Subject: Press Accreditation for the 40th Cambridge Film Festival. OPEN NOW

Press accreditation applications for CFF40 are open now.

We're pleased to be able to say that we are now accepting applications for press accreditation for this year's Cambridge Film Festival.

We are able to offer press accreditation to a limited number of journalists across media. 


Press Accreditation includes*:

  • Admission to screenings (tickets can be reserved on the day of the screening)

  • Admission to special events

  • Access to event guests

  • Festival Brochure


*subject to availability.

Please note that we do not charge for press accreditation and encourage applications from blogs, and while we cannot provide accreditation to everyone who applies, we will assess all applications before allocating passes.

Adeel Akhtar (FOUR LIONS, BIG SICK, EBOLA HOLES, ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN) delivers another stand-out performance as the complex, multilayered, musical, vibrant and kind Ali... [Read More]

Nisan Dag takes us into the buzzing rap scene in Istanbul and a glorious combination of music, composed by Da Poet, and colour provided by the neon lights so characteristic of the global music scene and Istanbul inner-city streets...  [Read More]

An all-star cast led by Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch, narrated by Olivia Colman and featuring a trove of household names such as Taika Waititi, Richard Ayoade, Aimee Lou Wood, and Nick Cave...  [Read More]

Michael Showalter (THE BIG SICK) returns with a humanising and gloriously colourful portrayal of 1970s global televangelist phenomenon Tammy Faye, played by Jessica Chastain...  [Read More]

Based on Akihiro Nishino's bestselling book of the same name, this is a beautiful and touching story of a young boy Lubicchi (played by child actor Mana Ashida) who refuses to believe that the world in enshrined in smoke and that there are instead worlds and stars beyond... [Read More]

Interweaving cues from Cronenberg to Tarantino, tied together with exceptional performances from Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon, and an almost human body-like score, Julia Ducournau's TITANE is a spectacular, brutal and hypnotic ride that keeps the viewer on a certain edge... [Read More]


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