Event Categories: Film

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Moonage Dreams at Vue Cinema.

Documentarist Brett Morgen spent five years going through David Bowie’s personal libraries, master recordings, and archives, as sanctioned by the late musician’s estate, in the hope of understanding and deconstructing the musical artistry and spiritual journey of the English global icon. The resulting film features narration in Bowie’s own voice as the story presents how he crafted his multidisciplinary artistry and newly remastered music. An immersive, mysterious, life-affirming and risk-taking cinematic experience that illuminates Bowie’s life and work.

Starring David Bowie

Dir Brett Morgan | 2022 | USA | 140 min | 15 | English language

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Funny Pages at Vue Cinema.

A teenage cartoonist, Robert, rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for something more. Seeking a life of no-holds-barred adventure, acerbic wit and outlandish scenarios, he announces to his parents that he is leaving school and the family home. He finds an unwilling teacher and unwitting friend in Wallace, a former comic artist. A bitingly funny coming-of-age story, packed with cringe and awkwardness by director Owen Kline in a terrific, tonally flawless debut feature.

Starring Daniel Zolghadri, Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel

Dir Owen Kline | 2022 | USA | 86 mins | 18 | English

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Flux Gormet at Vue Cinema.

A “sonic collective” takes up a residency at an Institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance. The members are caught up in their own power struggles, and their dysfunctional dynamic is exacerbated when they have to answer to the institute’s head. With the various rivalries unfolding, the Institute’s concierge, Stones, has to endure increasingly fraught stomach problems whilst documenting the collective’s activities, and ends up being coerced into their performances. An off-kilter, absurdist satire of the arts, imbued with Strickland’s distinctly sumptuous visual and aural style.

Starring Gwendoline Christie, Asa Butterfield, Fatma Mohamed

Dir Peter Strickland | 2022 | UK / Hungary / USA | 111 mins | UK | English, Greek and German with English subtitles

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Hit The Road at Hull Truck Theatre.

Two parents and their sons – one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old – drive across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of the trip, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown, and fuss over their sick dog. Tensions arise as the family get closer to the unspoken goal of their journey. The result is a humanist drama that offers an authentic, funny, and sincere look at a family preparing to part with one of their own.

Panah Panahi – son of the master of Iranian cinema, Jafar Panahi – makes a striking debut with this charming, sharp-witted and deeply moving comic drama, which takes the traditions of the Iranian road-trip film and adds unexpected twists alongside pointed social commentary.

Starring Pantea Panahiha, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar

Hull Independent Cinema presents: Fire Of Love at Vue Cinema.

The story of two French scientists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unravelling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most stunning volcano imagery ever recorded. Along the way, they changed our understanding of the natural world, and saved tens of thousands of lives. Previously unseen archive material reveals the birth of modern volcanology through an unlikely lens — the love of its two pioneers.

Featuring Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Miranda July

Dir Sara Dosa | 2022 | Canada / USA | 98 min | PG | English and French with English language subtitles