Tag: Film

Dir Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France, USA, UK, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus | 2025 | 89 mins | Rated 15 | Arabic, English This remarkable film reconstructs the real-life ordeal of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl trapped in a car in Gaza after an Israeli attack killed her relatives. Using recordings of the […]

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation […]

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović | 2023 | 15 Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart… The 1970s. Runaway Jeanne falls under the spell of Cristina, enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film of the Hans Christian Andersen story being shot in the studio where Jeanne has taken refuge. A mutual but potentially dangerous fascination […]

Silents Synced pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music to bring audiences a unique big screen experience. Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy classic is re-imagined with R.E.M. ‘s alt-rock masterpieces Monster (1994) and New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996). In this sublime comedy teetering between reality and illusion, Buster Keaton stars as a film projectionist who […]

Dir Richard Linklater | USA, Ireland | 2025 | 100 mins | Rated 15 | English, Hebrew Set on the night of the 1943 premiere of Oklahoma!, the film follows lyricist Lorenz Hart, once famed as part of the songwriting duo Rodgers-Hart. At a party in Manhattan’s legendary Sardi’s restaurant, Hart watches with bitter jealousy […]

Director: Joachim Trier | 2025 | 15 After their mother’s death, sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father Gustav, a once-renowned film director who abandoned them years earlier. Gustav returns home and asks Nora — a successful but emotionally fragile stage actress — to star in his comeback film, hoping to reconnect through […]

Please note that this is a recording and not a live, on stage performance. Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her […]

Hull Independent Cinema presents.. AUDIENCE CHOICE: STUDIO GHIBLI It’s time for our regular Audience Choice screening! This time, the theme is Studio Ghibli, home to many of your favourite Japanese animated films. Start sending in your suggestions for which of his films you’d like to see, and look out for the polls going out on […]

Please note that this is a recording and not a live, on stage performance. Shakespeare’s OTHELLO rages to life like never before in an explosive new production starring David Harewood OBE (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones OBE (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) […]

Dir Kristen Stewart | USA, France, Latvia | 2025 | 128 mins | Rating TBC | English An unflinching portrait of womanhood, survival and artistry, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s celebrated memoir. Emerging from a childhood scarred by abuse, violence and alcoholism, Lidia throws herself into competitive swimming. But as she grows up and her sporting […]

Hull Independent Cinema and ColliderFest present… JURASSIC PARK + Talk Dir Steven Spielberg | USA, Ireland | 1993 | 126 mins | Rated 12A | English Please note the talk begins at 7.00PM with the film scheduled to start at 7.30PM. When eccentric entrepreneur John Hammond invites two palaeontologists to visit his new dinosaur theme […]

Director: Oliver Hermanus | 2025 | 15 In 1917, gifted singer Lionel Worthing, raised on the folk songs of rural Kentucky, attends the Boston Conservatory, where he meets composer David White. The pair bond over a shared love of folk music, and begin a secret romantic relationship. After being separated by David’s service in World […]

Dir James Sweeney | USA | 2025 | 100 mins | Rated 15 | English After the death of his identical twin brother Rocky, Roman joins a bereavement group for people who’ve lost a twin. There he meets Dennis, another man suffering from a similar loss, and the two form an intense, co-dependent bond. But […]

Dir Park Chan-wook | South Korea | 2025 | 139 mins | Rating TBC | Korean, English Longtime paper-industry veteran Yoo Man su loses his job after 25 years, upending his stable family life with wife and children. Humiliated and unable to find new work, Man-su becomes desperate to secure a position, so desperate that […]

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing […]

Please note that this is a recording and not a live, on stage performance. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge). One family, the heart of the American dream. […]