A programme of films presented in association with ‘Peter Huby – Hull and Back’, a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work over the decades, at University of Hull
Gallery, Brynmor Jones Library, 20 January – 12 March 2023.
Absence (Apousia): A Greek road movie – middle aged sisters drive through the stark Mani landscape coming to terms with the past. Language: Greek with English subtitles (62 minutes).
Made in Hull: A slightly tongue in cheek glimpse into the lives of Peter Huby and Linda Cox in and around the house they built together in the Southern Peloponnese (34 minutes).
Admission free, no booking required.
A programme of films presented in association with ‘Peter Huby – Hull and Back’, a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work over the decades, at University of Hull
Gallery, Brynmor Jones Library, 20 January – 12 March 2023.
Eleni Patraia: Shot on location in Mani, Greece, the film follows a woman and her children caught up in a vendetta (59 minutes)
Oresteia:A short film based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia plays. Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan war to Mycenae and is murdered by his wife Clytemnaistra. Seven years later their son Orestes kills his mother in retribution. Language: Greek/English with Greek/English subtitles (35 minutes).
Admission free, no booking required.
A programme of films presented in association with ‘Peter Huby – Hull and Back’, a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work over the decades, at University of Hull
Gallery, Brynmor Jones Library, 20 January – 12 March 2023.
The Ofsted Film: A satirical swipe at educational bureaucracy with nods to Rene Magritte and Vaclav Havel (12 minutes).
Quietus: A film based on texts by Elizabethan playwright, John Webster, shot on locations in the Yorkshire Dales (63minutes)
From the Edge: A short film about Peter Huby’s return to Spurn Point – a place very familiar from his childhood and a continuing inspiration for his paintings and sketches (5 minutes).
Admission free, no booking required.
As far as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop could be their last, as they face eviction. The new plans for the land include cutting down the peach trees and installing solar panels, which causes a rift within the large tight-knit family. For the first time, they face an uncertain future and risk losing more than their home.
Starring Josep Abad, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin
Dir Carla Simón | 2022 | Spain | 120 mins | 15 | Catalan, Spanish and English language with English subtitles
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Berlin International Film Festival: Winner, Best Film
Goya Awards (Spain’s BAFTAs): Nominee, Best Film, Best Director, Best New Actress, Best New Actor, Best Original Screenplay
Sydney Film Festival: Nominee, Best Film
San Sebastián Int’l Film Festival, BFI London Festival Official Selections
In 1988, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass the notorious Section 28, outlawing the “promotion of homosexuality” in schools. The atmosphere of oppression forces Jean, a PE teacher, to live a double life, struggling to reconcile her relationship and friendships in the gay community with the prejudice and ignorance of her family and colleagues. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new girl at school catalyses a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.
Starring Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Lucy Halliday
Dir Georgia Oakley | UK | 97 mins | 15 – TBC | English language
AWARDS & FESTIVAL
British Independent Film Awards: Winner, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Debut Screenwriter; Nominee, Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Breakthrough Performance
London Film Festival: Nominee, First Feature Competition
Venice Film Festival: Nominee, Director’s Award, Best Debut Film, Queer Lion
Venice Film Festival: Winner, People’s Choice Award
REVIEWS
“Considering the stranglehold transphobia has on British culture currently, BLUE JEAN feels all the more impactful as a cautionary tale of how this intolerance only breeds hatred and hurt.” Hannah Strong, Little White Lies
An epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin, and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic’s unfathomable death toll. Told through Goldin’s slideshows, interviews, and ground-breaking photography, and with previously unseen archive footage, this is both an uncompromising look at the impacts of a vast social crisis, and a deeply personal tale of the intertwined impact of art and activism.
Featuring Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Marina Berio
Dir Laura Portias | 2022 | USA | Documentary
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Venice Film Festival: Winner, Best Film, Queer Lion
New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Winner: Best Non-Fiction Film
British Independent Film Awards: Nominee, Best International Independent Film
Independent Spirit Awards: Nominee, Best Documentary
Gotham Awards: Nominee, Best Documentary
London Film Festival: Nominee, Best Documentary Film
Hélène and Mathieu have been happy together for many years, successful at work and with a busy social life. The bond between them is deep, but Hélène’s diagnosis with a terminal illness is placing impossible pressure on their relationship. After finding a blogger dealing with the same issues as her, Hélène travels alone to Norway to meet him, to find peace, and to make an existential choice about her life. A deeply moving examination of resilience under great strain.
Starring Vicky Krieps, Gaspard Ulliel, Bjørn Floberg
Dir Emily Atef | 2022 | France / Germany / Luxembourg / Norway | 15 – TBC | English, French, Norwegian language with English subtitles
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Cannes Film Fest: Nominee, Un Certain Regard Award – Best Director
Munich Film Fest: Nominee, Best International Film
BFI London Festival Festival, São Paulo Int’l Film Festival, Athens Int’l Film Festival Offical Selections
In 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a volunteer wildlife surveyor’s daily observations of the same rare flower slowly drive her into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this is a provocative and masterful vision that forces both its protagonist and its viewers to question the nature of reality.
Starring Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe
Dir Mark Jenkin | 2022 | UK | 96 mins | 15 | English language
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
London Film Festival: Nominee, Best Film
Athens International Film Festival: Nominee, Best Picture
Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Melbourne Int’l Film Festival Official Selection
Empress Elisabeth of Austria is idolised for her beauty, but as she passes forty she must fight to maintain her public image. While Elisabeth’s role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna. With a future of strictly ceremonial duties laid out in front of her, Elizabeth rebels. A funny, refreshingly irreverent spin on the period biopic formula.
