THE Alhambra at Keswick is holding a special screening of political thriller The Last Witness (15) on Saturday (November 24) at 5pm.

This also features an introduction and question and answer session with producer Carol Harding, cinematographer Edward Ames and director Piotr Szkopiak, whose maternal grandfather was executed at Katyn. The Last Witness is a based on the harrowing true events of the Katyn Massacre in Spring 1940. In post-war England, ambitious journalist Stephen Underwood (Alex Pettyfer: Magic Mike, I am Number Four) comes across a disturbing spate of suicides by resettled Polish soldiers. Sensing a story, his first port of call is Colonel Janusz Pietrowski, a liaison officer for the resettlement of Polish troops under British command. But the meeting with Pietrowski leaves Stephen unsettled, and from here his investigation escalates as he finds himself embroiled in a dangerous, multi-layered conspiracy concerning the execution of 22,000 Polish military and civilians by Stalin's secret police.

FOLLOWING its record-breaking, sell-out run in London’s West End and national tour, the critically-acclaimed musical Funny Girl is doing the rounds of the region's cinemas, being screened this Saturday (November 24) at 3pm at Fellinis, Ambleside. Starring Sheridan Smith, Funny Girl is semi-biographical, and a sensational production based on the life and career of Broadway star, film actress and comedienne Fanny Brice - a role made famous by Barbara Streisand on Broadway and in the 1968 film adaptation - and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein. Recorded at the Manchester Palace Theatre.

SCROOGE (1951) starring Alastair Sim is showing at the Roxy Cinema at Ulverston on Saturday (November 24) at 5.15pm as part of the town's Dickensian Festival. The classic story tells of stingy businessman Ebenezer Scrooge, who is known as the meanest miser in Victorian London. He overworks and underpays his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, whose young son, Tiny Tim, is crippled and may soon die. He also has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred, because his birth cost the life of his beloved sister. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a haunting nightmare from being visited by the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley. He is visited by three ghosts and is given one last chance to change his ways and save himself from the grim fate that befell Marley.

POKEMON the Movie: The Power of Us (PG) is screened for one day only at Vue Barrow on Saturday, November 24. It tells of a young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big secret - the only thing they have in common is the annual Wind Festival in Fula City. The festival celebrates the Legendary Pokémon Lugia, who brings the wind that powers this seaside city. When a series of threats endangers not just the festival, but all the people and Pokémon of Fula City, it’ll take more than just Ash and Pikachu to save the day. Can everyone put aside their differences and work together?

ONE of the filmic successes of the Kendal Mountain Festival was the world premiere of Free Solo, both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential.

The Brewery Arts Centre is bringing it back for another screening on Tuesday, December 11 at 6.15pm. From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the film is a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the 3,000feet El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, without a rope.