Movie Nights every Sunday from 6pm until the film ends!
Free entry. Popcorn and sweets provided!
Event Categories: Film
The Royal Opera: Andrea Chernier (Encore Screening)
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him…
Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar’s spectacular staging, under the baton of long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano – who conducts Giordano’s epic historical drama of revolution and forbidden love in his last production as Music Director of The Royal Opera.
Co-production with China National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing and San Francisco Opera.
The Royal Ballet: The Winter’s Tale (Live Screening)
King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all hope is seemingly lost for two lovers.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Winter’s Tale is an award-winning modern ballet classic, packed with emotional turmoil heightened by Joby Talbot’s compelling score and Bob Crowley’s atmospheric designs.
A co-production between The Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.
The Royal Opera: Carmen (Encore Screening)
Damiano Michieletto’s sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet’s score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song.
Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing the title role.
Co-production with Teatro Real, Madrid and La Scala, Milan.
The Royal Ballet: Swan Lake (Encore Screening)
Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her?
Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic.
Swan Lake remains to this day one of the best-loved works in the classical ballet canon.
The Royal Opera: Madama Butterfly (Live Screening)
When the young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, marries American Naval Officer Pinkerton, she believes she is entering a real, binding marriage for life.
Forsaking her religion and community, she learns all too late that for Pinkerton, their marriage is merely an illusion – with tragic consequences.
Metropolis (PG)
Northern Silents presents Fritz Lang’s 1927 futuristic fantasy on the big screen with live piano accompaniment.
It is 2026. In the high-tech city of the future, the rich enjoy a life of luxury while the poor are enslaved underground, in the city’s mechanical underbelly. Tensions build between the subterranean workers and pampered surface-dwellers when the prophet-like Maria, with her subversive message of universal brotherhood, ignites the spark of revolution among the workers. The city’s mastermind, Freder, creates an android version of Maria to re-establish control. But his creation, the robot Maria, cannot be controlled…
Film Screening – Elf
Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.
Film Screening – Frozen (Sing-Along)
When their kingdom becomes trapped in perpetual winter, fearless Anna (Kristen Bell) joins forces with mountaineer Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick to find Anna’s sister, Snow Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel), and break her icy spell.
Although their epic journey leads them to encounters with mystical trolls, a comedic snowman (Josh Gad), harsh conditions, and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff bravely push onward in a race to save their kingdom from winter’s cold grip.
Join us and Experience Frozen, the hit musical comedy from Walt Disney Animation Studios, like never before in this special full-length Sing-Along Edition!
Follow the lyrics with a bouncing Frozen snowflake.
NT Live: Dear England (Encore Screening)
Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game.
The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game?
With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Rupert Goold (Judy) directs this spectacular new play.
Rocky Horror Night
Free Entry
Themed drinks all evening
Film screening
Costume highly encouraged!
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
Dir Kôji Fukada | 2022 | Japan / France | 123 mins | 12A | Japanese, Korean and Korean Sign Language with English subtitles
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
Dir Alice Winocour | 2022 | France | 105 mins | 15 | English, French language with English subtitles
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
Dir Ira Sachs | 2023 | France | 91 mins | 18 | English, French language with English subtitles