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Creative Voice: Youth Arts Festival

Creative Voice Youth Arts Festival 2023 is happening this half-term!

If you are aged 13+ come along to find out more about the creativity of young people in the city and take part in free workshops in DJing, sustainable fashion, dance, theatre, circus skills and more, along with conversations around arts and mental health.

FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER

12pm

Exhibition Launch – ‘What Makes You Happy?’

3D-printed exhibition with augmented reality by artist Anna Bean and young people from Astra

and Ainthorpe Youth Centres, This Ability Goodwin Trust, Artlink Explorers Young People in

Care Project and NICE.

12.30-3.30pm

Fun, drop-in workshops including wearable art and sustainable fashion, screenprinting, drama,

contemporary dance, Hull Zine Library, songwriting, circus skills and more.

6-9pm

Young People’s Performance Sharing with a focus on drama and dance. Performances from

professional dance company LOOP with JoinedUp Dance Company Young Contemporaries,

Ainthorpe Youth Centre, Pragnya Indian Dance, Max Life Dance Company, Wolfpack Theatre,

Freedom Road Creative Arts, and Youth Aspire Connect.

SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER

12pm

Panel discussion with young people, NHS support workers, and creatives in Hull on the

Importance of arts in supporting mental health.

12.30-3.30pm

Fun, drop-in workshops including wearable art and sustainable fashion, screenprinting,

Afrobeats dance, DJ Mixing, music studio, Hull Zine Library, street theatre and more.

4-6pm

Screening of films and animations made by young people and local artists and filmmakers

about issues that are important to them around art and mental health.

6-9pm

Young People’s Performance Sharing with a focus on music. Performances from Music Lab,

Freedom Road Creative Arts, Layman and Noble, Young Women’s DJ Group and

Humber Drum Circles.

Creative Voice is a youth arts initiative led by Hull City Council Arts Development and

Youth Development Service in partnership with Artlink and Hull Dance, who are supporting

the dance elements of the Festival with their Move Together programme. Supported by the Smile Foundation I AM Fund and Youth Arts Takeover.

Hull Independent Cinema: My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

One hundred years on from the making of his first feature film, Alfred Hitchcock remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his legacy and body of work stand up to scrutiny today? Renowned film critic and writer Mark Cousins tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of Hitchcock’s own voice in an imagined monologue. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career in playful and revealing ways.

Dir Mark Cousins | 2023 | UK | 120 mins | 15 | English | Documentary

Hull Independent Cinema: Love Life

Taeko and her husband Jiro live a peaceful, ordinary life with her young son Keita, despite Jiro’s parents grumbling about wanting a grandchild of their own. But when tragedy strikes at a birthday party, Keita’s long-absent father, Park, crashes violently back into Taeko’s life. Deaf and homeless, Park’s emotional reappearance prompts Taeko to help him back on his feet as a way of processing her pain, something that Jiro understands only to a point. Beautifully written, shot and performed, this is a sincere, moving and compassionate portrayal of guilt and grief.

Starring Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada

Hull Independent Cinema: Paris Memories

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia finds herself numbed and unable to resume her life. Determined to reconstruct the sequence of events and reestablish a sense of normalcy, Mia finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process, she forms bonds with fellow survivors. When she remembers that a stranger helped her make it through the attack, Mia resolves to find him, if only to make sure that he is alive. Revoir Paris is a moving meditation on grief, healing, and the importance of connections forged in tragedy.

Starring Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Nastya Golubeva

Hull Independent Cinema: Passages

Celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs makes a breathtaking return with a fresh, honest and brutally funny take on messy, modern relationships. Set in Paris, this seductive drama tells the story of Tomas and Martin, a gay couple whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas begins a passionate affair with Agathe, a younger woman he meets after completing his latest film. With powerhouse performances from Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben Whishaw, this is the story of a tempestuous love triangle told in a smart and refreshingly candid style.

Starring Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ben Whishaw

Hull Independent Cinema: Scrapper

Twelve-year-old Georgie’s mother has just died, leaving her living alone in a London flat. Grieving and left to her own devices, she spends time getting up to no good with her friends. She manages to fill her life with magic only to have it turned upside down by the return of her estranged father, himself a dreamer who never grew up but has realised it’s time to reconnect with his daughter. A charming, energetic and funny coming-of-age story from debut director Charlotte Regan.

Starring Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson

Language: English Running Time: 84 mins Age Rating: 12A (BBFC) Warning: Rude gesture, brief moderate violence

Hull Independent Cinema: Anatomy Of a Fall

For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel’s suspicious death is presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is not just an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel’s death but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.

