27/08/2015 - Queen guitarist Brian May is set to participate in a 3D event at the gathering

The 35^th Cambridge Film Festival (3-13 September) will open with Alison E Rose’s Star Men [+see also:
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The festival will also host a 3D evening with legendary Queen guitarist Brian May where he will discuss 3D with Dennis Pellerin, co-author of Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell, and where they will present their stereoscopic short film One Night in Hell and a curated compilation of restored 3D rarities. 

Highlights of the German Cinema strand, in association with the Goethe-Institut and German Films, include Christian Braad Thomsen’s Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands, Marcin Malaszczak’s The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills [+see also:
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The Cambridge Film Festival is operated by the charitable Cambridge Film Trust and funded by BFI Film Forever.