Critically acclaimed filmmaker Fatih Akin returns with IN THE FADE, a gripping, edge-of-your-seat contemporary thriller exploring the lengths one woman would go to seek retribution after a brutal terrorist attack. Inspired by shocking real-life events, the film tells the story of Katja, whose life is torn apart when her husband and young son are suddenly killed in a bomb attack. A police investigation points to a pair of young neo-Nazis as the key suspects, but when a lack of evidence fails to fully incriminate them, Katja is forced to take matters into her own hands and her hunt for justice begins to take increasingly dangerous and unexpected turns.
Winner of the Best Actress award at Cannes 2017, the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and featuring a career-defining central performance from Kruger, In the Fade is a timely and all-too-urgent drama about a woman pushed to the edge as she desperately searches for the answers she believes to be out there.
Starring Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar
Winner, Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language, Golden Globes 2018 Winner, Best Actress – Diane Krueger, Cannes Film Festival 2017
“It’s flawed but powerful, mostly down to a revelatory performance from Diane Kruger.” – Ian Freer, Empire Magazine
“Diane Kruger carries entire scenes of witness testimonies through looks and grimaces alone. It’s a masterclass.” – Kevin Maher, The Times
Steve is a warehouse worker by day, hip-hop artist by night. He represents a forgotten generation whose dreams haven’t been met. But Steve is also a deeply community-driven optimist, who has also been trying to find a way to bring creativity and culture to the disadvantaged kids of the city. Kids like he once was – kids whose opportunities to build a better life are restricted by the world around them. Music has been his dream for 30 years and he saw the opportunity in the City of Culture year to start a project: the ‘Beats Bus’, using a bus donated by his company and converted into a sound studio, allowing him to visit some of Hull’s poorest schools and give kids a voice through music training and performance – a chance he never had.
Additional dates now added
Friday 10 Aug, 7:30pm, Kardomah94
+ post-film Q&A with Sean McAllister and Steve Arnott, hosted by Lee Corner from Absolutely Cultured
Multiple August dates 7:30pm, Vue Cinema Hull
+ post-film Q&A with Sean McAllister and Steve Arnott
Monday 13 August
Tuesday 14 August
Wednesday 15 August
Monday 20 August
Wednesday 22 August
Thursday 23 August
Tuesday 28 August
Wednesday 29 August
A unique opportunity to work with film-maker and tech wizard, Sean Atkinson, to learn techniques and form an approach to promoting your creative practice online and in digital formats.
The day will begin with an introduction of the many ways media may be used to promote you and your work. Through talk and demonstration, Sean will bring several examples of tech, show effective ways of using them, and present some of the projects that he has worked on to support others in managing their profile through media and tech.
This will include some basic techniques of using your phone or tablet for film, editing and sound along with some of the particularities of spreading your material on social media and other digital outlets and the most effective apps and programmes.
You will then explore using the techniques etc with the support of Sea, with opportunity for questions and discussion throughout.
Have a wonderful Halloween at the City Hall in the company of Erik (The Phantom), who is once again up from the dungeons again!
In one of his most famous roles, Lon Chaney plays the Phantom, with a stellar cast of the silent screen to support him. Christine Daaé played by Mary Philbim, is the object of Erik’s obsession and he stops at nothing for her to succeed and for her to be his possession.
The love triangle is complete with Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny played by Norman Kerry, who is the true love of Christine.
The original story by Gaston Leroux is fantastic, with horror and suspense are the key elements to this film.
Donald MacKenzie, organist from London’s Odeon Leicester Square, will be at the console of the City Hall organ to provide the magical accompaniment to seamlessly move from one dramatic scene to the next and provide a special edge to the film’s nail biting experience.
Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives, but his will has one last joke – they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month.
Join the Culture:Orchestra for a whole evening of myth and magic, including music from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows, as well as The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and highlights from the box office smash, Wicked.
Paired with some of the best loved magical orchestral works; The Magic Flute Overture, The Moldau, In the Hall of the Mountain King and the Hansel and Gretel Overture, the Culture:Orchestra and their night of magic is one not to be missed.
Culture:Orchestra Magic! will take place on the following dates:
A double bill celebrating the Deaf community, as part of Deaf Awareness Week.
The Silent Child centres around a profoundly deaf four year old girl, who lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her the gift of communication. An insightful short story, inspired by real life events, which observes the avoidable struggles that deaf children face.
Power in Our Hands is a ground-breaking documentary – containing newly digitised archive footage available to the public for the first time – on the Deaf community’s fight for civil rights and principally, the right to be heard. Combining social history and archive film with contemporary interviews, Power in Our Hands explores the secret history and heritage of the Deaf community in the UK and gives people a glimpse into Deaf culture that is mostly hidden from the hearing world.
The evening will be fully inclusive for the deaf and those hard of hearing.
Join Engine Room Theatre for The Voyage, as it makes the step from stage to screen.
Recorded at Halifax Square Chapel, the film captures an intimate and magical performance from the company’s much celebrated 2016 tour.
The Voyage Screening is a “pay what you want” event.
1000 years ago, the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began!
The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile the orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal, which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.
The night also includes the free to enter The Big Movie Quiz! that starts up in the bar at 7.15pm.
Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, where he inadvertently disrupts his parents’ first meeting and attracts his mother’s romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents’ romance, and with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown return to 1985.
The night also includes the free to enter The Big Movie Quiz! that starts up in the bar at 7:15pm.
Dame Vivienne Westwood is the doyenne of British fashion, and one of the most influential originators in history. This film explores Vivienne Westwood’s uphill struggle to success, looking closely at her artistry, her activism and her cultural significance.
Blending iconic archive and newly shot observational footage, this story will be told in Vivienne’s own words, and through touching interviews with her inner circle of family, friends and collaborators.
15-year-old Charley arrives in Portland with his father Ray, both eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks.
Charley finds camaraderie at a local racetrack in an ageing quarter horse named Lean On Pete. The horse’s gruff owner Del and his seasoned jockey Bonnie help Charley fill the void of his father’s absence, until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take extreme measures to spare his new friend’s life.
They experience adventure and heartbreak, but never lose their irrepressible hope and resiliency as they pursue their dream of finding a place they can call home.
Mary & The Witch’s Flower combines an exhilarating tale with the unique richness, art and animation.
While spending the last weeks of summer with her Great-Aunt Charlotte in the countryside, Mary follows a mysterious cat into the nearby woods, where she stumbles upon a flower that has magical powers and transforms a little broomstick into one that flies.
Mary is whisked away, high above the clouds, and transported to Endor College – a school of magic!
François Ozon returns with L’Amant Double, a sleek erotic thriller that sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek.
Chloé falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul. When they decide to move in together, everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life.
As she searches for the truth, Chloé’s investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers – where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted.
A whirlwind of heightened senses and amped-up drama, L’Amant Double is filthy, flamboyant and a whole lot of fun.
Childhood friends Lily and Amanda reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart.
Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class teenager, with a fancy boarding school on her transcript and a coveted internship on her resume. Amanda has developed a sharp wit and her own particular attitude, becoming a social outcast.
Though they initially seem completely at odds, the pair bond over Lily’s contempt for her oppressive stepfather, and as their friendship grows, they begin to bring out one another’s most destructive tendencies.
Their ambitions lead them to hire a local hustler, taking matters into their own hands to set their lives straight.
Ben and Rose are children from two different eras, who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook.
When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerising symmetry.