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 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.

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.

Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...

Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) and Die Walküre (2025). Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars as Siegfried’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s treacherous Mime and Elisabet Strid’s radiant Brünnhilde. Antonio Pappano conducts, drawing out the unspoken tensions and ethereal mysticism of Wagner’s dynamic score.

New production, sung in German with subtitles.

This screening is presented by Hexham Churches Together.

Tickets are either £5 / £10, pay as you feel.

Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.

The aim of Hexham Churches Together is to work together to support each other and strengthen the unity of the Church in this town.

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.