The 23rd Cambridge Film Festival, which runs July 10-20, has secured a range of UK premieres including Peter Greenaway's Cannes competition entry The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1, The Moab Story, Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, Wolfgang Becker's German hit Good-Bye, Lenin! and Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning Spirited Away.
Other UK premieres at the festival, which runs July 10-20, include festival hit Whale Rider, folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind, Dylan Kidd's Roger Dodger, David Gordon Green's All The Real Girls, Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound, Nicolas Winding Refn's Fear X, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Falcons, Ismail Merchant's Merci, Docteur Rey and Roberto Faenza's Italian hit The Soul Keeper.
There will also be a preview screening of Veronica Guerin, the biopic on the life and death of the Dublin journalist, which stars Cate Blanchett.
Guests likely to attend the festival, which is run by independent UK exhibitor City Screen at its Arts Picturehouse cinema in Cambridge, include Blanchett, Gregor Jordan, Javier Bardem, Peter Greenaway, David Gordon Green, Christopher Guest, Wolfgang Becker, Ismail Merchant, Jane Birkin and Simon Callow.
The festival will also host an Independent Film Parliament on 11-12 July, which will see 250 film-makers and industry professionals debate current film policy and its impact on the UK's film culture.
Other highlights include the Resounding Images conference which brings together representatives from the UK's leading film archives; revivals of acclaimed classics M, A Page Of Madness and Sunrise, as well as new prints of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge and Le Doulos; a major retrospective for Soviet master Alexander Dovzhenko; and a short film programme with a tribute to Stan Brakhage.
The festival will also launch a season of films from New Europe - each film representing one of the ten countries set to join the European Union in 2004 - coinciding with a visit from the Foreign Office Minister for Europe, Denis McShane.
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