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

In a world shaped by speed and excess, 90-year-old Agatha Bock’s off-grid life offers another path. Fiercely independent and alone on her ancestral farm in Canada, Agatha cultivates heirloom seeds, vegetables and flowers entirely by hand, preserving generations of ecological knowledge and sustainable practice. Without running water or modern technology, her daily rituals reflect a profound connection to land, seasonality and self-sufficiency.

Filmed over six years by an all-female crew on luminous 16mm, AGATHA’S ALMANAC immerses us in handmade textures, rural sounds and meditative processes; a quietly powerful window into a defiant way of living.

An original new event film created by Steven Spielberg. If you found out we weren’t alone—if someone showed you, proved it to you—would that frighten you?  

Returning to the sci-fi genre, Spielberg reunites with screenwriter David Koepp (previous collaborations include Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) for one of the most anticipated releases of the year.

This June, the truth belongs to seven billion people.  

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/

Why did the chicken cross the road? For a chance of freedom.

Told from the perspective of its avian protagonist, Hen follows a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

As she fights to protect her eggs, she becomes an unwitting witness to the complex human lives around her as the restaurant is caught up in greed, smuggling, and the migrant crisis.

Including a cast of eight hens taking turns playing the lead, all with their own set of very specific skills, Hen is a modern day Greek tragedy, starring a heroine who can only observe, concentrated solely on fufilling her life goal of starting a family.

“Delightfully witty (...) and positively alarming,” - Sight and Sound

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.

A true cinematic treasure from maverick director Peter Bogdanovich screens this fathers day, with all tickets just £6!

A briskly entertaining and heartfelt odyssey where real-life father daughter duo, Ryan and Tatum O’Neal star as a pair of unlikely but natural-born hustlers. (Ten year old Tatum became the youngest-ever Oscar winner for her scene-stealing performance.)

Moses, the Bible-hawking con man finds himself saddled with the precocious, recently orphaned tomboy Addie - who may or may not be his daughter. The pair travel together across 1930s Dust Bowl America (captured in period-perfect detail), where soon Addie rivals her newfound father figure’s skill as a swindler.

Polite society has never been so Savage.

Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It’s not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

Starring Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy, this cautionary tale about desperation, greed and the absurd lengths people go to to get what they want, will surely make Savage a name you won’t forget.

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

If you’re searching for new adventure, “this is the way.”

The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin and his young apprentice Grogu.

£3 tickets for 16-25 members!

Written by Arthur Miller, The Misfits is a touching and off-beat drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, co-starring Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider, both with bittersweet memories of a west that’s no longer wild.

Infused with the promises of what could have been if she had been given more time to explore her skills as a dramatic performer, Marilyn Monroe delivers one of her very best performances.

All tickets £6!

Every night a shepherd reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand. When he is found dead, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know how to go about solving it.

With an all star cast, this comedy mystery will have the whole family following clues as they learn that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.  

Everybody has one hidden talent.

A talented piano tuner’s life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking safes. Leo Woodall (One day, White Lotus, Nuremberg) and Dustin Hoffman star in this crime thriller about a man driven to corruption by circumstance and hidden demons.

“A beautifully constructed film, about beautifully constructed things,”

- Sight and Sound

“Leo Woodall demonstrates real movie star quality,”

- Time Out