BRIDPORT’S well loved festival From Page to Screen, which celebrates the art of adapting books to film, has announced its full line up exclusively with the Bridport News.

The festival, which runs from April 19 to April 23, will feature a selection of preview screenings, new films and classics that deserve another screening.

The 10am films will be 60s classics including Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, Czech New Wave film The Fireman’s Ball, Bridget Bardot in Le Mepris, Sue Lyton playing a teenage seductress in Night at the Iguana and Maureen Lipman and Dennis Waterman in Up the Junction.

On Monday evening there will be a screening of Their Finest (2016), starring Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy. Set in London, 1940: it tells the story of fledgling screenwriter Catrin Cole (Arterton) who joins the Ministry of Information’s Film Division and starts working on a propaganda movie. Before the film there will be a discussion with the films screenwriter Gabby Chiappe, and the writer of the original novel, Lissa Evans.

Tuesday will see the curator Nick Marston’s favourite, Golden Age classic, The Shop Around the Corner take the lunchtime slot. It stars James Stewart as an ambitious head clerk in Budapest’s Matuschek and Company, who finds himself drawn to a feisty new employee, Margaret Sullavan, though she spurns his advances in favor of a pen pal she has never actually met.

The film's literary source inspired two musicals (Judy Garland’s In the Good Old Summertime and the Broadway hit She Loves Me) as well as an Internet-age remake, You’ve Got Mail.

Other highlights include Lion starring Dev Patel, which tells the extraordinary true story of Saroo Brierley, who was born in India but adopted by an Australian couple after he was separated from his family, Drive, about an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver (Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver. This event will include a pre show discussion with the writer of its screenplay Hossein Ameni and Oscar Winner and Billy Lynn’s Long Half-time Walk, about a soldier who is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle.

There will events for families including Swallows and Amazons at West Bay and the retelling of the family classic Beauty And The Beast at the Electric Palace.

Saturday night will see a 40th anniversary screening of Saturday Night Fever followed by post show 70s themed disco.

The closing film will be this year's famous three times Oscar winner, Moonlight, the timeless story of human connection and self-discovery. Moonlight tells the story of a young man’s coming-of-age in 1980s Miami.

The festival will be held at Bridport Arts Centre, The Electric Palace and The Malthouse in West Bay from Wednesday April 19 to Sunday April 23.

Contact Bridport Arts Centre box office for tickets and see bridport-arts.com for more information.

*See the second photo in our photo gallery for Page to Screen's full line-up