ILKLEY Film Festival opens next month with Oscar contender The Theory of Everything and closes with a screening of Cannes Film Festival winner, The Tribe.

A total of 40 screenings make up the festival including 18 premieres and five live accompanied screenings across three venues - including a bus.

The bus, operated by Picturehouse Cinemas, has 100 seats and will be on Denton Road, near the Lido. The other two venues are King’s Hall and Winter Gardens and The IIkley Playhouse.

Previewing at the festival is a line-up that includes The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Dame Judi Dench, Jennifer Aniston’s Golden Globe nominated performance in Cake and Kate Beckinsale in The Face of an Angel.

Michael Mann’s new cyber thriller Blackhat will preview in Ilkley on February 20, in the Pictureville bus, the day of its national release.

Live music performances make a significant contribution including the return of British Sea Power. Having played to a sold-out King’s Hall last year, the Brighton-based indie rock band return to perform their score to the 1934 film Man of Aran.

The preview screening of Hinterland, a two-handed British drama, will give audiences the chance to ask questions of the actor, writer and first time director Harry Macqueen. British electronica band Asian Dub Foundation celebrate the 20th anniversary of the award winning iconic French film La Haine, with a live scoring regional preview.

Other features films in running for major prizes include The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall who scooped Best Actor at Cannes for his portrayal of the artist.

Feature films produced in Yorkshire include The Railway Children (1970) and Testament of Youth. Funded by Screen Yorkshire and produced by BBC Films, this story of young love in the time of the First World War, featuring British household names Dominic West and Emily Watson, is a festivals favourite.

A preview of Catch Me Daddy, set in West Yorkshire, supported with investment from Screen Yorkshire’s Yorkshire Content Fund, will screen in Picturehouse’s mobile cinema.

Other films include My Old Lady, starring Kevin Kline, Dame Maggie Smith and Kristen Scott Thomas; Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film version of the novel by W M Thackeray; and Set Fire to the Stars in which Celyn Jones plays Dylan Thomas in his last days in New York. The actor will be attending the screening at Ilkley Playhouse on February 20 for an after-show Q&A.