500 MILES is a spirited, life affirming road-movie, following runaways Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie, on a journey over land and sea to find their beloved and eccentric estranged Grandfather (played by BAFTA winner Bill Nighy) on Ireland’s stunning and wild West Coast.

On their 500-mile journey across land and sea, they must survive on their smarts, charm and the kindness of strangers – especially a free-spirited street musician, Kait, who is escaping troubles of her own.

£5 tickets for Friends of the Forum Members.

Part of UK Green Film Festival 2026. The UK’s annual environmental film festival.

In a world shaped by speed and excess, 90-year-old Agatha Bock’s off-grid life offers another path. Fiercely independent and alone on her ancestral farm in Canada, Agatha cultivates heirloom seeds, vegetables and flowers entirely by hand, preserving generations of ecological knowledge and sustainable practice. Without running water or modern technology, her daily rituals reflect a profound connection to land, seasonality and self-sufficiency.

Filmed over six years by an all-female crew on luminous 16mm, AGATHA’S ALMANAC immerses us in handmade textures, rural sounds and meditative processes; a quietly powerful window into a defiant way of living.

After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

£3 for 16-25 members.

“Debut from 20-year-old director examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew."

 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

-The Guardian

An original new event film created by Steven Spielberg. If you found out we weren’t alone—if someone showed you, proved it to you—would that frighten you?  

Returning to the sci-fi genre, Spielberg reunites with screenwriter David Koepp (previous collaborations include Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) for one of the most anticipated releases of the year.

This June, the truth belongs to seven billion people.  

Get ready for Hexham’s annual Bluegrass and Americana festival with a special screening of the 1969 counter culture classic - Easy Rider featuring a live pre-film musical performance.

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

£5 for Friends of the Forum Members

Hexham Bluegrass and Americana festival runs July 24th-26th - keep up to date at https://www.bluegrassinhexham.uk/

Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and MFA Houston 'Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon'. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show.

Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her face but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows and the floral crowns? Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the true story of her rebellious, passionate and turbulent life.

Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote to guide us, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art.

Created in close collaboration with world experts and those who knew her.

Additional new material from the curators of the groundbreaking new Tate Britain and MFA Houston exhibition.

Hexham Pride and Tyne Valley Film Festival presents a special screening of Derek Jarman's punk fantasia Jubilee!

Jarman’s provocative account of the punk movement is both prophetic and apocalyptic, channeling political dissent and artistic daring into a revolutionary blend of history and fantasy, musical and cinematic experimentation, satire and anger, fashion and philosophy.

Queen Elizabeth I and her occult aide Dr John Dee travel into the future, encountering the megalomania of big business, as well as gangs of violent, marauding killers.

All tickets £5 or free for Friends of the Forum Members.

Defiant, brilliant, and untamable, Leonora Carrington refused to live by anyone’s rules but her own.

In the charged atmosphere of 1930s Paris, she falls under the spell of the Surrealist movement—and into a passionate, volatile love affair with the German artist Max Ernst. Together, they create a world where art and life blur, surrounded by icons like André Breton and Salvador Dalí, and build an otherworldly refuge in the south of France filled with sculpted creatures and strange, living dreams. But as war engulfs Europe, their fantasy shatters, and Leonora is thrust into a nightmare of loss, madness, and survival.

Leonora in the Morning Light is the epic true story of a woman who turned trauma into transcendence, creating beauty from chaos and forging a legacy that changed the history of modern art.

Join us at The Forum for a mini season of Sci-Fi from Steven Spielberg in anticipation of his upcoming blockbuster, Disclosure Day.

Minority Report was the first collaboration between the legendary director and screen star Tom Cruise, based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

In the late-21st century where technology can predict crimes before they’re committed, top ‘precrime’ cop John Anderton believes his system is flawless. But once he finds himself targeted, accused of a future murder he must go on the run and uncover the true secrets behind the world changing technology he put so much faith in.

Part of UK Green Film Festival 2026. The UK’s annual environmental film festival.

Nine years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, filmmaker Claudia Neubern returns to the Rio Doce. Here, a mining dam containing toxic waste collapsed, releasing poisonous sludge into the river which flows 650 km to the Atlantic Ocean. Retracing the path of the catastrophe, the film meets those whose lives, land and livelihoods were permanently transformed. Amid lasting environmental damage, local communities remain resolute, yet still powerless against a mining company that continues to shirk responsibility.

MISSING RIO DOCE is a moving portrait of wounded landscapes and the resilience of those who continue to resist.

Free for Friends of the Forum Members!

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

Final runtime TBC.

A true cinematic treasure from maverick director Peter Bogdanovich screens this fathers day, with all tickets just £6!

A briskly entertaining and heartfelt odyssey where real-life father daughter duo, Ryan and Tatum O’Neal star as a pair of unlikely but natural-born hustlers. (Ten year old Tatum became the youngest-ever Oscar winner for her scene-stealing performance.)

Moses, the Bible-hawking con man finds himself saddled with the precocious, recently orphaned tomboy Addie - who may or may not be his daughter. The pair travel together across 1930s Dust Bowl America (captured in period-perfect detail), where soon Addie rivals her newfound father figure’s skill as a swindler.

Polite society has never been so Savage.

Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It’s not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

Starring Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy, this cautionary tale about desperation, greed and the absurd lengths people go to to get what they want, will surely make Savage a name you won’t forget.

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Black Bag, Oceans Trilogy), starring the legendary Ian Mckellen and award winning Michaela Coel, this black comedy explores the nature of fame, the responsibility of critics, the arrogance of genius and the danger of gatekeeping.

£5 for Friends of the Forum Members.

“McKellen and Coel (...) are a fascinating and perfect mismatch in energy.”

- Vulture

" Simple pleasures like these are why movies were created."

- Roger Ebert

If you’re searching for new adventure, “this is the way.”

The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin and his young apprentice Grogu.

£3 tickets for 16-25 members!

Every night a shepherd reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand. When he is found dead, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know how to go about solving it.

With an all star cast, this comedy mystery will have the whole family following clues as they learn that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.  

Everybody has one hidden talent.

A talented piano tuner’s life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking safes. Leo Woodall (One day, White Lotus, Nuremberg) and Dustin Hoffman star in this crime thriller about a man driven to corruption by circumstance and hidden demons.

“A beautifully constructed film, about beautifully constructed things,”

- Sight and Sound

“Leo Woodall demonstrates real movie star quality,”

- Time Out