• View Past Film Festival programmes and brochures

    View the Holmfirth Film Festival Archive

Summer 2026 programme

Download
Poster promoting the Holmesfirth Film Festival, featuring a movie camera, clapperboard, film reel, popcorn, and soda, with event details for a free film screening on Tuesday, April 28, 7 pm, at The Civic, Holmfirth.

February & March 2026 Brochures

Download March

Poster for the Holmfirth Film Festival in February 2026 featuring images and summaries of various films, including 'Souleymane's Story,' 'The Young Karl Marx,' 'I Swear,' 'Iron Ladies,' 'In Case of Adversity,' 'According to Pereira,' 'Sister Midnight,' 'Ghost Trail,' and 'The Kingdom.'

Download February

Poster for the Holmfirth Film Festival in March 2026, featuring various films and incidents, including remembrance of Robert Duvall, a film night with Hepworth, and film summaries for movies like 'The Apostle,' 'Still Pushing Pineapples,' 'Dragonfly,' 'A Face in the Crowd,' 'Christy,' 'Sisu: Road to Revenge,' 'Bad Company,' 'The Voice of Hind Rajab,' and 'Young Mothers.'
Poster celebrating 100 years of community cinema in November and December 2025, featuring film event descriptions and images related to films and themes like Ukraine support, the universe, and social media.

Celebrating 100 years of Community Cinema

Autumn 2025 Festival Programme

Download here

HolmFirth Film Festival poster celebrating 100 years of community cinema in November and December 2025, featuring film titles, images of actors, screening details, and event information.
Poster for the Holmfirth Film Festival with the tagline 'Bringing Film to the Holme Valley.' Featuring images of three films: 'Late Shift' with a woman looking upwards, 'Driving Mum' with two men arguing next to a car, and 'Only the River Flows' showing a man holding a flashlight in a wooded area. Additional film titles include 'Lost Boys: Belfast's Missing Children,' 'Warfare,' and 'Swifts Night.' Details about screening dates, times, locations, and ticket information are included.

October 2025 Festival Brochure

Download here

Poster for Holmfirth Film Festival Summer 2025, showcasing award-winning films including 'Anora,' 'A Complete Unknown,' 'Howd Riley Tribute,' 'Oral Histories of the Holme Valley,' 'Flow,' 'The Apprentice,' 'They May Face the Rising Sun,' 'Conclave,' and "I'm Still Here." The poster features images from each film, festival details, and ticket information.

Summer 2025 programme

The Award Winners

Download here

The Holdeovers
Jun
30

The Holdeovers

Dir. Alexander Payne (US 2023, 120mins 15)

Payne directs a beautifully scripted 70s-style classic. Curmudgeonly Paul Giametti has to stay behind for the College Christmas holiday with the cook and a student for company.

View Event →
The Promised Land
May
26

The Promised Land

Dir. Nikolaj Arcel (Denmark 2023, 127mins 15)

Mads Mikkelsen is at his very best in this wonderfully produced and entirely enjoyable epic style ‘Western’ set in 18th century Denmark as an impoverished war hero faces a merciless nobleman his attempt to tame a wasteland.

View Event →
The Zone of Interest
Apr
28

The Zone of Interest

Dir. Jonathan Glazer (UK/Poland/US 2023, 060mins 12A)

BAFTA winner is an original and disturbing take on the Holocaust loosely based on Martin Amis’s novel. The commandant of Auschwitz and family strive for a dream life in a house and garden next door to the camp.

View Event →
Anatomy of a Fall
Mar
31

Anatomy of a Fall

Dir. Justine Triel (France 2023, 148mins 15)

The controversial multi-award winner proves to be a well-crafted almost Hitchcockian legal drama. Did she kill her husband, her blind son faces a dilemma as the only witness.

View Event →