Our selectors have started to put together a great programme of film for February. So far we have booked Once, The Singer, Where the Road Bends, Control, Heima, Seachd and The Band's Visit. Have you guessed the underlying theme - yes, it's music. There will be one or two more, plus shorts from the competition and of course the party for pass-holders.

The Passes for the Film Festivals in February and April are now available from the Theatre By The Lake. You get a discounted price when you buy passes for both Festivals at once, and even better discount if you buy them before Christmas.

We've added a Films page to the website where you can find details of the films confirmed so far for FebFilm. We'll be adding more films to this page as they are selected.

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The FebFilm brochure is now available from the usual local places (Tourist Information Centres, Libraries, The Alhambra) and is also available to download from the new look website.

This year we are having some linked events in the town. There are two sessions of poetry at the Square Orange - 'Three prize poets and a Pinter', Mary Robinson, Pauline McDonald and Chris Pilling will be reading and Geoff Hayes and Chris Jordan will be performing Last to Go by Harold Pinter. This is on Saturday at 5pm and then on Sunday at 4pm there is 'Two pithy poets and a Cubist' with Lois Howard, Jeannette Davidson and Max Jacob, a cubist with Picasso. On Saturday night The Square Orange is having live music with Richard Anderson and there is a display of photographs in the Moot Hall on Sunday by Roy Fleming.

The Royal Bengal, Silk Road, Casa Bela and Good Taste have generously donated food for the party for Passholders and invited guests on Friday. At the party Oli Bentley ex The Fibs will be playing with his new band Flux - all the way from Leeds.

'A potent combination of ethnography and concert film' (Variety), this documentary follows five Romani bands from four different countries on their tour of the USA in 2001. British-born director Dellal captures the diversity of gypsy music from Antonio El Pipa's Spanish Flamenco Ensemble to the flamboyance of Macedonian diva Esma Redzepova. But she also captures an unexpected fusion as the tour develops and the groups from very different musical traditions find common origins and mutual inspiration in their music.

Gérard Depardieu is on his best form for years as Alain, the ageing singer with a strong local following and a contented marriage. Then he spies the much younger Marion (Cécile de France) and a mutual infatuation begins. She's an estate agent and the houses she shows him become metaphors for their possible futures. But are his true feelings as sentimental as his songs? 'A gentle, autumnal film, with nice performances from Depardieu and De France' (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian).

Làn fhìrinn na sgeòil (The truth is in the story). Seachd - pronounced 'Shack' - is a feast for the eye, filmed and produced on the Isle of Skye. It's a feast for the ear too, albeit in Gaelic. Former Wall Street banker Miller shrewdly focuses on the twinkling eye and accomplished storytelling of Aonghas Padruig Caimbeul as grandfather of young Angus, a nine-year-old seeking to prove his parents were murdered. Despite terrific reviews ('excellent' said the Sunday Times), Bafta didn't Oscar-nominate it for best foreign-language film and won't say why. Watch and wonder.

Icelandic band Sigur Rós toured their homeland in the summer of 2006 in a series of unannounced, free concerts. The informal venues ranged from a community hall, a protest camp to outdoor sculptures. The film follows the tour, using often acoustic arrangements, with prolonged close-ups and intimate interviews rather than the stilted images of stadium rock, to get close to the band's nature and roots. '...I was utterly captivated...their creativity and open attitude was at one with Iceland's ravishingly beautiful landscape.' (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)