A FILM festival in Thirsk is set to celebrate all things Yorkshire with 13 movies linked to the county being screened over four days.

Thirsk’s entirely volunteer-run Ritz Cinema has announced its inaugural film festival that will span the upcoming summer bank holiday weekend.

It opens with a rare chance to see the 1976 comedy It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet based on Thirsk’s own Alf Wight, aka James Herriot’s, books set in and around the town.

In constrast, the screening on Sunday night will be the more recent horror film, Inbred, also filmed around Thirsk and starring one or two locals as extras.

Around these ‘Thirsk’ works will be other Yorkshire classics such as Kes, Brassed Off and Calendar Girls amongst others.

One of the highlights of the festival is a preview of God’s Own Country, prior to its national release on September 1, which deals with the story of a relationship between a farmer and a migrant worker.

The festival runs from August 25 to the evening of August 28. Tickets start from £4 available at thirskfilm.com