Jodie Foster is effortlessly commanding in her first French leading role as an ex-pat psychiatrist who mounts her own private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

Calling on genre masters like Alfred Hitchcock and Brian DePalma, director Rebecca Zlotowski infuses this charmingly elegant noir with flashes of darker comedy, delivering a playful mystery that's forever unravelling to unexpected places.

This year, Andre Rieu celebrates a spectacular milestone - the 20th anniversary of his iconic summer concerts on the magnificent Vrijthof square. Captured live in his beloved hometown, this brand-new cinema event marks two decades of music and unforgettable magical summer nights.

Viva Maastricht! is a joyful tribute to the city where it all began. Joined by his world-renowned Johann Strauss Orchestra and a vibrant ensemble of artists, Andre brings the spirit, culture, and warmth of his hometown to life in a dazzling new concert filled with emotion and wonder.

From timeless waltzes to soul-stirring classics, this landmark anniversary concert promises an evening of passion, joy and togetherness. Be part of this historic celebration as the Vrijthof once again transforms into a breathtaking open-air ballroom - only in cinemas this summer.

Set on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, Blue Heron follows eight‑year‑old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family as they attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy. Drawing on her own memories, filmmaker Sophy Romvari shapes a deeply personal portrait of childhood, family fractures, and the fragility of recollection.

“Sombre and sophisticated portrait of childhood trauma in 1990s Canada,” - The Guardian

The Cosmic Frequencies Festival returns to Hexham - A celebration of space science, UFOs + music in the dark skies capital of the UK.

Please note each film is externally ticketed - follow links below to book your seats.

11.00 – 12.30: Rendez Vous With The Future

Steve Crabtree will present the first episode of Rendez Vous With The Future, a three part documentary series he produced which explores the science behind the science fiction of writer Liu Cixin (author of the acclaimed book and Netflix series 3 Body Problem). While Steve’s series has won awards in China, this will be the first time UK audiences will see this fascinating insight into how science fact influences fiction. Followed by Q&A. Buy tickets £10

12.30 – 14.10: The UFOs of Soesterberg

In another UK premiere, Bram Roza will present his documentary The UFOs of Soesterberg. Roza is the founder of the Dutch UFO reporting center but also has an interest in historic cases. His film examines a remarkable case from 1979, when twelve soldiers encountered a mysterious object hover over Soesterberg Airforce Base – far from the only unusual sighting in this region of the Netherlands. Join us for the first ever Dutch documentary ever made about the UFO/UAP topic. English subtitled. Followed by Q&A. Buy tickets £10

The Cosmic Frequencies Festival returns to Hexham - A celebration of space science, UFOs + music in the dark skies capital of the UK.

Please note each talk is externally ticketed - follow links below to book your seats.

11.00 – 12.00: What is the Universe made of?

Join Durham University Professors Carlos Frenk and Philip Goff as they share different perspectives on the nature of the Universe. Carlos, a world renowned particle physicist and cosmologist, will provide an overview of current astronomical views about the origin and make-up of the Universe, what we still don’t know, and the implications of dark matter for life elsewhere. Philip is a philosopher who researches how consciousness fits in with our overall view of reality. He will explain the difference between the scientific method and ‘scientism’, and provide an overview of theories (such as panpsychism and cosmopsychism) that postulate consciousness precedes matter. Followed by Q&A. Buy tickets £10

12.00 – 1.00: Artists and Space

Join local artists Professor Fiona Crisp‍ and Luis Bernardo Guzmán (Northumbria University) as they talk about their work in space. Fiona will discuss  the difference between citizen-led space research and science/ corporate approaches, and why artists need to take a leading role. Luis will share how his work combines art, biotechnology, and space exploration, and discuss how and why the International Space Station commissioned some of this work. This session will be hosted by SETI Institute artist-in resident Daniela De Paulis. Followed by Q&A. Buy tickets £10

