own creation to be part of the adventure scene. True, many ATFF stalwarts have undertaken some truly awe-inspiring journeys but there’s a distinct lack of ego here and captivating conversations are easily come by.

I myself have a lowly handful of wild camps and a solo European bike tour to my name, but lunch buddies were eager to hear about them, rather than impress me with their own tales of far-flung expeditions, some of which had me dropping my jaw into my salad.

Every minute of the Adventure Travel Film Festival had me tuning into remarkable human experiences but the very best thing was that, driving home to my soft bed on the Sunday afternoon, I wasn’t tired at all. My brain was alive with ideas but the festival hadn’t taken away my energies, rather it restored them and left me desperate for the next adventure of my own. Armed with a lengthy reading list and a few names to Google, I might even submit my own adventure film one day.

Find your own adventure inspiration

The Adventure Travel Film Festival 2023 will return to Hatherop in the Cotswolds from 11-13 August next year, and if you’re south of the equator, a sister event takes place in the wonderfully named Bright, in Australia in February .

If your appetite for adventure needs some urgent stimulation, the festival season isn’t quite over. The Armchair Adventure Festival is a three-day event in Cornwall that encompasses screenings, workshops, live music and talks. It takes place 22-25 September and you can still find tickets here . And, of course, our very own National Outdoor Expo is happening in Birmingham on 18-19 March. Tickets will be on sale in September but sign up for updates now to be the first to hear about the fantastic speakers and exhibitors we’re signing up.

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• Start: 11 August 2023
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The Adventure Travel Film Festival is the brainchild of film-maker Austin Vince and travel author Lois Pryce.

The festival’s roots stem from the creators’ being sent lots of fantastic travel films from all over the world by largely unknown film-makers. They came from all over the globe and covered every form of transport — boats, bicycles, buses, motorcycles, 4x4s and even hitch-hiking and train-hopping. The “adventure travel” shows they saw on TV, although polished and professional, were nothing in comparison to the real-life dramas that were arriving in their letterbox.

As time passed they gradually realized that they were accruing a fairly extensive and possibly, definitive, collection of adventure travel films. That was the tip of an iceberg. Once they started searching actively, films came to the surface that were absolutely mind-blowing. They were amazed, and excited, that adventures of this quality, old and new, were essentially unknown by the public.

Their mission is to change all that.

While film festivals don’t usually have manifestos — the Adventure Travel Film Festival has one:

• To showcase the best independent adventure travel films ever made
• To guarantee a platform for future adventure film-makers
• To bring together the adventure travel community
• They know that making a good film isn’t difficult — they will show you how
• To have loads of fun while doing all the above!

Film festivals are usually based around cinema screens in cities. In the spirit of the event, the Adventure Travel Film Festival is based around two days of camping and good times in the beautiful countryside.

Moto-related films entered into this year’s festival include “ Going the Distance ” with Mike and Alanna Clear, “ MotoSyberia ” with Maciek Swinarski and “ One Man Caravan ” which chronicles American Robert Fulton’s legendary 18-month journey that took him through the Middle East and Asia on his Douglas motorcycle in 1932.

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Between catching the next wave and shredding the slopes, an adventure seeker’s gotta’ relax. In true Rad Season fashion, we’ve found the best film festivals around the world – with a focus on action and adventure flicks. These 7 festivals perfectly capture the essence of the adrenaline chase. From mountain climbing to colossal wipeouts, these adventure-focused film festivals are just the fix you were looking for before the next season begins.

1. Banff Mountain Film + Book Festival

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Dates: October 31 – November 8, 2020 Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada

Find your next muse at the Banff Mountain Film + Book Festival. Nine days of inspiration from filmmakers, authors, and photographers take over this picturesque Canadian mountain town. Catch one of the countless expedition films, and if you’re lucky, a Q&A with the producers following the film.

Website: Banff Mountain Film + Book Festival

2. Radical Reels Tour

Dates:  Various Location:  Various locations throughout Australia

Leave the blankets and popcorn at home; the Radical Reels Tour is as close as you can get to the real deal. The tour across Australia features nine adrenaline (and sometimes anxiety) inducing short films. The most extreme base jumps, stunts, and sports fill the screens for eager thrill-seekers to enjoy.

Website: Radical Reels 

3. Mountainfilm

Dates: May 15-25, 2020 Location: Virtual

Mountainfilm has just the inspiration you need to start your next journey. Focusing on culturally and politically impactful documentaries, the Mountainfilm festival in the Colorado mountain town of Telluride has inspired a myriad of attendees to explore the world around them and take action. Never underestimate the power of good film.

Website: Mountainfilm

4. London Surf Film Festival

Dates: TBA Location:  London, England

In addition to the weeklong surf film showcase, the London Surf Film Festival hosts a variety of community and social happenings. Join like-minded surfers and fans for sold out viewings of the best in surf production. Don’t be surprised to bump shoulder with the big names in the business.

Website: London Surf Film Festival

5. Adventure Film Festival

Dates: TBA Location:  Various locations around the world

Travel to the fringes of the universe during this worldwide, immersive film experience. Stop in Boulder, Colorado during the U.S. leg of the tour for craft brews, workshops, family & kids shows, and massive outdoor gear giveaways. Score.

Website: Adventure Film Festival

6. Sheffield Adventure Film Festival

Dates: Canceled in 2020 Location:  Sheffield, England

With over 100 action/adventure movies in the lineup, there is certainly no shortage of extreme sport action. Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is known for its friendly nature; no need to partake in any of the sports to have a good time. Catch any of the award winning flicks jam-packed into the weekend, then grab a beer with your new friends.

Website: SHAFF

7. Irish Adventure Film Festival

Dates: February 29, 2020 Location:  Galway, Ireland

While it may have grown in size since its 2012 inception, the Irish Adventure Film Festival has kept its three core promises: inspire people to take their own adventures (no matter how small), honor the filmmakers and athletes that bring their vision of the outdoors to us, and add meaningful value to our partners. Oh, and did we mention it’s in Ireland?

Website: Irish Adventure Film Festival

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The Top 10 Adventure Film Festivals

Summer may be over, but this is still one of my favourite times of year. It’s Adventure Film Festival season! Across the world there is a growing number of festivals showcasing the best in travel, expedition and mountain adventures. You should be able to find one pretty close to where you live. In addition, some of the festivals go on tour, taking a selection of their best films to different cities around the world.

I can really recommend seeking out one of these festivals, especially if you are relatively new to the adventure world. It’s so exciting to watch a carefully-curated series of films on a massive cinema screen. There’s usually a variety of films, designed to inspire you to head out and seek adventures of your own. Long films are book-ended by short little teasers, crazy adrenaline bursts of extreme sports contrast with slower, thoughtful films. And the best in the business – proper professional film-makers with vast skill, kit and cash – go up against amateur adventurers in the hotly-contested award categories.

The films are exciting, yes. But Adventure Film festivals are more than just a night out at the cinema. For you find yourself sharing the venue with hundreds of people just like you! People excited by adventure, remembering happy memories, planning future exploits. There’s so much energy and inspiration that you can’t help but come home fired with resolve to stop procrastinating and start planning.

I love Adventure Film festivals from another angle, too. I’mm an adventure film-maker these days, and having one of my films selected for a film festival is always massively exciting. In terms of personal ambition, and trying to get better at what I do, I see being picked for a film festival as a huge pat on the back for me. The thrill and the pride comes because I know there is so much incredible competition out there. This genre of film-making is blossoming at an amazing rate.

I also know, from seeing behind the scenes, how much work is required to run an Adventure Film festival. It’s mostly done by dedicated, knowledgable, savvy volunteers who put in huge amounts of time and energy to make the festivals so good. I respect the people who make the selections for the festivals, and that makes me feel even better when (if) they deem my film good enough for their event.

So when you go along to a festival, know that people have really worked very hard to put together a fantastic collection of films for you to enjoy. Know that the film-makers whose films are being shown are bursting with pride to be up there on that massive screen. And know that the person sitting next to you in the auditorium is – right now – planning something ridiculous and bold and exciting, just like you will be doing.

Last year Leon and I had our film  Into The Empty Quarter   picked for a few festivals. It was ridiculously exciting. So we decided to add an extra layer of excitement of seeing our film on a big screen by walking from the airport to the film festival. We made this short film which we hope will fill you with enthusiasm for seeking out an adventure and a film festival for yourself.

Enjoy the season – go support your local Adventure Film festival. Our Top 10 List follows…

There are no end of great Adventure Film Festivals both in the UK and further afield. To try and make any sort of a qualitative list is silly. I would like to share with you my favourites , though ‘“ based simply on experiences as an audience member or when I’mve been fortunate enough to have my film screened there (and, in a couple on instances, festivals that I haven’t been to but have heard so much praise for that it’s impossible to leave them out.)

