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.

A timeless black comedy from Frank Capra and Cary Grant, Arsenic and Old Lace screens in St. Andrews cemetery chapel in this Tyne Valley Film Festival screening. See our full festival programme here.

This riotously funny farce is the story of two charming old aunts and their surprising hobby… killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

A marvellous meeting of the madcap and the macabre, this 1944 comedy finds humour in the most unexpected places and is sure to tickle a funny bone or two

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Please note this screening takes place at St Andrews cemetery chapel. Please arrive to the venue in good time.  

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

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.

Dominating this years BAFTA Awards with an immpressive six wins, we're giving you another chance to catch One Battle After Another for just £6!

Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, There Will Be Blood) has made perhaps the best film of the year and of his lustrous career with this epic oddball action-adventure, and incendiary political thriller - think Dr Strangelove meets the Big Lebowski.

Bob, (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a washed up revolutionary living in a state of constant paranoia with his teenage daughter, following the bust of his former comrades by Military Col. Lockjaw (an incredible Sean Penn, both terrifying and hilarious). With his cover blown and his daughter taken, Bob with the help of friends old and new enters the fight of his life to bring her home.

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

In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem. Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. Palestine's Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards.

Prior to Palestine 36 we are proud to present the short film Ana Dammi Falastini, made by North East arts collective, Zeytoun Arts. This official selection of the 2025 BFI Film Festival, delves into the life of a Palestinian in Newcastle. Separated from a culture and a way of life, this film captures the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity, offering hope, challenging narratives, and inspiring solidarity.

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

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

A whole decade before Get Carter would depict Tyneside’s gritty underworld to international acclaim, Payroll set the template with this overlooked Newcastle heist thriller.

The familiar winding streets and dramatic high and low levels of the city provide the perfect action setting as a vicious gang of crook’s plan to steal the wages of a local factory. When the factory unexpectedly employs an armoured van to carry the cash, the plan is botched and the men turn on each other in the ensuing fallout.

Prior to Payroll we are pleased to present Nails, a short action film made by Newcastle Film Club.

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.

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. See our full programme here.

In Rose of Nevada, a long-lost fishing boat mysteriously returns to the harbour of a forgotten Cornish village. George MacKay and Callum Turner play the newly enlisted men who climb aboard and set out to sea only to find they’ve slipped back in time; the villagers greet them as if they are the original lost crew.

Rose of Nevada is one-of-a-kind filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s hotly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow up to his BAFTA award winning first feature Bait (2019) and Enys Men (2022). Unique among British feature filmmakers for the analogue way in which he crafts his films, once again Jenkin is the writer, director, director of photography, editor, sound designer and score composer.

We’re pleased to be joined by local folk vocal group The Keelers, who will get us warmed up with some pre-film Sea Shanties.

“A Cornish modern classic. Eerie,heart-breaking, wonderful.”

 - Mark Kermode

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.

Tyne Valley Film Festival is pleased to present a 30 year anniversary screening of Baz Luhrmann’s iconic contemporary re-staging of Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet in Hexham’s historic and atmospheric Abbey.

A Cappella group Wildflowers will perform select songs prior to the film.

Against the urban backdrop of Verona Beach, California, the Montague and Capulet families are embroiled in a long-running feud.

Anyone aged 25 and under can select our £3 ticket option! See our full festival programme here.

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

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.

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

Widely believed to be the very first animated feature film, Lotte Reiniger’s astonishing 1926 adaptation of tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” uses striking silhouette cutouts and gorgeous colour tinting to bring to life the story of an Arabian prince who is whisked away on a flying horse to an enchanted land where he tangles with an evil sorcerer, rescues a princess, and joins forces with none other than Aladdin.

Painstakingly composed frame by frame by Reiniger over the course of three years, this landmark work is both an enchanting storybook saga and a retina-delighting triumph of visual imagination.

Celebrate the films 100-year anniversary with this special screening at The Forum Cinema. All tickets just £3.