Margate Film Festival | 26th

26th - 30th November 2025

A Cinematic Exploration of a Shifting Time & Place.

Margate Film Festival is a project born out of the turbulence of changing cultural landscapes and a love for the chaos of creativity. A journey through the wilderness of the cinema; of art, politics, identity, feminism, music, performance and more.

Featured Events

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Opening Night: Bird

Wed 26th Nov

8.00pm

ARK

A 12-year-old girl navigates family chaos when a mysterious stranger named Bird appears, blurring reality and magic in this gritty, transformative tale. Shot in Kent.

Live Score

The Magician (Live Score)

Fri 28th Nov

8.30pm

ARK

A sinister alchemist seeks virgin blood to create life in this 1926 silent classic, accompanied by Margate’s AUTOHAUs—fuzzed-out motorik hypnotics meets occult cinema.

I Am Martin Parr

Sun 30th Nov

11.30am

ARK

A vibrant portrait of controversial photographer Martin Parr, whose colorful, uncomfortably honest images of consumer culture revolutionized contemporary photography and sparked decades of debate.