2.00 – 3.00: Cockpit Visions

Join Dr Bill Garrett (former pilot and cognitive neuroscientist) and Graeme Rendall (aviation historian and author of 20 books) discussing the science of how pilots see and the history of strange lights in the skies. Bill will explain the basics of how the brain interprets visual information, and the technologies contemporary pilots use to help them identify what is in the sky around them.   Graeme will be looking at UFO reports from WW11 (including one from Northumberland in 1944) even before the term was invented, and what analysis was carried out by air intelligence experts. Followed by Q&A. Buy tickets £10

3.00 – 4.00: Close Encounters

Join Ryan Sprague (American author, media presenter and UFO podcaster) and Holly Wood (a leading voice for UK people who have had UFO encounters) discuss their work. Ryan will  focus on the different ways ordinary people interpret contact with ‘non-human intelligence’. Holly will discuss the Nanu app and platform (Network Advancing New Understandings), a global digital space dedicated to documenting anomalous experiences, and provide an overview of the diversity of the UK experience. Followed by Q&A. Buy tickets £10

The Cosmic Frequencies Festival returns to Hexham - A celebration of space science, UFOs + music in the dark skies capital of the UK.

19:00 - 22:00: Are we alone in the Universe?

An immersive evening of talks interwoven with music by SKX Funkanauts. Astronomer Dan Pye, astrophysicist Beatriz Villarroel, UFOlogist Ryan Sprague, and TV & film producer Steve Crabtree will take the story forward from last year, joined by SETI Institute artist in residence Daniela De Paulis. Buy tickets £25/£23.

22.00 – 22.30: VIP Meet & Greet in the Forum bar.

A chance to meet and chat with the evening’s speakers in an intimate setting. Very limited numbers (25).  Buy tickets £20

After his Oscar-winning portrait of Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan moves from the atomic to the mythic with his long-awaited ambitious adaptation of Homer's foundational saga. With a starry cast led by Matt Damon and a strenuous shoot across the world, The Odyssey promises an immersive big screen experience to defy the Gods.

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.

Leisa Gwenllian gives a remarkable performance in this ferocious Welsh-language film adaptation of the one-woman play Iphigenia in Splott, transforming the doomed Iphigenia of Greek tragedy into a working-class Welsh woman surviving in the slate quarry town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, a forgotten corner of Snowdonia.

Effi is a young woman desperate to escape a town where the pubs are closed, the jobs have vanished and her grandmother works night shifts in the local chip shop just to get by. A chance encounter in a Llandudno nightclub with injured soldier Lee briefly opens a door to something better. For a moment, Effi glimpses a life she never imagined. The reality that follows is far tougher.

£5 for Friends of the Forum members! £3 for 16-25 members!

This Oscar-winning interdimensional comic adventure starring Michelle Yeoh delighted audiences all over the world with its exciting blend of action, technical bravado and inventive storytelling.

A Chinese immigrant gets unwillingly embroiled in an epic adventure where she must connect different versions of herself in the parallel universe to stop someone who intends to harm the multiverse.

Our 16-25 members can enjoy this big screen spectacle for free!

Join us for an encore screening of Exhibition on Screen’s David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts, as we celebrate and remember the life and work of who is widely considered to be Britain's most popular artist.

David Hockney's work is a global sensation with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and beyond, attracting millions of visitors worldwide. Featuring intimate and in-depth interviews with Hockney, this revealing film focuses on two blockbuster exhibitions held in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Director Phil Grabsky secured privileged access to craft this cinematic celebration of a 21st century master of creativity.

“A Master in Sharp Focus.”

- The Guardian

Extend your GlastonAbbey weekend with the only film that puts you inside the real Glastonbury.

The year is 1993. The BBC cameras haven’t arrived yet. A hundred thousand people are in a Somerset field, completely unobserved, completely themselves.

Shot in Panavision CinemaScope, Glastonbury The Movie captured the real festival, not the headline acts, but the stone circle at sunrise, the rave tents, the wandering poets, The Verve at their very first festival appearance. No voiceover. No presenter. Just Glastonbury, as it was. Now rebuilt in 4K for the big screen, thirty years on.

The 3rd edition of GlastonAbbey takes place Friday 31st July and Saturday 1st August. See more at their website!

On the night of the screening the first 55 guests to arrive will receive an exclusive Glastonbury gift! Our bar will be open prior to the film so get down early.