Have you been to any of these? Where have I missed out? Tell me your favourite in the comments section, or on social media.

Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (UK)

One of the first festivals I went to, and one of the best. A great weekend of speakers and event in a city filled with outdoor enthusiasts.

Why Not? Adventure Film Festival (Ireland)

There are a few good festivals in Ireland, but this is my favourite. It’s run by good people, and attended by the same. Galway is a great location too.

Edinburgh Adventure Film Festival (UK)

I limited myself to one Scottish event on this list, and it’s got to be Edinburgh. The organisers put a lot of effort in to getting great speakers to augment the films.

ReelRock (Worldwide)

The first touring festival that I came across, and still one of the best.

Adventure Travel Film Festival (UK, USA)

This is generally the most madcap festival of my year. Run by the brilliantly eccentric Austin Vince and his talented wife Lois Pryce, it unearths films that you’d never find anywhere else.

Telluride Mountain Film (USA)

Set in Colorado, this is regularly touted as the best American festival around.

Kendal (UK)

The UK’s premiere festival, and to many one of the homes of UK mountain culture. Sadly, I’mve never yet had a film picked for Kendal. I intend to rectify that soon.

NZ Mountain Film Festival (NZ)

Wanaka and Queenstown are two of the most beautiful towns that I’mve ever been too. That alone is a good enough reason to visit this festival!

Adventure Fest, UK

This was the first festival that a film of mine ever screened at. It does a wonderfully comprehensive tour of the UK, with a stellar gala event in central London

Banff Mountain Film Festival (Canada)

This is probably the biggest of all. Taking places over a week in the Canadian Rockies, it attracts (and accepts) only the best filmmaking talent. Last year, Alastair and I made the journey there to watch our film in competition. It seemed a great opportunity to fit in another tiny adventure’¦.

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Pakistan International Adventure Festival

I got an email last year from the first ever adventure film festival in Pakistan, wanting to show one of my films. I wish I could have gone ‘“ it’s fantastic to see such a beautiful country embracing the world of Adventure festivals

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Italy has a pretty nice mountain film festival too, in case you’re interested > http://trentofestival.it/

Dundee Mountain Film Festival is the UK’s longest running continous festival this year in its 33rd. year. It’s a bijou festival and a member of the International Alliance of Mountain Film.

Sounds brilliant!

Here’s Dundee Mountain Film Festival’s programme. It’s the last weekend in November every year. http://www.dundeemountainfilm.org.uk/programme.htm

I really like the one we have here in Copenhagen, a really good mix of big international films and quirky Nordic originals – definitely a strong Norway, Sweden and Greenland presence which gives a new perspective on Scandinavian adventures.

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The latest creations from Steven Soderbergh, Coralie Fargeat, Alexandre Aja, Asif Kapadia, Natalia Erika James, Adam Elliot, Bertrand Mandico, Pupi Avati and many more will be enjoyed by audiences in our theaters. With less than a month to go until the kick off of the SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, we are sure that you're on the edge of your seat. So today, at last, the wait is over. And we offer you a long list of names and titles, irresistible for any genre fan, among which you will find the most long-awaited horror, sci-fi and fantastic films of the year.

Barcelona, 10 September 2024. Ángel Sala and Mònica Garcia i Massagué are the two key players in the press conference that’s most eagerly awaited all Festival fans. Today we present, before the attendees at Casa SEAT, all of the films that have been secretly brewing since our first announcements in July. Leading lights in genre, undisputed classics, contemporary big names and trend-setting debut films all coexist in the complete line-up of the Festival's 57th edition. Time to start filling out your wish lists.   

Two New Distinguished Award Winners

Actor Geoffrey Rush , best known as Captain Barbossa in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, will receive our Grand Honorary Prize this year. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Actor for Shine and two BAFTAs for Best Supporting Actor for The King's Speech and Elizabeth: The Golden Age , this Australian actor has also embraced genre in films that include Gods of Egypt , Mystery Men and House on Haunted Hill  (1999) . The actor will be visiting the Festival, where his latest film, The Rule of Jenny Pen , will also be screened as part of the Official In Competition Selection.

Meanwhile, director Alexandre Aja will be receiving the Time Machine Award this year. This French filmmaker has been exploring every imaginable corner of horror for more than two decades, from slashers in his acclaimed remake of The Hills Have Eyes to the animalistic horror in Crawl or Piranha 3D. This year Aja will return to Sitges, where his controversial High Tension garnered three awards in 2004, to receive this accolade and, while he's at it, to present his latest film: Never Let Go , which will be in charge of bringing the Festival to a close. 

The awards presented to Geoffrey Rush and Alexandre Aja are in addition to those already announced in July: Mike Flanagan, Nick Frost, Heather Langenkamp, Ovidio G.Assonitis, Christophe Gans, Fred Dekker and Fabio Testi . 

Announcing the Opening and Closing 

They often say that it's not how you start that's important, but how you finish. Here in Sitges we don't agree, so we've decided to both start and end the Festival in style.

This year's edition will be kicking off with a very special guest. The opening film will be Presence , the new film from Palme d'Or and Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh . This versatile American director, the man behind films that include Ocean's Eleven, Contagion, sex, lies, and videotape, Traffic and Solaris (among many others), will be presenting his new feature film at the Festival, an intriguing story about a family that moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they're not alone. Following its success at this year's Sundance and Toronto Festivals, Presence will be presented in Sitges with the presence (pun intended!) of its director.

Meanwhile, and although we already just gave you a little spoiler, we can announce Never Let Go  directed by Alexandre Aja  as the closing film, a supernatural tale that takes place in a cabin in the woods starring Halle Berry . 

The Jury for This Year's Edition

There could never be a good festival without a good selection of judges. And as every year, we are proud of the many professionals who will be deliberating in our theaters. As we announced in July, the members of the Jury for the Official Selection will be director and screenwriter Fred Dekker (who will also receive the Honorary Time Machine Award), English composer and film writer Stephen Thrower , Madrid-born filmmaker Carlota Pereda , French filmmaker Christophe Gans (who will also receive the Méliès Career Award) and Fantastic Fest director Lisa Dreyer .

Meanwhile, participating in the Méliès d'Argent Jury will be screenwriter and researcher Álex Mendíbil , Ukrainian director Marysia Nikitiuk and Northern Irish researcher Victoria McCollum. The Jury for Blood Window and the Òrbita section will consist of producer Roxana Ramos , American director and film editor Douglas Buck and producer Nahikari Ipiña , while journalist José Enrique Monterde , programmer Rebecca de Pas and film critic Olivia Cooper-Hadjian will be the judges for Noves Visions.

The Jury for the Anima't section will bring together animator Bill Kopp , Verónica Buide , president of the MIA (Women in the Animation Industry) association, and illustrator Juanjo Sáez . Costume director Nerea Torrijos , director Ivan Villamel and film critic Mariona Borull  will be in charge of the Brigadoon section.

New Titles in the Official Selection

Although we already offered you a small preview in July, we still had many faces to reveal (some already known, others yet to be discovered) to complete the Official Fantàstic In Competition Selection at this year's edition of the Festival.

Asif Kapadia , director of Senna , Amy , or Diego Maradona , puts aside his passion for biopics to once again embrace his origins in the fantastic genre. And he does it with 2073 , a feature film inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetée that moves between science fiction and documentary. Additionally, the filmmaker who won us over in 2019 with his I Lost My Body revisits us, this time with Meanwhile on Earth . Jérémy Clapin  takes the plunge into live-action filmmaking with this tale of extraterrestrials that generated very good reactions at this year's Berlin film festival. And landing directly from Venice are the Quay Brothers , monoliths of experimental animation, who will be presenting the obscure Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass , a stop-motion phantasmagoria that all fans of Phill Tippet will be crazy about.

Activists, disappearances and a strange planet. Actress Adèle Exarchopoulos , a Festival regular, stars in Planet B by French filmmaker Aude-Lea Rapin. Aislinn Clarke will be taking the leap from Midnight X-Treme, where she surprised audiences in 2018 with her The Devil's Doorway , to the Official Selection. This time she treats us to the haunting Fréwaka , a reinterpretation of Irish folklore that shook up the Locarno festival. J.T. Mollner , the man behind Outlaws and Angels , leaves the cowboys behind to invite us to a romantic night with a serial killer in Strange Darling . Less romantic will be the screening of Basileia , the feature debut of Italian filmmaker Isabella Torre , a mysterious archeological expedition with Lovecraftian echoes.

