National Theatre: Good (Encore Screening)

National Theatre: Good (Encore Screening)

Encore Screening of Good at Hull Truck.

David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

Filmed live at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.

National Theatre Live brings the best of British theatre to a cinema screen near you.

Whether you show up for serious drama, romcoms or sold-out award-winning hits, we bring you unmissable theatre, filmed live from Britain’s most exciting stages.

Hull Independent Cinema: TÁR

Hull Independent Cinema presents TÁR at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

Lydia Tár is a thriving modern composer-conductor, the first female conductor of a significant German orchestra.

Her career is at its height, but as she prepares for the first performance of a new symphony and the launch of her new book, an accusation of sexual misconduct and bullying sees her life start to unravel in a singularly modern way.

The result is a searing examination of power and its abuse in contemporary society, driven by an outstanding performance from Cate Blanchett.

Starring Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merland, Nina Hoss

Hull Independent Cinema: Women Talking

Hull Independent Cinema presents Women Talking at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

In an isolated religious community, women and girls have been left traumatised, injured and even killed by years of sexual abuse.

Community elders have explained the assaults away as the work of demons or “female hysteria”, but when one of the assailants is finally caught the women have a chance to decide their own future – do they stay and fight, or escape?

Sarah Polley’s Oscar-winning film is a finely balanced drama full of nuanced performances.

Starring France McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Ben Whishaw

Hull Independent Cinema: EO

Hull Independent Cinema presents EO at Hull Truck Godber Studio.

EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes and a curious spirit, begins his life as a circus performer before escaping on a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside.

During his travels, he encounters an eclectic cast of characters, including a countess, a young Italian priest and a riotous Polish football team.

EO’s journey speaks to the world around us, an equine hero boldly pointing out societal ills, and serving as warning to the dangers of neglect and inaction, all while on a quest for freedom.

Starring Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo

Hull Independent Cinema: Winnie-The-Pooh, Blood and Honey

Hull Independent Cinema presents Winnie-The-Pooh, Blood and Honey at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

The days of adventures and merriment have come to an end, as Christopher Robin, now a young man has left Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet to fend for themselves.

As time passes, feeling angry and abandoned, the two become feral. After getting a taste for blood, Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet set off to find a new food source. It’s not long before their bloody rampage begins.

An outrageous reimagining of what everyone’s favourite Hundred Acre Wood residents did next.

Starring Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Nikolai Leon

Hull Independent Cinema: Saint Omer

Hull Independent Cinema presents Saint Omer at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

Rama is a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young Senegalese student accused of abandoning her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to die.

Four months pregnant and with a Senegalese mother, Rama feels an increasing connection with Coly and plans to write a modern retelling of the Medea myth in response to the case. But as she learns more about Coly’s life, she finds her values being challenged and her feelings about her pregnancy undermined.

Starring Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville

Hull Independent Cinema: Joyland

Hull Independent Cinema presents Joyland at Hull Truck Godber Studio.

In the heart of the metropolitan yet conservative city of Lahore lives the Rana family, a lower middleclass joint family comprising of the old patriarch, the elder son and pregnant wife with three daughters, and the youngest son Haider and his wife Mumtaz.

As the Rana’s eagerly anticipate the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, Haider secretly takes up a job as a background dancer at an erotic theatre where he is drawn to an ambitious trans starlet, Biba.

Slowly yet suddenly, Haider and Biba are engulfed in a secret summer romance which surreptitiously takes over his home, unraveling the dichotomy between desire and morality for the entire Rana family.

Starring Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan

Hull Independent Cinema: Broker

Hull Independent Cinema presents Broker at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay

When So-young abandons her baby son at a church orphanage’s ‘Baby Box’, the boy is stolen by child ‘brokers’ Sang-hyun and Dong-soo, who bypass official adoption processes and sell abandoned babies to affluent couples. When So-young finds out what has happened, she tracks them down and joins forces with them to ensure they find the right couple.

A surprising, eccentric road movie that combines social realism and criminal amorality with charm, humanity and comedy.

Starring Lee Ji-eun, Gang Dong-win, Song kang-ho

Hull Independent Cinema: Holy Spider

Hull Independent Cinema presents Holy Spider at Vue Cinema – Princes Quay.

