Stroud Film Festival 2026

Friday 27th February-Saturday 14th March

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PLEASE NOTE .... Wild Rose on 14 March is fully booked and there is a long waiting list. Tickets available for BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions at 16.30 Saturday.

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PLEASE NOTE .... Wild Rose on 14 March is fully booked and there is a long waiting list. Tickets available for BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions at 16.30 Saturday. 〰️

  • The Philadelphia Story

    Fri 13 Mar
    7:30pm

    Part of a mini Hepburn season: the film with which Katharine Hepburn engineered her 1940 comeback.

  • Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk

    Fri 13
    7:30pm

    A filmmaker connects with a Palestinian woman in Gaza who documents life under bombardment…

  • 90 Second Stroud

    Sat 14 Mar
    12:00pm

    Watch the films made in response to the 90 Second Film Challenge.

  • Christine Felce: Discovering Lost Films

    Sat 14 Mar
    2:30pm

    Two award winning experimental films from the 1970s rediscovered 40 years after being thought lost in a fire.

  • BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

    Sat 14 Mar
    4:30pm

    A journalist and a West African curator navigate an art world ship bound for a symbolic Transatlantic Biennale.

  • Wild Rose

    Sat 14 Mar7:30pm

    Festival Finale Patron’s Pick: Jessie Buckley’s stunning breakout performance in Tom Harper’s uplifting Glasgow barn-stormer.