Following his participation in the Festival in 2021 with Coming Home in the Dark , New Zealander James Ashcroft will open the doors to The Rule of Jenny Pen , a geriatric thriller with elderly murderers starring honoree Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow. From Asia, Li Yang visits us with his Escape from the 21st Century , an amusing tale of time travel and sneezes. This Chinese filmmaker's action filmmaking returns to our screens after surprising us in 2012 with his debut feature, Lee's Adventure . And from Brazil arrives an interesting double bill. On the one hand, Marco Dutra returns to the Official Selection, after doing so with his Good Manners  in 2011, with the crude depiction of two workers who collect roadkill in Bury Your Dead . And on the other, Davi Pretto , director of the widely acclaimed Castanha and Rifle , will establish a dialogue between supernatural and western in his new Continent.

Norwegian Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab will make her first foray into genre filmmaking with Mr. K , a claustrophobic thriller about a hotel with Overlook vibes. And we'll need to strap on our masks once again, as Thibault Emin brings us the feature-length adaptation of his short Else , where he unleashes a strange, formless pandemic. Finally, actress Élise Otzenberger will make her directorial debut with Par amour , a family's sci-fi odyssey by the sea. 

A Collection of Very Special Screenings

The Festival's new Official Section, Sitges Collection, kicks off with the previously announced The Substance by Coralie Fargeat . The latest release from the director of Revenge, winner of the award for Best Director (and Best New Director!) at Sitges 2017, caused genuine mass hysteria at the past edition of the Cannes Festival. Starring Demi Moore , Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid , the film explores the archetype of the doppelganger from the perspective of the Z movie and the celebrity universe.

The legendary Dakota Building reopens its doors in Apartment 7A , the long-awaited prequel to Rosemary's Baby. In the wake of Relic' s applauded participation at the Festival's pandemic edition, director Natalie Erika James takes the reins of this cursed prologue that poses the question, hand in hand with actresses Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest , of what happened before Rosemary moved to New York. Fresh from the Venice Festival, L'orto Americano , the new film from Italian maestro Pupi Avati , starring Filippo Scotti and Rita Tushingham , lands in Sitges. On this occasion, the man responsible for key giallo works like The House with Laughing Windows and also a Lamberto Bava collaborator presents the monochromatic story of a young psychopath with literary ambitions.

We wouldn't be able to understand a Sitges Film Festival without him: Nicolas Cage will be back on our screens this year with Benjamin Brewer 's Arcadian . This acclaimed music video director continues his cinematic journey in this father-son survival film that also features the presence of young Jaeden Martell , always loyal to horror movies. Also taking on the role of a father is Elijah Wood , another Festival friend, in Ant Timpson' s Bookworm . The filmmaker repeats with Wood after the success of Come to Daddy in Sitges, this time in a family adventure threatened by a mythological beast.

Asian cinema, naturally, will also be present in this new section. After visiting Sitges in 2017 with his hilarious Your Spiritual Temple Sucks , Taiwanese filmmaker John Hsu will be presenting his new movie Dead Talents Society , a paranormal comedy with a creepypasta soul about ghosts that are eager to become urban legends. On the flipside of the coin will be Kim Dong-Chul 's Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning , an animated nightmare that combines 2D and 3D animation. This adaptation of one of the most popular Korean webtoons in recent years premiered at the past edition of the Annecy film festival.

Continuing with animation, The Wild Robot , the latest project from American maestro Chris Sanders , will be shipwrecked on the shores of Sitges. The man behind films like Lilo & Stitch or How to Train Your Dragon delivers a robotic odyssey dubbed by a deluxe cast, including Pedro Pascal, Lupita Nyong'o and Mark Hamill . Animated adventures are the order of the day, because Wojtek Wawszczyk ' s Diplodocus  will also have its slot in this section. The Polish filmmaker, in charge of the visual effects for I Robot , makes his feature film debut with this colorful production.

Beyond Sitges Collection, we will also be welcoming some of the Festival's now legendary special screenings, starting with the eagerly awaited Salem's Lot , the latest adaptation of Stephen King's iconic story. Gary Dauberman , director of Annabelle Comes Home and screenwriter for Andy Muschietti's It , will present this new nightmare of novelist Ben Mears, played this time by Lewis Pullman . Filmmaking duo Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy are back on the pedal in House of Spoils . Following Blow the Man Down , these two Americans choreograph a nightmare in the kitchen starring Ariana DeBose, Arian Moayed and Barbie Ferreira.

Another couple that couldn't fail to miss the event is the one consisting of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury , who in The Soul Eater will immerse us in the murky atmosphere of a police investigation aiming to solve a chilling series of disappearances of young children in a secluded village.  Destry Allyn Spielberg , daughter of the legendary American director, debuts in feature length with Please Don't Feed the Children , accompanied by actor Giancarlo Esposito . Finally, we welcome back another of Sitges' usual suspects, as Hidenori Inoue once again brings us the theatrical spirit of kabuki with Rose & Samurai 2: Return of the Pirate Queen.

Asia Conquers Òrbita Again 

Once again this year, it has been confirmed that the fringes of genre continue to be led by Asian filmmakers; and our Òrbita section continues to bear witness to this. Arriving from Hong Kong is Felix Chong 's The Goldfinger , an action thriller with an eighties spirit helmed by a deluxe cast, featuring Tony Leung  and Andy Lau . Just like these actors, another person who has collaborated with Wong Kar-wai is the Chinese director Xu Haofeng . Following the success of The Final Master , in 100 Yards he narrates the intense duel for the leadership of a wushu academy.

South Korea gifts us with The Roundup: Punishment  by Heo Myeong Haeng , director of Badland Hunters , where the longtime legendary actor Ma Dong-seok completes the fourth part of this successful detective action franchise. Also South Korean and belonging to the crime genre is the new film by Ryoo Seung-wan , the man behind Escape from Mogadishu . In I, The Executioner , a professor's murder raises doubts as to the existence of a serial killer. Meanwhile, Lee Jong-pil will leave us breathless with Escape , where a North Korean sergeant will try to hunt down a defector. Closing the Asian lineup are, first, from Hong Kong, Kim-Wai Yuen with The Moon Thieves , a sophisticated intrigue revolving around a scheme to steal antique watches, and then Japan's Nobuhiro Yamashita , who this year is presenting a double bill at the Festival with his Ghost Cat Anzu , and his harrowing thriller that only requires two actors, Confession.

This edition of Òrbita also welcomes old Festival friends. Brothers Marco and Antonio Manetti will continue adapting Angela and Luciana Giussani's “fumetti” in Diabolik: Who Are You?  Congolese filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot returns after screening his Saloum in the Noves Visions section in 2021. This time he arrives with Zero up his sleeve, a suffocating feature film that raises the question of where the bombs attached to his protagonists' chests come from. Belgian Fabrice Du Welz also knows Sitges pretty well, given that some of his previous works, like Adoration or Alleluia , have already made a huge impact on our screens. A policeman who prefers to take the law into his own hands will be his new pretext for returning to visit us with Maldoror , one of the big shockers at the recent Venice Film Festival.

Rounding off the Òrbita section will be the eagerly awaited Beating Hearts , a violent romance that was screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Gilles Lellouche , Quentin Dupieux's regular actor, is in charge of directing his regular cast ( Adèle Exarchopoulos , Vincent Lacoste , Jean-Pascal Zadi ) in a kitsch portrait of a rather hopeless relationship. 

Panorama, a Constellation of Current Horror

The Panorama section offers us the Spanish premieres of some of the horror movies that have been the most talked about over the last few months. Cristian Ponce , director of one of the major phenomenon at the 2021 edition, History of the Occult , returns to Sitges with A Mother's Embrace , a survival horror movie set in 1996. Mexico's Isaac Ezbán , a Festival regular, will also be present in this section with his new Párvulos: Hijos del apocalipsis , the story of three young boys who are hiding something very dark in their basement.   

In Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever,  Denmark's Ole Bornedal will present a Nikolaj Coster-Waldau confronted with his past traumas, Ukraine's Pavlo Ostrikov will unveil a solitary space odyssey in U Are the Universe and American filmmaker Brandon Espy  will depict a children's show host who kidnaps kids in Mr. Crocket , who could well be an African-American (and very over-the-top) version of the mythical Freddy Krueger. Meanwhile, Paul Evans Thomas choreographs a rural version of Brian De Palma's Impact with Within the Pines , Spider One  imagines a nightmarish mother-eating monster in Little Bites, Mercedes Bryce Morgan builds a tantalizing labyrinth of sex, lies and survival in Bone Lake , and Tata Sidharta imagines a teenager with the ability to enter other people's dreams in Respati

Latvia's Marcis Lacis will bring his Touched by Eternity , an art-house vampire comedy, out of the coffin, Italy's Francesco Carnesecchi  will go hunting in his dark Resvrgis and Japan's Jun'ichi Yasuda will go meta with the zany comedy A Samurai in Time . We finish the overview of Panorama with Push , by David Charbonier and Justin Powell , The Beldham, by Angela Gulner , the historical horror of Thordur Palsson 's The Damned , the search for a missing monster hunter in Kourtney Roy  's Kryptic ,  the exploration of a gloomy building in Tenement by Sokyou Chea and Inrasothythep Neth , and the martial arts in the comatose universe of Kim-Wai Yuen 's Inexternal .  

Noves Visions, New Perspectives

The Noves Visions section continues to be the ideal space to discover those tiny gems that may not be generating that much conversation just yet, but that will undoubtedly begin to do so. We kick things off by announcing a special screening where we can enjoy the 4K remastering and Director's Cut of the cult film The Fall directed by Tarsem Singh . In this dazzling extravaganza, winner of the award for Best Picture at Sitges 2007, the Indian filmmaker captures the nonconformist spirit of this section. The same can be said of French director Bertrand Mandico 's cinema, who will be in charge of closing the section with his indescribable Dragon Dilatation . This diptych of film essays promises to turn the Festival upside down, just as it did at the Locarno festival. In Noves Visions we can also see the latest short film by Don Hertzfeldt , director of It's Such a Beautiful Day and World of Tomorrow , who returns with his existentialist minimalism in the musical odyssey ME.

In competition we will find Sew Torn , by Freddy Macdonald , one of the most addictive thrillers of the season; Love Me by Sam and Andy Zuchero , a peculiar love story between a buoy and a satellite interpreted by Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun ; Didier Koning 's Heresy  , a medieval horror tale that stormed the Rotterdam festival; Caroline Lindy 's Your Monster , a portrait of a charming monster starring Melissa Barrera ; and Simon Jaquemet 's Electric Child , a dystopian Faustian pact with Artificial Intelligence. Also coming to the section will be The Killers , the Korean hitman anthology by Jong-kwan Kim, Deok Roh, Hang-jun Chang and Myung-Se Lee ; The Hyperboreans , the esoteric Chilean oddity by Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León ; Gazer , Ryan J. Sloan 's dyschronometric paranoia; and Pepe , the incredible fable about Pablo Escobar's hippopotamuses by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias.  

Rounding out the menu are the atypical time travels in Michael Felker 's Things Will Be Different , the combat between some maverick teens and evil spirits in Spirit in the blood by Carly May Borgstrom , the cultist horror in Body Odyssey by Grazia Tricarico , the surreal time travel in Yannis Veslemes ' She Loved Blossoms More , the Mexican-style island tales in Edgar Nito' s Fisherman's Tale ,  and the meta-cinematic nightmare in It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This by Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti.  

Animated Film Shines at Anima't

Even though animation is also present in many other corners of the Festival, Anima't continues to be its sanctuary for yet another year. Adam Elliot , director of the much applauded -and tearful- Mary and Max , once again opens the doors of his dark Claymation universe with his new film, Memoir of a Snail . On this occasion, one of the most important names in contemporary stop-motion tells the story of the relationship between a lonely girl fond of collecting and an eccentric old woman named Pinky. The complete opposite of Elliot's darkness will bring us the brilliant The Colors Within , the new film by Naoko Yamada . The woman behind Japanese anime gems like A Silent Voice  tells the story of a synaesthetic student who can see other people as colors.

From China arrives The Umbrella Fairy , art director Jie Shen 's directorial debut, a fairy tale capable of fusing Chinese folklore with Japanese animation. After imagining On the White Planet , South Korean animator Hur Bum-wook takes on Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease , an ironic story about a pig who wants to be human and a human who wants to be an animal. Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro collaborate for the first time in the amusing Night of the Zoopocalypse , a 3D apocalypse caused by a meteorite that turns animals into slimy mutant zombies. Finally, Argentina's David Bisbano , director of A Mouse Tale, imagines a Borgian family odyssey in Dalia y el Libro Rojo , while Pakistan's Usman Riaz  embarks on a feature-length film with his anti-war The Glassworker. We ring down the curtain with a special screening of Fox & Hare Save the Forest , where Dutch director Mascha Halberstad , director of the acclaimed Oink , tells the story of the animated odyssey of two best friends in search of a missing owl. 

Freaks, Fangs and Tributes to the Classics

We are aware that the participants in this edition's Sitges Clàssics section need no introduction whatsoever. This year, in this cabinet of masterpieces, you will be able to enjoy films including Tobe Hopper' s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , a monolith among American slasher films that will be screened in a stunning 35mm copy. We also present the 4K remastering of Ishirō Honda 's kaiju eiga classic Godzilla . In addition, we will pay tribute to a number of award winners from throughout the Festival, such as actress Heather Lagenkamp  with a screening of Wes Craven' s A Nightmare on Elm Street , actor Fabio Testi with a screening of Sergio Sollima' s Revolver , and filmmaker Fred Dekker  with a screening of his Night of the Creeps . We close the section with the screening of the apocryphal sequel Alien 2: On Earth by Ciro Ippolito .

Additionally, and in keeping with the leitmotif of this year's edition, we dedicate a retrospective to the universe of freaks, starting with Freaks , of course, and The Unknown by Tod Browning and The Magician by Ingmar Bergman , as well as Santa Sangre by Alejandro Jodorowsky , The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? by Ray Dennis Steckler and The Funhouse by Tobe Hopper , and ending with The Last Circus by Álex de la Iglesia  and House of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie , the latter remastered in 4K. 

Non-fiction Takes Shelter in Sitges Documental

Living in such a terrifying and surrealist current situation, it wouldn't make sense for the Festival to ignore non-fiction. That's why this year Sitges Documenta is back with a vengeance. We could never understand Sitges without Dario Argento, so to the documentaries announced in July we add Deep Argento by Giancarlo Rolandi and Steve Della Casa , a personal journey through the life of the maestro of giallo, until now always relatively unknown. Rupert Russell  presents The Last Sacrifice , a terrifying doc about the murder of Charles Walton, the event that inspired The Wicker Man and gave birth to folk horror. As if paganism weren't enough, Scott Cummings brings us Realm of Satan , an experimental portrait of the Church of Satan.

On the national scene, Víctor Matellano , a Festival regular, presents a new documentary on the legendary figure of Paul Naschy, one of the great names in Spanish horror movies. It is entitled Llámame Paul and will be part of Sitges Documenta. Another Spanish participant in Sitges Documenta will be Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director  by Jonathan Bellés , one of Spain's great kaiju eiga  experts. In this case, he focuses on Ishiro Honda's career as a director, known for being the director of Godzilla  (1954).

Spanish Seriality

The Sitges Film Festival continues with its commitment to series, both domestic and international. In this case, we can now announce the participation of Invisible, from  Disney+, inspired by the best seller of the same name by Eloy Moreno and directed by Paco Caballero . In the series we experience a case of bullying through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy who suffers a terrible accident. While recovering, he reveals to his psychologist that he has a very special power: the power of invisibility. The series stars young actor Eric Seijo , along with Aura Garrido , Miki Esparbé, Diego Montejo, Liv Dobner, and Izan Fernández , among others.  Another project being presented in Sitges is Hay algo en el bosque (There's Something in the Woods),  an eight-episode Spanish series with echoes of the Evil Dead trilogy featuring a group of strangers who find themselves in some secluded cabins, where they discover that aliens, criminals and monsters are just a few of the dangers lurking in the woods. The series, which will later premiere on the horror channel DARK , is directed by Nicolás Amelio-Ortiz and Gastón Haag  and features an ensemble cast that includes Iván Massagué , Angy Fernández , Zorion Eguileor , Alfonso Agra , Carmen Ruiz , Tomás Pozzi , Laura Laprida , Daniel Ibáñez  and Javier Botet , among others.

Midnight X-Treme, Not for the Early Risers

Start getting your coffee ready, because Midnight X-Treme, the section for the most late-night crowd, is opening its doors once again. The untiring Joe Begos , the man behind diverse extravaganzas seen at the Festival such as Bliss and Christmas Bloody Christmas , returns home with Jimmy & Stiggs , a hallucinogenic nightmare involving drugs, alcohol and aliens shot in 16 mm. Frankie Freako by Steven Kostanski , one of the directors of The Void , promises a zany party with a strange creature. The tireless Lowell Dean  will be with us twice, as he brings us Die Alone , a 'kid with amnesia vs zombies', and Dark Match , a 'wrestlers vs cultists' film. Also visiting us is Chainsaws Were Singing by Sander Maran , a hilarious action-horror-gore-musical-comedy-B-movie from Estonia.