Family man Saeed has embarked upon a religious quest – to cleanse the holy Iranian city of Mashhad of immoral and corrupt prostitutes.

Journalist Rahimi is the first to spot that there is a connection between the women being found murdered, and defies uninterested colleagues and outright obstruction by the Police to investigate. Saeed’s frustration at a lack of public interest in his divine mission pushes him to increasingly desperate measures, and a showdown with the determined Rahimi.

Starring Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani

Hull Independent Cinema: Audience Choice Screening – Lost In Translation

YOU CHOSE AS THE AUDIENCE CHOICe:! Lost In Translation.

Bob, a lonely, ageing movie star, is filming an ad for a Japanese whiskey brand in Tokyo. Charlotte is a young, conflicted newlywed accompanying her photographer husband while he works on a new project. Strangers in a foreign land and with time to themselves, their paths cross in a hotel bar, and the two find escape, distraction and understanding in one another, forming an unlikely but meaningful bond.

Sofia Coppola’s writing and direction are a fine platform for the talents of Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray as the lonesome leads. Winner of the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, three Baftas, three Golden Globes and awards and prizes around the world, including the Best Foreign Film César.

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Giovanni Ribisi

This season the Audience Choice Screening at Vue Cinema, Princes Quay, will be a celebration of female filmmakers.

As usual, Hull Independent Cinema gather your suggestions and combine them with ideas to create a shortlist of great films, with the final choice of which one we screen being down to an audience vote.

Keep an eye on our social media channels or email newsletter for details of how to get involved.

Once we know what the film will be, tickets will cost the usual rates, but before the film is chosen, you can buy tickets at the special ‘Mystery Movie’ price of just £4 – or only £1 if you’re a HIC member!

Hull Independent Cinema: Close

Hull Independent Cinema presents Close at Vue Cinema, Princes Quay.

Léo and Rémi are thirteen, inseparable best friends for many years, closer than brothers. But when other children start to question and tease them about their closeness, Léo reacts with horror, and the bond between them is torn apart. Rémi’s mother Sophie tries to help, but as he struggles to understand what has happened, Rémi’s incomprehension erupts as rage, isolation and then something altogether more tragic.

A heartbreaking coming-of-age story with astonishing performances from the two young leads.

Starring Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne

Hull Independent Cinema: God’s Creatures

Hull Independent Cinema presents God’s Creatures at Hull Truck Godber Studio.

In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong.

A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.

Starring Paul Mescal, Emily Watson and Aisling Franciosi.

Hull Independent Cinema: Meet Me In The Bathroom

Hull Independent Cinema presents Meet Me In The Bathroom at Vue Cinema, Princes Quay.

An immersive archival journey through the explosive New York music scene of the early 2000s when a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth in the city that reverberated worldwide.

Set against the backdrop of 9/11 and a world unaware of the seismic political, technological and cultural shifts about to occur, this acclaimed documentary tells the story of the last great romantic age of rock ‘n’ roll through the prism of a handful of era-defining bands, including The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem and Interpol.

Starring Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Stokes, LED Soundsystem, Interpol, TV On The Radio, The Moldy Peaches, The Rapture, Liars

Hull Independent Cinema: Leonor Will Never Die

Hull Independent Cinema presents Leonor Will Never Die at Vue Cinema, Princes Quay.

Leonor Reyes was once a significant player in the Filipino film industry, but now she struggles to pay the bills. After seeing an advert looking for screenplays, Leonor has just begun tinkering with an unfinished script when a bizarre accident sends her into a coma and transports her inside the incomplete movie, giving her the power to discover the perfect ending to her story firsthand. A delightfully unique tribute to the transporting power of cinema which marks director/writer Martika Ramirez Escobar as a talent to watch.

Starring Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides

The Hull Independent Cinema: Suzume

Hull Independent Cinema presents Suzume at Vue Cinema, Princes Quay.

When 17-year-old Suzume finds a single weathered door standing upright amid mysterious ruins in her quiet home town, she opens it, only to find she has inadvertently opened a chain of similar doors all across Japan, unleashing unimaginable destruction.

Working with a mysterious man from the other side of the portals, she must discover an inner strength and close the doors once and for all. Anime master Makoto Shinkai’s new film is a gorgeous, epic masterpiece that will thrill anime fans and newcomers alike.