Artist Petra Szemán presents a rare screening of Makoto Shinkai’s 2007 anime alongside a selection of their own video work. A Tyne Valley Film Festival screening at Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.

Petra Szemán is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. Using a virtual version of themself as a protagonist journeying through animatic realms, they explore liminal spaces and threshold situations, looking to dissect the ways our memories and selves are constructed within a landscape oversaturated with fiction (both on- and off-screen).

In 5 Centimetres per Second, director Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Weathering With You) tells the tale of two close friends separated by chance and reunited by determination. A journey into three interconnected tales of love and lost innocence that span the minutes and months of their lives.

Please note this screening takes place at Star and Shadow Cinema, please arrive to the venue in good time.

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Image from ‘About their Distance’, by Petra Szemán, 2023.

A Tyne Valley Film Festival screening. See our full programme here.

Hinter: An Apocalypse is a film rooted in the history, both recent and ancient, of the area surrounding Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, the northernmost county in England. Questioning the nature of enclosure and land ownership, the piece traces a common thread of self-destruction from the colonial project, stretching back to the Roman Empire, to the acts of ecological vandalism which take place on both large and small scales in the present day.

Seeking to encapsulate this quiet landscape that is at the same time a teeming repository of stories, violence, politics, and existential lessons, Hinter functions as both an elegy for an ancient tree and a protest against human rapaciousness and abuse of power.

A film by Matthew Burdis, written by Rachel Chanter, narrated by Claire Rodgerson (The Old Oak) with an original score by Barry Hyde (The Futureheads).

Tickets to this screening are just £3 or free when booked with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

From the team behind 'Finding Your Feet' and 'Fisherman's Friends' comes Mother's Pride, a story about the Harley family who after losing their matriarch, must come together to save their pub and village through the art of beer-brewing.

A Tyne Valley Film Festival screening. See our full programme here.

35 years ago, the ancient and idyllic local nature spot, The Sycamore Gap was forever immortalised in Hollywood frame. See it again on our big screen in this special screening of the adventure classic, that is followed by the new short film Hinter: An Apocalypse. A film rooted in the history, both recent and ancient, of the area surrounding Hadrian’s Wall.

Purchasing a ticket to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves entitles you to a free ticket to Hinter: An Apocalypse. Automatically applied at checkout when booked together.

Please note that Forum Cinema memberships are not valid across Tyne Valley Film Festival screenings.

This sweet and uplifting Irish road movie from filmmaker Michael Head packs in the laughs as it follows Dermot and Elvis, two music lovers who run a struggling record shop in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

Facing an unpaid rent bill and their vicious landlord Sadie (Derry Girls’ Tara Lynne O’Neill), who’s eager to get them out of her building, the pair stumble across a deal too good to be true: rare, vintage records of blues legend Robert Johnson for sale in Cork at a knock-down price. If they can make it to the other end of Ireland in time, then maybe they could get the rare vinyl, and save the shop.