Completing all the insomnia are films such as Kome Kongkiat Komesiri 's Operation Undead  , Hideki Takeuchi 's Fly Me To The Saitama: From Biwa Lake With Love , John Adams  and Toby Poser 's Hell Hole , Sasha Rainbow' s Grafted  , Jean-Christophe Meurisse 's Plastic Guns  , Taichiro Natsume 's The Beast Hand and Nicolás and Luciano Onetti 's 1978 .

Brigadoon, Coffee for the Real Coffee Lovers

The Brigadoon section, the Festival's space for free screenings and sessions, is once again the meeting point for moviegoers in love with the most uncomplicated titles and voices in genre. With a complete selection of shorts, feature films, and meetings/homages with artists who are always in demand, Brigadoon will delight the most restless palates with offerings that include Pierre Tsigaridis ' Traumatika , Lg White' s Tripping the Dark Fantastic , Ezra Tsegaye 's Monster on a plane and Ben Goodger 's Year 10. The icing on the cake is the re-release of the entire 360 minutes of the miniseries The Stand (Apocalypse) , which will include a presentation and talk by its director Mick Garris and the award-winning Mike Flanagan.

Sitges Family, Fantastic Genre for All Ages

Because genre knows no age, the Festival will once again showcase the most fascinating family projects of the moment in Sitges Family. Among the films selected this year we find Goce Cvetanovski 's John Vardar vs the Galaxy  , the first animated film in the history of North Macedonia, Li Wei Chiu 's Pigsy , winner of the Taipei Film Fest, or The Worlds Divide by Denver Jackson , creator of the series Esluna: The First Monolith , among many others. 

Horror Girls is Back with a Bang!

On the heels of the success of its first edition, Sitges is once again hosting Horror Girls, a series of conferences dedicated to European fantastic genre films and women's creations that highlight how the talent of female auteurs is valued in each one of the phases of the film product's value chain. As part of Horror Girls, we will be able to enjoy an encounter with actress Heather Langenkamp (Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and Wes Craven 's New Nightmare ), who will receive the Time Machine Award at this year's Festival, and a conversation between Coralie Fargeat (director of The Substance and Revenge ) and Carlota Pereda (director of Piggy and La Ermita ), two of the most provocative and freshest voices in contemporary horror.  Among the different activities, we also propose round tables on production and distribution with Priscilla Smith, Manon Barat, Antonia Nava, Nahikari Ipiña, Nuria Valls and Enrique López Lavigne ; sessions dealing with the treatment of female leads in genre films with Lauren LaVera, Desirée de Fez, Iván Fund, Mònica Garcia Massagué, Heidi Honeycutt and Victoria McCollum ; and conversations between filmmaker duos about their directing experiences ( Paco Plaza & Denisse Castro , Marysia Nikitiuk & Paul Urkijo , Veronika Fra nz & Severin Fiala ). 

Sitges Collaborates with Repsol as a Multi-Energy Partner to Reduce the Festival's Carbon  Footprint 

This year, Sitges is collaborating with Repsol  as a multi-energy partner with the goal of reducing the Festival's carbon footprint. The company will be contributing its technology to offer Sitges the solution that best suits its needs at all times and that allows it to reduce its carbon footprint as much as possible: among other measures, Repsol will be supplying 100% renewable fuels for the generators that will power the film competition's different venues and supply the organization's vehicles, and 100% electric energy for the Festival's official fleet. 

In addition, used cooking oil will be collected from the on-site food trucks to produce renewable fuel, promoting a circular economy, and free recharging points for solar-powered cell phones will be made available to all visitors. We also confirm that it will be possible to pay with Waylet for any Festival ticket, pass or activity, either at the box offices or via the Sitges Film Festival website. 

The Dream Makers: Supporting New Talent

CUPRA , our Automotive Partner, continues its mission to support the next generation of filmmakers with "The Dream Makers" initiative, two competitions two competitions designed to foster the creative young talent of the next generation of filmmakers.

The  “Short Film Contest”, is a competition competition targeting young people between the ages of 22 and 30 and with an open theme. On July 18, this initiative's jury composed of J. A. Bayona, Daniel Brühl, Wayne Griffith, Aintza Serra and Ángel Sala announced the 6 finalist projects (out of 241 entries) at an event at CASA SEAT. The winner will be announced during the Festival, and will be awarded the production and promotion of his or her short film.

The event at CASA SEAT also served to unveil the details of the second competition: the “Film Studies Contest”, which offers filmmakers between the ages of 17 and 21 the opportunity to win a full scholarship to pursue film studies at the ESCAC. During the Festival, the final details for participating in this competition will be announced and the winner will be revealed by the ESCAC in December 2024.

20th Edition of the Carnet Jove Jury

The Carnet Jove Jury, organized by the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, in collaboration with the Catalan Youth Agency, reaches its 20th edition this year, having given a total of 100 young people the opportunity, over these 20 years, to be a part of the official jury of the number one fantastic genre festival. This year's Jury, whose mission is to award the Carnet Jove Jury Award to the best picture in the Official Fantastic Selection and the Sitges Documenta Award to the best documentary production, has been selected, as usual, through a call for merits, and is made up of the following people: Marina Figueras Manzanares , acting as president, Ángela Sánchez Orti, Arnau Querol Titó, Borja López Fernández  and Ignacio Garriga Bravo. The objective of this collaboration is to professionalize film reviewing, giving the opportunity to five young people interested in this field, or in the field of film in general, to be part of one of this Festival's official juries, contributing their youthful professional perspective to the film competition.

Jaume Balagueró, Aina Clotet and Francesc Gener, Judges for the SGAE Nova Autoria Awards 2024

On October 5, the Prado Theater will host the screening of the best audiovisual works selected among Catalan universities and film schools. This year 43 works have been received (22 fiction, 8 animation and 13 documentaries) from 18 centers. 

The SGAE Nova Autoria Awards go to the categories of best direction-production, best screenplay and best original music, and are part of the Sitges Festival's official list of winners. 

Support for the 57th Edition

This year the Festival's screenings will be at the following venues in the official circuit: Meliá Sitges Auditorium, Tramuntana Room, Llevant Room (Brigadoon), Sitges Casino Prado movie theater, Escorxador - Cultural Center and Miramar Cultural Center.

Once again this year, the Festival is grateful for the commitment of all the cooperating institutions and companies: Moritz (main sponsor), Cupra (automotive partner), Repsol (multi-energy partner), CaixaBank (strategic partner), TV3, Catalunya Ràdio and 3CAT (official TV network and radio station), La Vanguardia (official newspaper), and Meliá Sitges (sponsor and official headquarters).

The Festival confirms its agreements with AMC SE – Dark TV, Aullidos, China Madrid, Cines Verdi, Cinesa, CineyTele, Cinemascomics, Cobega-Coca Cola European Partners, Cruz Roja, El Cinèfil, Dama Autores, Droom, Embutidos Bundó, ESCAC, Factorial, FNAC, Fotogramas, Fundación Japan, FX Animation, Grup Flash FM, Grupo Iguana, Grupo Main, Hong Kong Trade Office Bruselas, Iberia, IES Joan Ramon Benaprès Escuela Hostelería, Montaz Media, Nació Digital, Ocimag, Patatas Piqué, Port d’Aiguadolç, Prime, Real Círculo Artístico, Renfe, Sensacine, SGAE and SGAE Foundation, Terrorweekend, Tik Tok, Transperfect Translation SL, The Original Cha-Chá, Tresc and Vertix.

Sitges 2024 is organized thanks to the participation of the Sitges Town Hall, the Catalonian Generalitat’s Department of Culture’s Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises), the Casino Prado de Sitges and Escorxador – Centre Cultural theaters and receives financing from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports’ Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts), the Barcelona Diputació (City Council), and the Carnet Jove - Departament de Benestar i Família (Department of Welfare and Family).

