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Russell Hobbs British Film Festival 2025

Palace Regent Cinemas

49 Lydiard Street North,
Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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  • 5 Nov–7 Dec

The Russell Hobbs British Film Festival, presented by Palace, will be screening at Palace Regent Cinemas in Ballarat. This year's sensational lineup showcases British brilliance at its best with hotly anticipated new releases, documentaries and retrospectives.

Festival highlights include Opening Night selection The Choral, a sweeping wartime drama with a stellar cast, led by Ralph Fiennes and directed by Nicholas Hytner.

The Special Presentation is Oliver Hermanus' The History of Sound starring an electric Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor.

Marking the highly anticipated return to the screen of Daniel Day-Lewis, Anemone is this year's Festival Centrepiece.

Closing the festival is Oscar winner Chloé Zhao's (Nomadland, The Rider) radiant adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare.

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