The seventh annual Swale Film Festival launches this week.

On Thursday, September 24, Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, will be screened at the New Century Cinema in Sittingbourne High Street at 4.45pm.

This will be followed by Anonymous: A Million Men at 6.30pm – directed by Patrick Ireland, a student of the London Film School and one of the winners of the first Swale Film Awards in 2008.

Mr Holmes, starring Sir Ian McKellen, and survival thriller Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, will then both be on at 8pm.

On the Friday, the New Century will show Strange Magic and Allies, both at 5pm, and Jaws at 7.30pm and on the Saturday, Tinker Bell and the Neverbeast will screen at 11.45am, followed by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 at 3pm.

Dirty Dancing, followed by live music and stand-up comedy, will start at 6pm.

Winning films from a separate competition called A Sense of Change, run by Elstree Film Design at Elstree Studios, will also be screened on the Saturday.

On the Sunday, the New Century will have a singalong version of The Sound of Music at 1pm followed by a Night of Terror triple bill of The Blair Witch Project, Trauma and Black Panther from 5pm.

The Criterion in Blue Town Heritage Centre, High Street, Blue Town, will be showing Queen and Country at 2pm and 7.30pm on Friday.

Also on Friday, The Avenue Theatre, Central Avenue, Sittingbourne will play a documentary about Kent’s cinemas old and new at 5pm.

It will be followed, at 6.30pm, by a documentary about the father of cinema called The First Film. Director David Nicholas Wilkinson will be attending a Q&A afterwards.

The full programme, including prices, is available at www.swalefilmfestival.org