Official In Competition Fantàstic Selection (SOFC)

2073 - Asif Kapadia (UK, Spanish Premiere)

A Different Man – Aaron Schimberg (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Animal - Emma Benestan (France, Spanish Premiere)

Azrael - E.L. Katz (USA and Estonia, Spanish Premiere)

Basileia - Isabella Torre (Italy and Sweden, Spanish Premiere)

Still Life with Ghosts - Enrique Buleo (Spain and Serbia, World Premiere)

Bury Your Dead - Marco Dutra (Brazil, World Premiere)

Continent - Davi Pretto (Brazil, France and Argentina, Spanish Premiere)

Daniela Forever - Nacho Vigalondo (Spain and Belgium, European Premiere)

The Devil’s Bath - Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz (Austria and Germany, Spanish Premiere)

The Second Act - Quentin Dupieux (France, Spanish Premiere)

Else - Thibault Emin (France and Belgium, Spanish Premiere)

Escape From the 21st Century – Li Yang (China, European Premiere)

Exhuma - Jae-Hyun Jang (South Corea, Spanish Premiere)

Fréwaka - Aislinn Clarke (Ireland, Spanish Premiere)

Luna - Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas (Spain, World Premiere)

MadS - David Moreau (France, European Premiere)

Meanwhile on Earth - Jérémy Clapin (France and Belgium, Spanish Premiere)

Mr. K - Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab (Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway, European Premiere)

Night Silence (Cisza Nocna) - Bartosz M. Kowalski (Poland, Spanish Premiere)

Call of Water - Élise Otzenberger (France, World Premiere)

Planet B - Aude-Lea Rapin (France and Belgium, Spanish Premiere)

Rich Flu - Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (Spain, World Premiere)

Sanatorium Under The Sign of the Hourglass - Quay Brothers (UK, Poland and Germany, Spanish Premiere)  

Sister Midnight - Karan Kandhari (UK and North Ireland, Spanish Premiere)

Strange Darling - JT Mollner (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Get Away - Steffen Haars (UK, , European Premiere)

The Rule of Jenny Pen - James Ashcroft (New Zealand, , European Premiere)

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In - Soi Cheang (Hong Kong, Spanish Premiere)

Una Ballena - Pablo Hernando (USA, European Premiere)

Desert Road - Shannon Triplett (USA World Premiere)

Sitges Collection Official Section

Apartment 7A - Natalie Erika James (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin - Carles Torrens (Spain, World Premiere)

Arcadian - Benjamin Brewer (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Bookworm - Ant Timpson (New Zealand, Spanish Premiere)

Cuckoo - Tilman Singer (Germany and USA, Spanish Premiere)

Dead Talents Society - John Hsu (Taiwan, Spanish Premiere)

El llanto - Pedro Martín-Calero (Spain and Argentina, Catalan Premiere)

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning – Dong-chul Kim (South Corea, Spanish Premiere)

The Substance – Coralie Fargeat (UK)

Please Don't Feed The Children - Destry Allyn Spielberg (USA, World Premiere)

The Wild Robot - Chris Sanders (USA)

Diplodocus - Wojtek Wawszczyk (Poland, Spanish Premiere)

Mariposas negras - David Baute (Spain, Spanish Premiere)

Savages - Claude Barras (Switzerland, France and Belgium, Spanish Premiere)

The Soul Eater - Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (France)

Ghost Killer - Kensuke Sonomura (USA and Japan, European Premiere)

Official Section - Special Screenings

Salem's Lot - Gary Dauberman (USA, Spanish Premiere)

House of Spoils - Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy (USA, World Premiere)

Rose & Samurai 2: Return of the Pirate Queen - Hidenori Inoue (Japan)

Terrifier 3 - Damien Leone (USA, European Premiere)

100 Yards - Xu Haofeng (China, Spanish Premiere)

Cloud - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan, Spanish Premiere)

Confession - Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan, Spanish Premiere)

Diabolik: Who Are You? - Marco and Antonio Manetti (Italy – Spanish Premiere)

Escape - Jong-pil Lee (South Corea, Spanish Premiere)

I, The Executioner - Ryoo Seung-wan (South Corea)

Maldoror - Fabrice Du Welz (Belgium and France, Spanish Premiere)

Night Call - Michiel Blanchart (Belgium and France, Spanish Premiere)

Steppenwolf - Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan, Spanish Premiere)

The Goldfinger - Felix Chong (Hong Kong and China, Spanish Premiere)

The Moon Thieves - Kim-Wai Yuen (Hong Kong, ??????)

The Kingdom - Julien Colonna (France, Spanish Premiere)

The Roundup: Punishment - Heo Myeong Haeng (South Corea)

Zero - Jean Luc Herbulot (USA and Senegal, World Premiere)

(CLOSING) Beating Hearts - Gilles Lellouche (France, Spanish Premiere)

A Mother's Embrace - Cristian Ponce (Argentina, World Premiere)

A Samurai in Time - Jun'ichi Yasuda (Japan, Spanish Premiere)

Bone Lake - Mercedes Bryce Morgan (USA, World Premiere)

Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever – Ole Bornedal (Denmark, Spanish Premiere)

Estela - Adrián Araujo (Mexico and Spain, World Premiere)

Handsome Guys - Dong-Hyub Nam (South Corea, Spanish Premiere)

Historias de Halloween - Kiko Prada (Spain)

Inexternal - Kim-Wai Yuen (Hong Kong, European Premiere)

Kryptic - Kourtney Roy (Canada and UK, Spanish Premiere)

Little Bites - Spider One (USA)

Mr. Crocket - Brandon Espy (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Noise - Soo-jin Kim (South Corea, World Premiere)

Oddity - Damian McCarthy (Ireland, Spanish Premiere)

Párvulos - Isaac Ezbán (Mexico, Spanish Premiere)

Peg o' My Heart - Nick Cheung (Hong Kong, Spanish Premiere)

Push – David Charbonier & Justin Powell (USA, World Premiere)

Respati - Tata Sidharta (Indonesia, Spanish Premiere)

Resvrgis - Francesco Carnesecchi (Italy, Spanish Premiere)

Tenement - Sokyou Chea (Cambodia, Spanish Premiere)

The Damned - Thordur Palsson (UK, North Ireland, Ireland, Iceland and Belgium, Spanish Premiere)

The Beldham - Angela Gulner (USA)

Touched By Eternity - Marcis Lacis (Letonia)

U Are The Universe - Pavlo Ostrikov (Ukraine and Belgium, Spanish Premiere)

Within The Pines - Paul Evans Thomas (Australia, European Premiere)

Noves Visions

A Desert - Joshua Erkman (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Body Odyssey - Grazia Tricarico (Italy and Switzerland, Spanish Premiere)

Dead Mail - Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Electric Child - Simon Jaquemet (Germany)

Gazer - Ryan J. Sloan (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Infinite Summer - Miguel Llansó (Estonia and Spain, Spanish Premiere)

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This - Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti (USA, Spanish Premiere)

The Hyperborean - Joaquín Cociña (Chile, Spanish Premiere)

Love Me - Sam and Andy Zuchero (USA, International Premiere)

Mi bestia - Camila Beltrán (Colombia and France, Spanish Premiere)

Pepe - Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias (Dominican Republic, Namibia, France and Germany, Catalan Premiere)

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust - Ishan Shukla (India, France and Germany, Spanish Premiere)

Sew Torn - Freddy Macdonald (USA and Switzerland, Spanish Premiere)

She Loved Blossoms More - Yannis Veslemes (Greece and France, Spanish Premiere)

Spirit in the Blood - Carly May Borgstrom (Germany and Canada, World Premiere)

The Killers - Jong-kwan Kim, Deok Roh, Hang-jun Chang and Myung-Se Lee (South Corea, European Premiere)

Things Will Be Different - Michael Felker (USA, Spanish Premiere)

Timestalker - Alice Lowe (UK and North Ireland, Spanish Premiere)

Un Cuento de Pescadores - Edgar Nito (Mexico, World Premiere)

Heresy - Didier Konings (The Netherlands, Spanish Premiere)

Your Monster - Caroline Lindy (USA, Spanish Premiere)

(CLOSING) Dragon Dilatation - Bertrand Mandico (France, Spanish Premiere)

Memoir of a Snail - Adam Elliot (Australia, Catalan Premiere)

Pig That Survived Foot-And-Mouth Disease - Hur Bum-wook (South Corea, Spanish Premiere)

The Colors Within - Naoko Yamada (Japan, Spanish Premiere)

The Glassworker - Usman Riaz (Pakistan and USA, Spanish Premiere)

The Storm - Yang Zhigang (China, Spanish Premiere)

The Umbrella Fairy - Jie Shen (China, Spanish Premiere)

(SPECIAL SCREENING) Guillot i Llebre salven el bosc – Mascha Halberstad (The Netherlands and Luxembourg, Spanish Premiere)

Midnight X-Treme

1978 – Nicolás Onetti & Luciano Onetti (Argentina, World Premiere) Plastic Guns - Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France)      El tema del verano – Pablo Stoll (Uruguay, World Premiere)    

