Ethan Hawke is an innocent convict tasked by corrupt prison governor Russell Crowe to smuggle stolen gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners on an impossible trek through the treacherous Appalachian forests to win his freedom. 

A modern take on classics like Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1950s The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin's 1970s Sorcerer, this is a nailbiting, rousing gritty survivalist film where every character feels like a real, troubled, human being.

But as the group journeys into the unforgiving wilderness, the real threat isn’t the terrain — it’s the betrayal and violence festering within their ranks. Surrounded by greed, suspicion, and danger, Hawke must risk everything to reunite with his child.

Hawke gives a muscular performance as the film’s reluctant but resourceful hero, while Crowe is quietly menacing as his corrupt foil. Julia Jones brings smarts and defiance to her role as Anna, the sole woman in the group.

Director: Padraic McKinley
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe & Julia Jones
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 53mins

Ethan Hawke is an innocent convict tasked by corrupt prison governor Russell Crowe to smuggle stolen gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners on an impossible trek through the treacherous Appalachian forests to win his freedom. 

A modern take on classics like Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1950s The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin's 1970s Sorcerer, this is a nailbiting, rousing gritty survivalist film where every character feels like a real, troubled, human being.

But as the group journeys into the unforgiving wilderness, the real threat isn’t the terrain — it’s the betrayal and violence festering within their ranks. Surrounded by greed, suspicion, and danger, Hawke must risk everything to reunite with his child.

Hawke gives a muscular performance as the film’s reluctant but resourceful hero, while Crowe is quietly menacing as his corrupt foil. Julia Jones brings smarts and defiance to her role as Anna, the sole woman in the group.

Director: Padraic McKinley
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe & Julia Jones
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 53mins

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
Starring: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes & Kate Harbour
Year: 2026
Language: English but no dialogue!
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 20mins

Ethan Hawke is an innocent convict tasked by corrupt prison governor Russell Crowe to smuggle stolen gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners on an impossible trek through the treacherous Appalachian forests to win his freedom. 

A modern take on classics like Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1950s The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin's 1970s Sorcerer, this is a nailbiting, rousing gritty survivalist film where every character feels like a real, troubled, human being.

But as the group journeys into the unforgiving wilderness, the real threat isn’t the terrain — it’s the betrayal and violence festering within their ranks. Surrounded by greed, suspicion, and danger, Hawke must risk everything to reunite with his child.

Hawke gives a muscular performance as the film’s reluctant but resourceful hero, while Crowe is quietly menacing as his corrupt foil. Julia Jones brings smarts and defiance to her role as Anna, the sole woman in the group.

Director: Padraic McKinley
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe & Julia Jones
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 53mins

As a Halloween temptation, we're presenting this chilling Silent masterwork - the birth of German Expressionist cinema, and one of the most influential films of all time, with the original pre-recorded orchestral spooky score.

Werner Krauss plays the title character, a sinister hypnotist who travels the carnival circuit displaying a somnambulist named Cesare (Conrad Veidt). In one tiny German town, a series of murders coincides with Caligari's visit. When the best friend of hero Francis (Friedrich Feher) is killed, the deed seems to be the outgrowth of a romantic rivalry over the hand of the lovely Jane (Lil Dagover). Francis suspects Caligari, but he is ignored by the police.

Caligari's Expressionist style ultimately led to the dark shadows and sharp angles of the film noir urban crime dramas of the 1940s, many of which were directed by such German émigrés as Billy Wilder and Robert Siodmak.

A ground-breaking silent classic which set the template for horror to this day.

Director: Robert Wiene
Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt & Lil Dagover
Year: 1920
Language: Silent with English intertitles
Country: Germany
Running time: 1hr 18mins

Ethan Hawke is an innocent convict tasked by corrupt prison governor Russell Crowe to smuggle stolen gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners on an impossible trek through the treacherous Appalachian forests to win his freedom. 

A modern take on classics like Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1950s The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin's 1970s Sorcerer, this is a nailbiting, rousing gritty survivalist film where every character feels like a real, troubled, human being.

But as the group journeys into the unforgiving wilderness, the real threat isn’t the terrain — it’s the betrayal and violence festering within their ranks. Surrounded by greed, suspicion, and danger, Hawke must risk everything to reunite with his child.

Hawke gives a muscular performance as the film’s reluctant but resourceful hero, while Crowe is quietly menacing as his corrupt foil. Julia Jones brings smarts and defiance to her role as Anna, the sole woman in the group.

Director: Padraic McKinley
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe & Julia Jones
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 53mins

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
Starring: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes & Kate Harbour
Year: 2026
Language: English but no dialogue!
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 20mins

The Palace is delighted to welcome back the Folkestone Documentary Festival! Join us for wonderful films celebrating living traditions of folk and craft connecting our past, present and future.

THE ARCHIVIST (PG) + Special pre-recorded intro by co-director Rob Curry

David "Doc" Rowe has spent 60 years documenting Britain's vibrant folk traditions, songs, dances and creatures that few others thought worthy of attention, building an extraordinary archive along the way. Now he needs a proper home for all the material he’s accumulated before it disappears. Told through the wheel of a year of folk happenings across the country, this is a celebration of a man who is as unique as the traditions he’s dedicated to preserving.

+ short film: THE WEAVERS (12A)

Dir Callum McCulloch-Nowlan / UK 2026 / 10min

Rob Beaton has been weaving tartan and tweed in the Scottish Borders since he was 14. Now 84, he is Scotland's oldest and longest-serving mill worker, operating 100-year-old traditional shuttle looms in a mill threatened by closure. But elsewhere in Scotland, a different story is unfolding. In Highland Perthshire, a young apprentice is learning the trade and the ancient rhythms of the looms are being passed to a new generation.

The evening will be introduced by James Collie, co-director of Folkestone Documentary Festival

www.folkestonedocumentaryfestival.co.uk 

Directors: Rob Curry, Tim Plester
Starring: David "Doc" Rowe
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 38mins

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
Starring: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes & Kate Harbour
Year: 2026
Language: English but no dialogue!
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 20mins

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant). 

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, with shades of Dr. Strangelove, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant).

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

Cruise stars alongside Oscar winner Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Starring: Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller & Jesse Plemons
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / Mexico / USA
Running time: 2hrs 9mins

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
Starring: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes & Kate Harbour
Year: 2026
Language: English but no dialogue!
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 20mins

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget horror movie, Michael Almereyda made this exotic, moody, funny and endlessly inventive reimagining of the Dracula myth. 

Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

The film follows estranged vampire twins Nadja (Hal Hartley regular, Elina Löwensohn) and Edgar (a very young Jared Harris) as they reunite following their father’s death at the hands of the flamboyantly unhinged Dr. Van Helsing, played with relish by Peter Fonda. 

The film’s striking visuals combines high contrast black-and-white 35mm cinematography with the hallucinatory grain of Pixelvision video, looking better than even in this new 4K restoration of the director’s cut.

Director: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Elina Löwensohn, Jared Harris, Peter Fonda & David Lynch
Year: 1994
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 37mins

From the Oscar-winning directors of No Other Land, comes NAZA, a searing account of civilian casualties in the war on Palestine. 

In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.

NAZA premiered at Venice International Film Festival earlier this month, where it was met with a 25-minute standing ovation – a festival record. The documentary went on to win the Special Jury Prize.

In the words of the filmmakers: "We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible.

The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence."

Director: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Starring: Yuval Abraham
Year: 2026
Language: In English with some subtitles
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 20mins

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
Starring: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes & Kate Harbour
Year: 2026
Language: English but no dialogue!
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 20mins

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant). 

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, with shades of Dr. Strangelove, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant).

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

Cruise stars alongside Oscar winner Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Starring: Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller & Jesse Plemons
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / Mexico / USA
Running time: 2hrs 9mins

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant). 

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, with shades of Dr. Strangelove, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant).

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

Cruise stars alongside Oscar winner Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Starring: Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller & Jesse Plemons
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / Mexico / USA
Running time: 2hrs 9mins

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant). 

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, with shades of Dr. Strangelove, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant).

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

Cruise stars alongside Oscar winner Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Starring: Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller & Jesse Plemons
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / Mexico / USA
Running time: 2hrs 9mins

Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White star in Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to The Social Network.

Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social media reckoning we’re seeing play out today, this is a true David and Goliath story.

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison & Jeremy Allen White
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 52mins

Andrew Garfield stars as Ploughman, the legendary leader of the Peasants Revolt, rebelling against the tyranny of King Richard II (written and directed by Paul Greengrass - Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93 and Captain Phillips).

As war burns across England, Alongside Wat Tyler, Ploughman forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival.

Showcasing extraordinary period battle sequences expertly orchestrated by acclaimed director Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips), this unmissable historical epic assembles an extraordinary ensemble, including Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Katherine Waterston and Thomasin McKenzie.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Katherine Waterston, Cosmo Jarvis & Thomasin McKenzie
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA
Running time: 2hrs 7mins

Andrew Garfield stars as Ploughman, the legendary leader of the Peasants Revolt, rebelling against the tyranny of King Richard II (written and directed by Paul Greengrass - Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93 and Captain Phillips).

As war burns across England, Alongside Wat Tyler, Ploughman forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival.

Showcasing extraordinary period battle sequences expertly orchestrated by acclaimed director Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips), this unmissable historical epic assembles an extraordinary ensemble, including Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Katherine Waterston and Thomasin McKenzie.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Katherine Waterston, Cosmo Jarvis & Thomasin McKenzie
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA
Running time: 2hrs 7mins

Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White star in Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to The Social Network.

Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social media reckoning we’re seeing play out today, this is a true David and Goliath story.

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison & Jeremy Allen White
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 52mins

Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White star in Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to The Social Network.

Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social media reckoning we’re seeing play out today, this is a true David and Goliath story.

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison & Jeremy Allen White
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 52mins

In rural Ireland, amateur historian Catherine Corless (Monica Dolan - Typist Artist Pirate King, Elsinore) begins researching a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children, she stumbles upon evidence pointing towards a deeply troubling past.

Refusing to let the questions go, she embarks on a painstaking investigation, putting her in conflict with the Church, the State, and the local town. As the resistance mounts, and unsettling discoveries emerge, her determination challenges powerful institutions, exposing a hidden chapter of Ireland's past that many would rather keep hidden.

Based on a true story, and featuring a powerful performance from Monica Dolan, The Lost Children of Tuam is a deeply moving portrait of one woman’s fight for justice.

Director: Frank Berry
Starring: Monica Dolan, Ian McElhinney & Jonathan Heed
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: Ireland / UK
Running time: 1hr 24mins

Andrew Garfield stars as Ploughman, the legendary leader of the Peasants Revolt, rebelling against the tyranny of King Richard II (written and directed by Paul Greengrass - Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93 and Captain Phillips).

As war burns across England, Alongside Wat Tyler, Ploughman forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival.

Showcasing extraordinary period battle sequences expertly orchestrated by acclaimed director Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips), this unmissable historical epic assembles an extraordinary ensemble, including Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Katherine Waterston and Thomasin McKenzie.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Katherine Waterston, Cosmo Jarvis & Thomasin McKenzie
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK / USA
Running time: 2hrs 7mins

In rural Ireland, amateur historian Catherine Corless (Monica Dolan - Typist Artist Pirate King, Elsinore) begins researching a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children, she stumbles upon evidence pointing towards a deeply troubling past.

Refusing to let the questions go, she embarks on a painstaking investigation, putting her in conflict with the Church, the State, and the local town. As the resistance mounts, and unsettling discoveries emerge, her determination challenges powerful institutions, exposing a hidden chapter of Ireland's past that many would rather keep hidden.

Based on a true story, and featuring a powerful performance from Monica Dolan, The Lost Children of Tuam is a deeply moving portrait of one woman’s fight for justice.

Director: Frank Berry
Starring: Monica Dolan, Ian McElhinney & Jonathan Heed
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: Ireland / UK
Running time: 1hr 24mins

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