Things are heating up as a popular festival in Bridport is set to return.

Tickets for Boiling Point, one of the highlights of Bridport's From Page To Screen film festival to be held from April 27 to May 1, are selling fast.

This critically-acclaimed film achieves the rare cinematic feat of being recorded in a single unbroken shot.

It stars Stephen Graham as a head chef in crisis at a big restaurant on its busiest night of the year and will be followed by a Q&A between the festival's guest curator, broadcaster Edith Bowman and the restaurateur Mark Hix.

It will be screened at Bridport Arts Centre at 8pm on Saturday, April 30.

After choosing catering over metalwork at Colfox School, Mark studied catering at Weymouth College before a lauded London career.

He now owns The Oyster and Fish House in Lyme Regis and the Fox Inn pub in Corscombe.

Edith is looking forward to hearing how much Mark thinks the film reflects reality.

She said: "Boiling Point is a film that will blow your mind. I grew up in a hotel and I think the way they have captured the pressure of that environment is fantastic. The performances are knock-out with Stephen Graham once again showing how incredible he is. And Vinette Robinson is so captivating."

Boiling Point is one of several festival films based on autobiographical stories, including The Long Day Closes (showing at 5pm on Thursday, April 28).

Flee (showing at 5pm on Friday, April 29) is the award-winning new animated documentary about a refugee's buried memories of his dramatic escape to Europe. Flee will be followed by a talk with local landlord Tom Littledyke whose project to take convoys of humanitarian aid from West Dorset to the refugee camps on the Ukraine border has attracted international news coverage.

Ex-BBC documentary maker Ines Cavill from the From Page To Screen Committee said: "We were especially keen to feature documentary and memoir in From Page To Screen this year - but more than anything we're delighted to be sharing so many brilliant films with the festival's lively, live audiences again.

"It feels like a chance to have a big catch up with the big screen."

Curator Edith Bowan is also looking forward to watching great cinema together again.

She said: "We all have so much instant access to see films at home. But to see something on the big screen, especially an older film is such a great experience."

Edith's selection of favourite films for her Soundtracking Through The Decades programme includes Shaft, City Of God, On The Waterfront, the original West Side Story, Under The Skin and King Kong. She will introduce Paris Texas at 4.30pm on Saturday, April 30 plus Spencer at 8pm Friday, April 29.

The festival closes with its oldest treasure; the 1927 Hitchcock classic The Lodger, which will have a live score played by the pianist and BAC director Mick Smith.

Tickets for Page To Screen can be bought online at www.bridport-arts.com or in person from Bridport's Tourist Information Centre.

See www.frompagetoscreen.info for full programme details.