Brassed Off film screening: Unthinkable film festival

Brassed Off film screening: Unthinkable film festival

A screening of Brassed Off is just one of the highlights of Hull’s UNTHINKABLE film festival 1-12 October).

The film stars Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite and Tara Fitzgerald, and there will be a Q&A with director Mark Herman, also known for box office hits such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Little Voice.

The event, which takes place at Middleton Hall (University of Hull) on Wednesday 8 October, is part of an exciting line-up of screenings, workshops, industry professional masterclasses/mentorships, exhibitions and live music at the festival.

For more information about the festival: UNTHINKABLE – Short Film Festival Hull

Halloween Outdoor Cinema: The Lost Boys

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Sink your teeth into a night of fright and fun under the stars at Burton Constable Hall on Saturday 25th October, as we screen the ultimate vampire cult classic, The Lost Boys.

Prepare for a fang-tastic experience – bring your blankets, gather your friends and family, and lose yourself in this thrilling outdoor cinema event. Watch as the seductive and dangerous world of the Santa Carla vampires unfolds, full of edge-of-your-seat action, dark humour, and unforgettable characters.

While you enjoy the evening, our Stables Kitchen will be open serving delicious food, and the bar will be open for drinks throughout the event – perfect for keeping cosy under the autumn night sky.

Event Details:

Saturday 25^th October 2025

Event open 8:00 pm
Film starts 9:00 pm
Film Ends 10:30 pm

Burton Constable Hall

Tickets:

£35 for a family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids)

£15 for an adult

£10 per child

£5 deposit and admission fee will be required via Eventbrite to secure your place, the rest is due on the entrance that night should the event go ahead.

Outdoor Cinema Event Guidelines:

On the day of the event, please bring your ticket on your smartphone. A staff member will scan the QR code for entry.

In the event of heavy rain, Outdoor Cinema may cancel the event.

Attendees are advised to bring their own blankets or chairs.

Bringing your own snacks is permitted. Please ensure all rubbish is disposed of responsibly.

Toilets are available on-site.

Alcohol consumption must be responsible; intoxicated attendees may be asked to leave.

Please come prepared with warm clothing, a torch, extra layers, and appropriate footwear.

BBQs are not permitted.

Additional Notes:

Ambient noise is to be expected during the outdoor cinema experience, particularly at family screenings.

The sound system is located at the front of the venue, where volume levels will be higher.

Contact Information:

enquiries@burtonconstable.com

Halloween Outdoor Cinema: Hocus Pocus

Join us for a spooktacular evening under the stars at Burton Constable Hall on Saturday 25th October as we screen the ultimate Halloween classic Hocus Pocus.

Get ready for a bewitching experience – grab your blankets, bring your friends and family, and immerse yourself in this enchanting outdoor cinema event. Watch as the Sanderson sisters, Winifred, Sarah, and Mary, wreak havoc on Salem in their quest for eternal youth. With their mischievous spells and hilarious antics, this film is sure to cast a spell on you!

While you enjoy the evening, our Stables Kitchen will be open serving delicious food, and the bar will be open for drinks throughout the event – perfect for keeping cosy under the autumn night sky.

Event Details:

Saturday 25^th October 2025

Event open 4:45 pm
Film starts 5:45 pm
Film Ends 7:15pm

Burton Constable Hall

Tickets:

£35 for a family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids)

£15 for an adult

£10 per child

£5 deposit and admission fee will be required via Eventbrite to secure your place, the rest is due on the entrance that night should the event go ahead.

Outdoor Cinema Event Guidelines:

On the day of the event, please bring your ticket on your smartphone. A staff member will scan the QR code for entry.

In the event of heavy rain, Outdoor Cinema may cancel the event.

Attendees are advised to bring their own blankets or chairs.

Bringing your own snacks is permitted. Please ensure all rubbish is disposed of responsibly.

Toilets are available on-site.

Alcohol consumption must be responsible; intoxicated attendees may be asked to leave.

Please come prepared with warm clothing, a torch, extra layers, and appropriate footwear.

BBQs are not permitted.

Additional Notes:

Ambient noise is to be expected during the outdoor cinema experience, particularly at family screenings.

The sound system is located at the front of the venue, where volume levels will be higher.

Contact Information:

enquiries@burtonconstable.com

Hull Independent Cinema: Savages

In Borneo, the development of plantations is driving deforestation and threatening the local orangutan population. When security guard Mutang sees a colleague shoot one of the animals for no reason, he and his daughter Keria adopt its orphaned baby. Their family is from one of the indigenous groups that live on the island and as they work to keep the baby ape safe, Keria begins to learn about the threats to her people’s homes and livelihoods from companies and a complicit government intent on driving them from the land, and learns to embrace her heritage. A powerful allegory told through gorgeous stop-motion animation.
Starring Nicolas Buysse, Karim Barras, Babette De Coster

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
Magritte Awards: Winner, Best Original Score
César Awards: Nominee, Best Animated Film
European Film Awards: Nominee, 2 awards including Best Film

REVIEWS
“Barras builds the film not just so that annihilation feels tangible, but also so that sense of history and spirituality can be felt as well as told.” ★★★★ Kambole Campbell, Little White Lies
“There’s real value in a family film that puts its characters before plot, gags and pop-culture references, and which explores it with such wit, sincerity and visual panache.” ★★★★ Dan Jolin, Time Out
“A charming coming-of-age picture, certainly, but it’s also a film that directly engages with Indigenous rights and some of the more urgent environmental issues of the moment.” Wendy Ide, Screen International
“…absolutely gorgeous to look at.” Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter

Hull Independent Cinema: Sorry, Baby

Dir Eva Victor | USA, Spain, France | 2025 | 103 mins | Rated 15 | English
When Agnes was a student at a small-town Massachusetts college, she was a natural, effortlessly earning praise from her professor. But one day she experienced a life-changing traumatic incident. We follow her in the years that follow as, with the support of her friend Lydie and an adopted kitten she tries to get through life day to day while processing what happened to her and managing the sometimes thoughtless and even callous reactions of others. Being presented in non-chronological episodes cleverly enables this remarkable, grimly humorous film to focus not on the incident itself but on Agnes as a person and the journey she undertakes in managing her trauma.
Starring Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
Sundance Film Festival: Winner, Screenwriting Award; Nominee, Grand Jury Prize
Cannes Film Festival: Nominee, 3 awards including Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award
Seattle International Film Festival: Winner, Feature Film Award; Nominee, Best Director
Astra Midseason Movie Awards: Nominee, 3 awards including Best Actress

REVIEWS
“I was moved to tears by the bond between Agnes and Lydie, and how Victor and Ackie bring to life the cellular nourishment true friendship provides.”
★★★★ Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle
“Sorry, Baby is funny, sad, thoughtful, and specific, a keenly observed portrait of a woman blown off course by a traumatic incident.” Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
“A breakout that heralds Victor as an idiosyncratic and exciting new American artist.” Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“A directorial debut of unfiltered frankness in both its tragedy and comedy, Sorry, Baby is a singular feat of storytelling.” Jordan Raup, The Film Stage

Unthinkable Film Festival

We’re UNTHINKABLE, a festival in Hull that focuses on film with support from other art forms, such as music and performance.

Our festival is held every year in October, and we celebrate film, video, and moving image alongside events and activities that aim to support the local community in developing creative projects.

This year will mark our third year running.

Hull Independent Cinema: Two To One

Dir Natja Brunckhorst | Germany | 2024 | 115 mins | Rated 12A | German
East Germany on the eve of the country’s reunification, and a group of friends stumble upon a huge stash of Ostmarks in an abandoned bunker. Discovering that the cash is soon to become worthless and can only be exchanged at a much-reduced rate, they hatch a scheme to instead use it to acquire goods that will improve the lives of their small community and enter the capitalist age in style. But as the commodities pile up, greed and love triangles threaten the success of this final flourishing of communist comradeship in this heartfelt crime caper comedy.
Starring Sandra Hüller, Max Riemelt, Ronald Zehrfeld

REVIEWS
“A wild story delivered with verve and a suitable degree of irreverence.” ★★★★ Jennie Kermode,
Eye for Film
“…its strong central performances and heartfelt execution provide enough charm to make for an entertaining time.” ★★★ Andrew Murray, The Upcoming
“Two to One is a surprisingly endearing crime comedy…” Carmen Paddock, MovieJawn
“Hüller and the rest of the cast are great to watch…” Ruth Maramis, FlixChatter Film Blog

Hull Independent Cinema: Pavements

Dir Alex Ross Perry | USA | 2025 | 128 mins | Rated 15 | English
A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, this is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement. The film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation. It’s one not just for fans but for anyone interested in the impact of contemporary music on the wider culture of society.