Frankie Freako – Steven Kostanski (Canada, Spanish Premiere)      Krazy House – Steffen Haars (Holand, Spanish Premiere)      Die Alone – Lowell Dean (Canada, World Premiere)      Hell Hole – John Adams and Toby Poser (USA, European Premiere)      Dark Match – Lowell Dean (Canada, Spanish Premiere)      Grafted – Sasha Rainbow (New Zealand, Spanish Premiere)      Operation Undead – Kome Kongkiat Komesiri (Thailand, Spanish Premiere)      Fly Me To The Saitama: From Biwa Lake With Love – Hideki Takeuchi (Japan, Spanish Premiere)      Chainsaws Were Singing – Sander Maran (Estonia, Spanish Premiere)      Jimmy & Stiggs – Joe Begos (USA, International Premiere)      Spermageddon – Rasmus A. Siverstein (Norway, Spanish Premiere)      The Beast Hand – Taichito Natsume (Japan, World Premiere)

Sitges Clàssics

Alien 2 – Ciro Ippolito (Italy)

Beyond the Door – Ovidio G. Assonitis and Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli (USA)

Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (4K)  -  León Klimovsky (Spain)

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (4K)  - Jess Franco (Spain and France)

Count Dracula (4K) –  Jess Franco (Germany and Spain)

Strange Love of the Vampires – León Klimovsky (Spain)

Godzilla (4K) – Ishirō Honda (Japan)

Night of the Creeps – Fred Dekker (USA)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (35 mm) – Tobe Hooper (USA)

The Dracula Saga – León Klimovsky (Spain)

A Nightmare on Elm Street – Wes Craven (USA)

Revolver – Sergio Sollima (Italy)

The People Who Own the Dark (4K) – León Klimovsky (Spain)

The Birthday (4K) – Eugenio Mira (Spain)

Sitges Documenta

Chains Reactions – Alexandre O. Phillipe (UK, Spanish Premiere)

Deep Argento – Giancarlo Rolandi (Italy, Spanish Premiere)

Exorcismo - Alberto Sedano (Spain, World Premiere)

Grand Theft Hamlet – Pinny Grylls y Sam Crane (UK, Spanish Premiere)

Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director – Jonathan Bellés (Spain, World Premiere)

Realm of Satan – Scott Cummings (USA, Spanish Premiere)

The Last Sacrifice – Rupert Russell (UK, European Premiere)

(SPECIAL SCREENING) Llámame Paul – Víctor Matellano (Spain, World Premiere)

Retrospective – Freaks

Freaks – Tod Browning (USA)      The Funhouse – Tobe Hooper (USA)      The Last Circus – Álex de la Iglesia (Spain)      Santa Sangre - Alejandro Jodorowsky (México)      House of 1000 Corpses (4K) – Rob Zombie (USA)      The Magician - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)      The Unknown - Tod Browning (USA)      (The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? - Ray Dennis Steckler (USA)

Brigadoon – Premieres

El Cristo de la Calavera – Chus Lara      Céntrico – Luso Martínez      The Harvester – Gavin Bradley and Andrew Allen      Voyager – Pablo Pagán      Marisa y Gomoso – Pablo Parés      Dick Dynamite: 1944 – Robbie Davidson

Traumatika – Pierre Tsigaridis      Year 10 – Benjamin Goodger      Dirty Money – Kim Min-soo      Monster on a Plane – Erza Tsegaye

Nadie inquietó más: Narciso Ibáñez Menta 2.0 – Gustavo Leonel Mendoza      Tripping the Dark Fantastic – Lg White

Brigadoon - Documentaries

Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies - Lisa D'Apolito      Boutique: To Preserve and Collect - Ryan Bruce Levey       José Lifante, mi aventura en el cine – David Garía Sariñera      SUZZANNA: Queen of Black Magic - David Gregory      Mad Props - Juan Pablo Reinoso

Brigadoon – Special Screenings

The Stand (Apocalipsis) – Mick Garris

The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga – Jonathan Bellés      The Undead -Roger Corman      Carnival of Souls – Herk Harvey      Marisa y Gomoso – Pablo Parés      Red Rings of Fear – Alberto Negrín      Terror Circus – Alan Rudolph      Crypt of the Living Dead – Julio Salvador and Ray Danton      The Thrilling Bloody Sword – Chang Hsing-Yi      Who Saw Her Die – Aldo Lado      Kung Fu Magic – Lee Tso-Nam      Zombie 5 Killing Birds – Claudio Lattanzi      Dick Dynamite: 1944 – Robbie Davidson      Short Night of Glass Dolls – Aldo Aldo      Santo vs. the Kidnappers – Federico Curiel      The Last Hunter – Antonio Margheriti      Contraband – Lucio Fulci      The Lords of Magick – David Marsh      The Sword and the Sorcerer– Albert Pyun      The Four of Apocalypse – Lucio Fulci      What Have You Done to Solange? – Massimo Dallamano

Sitges Family

Abah and His Band – Humberto Avelar (Brazil, European Premiere)      Cuadrilátero – Daniel Rodríguez Risco (Peru, Spanish Premiere)      John Vardar vs the Galaxy – Goce Cvetanovski (North Macedonia, Hungary, World Premiere)      Captain Avispa – Jean Gabriel Guerra and Jonnathan Melendez (Dominican Republic)      Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary – Kim Min-ha (South Korea, European Premiere)      Croma Kid – Pablo Chea (Dominican Republic, Spanish Premiere)      Green Night – Han Shuai (Hong Kong)      Superklaus – Steve Majaury and Andrea Sebastiá (Spain and Canada, World Premiere)      Pigsy – Li Wei Chiu (Taiwan, Spanish Premiere)      Isla Monstro – Steven Shea (USA, World Premiere)      Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Keiichi Hara (Japan)      The Worlds Divide – Denver Jackson (Canada, Catalan Premiere)      As Aventuras do Pequeno Colombo – Rodrigo Gava (Brazil)      Saleem – Cynthia Madanat Sharaiha (Jordan)       Animalia – Sofia Alaoui (France, Morocco and Qatar)      The Siren – Sepideh Farsi (France, Germany and Luxembourg, Catalan Premiere)

Official In Competition Fantàstic (Short Films)    

Skulk – Max Ward

Bisected – Daniel Piñeros      Magnum Opus – Nicholas Kozakis

Atom & Void – Gonçalo Almeida

Cornucopia – Andrew Kevelson

One for the Road – Daniel Carsenty

Imago – Rafa Dengrá

Lui – Matthias Couquet

Humedad – Julieta Quiroga

Shadow – Kamell Allaway

Lullaby – Chi Tai

Attachment Theory - Katherine Jackson

Triangle – Joseph Diaz

From Me To You – Simret Cheema-Innis

Chew – Felix Dobaire

Malet – Roger Danès

Meat Puppet – Eros V      Make Me a Pizza – Talia Shea Levin      Agonist – Annie Marie Elliot      Drizzle in Johnson – Ivan Li

Special Screenings (Short Films)

Los comensales – MJ Fuentes Mateos

Tengo que acabar el puto TFM – Estíbaliz Burgaleta and Andrea Casaseca

Kokuhaku – Adrià Guxens

Help, I’m Alien Pregnant – THUNDERLIPS

The Merchant – Gabriel Campoy and Guillem Lafoz

Noves Visions – Petit Format

Don't Forget – Jeremy S. Thompson

Satomi – Rayner Wang

The Image Seller – Donavan Richard

Vinca Vision - Lazar Bodroza

Stills Moving – Kevin Tsung-Hsuan Yen

Fishtank – Wendi Tang      Say Wuff! - Fabian Podeszwa

El mal donat (The evil eye) – Hector Mas and Alfons Casal      Strawberry Shortcake – Deborah Devyn Chuang

Death of an Actor - Ambroise Rateau

ME - Don Hertzfeldt      The Law of Extinction of Pain – Wonjae Lee

The Tree of Sinners – Hiroyuki Onogawa and Rii Ishihara

Anima’t (Short Films)

Crimson Harbor – Victor Bonafonte

Howl if You Love Me - John Dilworth

The Hunt – Diogo Costa

Dolores – Cecilia Andalón

Fish River Anthology – Veera Lamminpää

Matta and Matto – Bianca Caderas and Kerstin Zemp

When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes) - Izibene Oñederra

Devil's Parasite – Lars Henrik and Lisa Rydberg

Free the Chickens – Matus Vizar

La valla – Sam Orti

Monsoon Blue – Ellis Kayin Chan

Shoes and Hooves – Viktória Traub

The Shadow of Dawn – Olga Stalev

Joko – Iza Plucinska      kawauso – Akihito Izuhara      Society of Clothes - Dahee Jeong

