With only four days to go, preparations for The Sixth Keswick Film Festival are in full swing. Bigger and better than ever, this year's festival offers more screenings, more new films and more opportunities to talk movies than ever before.

The festival opens with a special screening of Peace One Day, introduced by its director, Jeremy Gilley. An extraordinary documentary, the film follows Jeremy's efforts to call a 24-hour halt to killing across the world. Throughout the weekend, there are a selection of light-hearted titles like I Love Huckabees and The Story of the Weeping Camel, comedies like Metallica: SKOM and Napoleon Dynamite and recent international releases like My Summer of Love, Take My Eyes and Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

In keeping with the new, contemporary programme, there are several other special new features at this year's festival: a film bookstall run by local bookshop Bookends; late-night screenings of Oldboy and Kontroll (not for the faint-hearted); a delegates' area at Theatre by the Lake, with free tea & coffee for Festival Pass holders, and opening and closing night Gala parties.

Festival Director Alex Greenwood says "We're really looking forward to this year's festival. We've already sold more Festival Passes this year than ever before, which we hope means that people like our new-look programme. However, there are still weekend Festival Passes and tickets for individual films available and, with 24 films showing in two and a half days, we hope there'll be something to suit every taste."

The Sixth Keswick Film Festival...

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