From Pawel Pawilkowski, Oscar and Bafta winning filmaker of Ida and Cold War. Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his grown up daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller - The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) - actress, writer and rally driver, return to post-war Germany and find themselves adrift as they navigate family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

With Fatherland, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler & August Diehl
Year: 2026
Language: In German with English subtitles
Country: Italy / Poland
Running time: 1hr 22mins

Oscar winner Taika Waititi’s luminous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel sees Jenna Ortega play an enthusiastic artificial friend desperate to find a loving home.

Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams & Mia Tharia
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 56mins

From Pawel Pawilkowski, Oscar and Bafta winning filmaker of Ida and Cold War. Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his grown up daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller - The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) - actress, writer and rally driver, return to post-war Germany and find themselves adrift as they navigate family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

With Fatherland, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler & August Diehl
Year: 2026
Language: In German with English subtitles
Country: Italy / Poland
Running time: 1hr 22mins

Oscar winner Taika Waititi’s luminous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel sees Jenna Ortega play an enthusiastic artificial friend desperate to find a loving home.

Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams & Mia Tharia
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 56mins

Oscar winner Taika Waititi’s luminous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel sees Jenna Ortega play an enthusiastic artificial friend desperate to find a loving home.

Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams & Mia Tharia
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 56mins

From Pawel Pawilkowski, Oscar and Bafta winning filmaker of Ida and Cold War. Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his grown up daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller - The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) - actress, writer and rally driver, return to post-war Germany and find themselves adrift as they navigate family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

With Fatherland, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler & August Diehl
Year: 2026
Language: In German with English subtitles
Country: Italy / Poland
Running time: 1hr 22mins

Oscar winner Taika Waititi’s luminous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel sees Jenna Ortega play an enthusiastic artificial friend desperate to find a loving home.

Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams & Mia Tharia
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 56mins

From Pawel Pawilkowski, Oscar and Bafta winning filmaker of Ida and Cold War. Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his grown up daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller - The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) - actress, writer and rally driver, return to post-war Germany and find themselves adrift as they navigate family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

With Fatherland, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler & August Diehl
Year: 2026
Language: In German with English subtitles
Country: Italy / Poland
Running time: 1hr 22mins

Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star in Ken Russell's The Devils, a landmark exploration of religious persecution, hysteria and institutional corruption. Showing here for the first time ever in a new restoration of Russell's original unseen vision.

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

Censored for more than half a century, Russell’s masterpiece was unveiled at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, and never seen again in this definitive version until now, 55 years after the film’s original release.

Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Oliver Reed & Vanessa Redgrave
Year: 1971
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 54mins

A wonderfully eccentric fable which, at its core, is witty and big-hearted love story between a fishmonger and her made-to-measure husband starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker.

In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Director: Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson
Starring: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki & Peter Dinklage
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Australia / Hungary
Running time: 1hr 45mins

A wonderfully eccentric fable which, at its core, is witty and big-hearted love story between a fishmonger and her made-to-measure husband starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker.

In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Director: Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson
Starring: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki & Peter Dinklage
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Australia / Hungary
Running time: 1hr 45mins

A wonderfully eccentric fable which, at its core, is witty and big-hearted love story between a fishmonger and her made-to-measure husband starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker.

In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Director: Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson
Starring: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki & Peter Dinklage
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Australia / Hungary
Running time: 1hr 45mins

Come and join us as we welcome back the wonderful Lillian Henley for a live accompaniment to this month's Sunday Silent - an attempt to warm everybody up around the ol' joanna... If you think it's a bit nippy outside, spare a thought for Ernest Shackleton wedged between two icebergs for over a year. A tremendous, ravishing and tense documentary from Frank Hurley (Symphony of Steel). 

When Frank Hurley accompanies Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew on board the Endurance bound for Antarctica, he brings a slew of camera equipment with him. As he spectacularly documents every step of their journey, capturing images never before seen on film, the ship collides with ice and is unable to move. The crew wait in vain for rescue for several months, but eventually have to try and save themselves as they begin to sink. Shackleton must ultimately lead his crew through 800 miles of stormy seas and ice to try and get back to the last outpost of civilisation and safety. It's awe-inspiring jaw-dropping stuff.

Director: Frank Hurley
Starring: Sir Ernest Shackleton, Frank Hurley, Frank Worsley, J. Stenhouse
Year: 1919
Language: Silent with live piano accompaniment
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 21mins

A wonderfully eccentric fable which, at its core, is witty and big-hearted love story between a fishmonger and her made-to-measure husband starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker.

In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Director: Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson
Starring: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki & Peter Dinklage
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Australia / Hungary
Running time: 1hr 45mins

A wonderfully eccentric fable which, at its core, is witty and big-hearted love story between a fishmonger and her made-to-measure husband starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker.

