Glastonbury: The Movie returns to cinemas in restored 4K for 30th anniversary

Glastonbury: The Movie is set to return to cinemas this month, newly restored in 4K.

The film will be screened across the UK from Friday 26th June to mark its 30th anniversary. The release date coincides with when Glastonbury festival would typically take place, were 2026 not a designated fallow year.

First released in 1996, the movie centres around original footage filmed at the legendary Somerset festival in 1993, capturing a snapshot of Glastonbury before the era of live BBC coverage, camera phones, and ticket ballots.

The 1993 festival was also the last Glastonbury before the introduction of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act , legislation that significantly expanded government powers to regulate rave culture, free parties and outdoor music gatherings across the UK. Glastonbury: The Movie was also the first feature film to receive funding from the newly established National Lottery, administered through the BFI.

The 2026 restoration has been created from the original 35mm Panavision CinemaScope negative, enhancing both the film’s picture and sound quality, and will be screened in 62 cinemas across Britain.

“Shooting in 1993 gave us something we only fully appreciated in retrospect. Television cameras had not yet arrived at Glastonbury, the first live broadcast came in 1994 and British popular culture was on the cusp of a seismic shift. What feels like recent history now reads as another era entirely,” director and head of Mensch Films, Robin Mahoney, shared.

“Because we set out to capture the experience of being at the festival from the ground up, from the perspective of a festival-goer rather than a camera pointed at a stage, the film has become an inadvertent portrait of British life at a particular moment.”

Watch the trailer for Glastonbury The Movie: 30th Anniversary Cut below.

In April, a new photobook was announced documenting Glastonbury scenes between 4AM and 8AM in the morning .