Featuring 21 films and 10 speakers, this year's film festival, ‘From Page To Screen’ will be as packed as ever.

This year it will be curated by double Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton over five days at the Bridport Arts Centre and The Electric Palace starting Wednesday, April 26 to Sunday, April 30.

Mr Hampton will be presenting iconic classics as well as brand-new releases and discussing the making of film adaptations with guests.

At 5pm on the opening day Wednesday, April 26, Mr Hampton will introduce a favourite example of the adaptation of stage for screen, five-time Academy Award-winning film Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf.

That evening Mr Hampton will open the gala preview screening of The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry.

At 2pm on the Thursday, producer Andrew Braunsberg will give the inside story of cinema's revolutionary European New Wave and New Hollywood era. He will be in a Q&A after the screening of his 1976 thriller The Tenant and discussing his work on Being There and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

This will be followed by a screening of Letter From An Unknown Woman, introduced by broadcaster Francine Stock.

Day two of the festival finishes with Emily, starring Sex Education star Emma Mackey as the most rebellious of the Brontë sisters, for which she recently won the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

The film imagines what inspired Brontë to create Wuthering Heights and is the directorial debut for British-Australian actor - and now writer-director - Frances O'Connor who will join a discussion and Q&A after the screening.

The centrepiece of Friday will be an in-depth conversation between Francine Stock and Christopher Hampton about the complexities of adapting theatre for film.

This will be followed by an evening screening of The Son starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby.

Francine Stock will then lead a post-film Q&A with Christopher Hampton.

On Saturday at 5pm the screening of A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightly as a patient in the early years of psychoanalysis, is followed by a Q&A with Jack Wightman talking with Christopher about his experience of working with its director David Cronenberg.

That evening there's the chance to see She Said starring Carey Mulligan and hear about how the New York Times journalists' account of exposing the film industry sexual predator Harvey Weinstein was adapted for cinema with its screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

The festival closes on Sunday 30 with Allelujah - the moving, the all-star adaptation of Alan Bennett's play about a care home fighting for survival  - and one last speaker; acclaimed film, theatre, television and opera director Richard Eyre.

You can find all programme details and book tickets at Bridport Tourist Information Centre or at www.frompagetoscreen.info