CFF 2019

Our traditional open-air opener of amusing short films selected this year by Sanne Jehoul and projected onto the lighthouse. Join us for a mulled wine or a dram around the fire. FREE

Cert 15 1996 121mins Director: Renny Harlin Guest: Lesley Riddoch An amnesiac action thriller starring the wonderful Geena Davis as a suburban single mom and teacher, looking to recover her past identity with the help of wise-crackin...

NOW SOLD OUT! Cert 15 2019 122mins Director: Todd Phillips An empathetic study of mental breakdown or an apologia for violent behaviour? Joker has become one of the most talked about films of the year, with an indelible performance ...

Join us for a model-making workshop before we go To Infinity and Beyond! We'll have arts and crafts for the wee ones in a 45-minute workshop in preparation for Toy Story 4. Whether you want to be Buzz or Woody, Bo Peep or new arrival '...

Cert U 2019 100mins Director: Josh Cooley Don't miss Woody, Buzz, beloved old friends and new, in this final exciting adventure to save Bonnie's new toy creation, Forky. 25 years on, the characters are surprisingly as fresh, fu...

"It's always ourselves we find in the sea" BAFTA award-winning animator, Cat Bruce, and sound designer, Keith Duncan, return to Cromarty this year following the success of last year's wee film created over the festival weeken...

Cert PG 2018 97mins Director: Zara Balfour & Marcus Stephenson Guests: Zara Balfour & introduced by Christo Hird A wonderfully touching film about five teenagers returning from boarding school in Kathmandu to their homes in t...

Cert 15 2005 129mins Director: Fernando Meirelles Guest: Stuart Wilson An intelligent and moving political thriller that should be held right up there with All The Presidents Men and The Killing Fields. Rachel Weisz received an Oscar...

90 mins This year's selection of highlights from the Glasgow Short Film Festival International Competition takes us from belly laughs to quiet reflection, and includes Audience Award-winner Tungrus, in which a pet rooster causes family ten...

2019 90min including discussion Curated by: Emily Munro From work to home, classroom to croft, girlhood to motherhood, women in Scotland over the last 100 years have lived through, inspired and created major social change. Her Century exp...

"It's always ourselves we find in the sea" BAFTA award-winning animator, Cat Bruce, and sound designer, Keith Duncan, return to Cromarty this year following the success of last year's wee film created over the festival weeken...

Talk: 60mins Please note - change of venue! This film was originally advertised as showing in the Old Buoy Store but is now in the larger Stables venue. Wrapped up in the world of a film, we sometimes miss the fact that it's the sound a...

Cert 12 2018 134mins Director: Bryan Singer It wouldn't be a festival without some sing-along action. Remi Malek won an Oscar and BAFTA for his uncanny performance as Freddy Mercury in this film following Queen from the formation o...

Cert 18 2019 100mins Director: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts This autobiographical documentary follows the life of a young female journalist through love, marriage and childbirth in war-torn Syria. A beautiful story of strength and stru...

Cert 15 2014 99mins Director: Wes Anderson Wes Anderson's glorious 1930s confection is a multi-facetted delight with a hard nugget of politics at its core. Packed to the rafters with stars, but dominated by Ralph Fiennes's cent...

Cert PG 1951 71mins Director: Edgar G Ulmar Mysterious "Planet X" has entered our solar system and is now near Earth. A spaceship from the planet lands on an isolated fog-shrouded Scottish moor, and a space-suited humanoid em...

Cert 12 1955 92mins + chat Director: Charles Laughton Guest: Denise Mina The favourite film choice of writer Denise Mina, The Night of the Hunter is an extraordinary expressionist thriller, the only film ever directed by Charles Laug...

Cert 15 2006 99mins Director: Clayton Jacobsen It wouldn't be CFF at the Slaughterhouse without some Aussie comedy! This year brings a touching mockumentary about a man who takes pride in his job. From the biggest festival to the s...

Cert 15 2019 94mins Director: Bo Burnham A little masterpiece and one of the most powerful films of the year, Burnham's debut turns the experiences of one 13 year-old girl into something both universal and epic. In her final week o...

"It's always ourselves we find in the sea" BAFTA award-winning animator, Cat Bruce, and sound designer, Keith Duncan, return to Cromarty this year following the success of last year's wee film created over the festival weeken...

2019 92mins Director: Vicki Lesley Featuring a wealth of fantastic archive footage and revealing interviews with those who had first hand experience, The Atom tells the turbulent story of the West's love-hate relationship with nuclea...

Cert 12A 2018 94mins Director: Nora Twomey A treat for animation fans of all ages, this Oscar-nominated film about a courageous girl who seeks to save her father from the Taliban is a magical adaptation of the novel by Deborah Ellis. A...

NOW SOLD OUT! 90 mins Our showcase of the best new Scottish shorts includes everything from fiction and documentary to animation and artists' moving image. These are stories about community and connection, in its broadest sense. Catch G...

Cert PG 2019 122mins Director: Michael Engler Believe me, we tried to dodge this bejewelled juggernaut, but sometimes you have to bow down to popular demand and let it roll over you. Julian Fellowes' addictive storytelling has made...

2018 30mins + discussion + 12min Greenpeace film Director: Lesley Riddoch and Al McMaster Guest: Lesley Riddoch Please note - change of venue! This film was originally advertised as showing in the Old Buoy Store but is now in the large...

Cert 15 2018 121mins Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda A family of small-time crooks living a precarious life in Tokyo take in a child they find outside in the cold. This is a complex, subtle, mysterious film that builds to the most extraord...

Cert 18 2002 117mins Director: Michael Winterbottom A colourful and chaotic film capturing the spirit of the Manchester music scene from the first Sex Pistols concert to the last bankruptcy. With a stand-out central performance by Stev...

Cert U 1950 114mins Director: David Lean Lean's film is based on the true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was arrested in 1857 for the poisoning of her lover, leading to 'the trial of t...

NOW SOLD OUT! Cert 12A 2018 94mins Director: Morgan Neville Won't you join us for a splendid finale to the festival with a communal curry meal and assorted cheer before we push back our chairs and enjoy Won't You Be My Neigh...

Cert 12 2019 118mins Director: Rupert Goold The dark side of the golden age of stardom is captured in this new biopic of Judy Garland, featuring a bravado performance by Renee Zellweger. Thirty years have passed since Judy shot to glob...