In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Director: Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson
Starring: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki & Peter Dinklage
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Australia / Hungary
Running time: 1hr 45mins

Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star in Ken Russell's The Devils, a landmark exploration of religious persecution, hysteria and institutional corruption. Showing here for the first time ever in a new restoration of Russell's original unseen vision.

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

Censored for more than half a century, Russell’s masterpiece was unveiled at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, and never seen again in this definitive version until now, 55 years after the film’s original release.

Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Oliver Reed & Vanessa Redgrave
Year: 1971
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 54mins

A genre-defying epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca, this is majestic and original filmmaking.

Following three men connected across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017, this wonder is rich with Lorca's poetry, suffused with desire, grief and hope - both an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and history.

Director: Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo
Starring: Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes & Penélope Cruz
Year: 2026
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Country: Spain / France
Running time: 2hr 35mins

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup to oust Salvador Allende, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi).

Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

John Malkovich’s peerless performance (hotly tipped for fast-looming Oscar time) chimes beautifully with co-stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who together bring Martin McDonagh’s (The Banshees of Inisherin) brilliantly acerbic and witty script hilariously to life.

Great cameo from Tom Waits too!

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits & Parker Posey
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Chile
Running time: 1hr 58mins

A genre-defying epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca, this is majestic and original filmmaking.

Following three men connected across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017, this wonder is rich with Lorca's poetry, suffused with desire, grief and hope - both an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and history.

Director: Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo
Starring: Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes & Penélope Cruz
Year: 2026
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Country: Spain / France
Running time: 2hr 35mins

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup to oust Salvador Allende, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi).

Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

John Malkovich’s peerless performance (hotly tipped for fast-looming Oscar time) chimes beautifully with co-stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who together bring Martin McDonagh’s (The Banshees of Inisherin) brilliantly acerbic and witty script hilariously to life.

Great cameo from Tom Waits too!

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits & Parker Posey
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Chile
Running time: 1hr 58mins

Cliftonville has been filled with places to see a film since the dawn of moving pictures! Join us at Margate Film Festival 2026 to discover them all, in person and on foot.

This Cinema Walk explores and celebrates everywhere to have shown films on the seafront and around Northdown Road, from converted shops to glorious picture palaces, from buildings still standing to those of which all flickering traces are long gone. Including local social history, cinema makers past and present, archive images and film events happening next week, visit Cliftonville’s love for the sights, sounds and sensations of film from the 1900s to today. 

Cinema Walks are part of the Palace Cinema’s occasional events programme exploring the local film heritage of Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate. 

Route – The Cinema Walk covers the seafront between the Oval and Lido and Northdown Road between Sweyn Road and Wyndham Avenue. Please contact the Palace in advance to check if the route is suitable for you / your group. Free places are offered to carers accompanying those with a disability. 

Health & Safety - By agreeing to participate in a Cinema Walk, all participants are agreeing to listen to safety instructions and exercise due care and attention whilst walking. 

Weather - Cinema Walks offer only partial protection from the weather in brief stops on the route. In the event of weather bad enough to prevent the Walk taking place, ticket holders can switch to a future date or be refunded in full.

Meeting point - TBC

Director: Palace Cinema
Starring: Cameo, Clifton, Astoria, Ark, 101 Social, Margate Arts Club & more
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK - Cliftonville
Running time: 1hr 30mins

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup to oust Salvador Allende, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi).

Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

John Malkovich’s peerless performance (hotly tipped for fast-looming Oscar time) chimes beautifully with co-stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who together bring Martin McDonagh’s (The Banshees of Inisherin) brilliantly acerbic and witty script hilariously to life.

Great cameo from Tom Waits too!

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits & Parker Posey
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Chile
Running time: 1hr 58mins

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup to oust Salvador Allende, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi).

Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

John Malkovich’s peerless performance (hotly tipped for fast-looming Oscar time) chimes beautifully with co-stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who together bring Martin McDonagh’s (The Banshees of Inisherin) brilliantly acerbic and witty script hilariously to life.

Great cameo from Tom Waits too!

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits & Parker Posey
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Chile
Running time: 1hr 58mins

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup to oust Salvador Allende, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi).

Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

John Malkovich’s peerless performance (hotly tipped for fast-looming Oscar time) chimes beautifully with co-stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who together bring Martin McDonagh’s (The Banshees of Inisherin) brilliantly acerbic and witty script hilariously to life.

Great cameo from Tom Waits too!

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits & Parker Posey
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA / Chile
Running time: 1hr 58mins

A genre-defying epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca, this is majestic and original filmmaking.

Following three men connected across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017, this wonder is rich with Lorca's poetry, suffused with desire, grief and hope - both an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and history.

Director: Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo
Starring: Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes & Penélope Cruz
Year: 2026
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Country: Spain / France
Running time: 2hr 35mins