Crystal Palace International Film festival is returning this 2022 and has been dubbed the “world’s coolest film festival”.

The festival, known as CPIFF, will show high quality films with filmmakers flying in from all over the world to answer Q&As.

There will be 16 evenings of screenings with films from across the globe, including many European, UK and London premieres.

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Festival dates run from February 24 to March 26, 2022, with screenings at the Everyman Cinema in Crystal Palace and PictureHouse in West Norwood.

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The film festival awards will be shown at West Norwood Picturehouse on March 26, with Shappi Khorsandi set to present the awards - following in the footsteps of comedians Johnny Vegas, Mark Steel and Kerry Godliman.

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Mike Reiss, writer of The Simpsons, said CPIFF is the “best film festival we’ve ever been to - and we've been to a lot".

As well as this, CPIFF looks for young London filmmakers, gets them screened and into paid work experience - that has previously led to full time employment.

With animation night, sci-fi, horror, documentaries, feature length and short film, the 2022 full programme is now online.

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Tickets are available here

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