Join us at The Forum for a mini season of Sci-Fi from Steven Spielberg in anticipation of his upcoming blockbuster, Disclosure Day.

Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick who had been working on the project for decades, A.I. is an extraordinarily spirited and profound masterwork offering awe-inspiring visuals with a complex character journey that 25 years later still feels like nothing else.

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Please note this screening is open to all but designed for those that might benefit from a more relaxed cinema environment, such as guests with dementia. See more on what to expect here.

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Black Bag, Oceans Trilogy), starring the legendary Ian Mckellen and award winning Michaela Coel, this black comedy explores the nature of fame, the responsibility of critics, the arrogance of genius and the danger of gatekeeping.

£5 for Friends of the Forum Members.

Get ready for Hexham’s annual Bluegrass and Americana festival with a special screening of the 1969 counter culture classic - Easy Rider featuring a live pre-film musical performance.

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

£5 for Friends of the Forum Members

Hexham Bluegrass and Americana festival runs July 24th-26th - keep up to date at https://www.bluegrassinhexham.uk/

Hexham Pride and Tyne Valley Film Festival presents a special screening of Derek Jarman's punk fantasia Jubilee!

Jarman’s provocative account of the punk movement is both prophetic and apocalyptic, channeling political dissent and artistic daring into a revolutionary blend of history and fantasy, musical and cinematic experimentation, satire and anger, fashion and philosophy.

Queen Elizabeth I and her occult aide Dr John Dee travel into the future, encountering the megalomania of big business, as well as gangs of violent, marauding killers.

All tickets £5 or free for Friends of the Forum Members.

Join us at The Forum for a mini season of Sci-Fi from Steven Spielberg in anticipation of his upcoming blockbuster, Disclosure Day.

Minority Report was the first collaboration between the legendary director and screen star Tom Cruise, based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

In the late-21st century where technology can predict crimes before they’re committed, top ‘precrime’ cop John Anderton believes his system is flawless. But once he finds himself targeted, accused of a future murder he must go on the run and uncover the true secrets behind the world changing technology he put so much faith in.

Part of UK Green Film Festival 2026. The UK’s annual environmental film festival.

Nine years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, filmmaker Claudia Neubern returns to the Rio Doce. Here, a mining dam containing toxic waste collapsed, releasing poisonous sludge into the river which flows 650 km to the Atlantic Ocean. Retracing the path of the catastrophe, the film meets those whose lives, land and livelihoods were permanently transformed. Amid lasting environmental damage, local communities remain resolute, yet still powerless against a mining company that continues to shirk responsibility.

MISSING RIO DOCE is a moving portrait of wounded landscapes and the resilience of those who continue to resist.

Free for Friends of the Forum Members!

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

Final runtime TBC.

Following on from 2012 documentary Keep on Burning - The Story of Northern Soul, this new film further explores the cultural phenomenon that is Northern Soul. Northern Soul: Still Burning charts how this movement has weaved and transformed itself musically and culturally through the decades. Northern Soul continues to re-invent itself more than any other music genre, remaining as vibrant and relevant today as when it first evolved.

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Black Bag, Oceans Trilogy), starring the legendary Ian Mckellen and award winning Michaela Coel, this black comedy explores the nature of fame, the responsibility of critics, the arrogance of genius and the danger of gatekeeping.

£5 for Friends of the Forum Members.

“McKellen and Coel (...) are a fascinating and perfect mismatch in energy.”

- Vulture

" Simple pleasures like these are why movies were created."

- Roger Ebert

After a brilliant sold out preview screening as part of our Tyne Valley Film Festival, we are pleased to bring back the breathtaking hiking drama, The North for a full run of shows.

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.