Hull Independent Cinema: Pretty Red Dress

Set against the backdrop of South London and humming with the energy of iconic Tina Turner hits, Pretty Red Dress follows a family tested to their limit when Travis, fresh out of jail, is found wearing a little red dress by his partner Candice and secretive teenage daughter Kenisha. The family is spun by this startling discovery and the truths it reveals. Dionne Edward’s debut feature is a vibrant, joyous journey of self-discovery.

Featuring Natey Jones, Alexandra Burke, Temilola Olatunbosun

Dir Dionne Edwards | 2022 | UK | 110 mins | 15 | English

Hull Independent Cinema: Return To Seoul

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France, for the first time. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions. Park Ji-min’s arresting, magnetic debut performance is the heartbeat of this insightful film about the universal human need to know who we are and where we come from.

Featuring Park Ji-min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han

Hull Independent Cinema: Audience Choice Screening: But I’m A Cheerleader

This season, Hull Independent Cinema’s Audience Choice Screening is a celebration of LGBTQ+ filmmakers and stories to mark Hull Pride. From a shortlist of suggestions from audiences and HIC team members, the winner of the public vote is late 90s cult classic BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER.

Megan considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn’t that crazy about him. So she’s stunned when her parents decide she’s gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation. While there, Megan meets a rebellious and unashamed teen lesbian, Graham. Though Megan still feels confused, she starts to have feelings for Graham.

This coming-out comedy was underappreciated by audiences and critics alike on release but its impressive cast (Natasha Lyonne, RuPaul), neon aesthetic and its impact on a generation of young LGBTQ+ people has seen it gain cult classic status since.

Starring Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall and RuPaul

Certificate: 15 | Run time: 92 minutes | Director: Jamie Babbit | English language

Hull Indie Cinema: Little Richard: I Am Everything

This gripping film tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Little Richard’s complicated inner world. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, and reminds us of the debt modern music and wider culture owe to his radical, vital presence in a world that wasn’t ready for him.

Featuring John Waters, Mick Jagger, Tom Jones

Dir Lisa Cortés| 2022 | USA | 101 mins | 15 | English | Documentary

Royal Ballet: Sleeping Beauty (Live Screening)

Magic and fairy-tale characters are brought to life through ballet – a family favourite.

The Sleeping Beauty holds a very special place in The Royal Ballet’s heart and history. It was the first performance given by the Company when the Royal Opera House reopened at Covent Garden in 1946 after World War II. In 2006, this original staging was revived and has been delighting audiences ever since. Frederick Ashton famously cited the pure classicism of Marius Petipa’s 19th-century ballet as a private lesson in the atmospheric art and craft of choreography. Be swept away by Tchaikovsky’s ravishing music and Oliver Messel’s sumptuous designs with this true gem from the classical ballet repertory.

National Theatre: Best of Enemies (Live Screening)

David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama showing at Hull Truck Godber Studio

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal.

During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation. As beliefs are challenged and slurs slung, a new frontier in American politics is opening and television news is about to be transformed forever.

Jeremy Herrin (All My Sons) directs this blistering political thriller, filmed live in London’s West End.

National Theatre Live brings the best of British theatre to a cinema screen near you. Whether you show up for serious drama, romcoms or sold-out award-winning hits, we bring you unmissable theatre, filmed live from Britain’s most exciting stages.

Grow Launch Event

Join Hull Truck Theatre for the launch of their Artist Development season.

This will give you a chance to meet other artists in Hull and enjoy the preview of Hull Truck’s digital shorts project, a series of short films created by local talent.

Free (places must be booked in advance)

National Theatre: Good (Encore Screening)

Encore Screening of Good at Hull Truck.

David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

Filmed live at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.

National Theatre Live brings the best of British theatre to a cinema screen near you.

Whether you show up for serious drama, romcoms or sold-out award-winning hits, we bring you unmissable theatre, filmed live from Britain’s most exciting stages.

Hull Independent Cinema: TÁR

Hull Independent Cinema presents TÁR at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

Lydia Tár is a thriving modern composer-conductor, the first female conductor of a significant German orchestra.

