Slapstick Festival 2025

Eddie Murphy plays the lead in this comedy send-up of every horror film ever.

Buster Keaton is both touching and very, very funny in this spoof cowboy film as Friendless, a hapless soul who decides to try his hand at cattle ranching after failing to find a big city job.

Dustin Hoffman gives an Oscar®-nominated performance as an unsuccessful actor who poses as a woman to try for a part in a hit TV series.

Join us this half-term for double feature of Aardman Animation’s new feature film Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wrong Trousers, starring everyone’s favourite duo Wallace & Gromit.

I Was Born, But is director Yasujiro Ozu's film that looks at family life through the eyes of two young mischevious brothers, new to their Tokyo neighbourhood.

Recognised widely as a masterpiece of Soviet silent cinema, The House at Trubnaya Square is a delightful comedy of manners satirising contemporary life in Moscow during a time of ever-shifting, often contradictory, policies.

A small-time black-marketeer loathe to shed his capitalist ways tries to work the chaos of the Bolshevik takeover to his advantage.

Writer, film historian and Silent London blogger Pamela Hutchinson bring us a presentation highlighting the influence of 1920s Soviet silent comedies.

Anna Sten plays a hat maker caught in a love triangle and challenges involving a room rental scam and a winning lottery ticket.

A double-bill screening Buster Keaton’s final silent The Railrodder, and John Spotton's award-winning documentary Buster Keaton Rides Again.

Keaton stars as a pampered son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Having known no other lifestyle but privilege, he wanders through a variety of misadventures.

Stand-up star Lucy Porter introduces two films linked by their takes on marriage, which are Le Torchon Brûle and Oh! What A Nurse!.

Silent Movie charts the attempts by Mel Brooks and the lost-too-young Marty Feldman to make a silent film.

A slapstick frostbitten battle between a drunken applejack salesman and diabolical beavers – hundreds of them!

Elmer (W.C. Fields) is regularly criticised by work colleagues and disrespected by clients until he’s hypnotised into believing he is a lion!

A comedy about four single girls with busy office jobs and love lives sharing a flat in a big city.

Cartoon Carnival is a lovingly-researched documentary telling the story of the pioneering early days of animated film and of one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and share them with new audiences.