Starring Stephen Malkmus, Scott Kanberg, Joe Keery

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
Venice Film Festival: Nominee, Best Film
Virginia Film Festival Winner, Directorial Achievement Award

REVIEWS
“never snotty, richly inventive, and so smartly executed that reality blurs.” ★★★★★ Danny Leigh, Financial Times
“a love letter, a mischievous jape and a deconstructed rock documentary all at once, a brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends…” ★★★★ Tara Brady, Irish Times
“Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.” Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
“It’s a reminder that the fourth (and fifth and sixth) wall can be smashed, that the rock doc can be reinvented.” Adam Solomons, IndieWire

Home Alone In Concert

A true Christmas favourite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and delightful score performed live to picture by the International Film Orchestra.

Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who’s accidentally left behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation, and who must defend his home against two bungling thieves.

Nominated for two Academy Awards® for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Somewhere in My Memory), Home Alone is hilarious, heart-warming festive fun for the entire family!

NT Live: Hamlet (Encore Screening)

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one.

National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining.

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Hull Independent Cinema: Urchin

Mike has spent five years living on London’s streets, begging, stealing and eating at charity food trucks. When someone steals what little money he has, his violent response lands him in prison. But this in turn leads to a hostel place, a job, a period of sobriety. Just when it seems that Mike is getting his life back on track, a restorative justice session with his victim which is supposed to be healing and cathartic instead seems to upend him emotionally and undermine his progress. Will Mike manage to regain his equilibrium or spiral back into his old life?

Starring Frank Dillane, Diane Axford, Murat Erkek

Hull Independent Cinema: The Young Mothers Home

In a residential shelter for young mothers in Liege, Belgium, five young women grapple with the challenges of pregnancy and parenting, while at the same time dealing with the legacies of their own troubled backgrounds. Whether dealing with their own abusive parents, absentee fathers of their children, recovering from addiction, preparing for the birth of their first child, or getting ready to leave the shelter having succeeded in getting their life back on track, all these women are facing up to the challenges of being a young mother in this emotionally honest social-realist film marked by the Dardenne brothers’ typical no-frills approach.

Starring Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaina Halloy

Hull Independent Cinema: Paul & Paulette Take A Bath

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre.

Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. For Paul, the game is a way of getting closer to Paulette. For Paulette, it’s a way of escaping a painful break-up. As their road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.

Running Time: 1 hour 49 mins Language: English Genre: Comedy Content Warnings: TBC

Hull Independent Cinema: 2000 Meters to Andriivka

2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA is the second feature film from the Oscar®-winning team behind 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL — Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov, producer and editor Michelle Mizner and producer Raney Aronson-Rath.

In 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA, Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian soldiers — who they are, where they came from, and the impossible decisions they face in the trenches as they fight for every inch of land.

Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian platoon traversing through one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the small, Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. But as 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that, for them, this war may never end.

Weaving together intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam footage and powerful moments of reflection, Chernov captures the war in his own country from a personal and devastating vantage point. This new film documents a battle emblematic of the broader Russian-Ukraine war — the largest military operation in Europe since World War II — and presents a view of modern warfare reminiscent of battles fought nearly a century ago.

Running Time: 1 hour 46 mins Language: English Genre: Documentary Content Warnings: strong threat, violence, language, images of real dead bodies, flashing images

Hull Independent Cinema: Young Hearts

Elias is a 14-year-old boy living in rural Belgium. His grandad is a farmer nearby, his parents are comfortably off, and Elias lives a normal life, enjoying his first relationship with girlfriend Valerie. When Alex, a boy the same age, moves in next door, Elias is taken aback by how candid Alex is about being gay – and by how attractive he is. As the boys’ friendship develops into something more, they have to handle homophobic bullying at school while Valerie is left to deal with her feelings of rejection, the trials of young love affecting each of them in different ways.

Hull Independent Cinema: An Unfinished Film

Director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier. In January 2020, with the shoot almost complete, rumours regarding an illness begin to circulate. A hairdresser from Wuhan is sent home, while the crew follows the news on their phones.

The director has to decide whether to halt the filming once again. Some of the crew and actors manage to leave before the hotel is locked down by security guards and everyone left on set is confined to their hotel rooms. As all communication is reduced to phone screens, Wuhan is locked down. The crew continues to communicate via video calls, whilst the quarantined main actor Jiang Cheng struggles to
support his wife who is now locked-down with their month-old baby in Beijing.

This screening is part of Mint on Tour, a women-led Chinese cinema touring programme presented by the MINT Chinese Film Festival and funded by Film Hub North, bringing the best of Chinese film and women’s cinema from Asia across Northern England this Autumn.

Running Time: 1 hour 45 mins Language: Mandarin with English subtitles Genre: Docufiction Content Warnings: moderate threat, violence, upsetting scenes, sex reference, strong language, flashing images

This film screening includes descriptive captions, intended for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. They are also known as HOH (Hard of Hearing) subtitles or SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing).