One of the most beautiful portraits of love, work, and life that you’ll see in nonfiction film this year.
In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a 50-something woman, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently maneuvers the honeycomb without netting or gloves. Back at her homestead, Hatidze tends to her handmade hives and her bedridden mother, occasionally heading to the capital to market her wares.
One day, an itinerant family installs itself next door, and Hatidze’s peaceful kingdom gives way to roaring engines, seven shrieking children, and 150 cows. Yet Hatidze welcomes the camaraderie, and she holds nothing back—not her tried-and-true beekeeping advice, not her affection, not her special brandy. But soon Hussein, the itinerant family’s patriarch, makes a series of decisions that could destroy Hatidze’s way of life forever.
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Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star in Nicolas Roeg’s brilliantly atmospheric adaptation of the short story by Daphne du Maurier. Following the death of their daughter, John and Laura Baxter travel to Venice where he is to oversee the restoration of an old church. Here they encounter a pair of elderly sisters: one of them a blind psychic who claims to have been in communication with the couple’s dead child. Whilst Laura is intrigued, John resists the idea, despite the possibility that he is having his own visions that threaten to put his life in danger. Genuinely unsettling, DON’T LOOK NOW is widely acknowledged as perhaps Roeg’s finest film and one of the best British films ever made.
Starring Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason .
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Best Cinematography, BAFTA Film Awards 1974; Nominee – Best Actress, Best Directions, Best Film, Best Actor, BAFTA Film Awards 1974
“It’s a ghost story; it’s a meditation on time, memory and the poignancy of married love. And it’s a masterpiece.” – The Guardian
“Every frame is calculated perfection.” – Little White Lies
Certificate
DON’T LOOK NOW is rated 15. Visit the BBFC website for full details (may include plot spoilers).
THE BEACH BUM follows the hilarious misadventures of Moondog, a wasted cosmic poet par excellence who always lives life by his own rules, balancing the demands of a family that includes a fed-up well-to-do wife, while living life in a booze-soaked Margaritaville of the Mind.
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Martin Lawrence, Jimmy Buffett.
Awards and Reviews
SXSW Official Selection (World Premiere)
“With the film, Harmony Korine solidifies his position as the premier cartographer of the Sunshine State as a place of unhurried pursuits.” – Slate
“There is a lot of fun to be had living in Moondog’s world for 95 minutes, and the film goes down suspiciously easy for something so ugly and amoral.” – Associated Press
Certificate
THE BEACH BUM is rated 18. Check the BBFC website for details (may contain plot spoilers).
In a small, blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old Deb Callaghan’s teenage daughter goes missing and she is left to raise her infant grandson alone. The story is told over the course of 11 years, from the time her daughter vanishes, through the the trials and tribulations of subsequent years looking for closure, leading up the long-awaited discovery of the truth.
Sienna Miller gives a career-best performance in this captivating drama that pulls us deep into the lives of these good, flawed, ordinary people.
Starring Sienna Miller, Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul
AMERICAN WOMAN is rated 15
A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON tells the story of Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck. A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler, a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor, a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, Thomas Hayden Church.
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Winner – Audience Award Narrative Spotlight, SXSW Film Festival; Winner – Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, Nantucket Film Festival
“LaBeouf brings the soul to “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” while Gottsagen brings the spirit. He has an undeniably charming screen presence, and the actor takes to this starring role with gusto.” – Los Angeles Times
“LaBeouf holds the screen with natural allure, making every twinge of his character’s self-reproach, and every instant of his dawning joy, achingly felt. His nuanced performance propels this journey.” – Hollywood Reporter
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day he learns by chance that the priest who abused him when he was in scouts is still working with children. He decides to take action and is soon joined by two other victims of the priest, François and Emmanuel. They band together to “lift the burden of silence” surrounding the ordeal. But the repercussions and consequences will leave no one unscathed.
Starring Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud.
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Grand Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival, Nominee – Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival
“There’s of-the-moment cinema and then there’s on-the-moment cinema, ripped so freshly from the headlines that the filmmaking still bears a few ink smudges.” – Variety
“This is a social justice film made with purposeful conviction and a quiet, never strident, sense of indignation.” – Hollywood Reporter
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they’re made—and kept alive—by the people who love them.
Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover.
Awards and Reviews
Winner – Directing Award Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival; Winner – Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival; Nominee – Best Film, Locarno International Film Festival
“The Last Black Man plays like a poetic portrait, part tender ode and part cartography of lived experience, bringing a nuanced and hard-earned perspective to the screen.” – AV Club
“[A] story that doesn’t announce its themes but instead transforms lived-in ideas about friendship, loneliness, artmaking, gentrification and the many faces of black masculinity.” – New York Times
MAKING WAVES reveals the hidden power of sound in cinema – and our lives. Through film clips, interviews and verité footage, the film captures the history, impact and creative process of this overlooked art form through the insights and stories of legendary directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola and Ryan Coogler, and the sound men and women with whom they collaborate.
Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas have both declared that “sound is 50% of the movie” with Spielberg saying “our ears lead our eyes to where the story lives.” In MAKING WAVES, we see and hear from the key players of sound design – including multi-Oscar winners Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now), Ben Burtt (Star Wars) and Gary Rydstrom (Saving Private Ryan) – who, in pursuing their art and desire to push the medium, are the very people who will go down in the history of cinema as developing sound into the immersive storytelling force it is today.
Featuring George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola, Ryan Coogler.
Awards and Reviews
Nominee – Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival; Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection
“”Making Waves” leaves you eager to go hear a favorite movie for the first time.” – Indiewire
“You’ll likely never hear a film in the same way again after watching this thrilling celebration of the craft.” – HeyUGuys
Ricky, Abby and their two children live in Newcastle. They are a strong family who care for each other. Ricky has skipped from one labouring job to another while Abby, who loves her work, cares for old people. Despite working longer and harder they realise they will never have independence or their own home. It’s now or never; the app revolution offers Ricky a golden opportunity. He and Abby make a bet. She sells her car so Ricky can buy a shiny new van and become a freelance driver, with his own business at last. The modern world impinges on these four souls in the privacy of their kitchen; the future beckons.
Starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone.
Awards and Reviews
Nominee – Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festval, Sydney Film Festival Official Selections
“As a stripped-down, minutely detailed portrait of the daily grind as back-breaking Sisyphean ordeal, “Sorry We Missed You” is engrossing and bluntly persuasive.” – Los Angeles Times
“A revelatory performance from the newcomer Debbie Honeywood.” – The Times
Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, Her follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet “Samantha,” a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other.
From the unique perspective of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Jonze comes an original love story that explores the evolving nature—and the risks—of intimacy in the modern world.
Joanna Hogg’s latest film, produced by Martin Scorsese, sees Julie is a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets the seemingly unwavering and decisive Anthony. The two immediately take to one another and an intense romance blossoms between them. However, as the relationship develops it becomes clear that Anthony is not being honest about all aspects of himself and Julie slowly discovers that they could have potentially devastating consequences for them both.
One of Britain’s most unique filmmakers Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Unrelated) presents a deeply personal examination of her own youthful experiences in this beautifully crafted portrait of self-discovery, THE SOUVENIR.
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This multi award-winning biopic is based on the true story of Larry Winters, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder in a Soho bar in 1963. Partly told in a series of flashbacks which reveal how a man with an IQ of 165 became a convicted murderer, the film explores Winters’ experience in the special unit of Barlinnie prison which finally gave him a route to self-expression.
Directed by David Hayman and starring Iain Glen as Larry Winters. Robert Carlyle makes his debut film performance as Big Woodsy.
85 mins | certificate 15
Screenings start at 6pm (doors open 5.45pm)
Join us in the Gallery Café and Project Space for the exhibition preview of Proboscidea Rappings by Ollie Dook.
Jumbo the Elephant was one of the first modern day animal celebrities. Born in 1861 Jumbo tragically died in 1885 after a fatal collision with a train. The impact of his brief time on this planet was felt on a global scale.
Artist Ollie Dook examines the story of an archived photograph which depicts an imitation ‘Jumbo’ crossing Hull’s Monument Bridge in the 19th Century as part of Barnum’s circus parade.
Through an exhibition that combines video and sculpture, Dook offers up a new version of Jumbo, exploring the enormity of his physicality, popularity and impact on the world.
Join us for a screening of Spike Jonze’s modern science-fiction romance movie Her (2013).
Beyond Human is a series of film screenings chosen to compliment Aniara Omann’s exhibition Equanipolis. This screening offers a modern vision of the future that explores the impact technology has on human relationships.
The screening will start at 6.30pm.
In partnership with Hull Independent Cinema.
Rated 15.
THIS EVENT IS FOR AGES 18+ ONLY.
Join artist Harlan Whittingham for an introduction to his practice and screening of two short-films which use documentary, fiction and horror to examine collectors, their collections and the definition of value.
Through an intimate video confessional and tour of the character’s fetlife archives, we begin to explore the Collectionneur (2019, 7 mins 25 seconds) and his developing relationship with art objects.
Following this, the Collectionneur casts his gaze onto other Collectors (2019, 18 mins 37 seconds) – bed and breakfast owner Mark Hinchcliffe and dominatrix Mistress Zephyr; searching their collections for the objects of his desire.
Whittingham has spent the past year developing his practice on Tetley’s Associate Artists Programme (TAAP). Georgia Taylor Aguilar, Public Programme and Residencies Producer for The Tetley will finish by outlining TAAP.
Image credited to Still from Collectors, 2019. Harlan Wittingham.
Join us for a screening of Jack Arnold’s cult-classic monster movie Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954).
Beyond Human is a series of film screenings chosen to compliment Aniara Omann’s exhibition Equanipolis. This screening explores evolutionary alternatives to Homo sapiens through the pioneering use of special effects in cinema.
The screening will start at 6.30pm.
In partnership with Hull Independent Cinema.
