Cambridge Festival
November 1
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What is the Cambridge Festival?
We’re delighted to confirm that the Cambridge Film Festival will return from 23 October to 2 November 2025, bringing not eight but eleven days of world-class cinema to the city.
The Cambridge Film Festival (CFF), one of the UK’s most distinctive and longest-running celebrations of cinema, returns this autumn for its 44th edition, promising an expanded 11-day programme filled with world-class films, bold new voices, and unforgettable stories from around the globe.
The 44th Cambridge Film Festival will open with the multi-award-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, his most sharply funny and playfully anarchic film to date. Reuniting with Emma Stone and joined by Jesse Plemons, the Oscar-nominated director reimagines the South Korean cult favourite Save the Green Planet! as a twisted sci-fi comedy brimming with paranoia, absurdity, and pitch-black wit. When a man becomes convinced a corporate executive is an alien bent on destroying humanity, he sets off a spiralling chain of events that veer from the sinister to the surreal — and often hilariously so.
Running from 23 October to 2 November 2025, this year’s Festival will showcase nearly 100 titles from over 25 countries, including 30+ UK premieres, alongside European and World debuts. Over 50% of the line-up is female-directed, marked with the Festival’s signature F-Rating, championing women filmmakers.
The University’s Public Engagement team brings the Cambridge Festival to you. To find out about their other events, such as Open Cambridge, and their training and development programme for researchers, please visit cam.ac.uk/public-engagement
