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 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.

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.

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.