Outdoor Cinema: The Greatest Showman Sing-Along

Outdoor Cinema: The Greatest Showman at Burton Constable Hall.
Plus music to enjoy before the movie with a soundtrack of specially curated songs.
Gates open 12pm so bring a blanket or camping chair and watch The Greatest Showman on a giant cinema screen in the open-air!

Outdoor Cinema Beverley – Top Gun Screening

Top Gun Screening at Beverley Racecourse.

Beverley Outdoor Cinema returns in the summer of ’23

You may or may not have heard but Top Gun Maverick smashed box office records all over the world, and now, you get your chance to see it all over again, where we will be bring you a little slice of culture, nostalgia and immersive cinematic fun.

This is going to be epic so grab your picnics & drinks, outdoor gear and chairs and come watch this blockbuster film on a HUGE screen.

 

Outdoor Cinema Hull Dirty Dancing Screening

Hull Outdoor Cinema returns in the summer of ’23 to Beverley Racecourse.

You may or may not have heard but Dirty Dancing smashed box office records all over the world when it was released. Now you get your chance to see it all over again, where you will enjoy a little slice of culture, nostalgia and immersive cinematic fun.

Grab your picnics & drinks, outdoor gear and chairs and come watch this blockbuster film on a huge screen.

Limited tickets are available so book today to avoid disappointment.

Open Air Cinema – Elvis (12)

The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, played by Austin Butler, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950’s. The film delves into the complex relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks, spanning over 20 years from Presley’s rise to fame and his unexpected stardom.

At Burton Constable Hall. £12.50pp

The Films Of Peter Huby

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.

The Films Of Peter Huby

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.

The Films Of Peter Huby

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.

Hull Independent Cinema: Alcarras

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

Hull Independent Cinema: Blue Jean

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

Hull Independent Cinema: All the Beauty & The Bloodshed

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

Hull Independent Cinema: More Than Ever

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

Hull Independent Cinema: Enys Men

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

Hull Independent Cinema: Corsage

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

Hull Independent Cinema: Piggy

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

Hull Independent Cinema: Tori & Lokita

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

Hull Independent Cinema: No Bears

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