The Cambridge Film Festivalwill host more than two dozen UK premieres at its 26th event, running July 6-16.

The festival, headquarteredat the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse under festivaldirector Tony Jones, will open with the UK premiere of Pedro Almodovar'sCannes award winner Volver. Tidelandwill close the festival with director Terry Gilliam in attendance.

Other British premieres areJohn Lasseter's Pixaranimation Cars, Richard Linklater's Rotoscope sci-fiproject A Scanner Darkly, Michel Gondry's The ScienceOf Sleep, Luc Besson's Angel-A, Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page, Lian Lunson's Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, and Buket Alakus's Offside from Germany.

In addition, Cambridge will host the world premiere of Jim Doyle's Flirting WithFlamenco and the European premiere of Allan Sekula'sThe Lottery Of The Sea.

As part of the UK's first Bruce Weber film retrospective, the festivalwill premiere the short film The Legend Of True: Dog Of a Million Kisses and Weber has also madea short to screen especially at Cambridge.

In addition to screenings ofrecent features, documentaries and shorts, the festival will present a seasonof erotic cinema, a Luc Besson tribute, a programmedevoted to new Iraqi cinema and works from pioneering directors of the BritishDocumentary Movement from the 1930s to the 1980s.

In other festival events,writer Ali Smith will present Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1968 Theorem,which has similar themes to her novel TheAccidental. There will be an outdoor screening of Michael Winterbottom's A CockAnd Bull Story, a children's strand, educationalprogrammes, and screenings of new prints of classics such as Taxi Driver and Oklahoma!

Expected attendees includedirector Peter Greenaway, Keane star Damian Lewis, Sam Neill and Rowan Woods from Little Fish, Moritz Bleibtreu,Luc Besson, Iraqi director HaydarDaffar, and Mike Figgis, whowill screen his short Tied Up At The Office made for Agent Provocateur.

For the full line-up see thefestival's website.