Featuring Sandra Hüller, Samuel Theis, Milo Machado-Graner

Dir Justine Triet | 2023 | France | 152 min | TBC | French, English, German

Hull Independent Cinema: How To Have Sex

For three teenage besties Tara, Skye and Em, school is over, and while the fear of exam failure hovers over them, for now the future is on hold as they head to Crete for a summer break in which their main aims are to get drunk and get laid. Among their fellow hedonists they meet Paddy, who fancies himself as something of a ladies’ man. When he takes a shine to Tara, what follows is a powerful examination of sexual power dynamics and the nature of consent, driven by a star-making performance from Mia McKenna-Bruce as Tara.

Featuring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Samuel Bottomley

Dir Molly Manning Walker | 2023 | UK, Greece | 98 min | TBC | English

Hull Independent Cinema: Brother

Adapted from David Chariandy’s award-winning novel, Brother is propelled by the pulsing beats of Toronto’s early hip hop scene following the story of Francis and Michael, sons of Caribbean immigrants maturing into young men. A mystery unfolds during the sweltering summer of 1991, and escalating tensions set off a series of events that change the course of these brothers’ lives forever. Brother crafts a timely story about the profound bond between siblings, the resilience of community and the irrepressible power of music with riveting performances and stunning cinematography.

Featuring Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre

Dir Clement Virgo | 2022 | Canada | 120 min | 15 | English

Hull Independent Cinema: The Old Oak

The story of a village in the Northeast of England, where the mine is long closed, and people feel deserted by the system. Many young people have left and what was once a thriving, proud community struggles to keep old values alive. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope. Houses are cheap and available. This makes it an ideal location for the Syrian refugees being relocated by the Government. How will the Syrians be received? And what will be the future for the last remaining pub in the village, The Old Oak?

Starring Trevor Fox, Dave Turner, Ebla Mari

Dir Ken Loach | 2023 | UK, France, Belgium | 113 min | 15 | English

Hull Independent Cinema: On Your Doorstep

In the early 2010s, with NGOs being blocked by red tape and a lack of positive action by the British and French governments, an extraordinary grassroots movement sprang up to aid refugees stranded in the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. This is a behind-the-scenes look at the community that sprang up there before the authorities demolished it, the story of ordinary people navigating the moral dilemmas and grey areas of giving aid to vulnerable people in the face of official apathy or worse. A remarkable and timely film.

A live question and answer session with special guests director Thomas Laurance and Hull Help for Refugees will follow the film.

SUPPORT HULL HELP FOR REFUGEES

Donate one of the following items at the screening and receive £1 off your ticket:
– Small and medium men’s clothing
– New underwear and socks
– Trainers
– Backpacks
– Wheelie cases
– Phones

Dir Thomas Laurance | 2023 | UK | 87 mins | 15 | English, French, Arabic, Pashto, Farsi language with English language subtitles

Hull Independent Cinema: Halloween

AUDIENCE CHOICE: HALLOWEEN 2023

What else could we pick as the theme for this season’s Audience Choice Screening but Halloween? As usual, you let us know your suggestions of some great Halloween films – a modern classic, something from years gone by, a foreign language chiller or a hidden indie gem, perhaps – and we take all your ideas, add some of our own faves and boil it down to a shortlist of four brilliant movies. Then it’s up to you to choose which one we show!

And if you gamble and buy a ticket before we know the winner, you pay a special discount Mystery Movie rate!

Hull Independent Cinema Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnoss)

Celebrated filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary tells the story of the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. Working with acts such as such as Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney, Hipgnosis conjured into existence sights that no one had previously thought possible, produced visuals which popularised music that had previously been considered fringe, and were at the white-hot centre of the most creative era in the history of popular music.

Featuring Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher, Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Page

Dir Anton Corbijn | 2022 | UK | 101 mins | 15 | English

Hull Independent Cinema: Afire

While holidaying by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised by the presence of Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at Felix’s holiday home. Nadja distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel and forces him to confront his caustic temperament and self-absorption with brutal honesty. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest fire threatens the group and tensions escalate when a handsome lifeguard and Leon’s tight-lipped book editor also arrive. A critically acclaimed examination of complex relationships told with a notable lightness of touch.

Featuring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel

Hull Independent Cinema: L’immensita

1970s Rome. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment, but their marriage has reached a crisis: they no longer love each other, and their children are the only thing that keeps them together. Adriana, the eldest, has just turned twelve; the growing tensions between her parents play out before her gaze. Her attempts to convince everyone that she is a boy bring the already fragile stability of her family to breaking point. Penlope Cruz stars in a powerful, moving family love and fragility drama.

Featuring Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani