Wim Wenders attended CFF 8 to present PARIS, TEXAS in 1984. Just weeks after it had won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

Directors Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbuhl presented LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD to two packed screenings at CFF36.

Released to both acclaim and consternation at home (it won best director at Cannes but was protested by police for it’s perceived anti police narrative) LA HAINE quickly went on to achieve cult cinema status around the world and made a star of it’s lead Vincent Cassel.

BLACK BREAD had it’s UK premiere at the 32nd Cambridge Film Festival as part of CAMERA CATALONIA

After headlining a Lynne Ramsay retrospective at CFF 37 in 2017, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE went on to win rave reviews from audiences and critics alike.

CFF6 in 1982 saw a widening of the Cambridge Film Festival programme and the hosting of the UK Premiere of Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO.

An ode to analogue and a sumptuous invitation to fall in love with real things again. An Impossible Project (fittingly) played as part of AMPLIFY! Film Festival in 2020.

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s emotionally powerful and visually stunning masterpiece played to a packed screen one at CFF37.