Florence Pugh, Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott among the stars making appearances this year at Pilton Palais

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Hollywood A-listers can often be glimpsed at Glastonbury taking advantage of the relative anonymity away from the glare of paparazzi. And this year some of cinema’s biggest stars are not just enjoying downtime on Worthy Farm, they are taking part in one of the biggest draws.

The screening programme from Pilton Palais, tucked away near the acoustic stage, is arguably better than many film festivals. On Friday Florence Pugh is introducing Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune: Part 2 alongside a Q&A, and in the evening Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott are taking part in a talk after a screening of All of Us Strangers alongside its director, Andrew Haigh.

Serbian artist hopes Friday’s ‘public intervention’ will make festival goers reflect on the current state of the world

Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage has played host to some of the loudest rock bands in the world and mass sing-alongs with thousands of participants, but on Friday the artist Marina Abramović will step out and ask the crowd to do something different: remain silent for seven minutes.

“I am terrified,” said Abramović, whose performance pieces have made her one of the most famous artists in the world. “I don’t know any visual artists who have done something like this in front of 175,000 to 200,000 people. The largest audience I ever had was 6,000 people in a stadium and I was thinking ‘wow’, but this is really beyond anything I’ve done.”

Organiser Emily Eavis says it is ‘best moment of the year’, as visitors are sprayed with water while they set up camp

Glastonbury attenders were setting up camp in sweltering temperatures as the 54th edition of the UK’s best-known festival got under way on the hottest day of the year so far.

Temperatures in the UK soared to 30C on Wednesday, and at Glastonbury music fans were sprayed with water as they made their way around the 364-hectare (900-acre) site, which opened at 8am to fans who had queued overnight.