Her career is at its height, but as she prepares for the first performance of a new symphony and the launch of her new book, an accusation of sexual misconduct and bullying sees her life start to unravel in a singularly modern way.

The result is a searing examination of power and its abuse in contemporary society, driven by an outstanding performance from Cate Blanchett.

Starring Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merland, Nina Hoss

Hull Independent Cinema: Women Talking

Hull Independent Cinema presents Women Talking at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

In an isolated religious community, women and girls have been left traumatised, injured and even killed by years of sexual abuse.

Community elders have explained the assaults away as the work of demons or “female hysteria”, but when one of the assailants is finally caught the women have a chance to decide their own future – do they stay and fight, or escape?

Sarah Polley’s Oscar-winning film is a finely balanced drama full of nuanced performances.

Starring France McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Ben Whishaw

Hull Independent Cinema: EO

Hull Independent Cinema presents EO at Hull Truck Godber Studio.

EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes and a curious spirit, begins his life as a circus performer before escaping on a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside.

During his travels, he encounters an eclectic cast of characters, including a countess, a young Italian priest and a riotous Polish football team.

EO’s journey speaks to the world around us, an equine hero boldly pointing out societal ills, and serving as warning to the dangers of neglect and inaction, all while on a quest for freedom.

Starring Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo

Hull Independent Cinema: Winnie-The-Pooh, Blood and Honey

Hull Independent Cinema presents Winnie-The-Pooh, Blood and Honey at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

The days of adventures and merriment have come to an end, as Christopher Robin, now a young man has left Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet to fend for themselves.

As time passes, feeling angry and abandoned, the two become feral. After getting a taste for blood, Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet set off to find a new food source. It’s not long before their bloody rampage begins.

An outrageous reimagining of what everyone’s favourite Hundred Acre Wood residents did next.

Starring Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Nikolai Leon

Hull Independent Cinema: Saint Omer

Hull Independent Cinema presents Saint Omer at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

Rama is a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young Senegalese student accused of abandoning her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to die.

Four months pregnant and with a Senegalese mother, Rama feels an increasing connection with Coly and plans to write a modern retelling of the Medea myth in response to the case. But as she learns more about Coly’s life, she finds her values being challenged and her feelings about her pregnancy undermined.

Starring Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville

Hull Independent Cinema: Joyland

Hull Independent Cinema presents Joyland at Hull Truck Godber Studio.

In the heart of the metropolitan yet conservative city of Lahore lives the Rana family, a lower middleclass joint family comprising of the old patriarch, the elder son and pregnant wife with three daughters, and the youngest son Haider and his wife Mumtaz.

As the Rana’s eagerly anticipate the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, Haider secretly takes up a job as a background dancer at an erotic theatre where he is drawn to an ambitious trans starlet, Biba.

Slowly yet suddenly, Haider and Biba are engulfed in a secret summer romance which surreptitiously takes over his home, unraveling the dichotomy between desire and morality for the entire Rana family.

Starring Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan

Hull Independent Cinema: Broker

Hull Independent Cinema presents Broker at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay

When So-young abandons her baby son at a church orphanage’s ‘Baby Box’, the boy is stolen by child ‘brokers’ Sang-hyun and Dong-soo, who bypass official adoption processes and sell abandoned babies to affluent couples. When So-young finds out what has happened, she tracks them down and joins forces with them to ensure they find the right couple.

A surprising, eccentric road movie that combines social realism and criminal amorality with charm, humanity and comedy.

Starring Lee Ji-eun, Gang Dong-win, Song kang-ho

Hull Independent Cinema: Holy Spider

Hull Independent Cinema presents Holy Spider at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

Family man Saeed has embarked upon a religious quest – to cleanse the holy Iranian city of Mashhad of immoral and corrupt prostitutes.

Journalist Rahimi is the first to spot that there is a connection between the women being found murdered, and defies uninterested colleagues and outright obstruction by the Police to investigate. Saeed’s frustration at a lack of public interest in his divine mission pushes him to increasingly desperate measures, and a showdown with the determined Rahimi.

Starring Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani