A Tyne Valley Film Festival Screening presented by Hexham Town Council at Hexham Community Centre. See our full programme here.

Set in the vast snow kingdom at the top of the world, Arctic Tale is a real-life adventure from the people who brought you March of the Penguins.

Narrated by Queen Latifa, we follow two very different arctic creatures, Nanu the polar bear cub and Seela the walrus pup. Armed only with their natural instincts and mothers’ guidance, these inspiring animals face countless trials and challenges in a beautiful icebound world that is rapidly melting beneath them.

Please note this screening takes place at Hexham Community Centre, please arrive at the venue in good time.

All tickets to this screening are just £3.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen in February so that you can enjoy both film and exhibition together. Discover unexpected sides to both artists with intimate views of sketchbooks and personal items and insights from leading experts.

Turner’s blazing sunsets and sublime scenes from his travels and Constable’s idealised depictions of beloved places from home whipped the public of the time into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Constable represents the very best of the old school of realism and pastoral nostalgia; Turner, an exciting new way of depicting emotion and dreamlike impressions. Critics compared their starkly different styles to a clash of ‘fire and water’. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time.

Running time TBC

After winning big at this years BAFTA awards we're giving you another chance to catch I Swear for just £6.

Inspired by the life of Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, charting his journey from a misunderstood teenager in 1980’s Britain to a present day advocate for the understanding and acceptance of Tourette Syndrome.

"An Unforgettable, Important Triumph."

★ ★ ★ ★★

- Filmhounds Magazine

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

In Fading Light is a feature drama set within the declining fishing industry of North Shields, written by local writer Tom Hadaway and produced by Amber Films in 1989. The film centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by the unexpected arrival of a young woman.

To authentically depict the community, Amber Films purchased and operated a 63-foot anchor seine netter, integrating themselves into the daily routines of the fishermen. Actors auditioning for roles found themselves at sea for days, gutting fish alongside seasoned fishermen. When the story required a storm sequence, cast, crew, and fishermen set sail into a force 9 gale, with tripods anchored to the deck.

The outcome is an authentic blend of drama and documentary of epic human proportions. A beautiful visual record of a once true time and place, and a vital lasting piece of independent British social-realist cinema.

Please note this screening takes place at Hexham Library, please arrive prior to the ticketed time.

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

This richly crafted, hand-drawn 2D animated adventure marks the first fully animated feature-length film in Looney Tunes history, told on a scope and scale that’s truly out of this world.

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck venture to the big screen as unlikely heroes and Earth’s only hope when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!) ... that is if they don’t drive each other totally looney in the process.

Anyone aged 25 or under can choose our £3 ticket option!

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

Midwinter Break is a stirring meditation on faith, commitment, and the enduring power of love, as a longtime couple takes a life-changing trip to Amsterdam.

Retired long-time couple Stella and Gerry (Academy Award® nominees Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds) travel from their home in Glasgow to Amsterdam for an impromptu holiday. Traversing the beautiful European city, they find themselves freed from the staid routines that have come to define their lives. But as the hours pass, Stella and Gerry realize that after decades together, their relationship has reached a crossroads. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Bernard MacLaverty, first-time feature director Polly Findlay crafts a powerful debut that poses important questions about the nature of faith and commitment, and the enduring power of love.

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 at Queens Hall Studio. See our full programme here.

Child poverty at 30%. Youth services cuts at 80%. The UK’s highest crime rate committed by 10–17-year-olds. The highest suicide rate in men aged under 45 in the UK. The stark realities of life in the council estates of Sunderland, North East England.

Steven France, community activist and mixed martial arts coach (MMA), haunted by the suicide of step-father Mickey, found MMA as his saviour from the trappings of these very estates. Determined to force change from within. His objective; to do the same with a group of troubled youngsters, each facing their own unique challenges. Be it battles with drugs, unemployment and poverty, the weight of terminal illness or the trials of immigration and having to abandon family, thousands of miles away.

‘Poised’ is a high stakes, human interest tale set over a year in the lives of Steven and the four youngsters, as they battle their demons in a search for hope and to not become yet another statistic blighted by their environment.

Filmmaker Toby Robson will join us for an in person post film Q&A.

Please note this screening takes place at Queens Hall, Studio. Please arrive to the venue in good time.