“You won’t get a more accurate feel for what Glastonbury is... the soundtrack is superb.”

— ★★★★ NME

This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.

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 new film from the National Emergency Briefing - a public information initiative to ensure the UK is fully briefed on the climate and nature crisis.

Last November, ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed an invited audience of over 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media. The briefing set out the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security and the economy. The People’s Emergency Briefing presents the national implications of climate and nature breakdown - along with credible, positive responses - in a single, accessible account.

A new film featuring Chris Packham, leading scientists, a former general and Jennifer Saunders - all being far too frank about where things are heading and what can be done about it.

The film will be followed by a discussion led by members of Hexham’s Climate Cafe, learn what you can do at a local level.

Tickets are pay as you feel, if you’d like to claim a free ticket and avoid the online processing fee book via our cinema box office.

Psalms of the people or Sailm nan Daoine invites audiences along on an intimate and heartfelt road trip which explores one of the most emotionally resonant and culturally significant musical traditions: Gaelic psalm singing.

Musician Rob MacNeacail embarks on a journey through Scotland and Ireland, following ancient paths that unravel threads of music and ideas. The pilgrimage brings up many questions in Rob’s mind about identity, culture and community as he immerses the audience in a new perspective through his music and portable sound recorder.

Rob also composes the soundtrack to the film, incorporating melodies, field recordings and musical encounters he makes along the way. The combination of harmonium, whistle, guitar and synthesised drones give the music a futuristic tone, whilst being steeped in tradition. A recording of a supermarket freezer in Broadford becomes the soundscape for a futuristic rendition of the Ossianic Ballad, Duan na Ceàrdaich.

Spoken part in English, part in Gaelic, the film approaches psalm singing not as an artefact or historical curiosity, but as something communal and fiercely alive.

We are pleased to be joined by Rob MacNeacail and filmmaker Jack Archer for a post-film Q&A before audiences are invited to participate themselves in the collective power of psalm singing with an introductory workshop led by Rob himself.

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

“Two couples, played by Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, connect and collide in a movie that keeps you laughing and never stops surprising.”

- Variety

£3 for 16-25 Members! £5 for Friends of the Forum Members!

A crowd-pleasing comedy full of eccentric characters, stories and adventures. Carlobianchi and Doriano, two broke, rogue-ish fifty somethings with a ‘never skip the last drink’ philosophy, meet Giulio, a shy architecture student adrift in life. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains - where bad advice, hangovers, and unexpected friendship redraw Guilio’s plans for life and love.

A humorous, intriguing, and devious tale about identity.

After serving fifteen years in prison, bank robber Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is determined to recover the stolen money his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) buried years earlier. There’s just one problem: Manfred, caught in an identity crisis and convinced he is John Lennon, can no longer remember where it is hidden. The brothers set off on an increasingly chaotic hunt for the missing fortune, digging up old family secrets on the way.

“A darkly comic, anarchic, supremely odd film…The Last Viking is one of the year’s most original and unpredictable films.”

- Filmhounds

After his Oscar-winning portrait of Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan moves from the atomic to the mythic with his long-awaited ambitious adaptation of Homer's foundational saga. With a starry cast led by Matt Damon and a strenuous shoot across the world, The Odyssey promises an immersive big screen experience to defy the Gods.

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.

Back by popular demand, don't miss this crowd-pleasing comedy at your local cinema.

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.  

Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time and water.

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs, and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.      

The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they go head to head with this all-new threat to playtime.

Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel and filmed in the North-East, Night & Day is an un-romantic comedy about the passionate astronomer, Katharine Hilbery who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage.

Fun and contemporary in tone, this refreshing film showcases an ensemble of humorous performances against the ravishing backdrop of London in 1910, advances in science and technology and crumbling Edwardian patriarchy.

“dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars”

★ ★ ★ ★ - The Guardian

In 1985, WHAM! made history as the first Western pop act to perform in communist China. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou were a cultural milestone - East meets West, music meets politics.

Now, newly restored footage reveals the untold story of the iconic tour that helped launch WHAM! to global superstardom.