Enjoy a brand new festival – Picnic in the Park for summer 2022 at Beverley Racecourse.
A socially distanced, COVID compliant mini festival that starts on the Friday evening and ends on the Sunday evening comprising of live bands and blockbuster films.
There will also be catering units onsite that will serve the hot drinks, you can of course bring your own snacks!
Limited tickets available so make sure to book yours today.
During each Mini festival the schedule will be:
-the live band/s will play until the start of the film allowing you to soak up the atmosphere of the festival with your besties.
Friday
-5:30pm – 10:30pm – Screening – Bohemian Rhapsody (12A)
Saturday
-12:30pm till 4:30pm (early) – Screening – The Lion King (PG)
-5:30pm till 10:30pm (late) – Screening – Mamma Mia (PG)
Sunday
-12:30pm till 4:30pm (early) Screening – Paw Patrol (PG)
-5:30pm till 10:30pm (late) Screening – Grease (PG)
Both lonely for different reasons, Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the young child of Ali’s Slovakian tenants, whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness, while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. Over a month, sparks fly and a deep connection begins to grow. However, the legacy of Ava’s previous relationship and Ali’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage begins to overshadow their newfound passion.
This film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way but in a real way. A film of one dairy cow’s reality, acknowledging her great service to us. Andrea Arnold’s British Independent Film Awards- and Cannes-nominated documentary refrains from making judgements about the dairy industry, but doesn’t hold back from showing us the reality of it.
Alexia is a young woman who suffers a terrible injury and has a titanium plate fitted into her head. When she gets out of the hospital, she rejects her parents and embraces the car that almost killed her. While struggling to define herself she encounters Vincent, a tortured man who tries to preserve his youth and strength by injecting steroids. Will their bodies help them find a way to deal with their emotional problems?
Another fascinating slice of body horror from the maker of RAW, and winner of the 2021 Palme d’Or at Cannes.
When riverboat mogul ‘Steamboat Bill’ calls Bill Jr. (Keaton) home to help with the family business, he discovers to his immense displeasure that his son is dating the daughter of his arch rival in the riverboat business. Set in a painstakingly recreated Southern town – which Keaton spectacularly destroys in the final cyclone sequence – this Romeo-and-Juliet feel- good comedy is peppered with astonishing stunts and effects. This screening will be brought to life by pianist Jonny Best’s fantastic live improvised score.
Alana is 25 and has no idea what she wants to do. Gary is a fifteen-year-old successful child actor and budding entrepreneur. When they meet in 1973 San Fernando, Alana at first laughs off Gary’s attempts to chat her up. But slowly, propelled by nostalgia for her own teenage years, she lets Gary into her life and a connection develops between them. Anderson’s film is a love letter to the 1970s in which the various star turns are outshone by the fresh-faced leads.
Alone on a seaside vacation, Leda (an outstanding Olivia Colman) becomes consumed with watching a young mother and daughter on the beach. Unnerved by their compelling relationship, Leda is overwhelmed by her own memories of the terror, confusion and intensity of early motherhood. An impulsive act shocks Leda into the strange and ominous world of her own mind, where she is forced to face the unconventional choices she made as a young mother and their consequences.
Schoolteacher Emi finds her reputation at risk after a sex tape is published online. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. A film in three loosely connected parts: a walk in the city of Bucharest, a playful essay on obscenities and an incendiary confrontation. A wildly funny and extremely graphic look at the collision between private and personal in the social media age.
On the east coast of England in 1555, community leader David agrees, for a fee, to shelter an Egyptian family who are awaiting a ship to escape persecution. At first the community accept the outsiders, until a mute young woman, Patience, starts an affair with one of them and is thrust into a vicious psychological battle with David, who sees her actions as a threat to his position of authority.
A couple living alone on a remote farm in Iceland find their quiet existence shaken by the astonishing discovery of a mysterious newborn amongst their sheep. They decide to raise the child as their own, but soon face the
consequences of defying the will of nature. An audacious, genre-defying mix of horror and folklore, featuring a career-best performance from Noomi Rapace, this is a disturbing and uniquely unsettling cinematic experience.
Renowned actor Yusuke, grieving the death of his wife, is offered a role directing at a Hiroshima theatre festival. There he meets Misaki, a taciturn young woman assigned as his chauffeur. As the play’s premiere approaches, Yusuke must confront some painful truths and, with the help of his driver, face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind. A haunting road movie of love and loss, adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story.
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. While exploring the woods nearby she meets a strangely familiar girl her own age. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with her loss. A delicate but powerful examination of grief from the maker of Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
On Mother’s Day 1924, house maid Jane takes a rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul. The fact that Paul is engaged to another woman is of no concern to them in the depths of passion, but soon events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever. Based on the novel by Graham Swift with a screenplay by the writer of Normal People and Lady Macbeth.
At Muzamil’s baptism, a holy man prophesises that he will meet an early death at twenty. As the years pass, his mother becomes overprotective, his father leaves home, and other villagers taunt him. Then he meets a filmmaker, who sparks in Muzamil a passion for cinema and existential ideas. How will he reconcile his values with these new interests – and will he have time?
In the (fictional) 1960s provincial French town of Ennui-Sur-Blasé, a maverick group of American writers put together a cultural newspaper supplement, The French Dispatch. Across an anthology of stories, the paper’s art critic tells the story of a convicted murderer whose prison guard is his muse and model; a political writer investigates the town’s revolutionary political scene and ends up having an affair with its leader; and a reporter recounts his attempt to interview the local police department chief (and chef), which ends up with him witnessing the kidnapping of the police commissioner’s son.
As usual with Anderson’s films, The French Dispatch is a whirlwind of meticulous period detail, striking design, pinpoint dialogue and a fabulous score, with a wonderful cast of big names in everything from lead roles to blink-andyou-miss-it cameos. A must-watch curtain-raiserfor our new season.