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

Based on a true story that’s stranger than fiction, James McAvoy’s directorial debut is the irresistible, feel-good underdog tale of Silibil N’ Brains, the Dundee rap duo, who determined to escape regional prejudice reinvent themselves as a self-confident pair of American MCs to achieve their dreams of hip-hop stardom.

In the early 2000’s, Dundee rappers Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd were talented, hungry, but dismissed for sounding "too Scottish" to make it in hip hop. So they hatched an audacious plan: fake American identities, re-record their tracks with Californian accents, and hustle their way into the heart of the UK music industry as “Silibil N’ Brains”—childhood friends of D12 and stars-in-the-making.

To their shock, the plan works. Record deals, media buzz, and gigs with hip hop legends follow. But as their deception deepens, the pressure mounts and cracks begin to show. How long can you live the dream when it’s built on a lie?

With bold humour, raw emotion, and a defiant spirit, CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’ is a love letter to outsiders, underdogs, and the pursuit of fame—but asks, at what cost.

This is a preview screening, meaning you get to watch this film before its general release!

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

A Tyne Valley Film Festival screening presented by Hexham Town Twinning Association. See our full programme here.

Keith Jarrett’s iconic January 1975 performance nearly never happened. Based on a true story, Koln 75 follows the young, driven concert promoter Vera Brandes as she conceived and organises the event against all odds.

From securing the venue and selling tickets to persuading Jarrett to perform when the promised Bosendofer Imperial Grand piano is missing, Vera’s determination is tested at every turn. The film reveals the compelling and little-known story behind Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised concert, which went to become the best-selling solo jazz album in history.

This is a preview screening, meaning you get to watch this film before its general release!

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

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

The best-reviewed film of the 2025 Berlinale, The Blue Trail is a transfixing late in life coming of age tale where the unfamiliar river bends to new routes of freedom.

In near future Brazil, elderly citizens are forced to relocate to remote retirement colonies to avoid hindering their offspring’s productivity. Having reached the fateful age, defiant Tereza instead embarks on an illegal but life-changing journey through the Amazon.

"A boisterous anti-ageism parable."

 - The Guardian

This is a preview screening, meaning you get to watch this film before its general release!

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

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

Having taken the same 350-mile walk in their youth, former best friends and roommates Chris and Lluis meet up after a decade to hike Scotland’s West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail. The pair hope to rekindle their once-strong friendship by spending 30 days together in the majestic, raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands.

Shot entirely on the route of the walk, and in chronological order, The North is a beautiful ode to friendship and the healing power of nature.  It’s not only a poignant and powerful drama, but also perhaps the definitive hiking film, allowing us to take in the stunning majesty of the Highlands shoulder-to-shoulder with Lluis and Chris as they reconnect with each other and with nature.

This is a preview screening, meaning you get to watch this film before its general release!

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

A Tyne Valley Film Festival screening presented by Hexham Book Festival. See our full programme here.

A sublime adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novella from multi-award winning writer/director François Ozon.

In 1930s Algeria, apathetic Frenchman Meursault shows total indifference to life. His emotional detachment leads to a murder, followed by a trial that scrutinizes both the crime and his character.

A gripping account of human absurdity elegantly captured in crisp black and white photography. Ozon has said: ‘‘The themes in the book could hardly be more topical: an emotionally absent hero detached from the world, confronting our mortality, the individual’s quest for meaning in an increasingly alienating world.”

This is a preview screening, meaning you get to watch this film before its general release!

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

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

We are pleased to present a curated selection of works from the illustrious career of South Shields animator Sheila Graber.

Creator of over 100 films, Graber has enjoyed a long career in animation - she’s even responsible for bringing Paddington Bear to our TV screens, animating for the 1980s TV series.

This showcase includes well known films such as Larn Yersel’ Geordie and My River Tyne, alongside lesser known gems.

Sheila will join us at the screening for an in person post film discussion, led by North East animator, Sheryl Jenkins.

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

Join us for a special screening of curated short films, all made by North East talent. This is a free screening but booking is still required.

Considered by most film critics as the last great comedy of the silent era, Buster Keaton’s The General celebrates its landmark 100 year anniversary in this Tyne Valley Film Festival screening, with all tickets just £3.

Taking inspiration from a real Civil War incident when Union soldiers hijacked a Confederate train, The General is silent comedian Buster Keaton’s most grandly conceived project.

See our full festival programme here.

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.