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 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.

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.