Event Categories: Film

Inseparable sisters raised in a small town on the Irish border, Lauren and Kelly’s lives were shattered with the mysterious death of their mother. Left to pick up the pieces after her sister abruptly disappeared, Lauren is suddenly confronted with the family’s dark and traumatic past when Kelly returns home after a whole year. With their intense sisterhood reignited, Kelly’s desire to unearth their history is not welcomed by all in the small town, as rumours and malice spread like wildfire, threatening to push them over the edge.

Winner of IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Award – BFI London Film Festival 2020, Toronto International Film Festival 2020, Winner Best Director and Best Actress – Irish Film and Television Academy

Hull Independent Cinema presents Ben Sharrock’s critically adored deadpan comedy-drama Limbo.

A wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience, shining a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines.

Cannes Film Festival 2020
Toronto Intl Film Festival 2020
BFI London Film Festival 2020
BAFTA 2021 Nominee: Outstanding British Film, Outstanding Debut by a British Writer

Ben has recently graduated college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his “Homecoming” party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father’s business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt him when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson’s daughter.

Director: Mike Nichols
Certification: 15
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross
Production Year: 1967
Running Time: 105 minutes
Distributor: StudioCanal

Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, a long unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle. His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem the already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until the bicycle is stolen. Antonio and his son take to the streets in a desperate search to find the bicycle. Bicycle Thieves is as much about the position of Italians in post-War, post-Fascist Italy as the relationship between father and son, told through the labyrinth of the cinematic city with De Sica s arresting visual poetry. Defining neorealism, a small period of filmmaking that focused on simple, humanist stories, Bicycle Thieves was one of the most captivating and moving.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Certification: U
Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
Production Year: 1948
Running Time: 93 minutes
Distributor: Arrow Films

Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Director: Julie Taymor
Certification: 15
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Mia Maestro, Alfred Molina
Production Year: 2002
Running Time: 117 minutes
Distributor: Miramax

This multi award-winning homage to the love of cinema tells the story of Salvatore, now a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Certification: 15
Cast: Enzo Cannavale, Philippe Noiret
Production Year: 1988
Running Time: 155 minutes
Distributor: Arrow Films

The most brilliant mind at America’s top university isn’t a student, he’s the kid who cleans the floors. Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will’s last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him. Finally forced to deal with his past, Will discovers that the only one holding him back is himself.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Robin Williams
Production Year: 1997
Running Time: 126 minutes
Distributor: Miramax

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Certification: 15
Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani
Production Year: 2016
Running Time: 115 minutes
Distributor: Thunderbird

Rocketman is an epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years, starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Director: Dexter Fletcher
Certification: 15
Cast: Taron Egerton
Production Year: 2019
Running Time: 121 minutes
Distributor: Paramount

Bruce Robinson’s celebrated cult comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. It’s the end of the 1960s and two out-of-work actors, Withnail (Grant) and ‘I’ (McGann), subsist on a diet of booze, drugs and fags in their revolting Camden flat. In order to escape the depressing nexus of visits from their dealer and the months of untouched washing-up, they escape to the country, with the intention of getting some R and R at a cottage owned by Withnail’s uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). However, things do not exactly go as planned, Withnail being particularly unsuited to the quiet social mores of countrypeople. The pair’s friendship starts to become sorely tested amid the vicissitudes of their ‘holiday’. More ominously, uncle Monty appears in person seemingly with something of an eye for ‘I’.

Director: Bruce Robinson
Certification: 15
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Paul McGann
Production Year: 1987
Running Time: 103 minutes
Distributor: Arrow Films

From the longrunning hit Broadway show comes one of the most popular screen musicals of all time. 70’s pop icons John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John join some of Hollywood’s oldtime favorite personalities in this valentine to the 1950’s. Things are really hoppin’ at Rydell High when Danny (Travolta) discovers the object of his “Summer Lovin’” fling Sandy (Newton-John) has moved to town and enrolled in his school. Rama-Lama Ding-Dong!

Director: Randal Kleiser
Certification: PG
Cast: Didi Conn, Jamie Donnelly, Dody Goodman, Olivia Newton-John
Production Year: 1978
Running Time: 106 minutes
Distributor: Paramount

An alienated, battle-scarred loner embarks on a mission of misguided revenge in the seedy underbelly of nighttime Manhattan.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Certification: 12
Cast: Albert Brooks, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro
Production Year: 1976
Running Time: 109 minutes
Distributor: Sony

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Fremont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certification: PG
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly
Production Year: 1954
Running Time: 109 minutes
Distributor: Universal