Inkwo for When the Starving Return – Amanda Strong

La Voix des Sirènes – Gianluigi Toccafondo

Tennis, Oranges – Sean Pecknold      Hurikán – Jan Saska

Voz de trompeta – David Monarte

Magic Candies – Daisuke Nishio

Sitges Family (Short Films)

Freelance - Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus Igland Møller and Peter Smith      Kit & Spoon and the Wayward Moon - Olivia Moe

Haru-tsuge Fish and Fu-rai Boy - Takeshi Yashiro      Malas Hierbas - Daniel Tornero      Un placer  – Sonia Estévez

Hammertime – Jan Mocka      Cuando Llegue la Inundación – Antonio L    omas      Dagon – Paulo Gaudio

Gaomei Fantasy - Juo Wen Chin      Mû – Malin Neumann

The Human Fossil – Rebecca Huang

Gizaki – Xanti Rodríguez

La Gran Cita de Conej - Pablo Río

A Guest from Elsewhere - Ethan Anderson

Bird Drone – Radheya Jegatheva

Bufet Paradís - Héctor Zafra y Santi Amézqueta

Fan – Erik Lee

Candy Puppet - Angela Lorena Statnik

Pasos para Volar – Rosario Carlino and Nicolás Conte

Garu & Ponki - Cristhian Jallier

Neon Vowels - Sergio Caballero      Flocky - Esther Casas Roura

El atrapasueños – Guillermo Patrikios Alum

Iris de Cristal - Diego Gaviria  Bottle George - Dice  Tsutsumi

Sincopat – Pol Diggler

Fagnes 1986 – Nicolas Monfort

LAVA 2 (El Nuevo Show del Narciso) – Ayar Blasco

Brigadoon (Short Films)      Escape – Lorenzo Manetti      El fantasma de la mediocridad – Naxo Fiol

Will Helm – Bobby Roe

Hive – Felipe Vargas Ferrufino

El Cristo de la Calavera – Chus Lara

The Harvest – David Barrera y Manuel Carballo

Céntrico – Luso Martínez      Forgive Me – Cameron Sun

The Harvester – Gavin Bradley y Andrew Allen      Voyager – Pablo Pagán

Este será el último. Naxo Fiol y su camarita – Xavier Guillaumes and Carlos J. Lafuente Cerdán

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Flamin'Hot - Clàudia Romeo Cassadò, Paula Othmer Pérez, Alícia García Iniesta, Adrià Carballada Mallofré, Leanora Schnog Barriga, Bernardo Oliveira Mesquita, Marlon Anthony Hugo Zapata, Pol Córcoles Serra

Baile con la muerte - Berta Alsinet, Paula Anglàs, Nuria Aranda, Martina Barney, Joan Cortit, Laia Domene, David Martin, Carlota Massó, Roger Menta, Victor Moya, Gisela Torras

Burned Out – Isa Adler

De-Sastre - Tommasso Mangiacotti, Marolyn Ávila, Constanza Melio, Maria Antonieta Fernández, Kuang Yi Lee

Lluna - Pol Mansachs

Daru/n (Passed/Mother) – Benjamin Hindrichs

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Asterisco – Xavi Herrera

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Azadi - Lily-Eileen Uxía Baker Föhring, Juan Luis Ortega Navarrete, Luciana and Espinoza Hoempler  

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From Cannes: ‘Grand Tour’ is a Hidden Gem

Dir. miguel gomes — 5 stars.

Premiering in competition at the 75th Annual Cannes Film Festival, “Grand Tour” by Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes proves to be one of the year’s most captivating cinematic masterpieces. Gomes’s attention to detail cements his reputation as a true auteur and an artist worthy of the festival’s Best Director Award. Each frame of "Grand Tour" — from the use of black-and-white celluloid to the careful composition of each frame — is orchestrated to evoke a sense of bemused wonder and longing for adventure. Gomes masterfully blends documentary realism with narrative fiction to create a film that feels both grounded and dreamlike, drawing audiences into a world where self-discovery and exploration are connected. For those who appreciate the subtle craftsmanship of auteur cinema, the film offers a rare and rewarding experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

Set in 1918 Rangoon, the film begins with British diplomat Edward Abbott (Gonçalo Waddington) awaiting the arrival of his fiancée, Molly Singleton (Crista Alfaiate), who is traveling from London to marry him after seven years of separation. Overwhelmed by the impending commitment, Edward flees to Singapore, setting in motion a cross-continental journey that frames the narrative. The film unfolds as a travel diary, capturing Edward’s reluctant wanderings through exotic locales like Bangkok, Saigon, Osaka, and Manila.

At each stop, Edward receives telegrams warning that Molly is closing in, prompting him to move on. As he drifts from one place to the next, he uncovers paradoxical truths about both the world and himself — learning a lot, yet very little. His journey remains passive, skimming the surface of life rather than diving into its depths, while Molly’s relentless pursuit of him drives the film’s tension and romance.

When the story shifts focus to Molly, the film gains momentum. Her quest to reunite with Edward reveals her complexity: She’s both resilient and vulnerable, with an incredibly odd laugh and a tendency to faint in public. Molly's determined pursuit contrasts sharply with Edward's aimless avoidance, creating a suspenseful dynamic that deepens the film’s emotional resonance.

Gomes enriches the narrative with documentary-style interludes, juxtaposing historical settings with scenes of modern-day cities, often in color, while the main story remains in black-and-white. This editing choice ensures that Molly and Edward’s story reverberates with audiences in the current day despite the film being set a century in the past.

Gomes’s film explores themes of missed connections, the collapse of empires, and the futility of human endeavors. Unlike most films, “Grand Tour” avoids a sweeping romantic reunion, opting instead for a melancholic and self-aware conclusion. The film poignantly paints the vastness of the world and the bittersweet reality of love and loss.

Even though some of the more nuanced elements of the film may not be immediately clear, the story is still captivating and engaging. While understanding the subtleties of the film may deepen the audience's appreciation for it, "Grand Tour" allows viewers to enjoy the experience without needing to grasp every detail. “Grand Tour” distinguishes itself as a truly exceptional film because it resonates with audiences without relying heavily on intricacies.

However, one element that may pose a challenge for wider distribution — particularly in North America — is the film’s linguistic choices. The film’s narration shifts languages based on location, which deeply immerses the audience in the global journey while simultaneously emphasizing the cultural and emotional landscapes. While this multilingual approach is one of the film’s strengths, adding richness and authenticity, it could also pose a barrier for a North American theatrical release. Since the dialogue is primarily in Portuguese, apart from one English song, the film might struggle to attract mainstream audiences.

“Grand Tour” is set to release on MUBI later this year, alongside “The Substance,” another film that premiered at Cannes. Despite the potential for “Grand Tour” to bypass theaters and go straight to streaming, there is hope that it won’t entirely slip under the radar for American viewers.

“Grand Tour” is not a film to watch casually or without full attention — it invites audience members to immerse themselves in its subtleties and beauty. When the film reaches theaters, people should take the time to experience it fully; it’s a film that calls for contemplation. With the right audience engagement, the film is sure to leave a profound sense of adventure, connection, and reflection in its wake.

—Staff writer J.J. Moore can be reached at [email protected] .

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The 2023 festival runs from 11 – 13th august.

Our venue is Hatherop Castle, GL7 3NB , nestled in the rolling hills of the Cotswolds. You want to enter from the north side of the school .

The WhatThreeWords address for the entrance to the driveway is ///originate.carefully.guides

The festival opens at 2pm on Friday . Please do not aim to arrive before this time as this will cause congestion in the village. There’s plenty of camping space to go round, don’t you worry! We must be clear of the site by 5pm on Sunday.

When googling, note that Hatherop Castle is a Victorian stately home that is now being used as a school called, Hatherop Castle School! What’s a little confusing is that the delightful sandstone structure is a classic grade II listed building but doesn’t look like a castle in the ‘traditional’ sense.

All traffic for the main camping field needs to fit through a gothic arch that is 3.1m high and 2.3m wide. If your van is too big then fear not, we have a place set aside especially, you can still attend!

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The nearest railway station is Kemble, on the Swindon to Gloucester line, which is 14 miles from the venue. Fairford railway station is only 3 miles from the venue but sadly, was closed in 1962 (and therefore NOT down to Beeching!). We heartily support rail travel so if planning to arrive on Friday at Kemble, local taxi companies are available to get you to site.

If you’re driving, try to arrive via the village of Bibury – Cotswold perfection and a vindication of this area for the event.

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