Festival Cotton Tote bags for sale around the town. Only £5

We are thrilled to announce that we are giving away 500 free children's packs as part of the Fakenham Arts Festival! 🎨✨

This was our 2025 package and we are planning to launch our 2026 offer later in the year

Where to Collect Your Free Pack:

• Aldiss
• Scent with Love
• Fakenham Library
• Our market stall on Thursday, 6th or 13th August
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What's Inside the Pack: Each pack includes:

• Pencils
• Crayons
• Original FAF25 drawings for you to color
• A fun trail activity

Special Offer: Complete your picture and enter our free prize draw for a chance to win exciting prizes!

Hurry and collect your pack while stocks last! We look forward to seeing you at the festival. 🌟

New for 2026 –Arts Films at the Cinema

For 2026, the Fakenham Arts Festival, alongside its sister event the Fakenham Film Festival, is introducing a new series of fascinating full-length biographical arts films, shown on Tuesday evenings throughout August at Central Cinema, Fakenham.

This exciting programme brings world-renowned artists to the big screen, offering a unique opportunity to explore their lives, inspiration and work in depth. Featuring beautifully produced films from the acclaimed Exhibition on Screen series, audiences can enjoy an immersive cinematic experience that combines art, history and storytelling.

From the powerful and personal story of Frida Kahlo, to the dramatic life of Caravaggio, and the enduring rivalry of Turner and Constable, this new addition to the festival offers something truly special for art lovers and film audiences alike.

An Evening of Local Films and Networking
For filmmakers and those interested in film

Details coming soon

Tuesday 4th August 2026

7.30pm

Central Cinema Fakenham

https://www.fakenhamcinema.co.uk/

FRIDA KAHLO

THE DEFINITIVE FILM EXPLORING THE LIFE AND ART OF A GLOBAL ICON

Tuesday 11^th August 2026

7.30pm

Central Cinema Fakenham

https://www.fakenhamcinema.co.uk/

Trailer

FRIDA KAHLO

90 mins

Discover her art, and uncover

the true story of her rebellious,

passionate and turbulent life.

[EXTENDED ENCORE with exclusive new material]

Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience – is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the curators of the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Modern and MFA Houston ‘Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon’. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show.

Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her face but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows and the floral crowns? Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the true story of her rebellious, passionate and turbulent life.

Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote to guide us, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art.

Exhibition on Screen’s trademark combination of interviews with world experts and a detailed exploration of her art, with new special bonus footage from the curators of the blockbuster 2026 exhibition, delivers a treasure trove of colour and emotion. This personal and intimate film offers privileged access to her works, her home, her studio and highlights the source of her feverish creativity, her resilience and her unmatched lust for life, beauty and revolution.

Created in close collaboration with world experts and those who knew her.

Featuring additional new material from the curators of the groundbreaking new Tate Modern and MFA Houston exhibition.

Directed by Ali Ray

CARAVAGGIO

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography.

Tuesday 18^th August 2026

7.30pm

Central Cinema Fakenham

https://www.fakenhamcinema.co.uk/

CARAVAGGIO

Tuesday

100 mins

Mystery, intrigue and murder

shine a new light on Caravaggio

in this dramatic biography…

Five years in the making, this is the most extensive film ever made about this revolutionary artist. With first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance, this film reveals Caravaggio as never before. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and testimony from leading experts from around the world, Caravaggio immerses audiences in the hidden narratives of the artist’s life, piecing together clues embedded within his incredible art.

Caravaggio’s masterpieces are some of art’s most instantly recognisable. No one else uses his signature blend of dramatic light, intense naturalism and bold, striking figures. His astonishing paintings have captivated audiences for centuries. But there lies a deeper mystery – one that still beckons us to explore. What do these masterpieces reveal about the man behind the brush? The intriguing self-depictions within his works – sometimes disguised, sometimes in plain sight – offer a rare window into his psyche and personal struggles. Join us as we unravel the story of one of history’s most brilliant, complex and controversial figures.

See the Trailer

https://seventh-art.com/product/caravaggio/

Co-Directed by David Bickerstaff & Phil Grabsky

TURNER & CONSTABLE

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.

Tuesday 25^th August 2026

7.30pm

Central Cinema Fakenham

https://www.fakenhamcinema.co.uk/

TURNER & CONSTABLE

91 mins |

An unmissable documentary

that explores Turner and

Constable’s intertwined lives.

See the Trailer

https://seventh-art.com/product/turner_constable/

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Now, these two greats are reuniting. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen in March so that you can enjoy both film and exhibition together. Discover unexpected sides to both artists with intimate views of sketchbooks and personal items and insights from leading experts.

Turner’s blazing sunsets and sublime scenes from his travels and Constable’s idealised depictions of beloved places from home whipped the public of the time into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Constable represents the very best of the old school of realism and pastoral nostalgia; Turner, an exciting new way of depicting emotion and dreamlike impressions. Critics compared their starkly different styles to a clash of ‘fire and water’. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time.

Directed by David Bickerstaff 

Running time 93 mins