Starring Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Ivana Urban
Dir Marie Kreutzer | 2022 | Austria / Luxembourg / Germany / France
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Cannes Film Festival: Winner, Un Certain Regard – Best Performance; Nominee, Un Certain Regard Award – Best Director
Chicago International Film Festival: Best Performance; Best Feature
Film Independent Spirit Awards: Nominee, Best International Film
Gotham Awards: Nominee, Best International Feature
London Film Festival: Winner, Best Film
For Sara, summertime means dealing with a barrage of mockery from the other girls in her village. But when a mysterious man arrives in the village and kidnaps her tormentors, it seems someone has finally stood up for her. But Sara saw the kidnapping, and the kidnapper has seen her; they are locked in a wordless pact neither will betray. She’s an accomplice now. What if she is found out? What’s happened to the girls? What if the unknown man returns?
Starring Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi
Dir Carlota Pereda | 2022 | Spain | 99 mins | 18 | Spanish and English language with English subtitles
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Goya Awards: Nominee, Best New Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best New Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
Grimmfest: Winner, Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actress
Sundance Film Festival, Seattle Int’l Film Festival, Frightfest Official Selections
In modern Belgium, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile. Hoping for a better life in Europe, they instead face impenetrable bureaucracy, corruption, child labour and abuse from those they thought would help them. Anchored by two remarkable, engaging lead performances, the film speaks to important contemporary global themes but never lets politics overwhelm the importance of character and narrative.
Starring Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu
Dir The Dardenne Brothers | 2022 | Belguim / France | 98 mins | 15 | French and Afrikaans language with English subtitles
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Cannes Film Fest: Winner, 75th Anniversary Prize; Nominee, Palme d’Or
Jerusalem Film Fest: Winner, Best International Film; Nominee, Best International Film
Leeds Int’l Film Festival, London Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival Official Selections
Two intriguing, parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power. Both an examination of the hidden complexity of an apparently simple story, and a metafictional portrayal of Panahi’s own work while under house arrest and banned from making films by the Iranian regime, this is a piercingly self-aware portrait of an artist working in impossible conditions. Brave and defiant filmmaking, and more important now than ever.
Starring Naser Hashemi, Reza Heydari, Mina Kavani
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Venice Film Fest: Winner, Special Jury Prize; Nominee, Best Film
Chicago Int’l Film Fest: Winner, Award for Cinematic Bravery; Nominee, Best Feature
Toronto Int’l Film Fest & London Film Festival Official Selections
Dir Jafar Panahi | 2022 | Iran | 106 mins | 12A | Persian, Azerbaijani language with English subtitles
REVIEWS
“A piercingly self-aware portrait of an artist who is not afraid to depict himself and his craft as aloof or insular.” Mark Kemode, The Observer
“Panahi’s courageousness as an agitator is matched only by his inventiveness as a filmmaker.” ★★★★★ Christopher Machell, CineVue
“A dark postmodern satire about the unexpected film that emerges within a film about making a film.” Kevin Maher, The Times
Raised in working-class Belfast, investigative journalist Lyra McKee highlighted the consequences of the Troubles, seeking justice for crimes that had been forgotten since the Good Friday Agreement. Her murder by dissident Republicans in 2019 sent shockwaves across the world. This wonderfully crafted film seeks answers to Lyra’s senseless killing through her own work and words. The result is a complex picture of Northern Ireland’s political history, bringing into sharp focus the ways in which the promise of peace has yet to be realised.
Dir Alison Millar | 2022 | UK / Ireland | 92 mins | 15 | English language | Documentary
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Cork Film Fest: Winner, Audience Award
Sheffield DocFest: Winner, Tim Hetherington Award
At a fading vacation resort in the late 1990s, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (BAFTA winner Paul Mescal, Normal People).
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At a fading vacation resort in the late 1990s, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (BAFTA winner Paul Mescal, Normal People). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.
Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film.
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive operation to treat chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet: how will they find the money to save Nasra and keep the family together? A tender tribute to the power of family, movingly depicting resilience in the face of adversity.
Starring Omar Abdi, Yasmin Warsame, Kadar Abdoul-Aziz Ibrahim
Dir. Khader Ayderus Ahmed | 2021 | Finland / Germany / France / Somalia / Qatar
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
African Movie Academy Awards: Winner, Best Actor, Best Film; Nominee, Best Director
Cannes Film Fest: Nominee, Critics’ Week Grand Prize, Golden Camera
Luxor African Film Fest: Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Jury Prize
Somalian submission for Best International Film at 2023 Academy Awards
25th Anniversary screening
Cult Cinema Sunday: The Big Lebowski at Social
The night has the perfect mix of Thieving Harry’s food, free film quiz, prize raffle and custom-made alternative movie posters.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
From the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers, The Big Lebowski is a hilariously quirky comedy about bowling, a severed toe, White Russians and a guy named…The Dude.
Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski doesn’t want any drama in his life…heck, he can’t even be bothered with a job. But, he must embark on a quest with his bowling buddies after his rug is destroyed in a twisted case of mistaken identity.
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro, experience the cultural phenomenon of The Dude in the “#1 cult film of all time!” (The Boston Globe)
Seat choice is unallocated, first come, first served when you arrive at the venue.
Social, Humber Street.
