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Scalarama 2017 // It’s happening again

Wharf Chambers Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Hi everyone! This September, Scalarama will return to Leeds, which means that anyone, anywhere can be a cinema. There are no restrictions to who can take part and there's no cost to being involved. It's a great opportunity to put on that film screening you've been thinking about, but didn't know how! We organise the […]

Reel Stories

Museum of Liverpool Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, United Kingdom

#reelstories Reel Stories is a special exhibition of more than 40 original film posters and memorabilia celebrating Liverpool’s starring role in films from the past 60 years. Liverpool is a filmmaker’s dream. It’s a city of storytellers and performers, writers and entertainers, musicians and poets. From those first flickering pioneering days of cinema, filmmakers have […]

Free

Scalarama: I Want To Be A Cinema (GSFF17)

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Scalarama is the UK’s biggest alternative film season, celebrating cinema every September. Come along to this special session at Glasgow Short Film Festival to find out more about the season's opportunities and how to put on a screening as part of the Glasgow regional group. The event will feature an introduction to Scalarama, an overview […]

I Want to be a Cinema Workshop (Scalarama 2017)

The Drawbridge Pub Bristol, United Kingdom

Scalarama festival is coming back to Bristol in September and we thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce you to the festival as well as reminding previous contributors of how it all works in the I Want to be a Cinema Workshop! The I Want to be a Cinema Workshop is geared towards […]

Scalarama Starter Session

Alcampo Lounge 84-86 London Road, Brighton, United Kingdom

Scalarama, the annual DIY film programme-O-thon aimed at filling the land with cinemas, is back again this September ! We're having our first initial and informal meeting of the year at Alcampo Lounge, more of a relaxed get together / drop-in than a serious meeting, and generally for anyone who has an interest in Scalarama […]

Stirling meet-up // I want to be a cinema + Scalarama

Curly Coo Bar 51 Barnton Street, Stirling, United Kingdom

Have you been thinking of putting on a film screening? Do you want to show a film you love, or know a space you think would be great for movies? Would you like to nurture a more vibrant, more diverse film culture where you live? This informal meet-up is a chance to connect with other […]

April Meet-Up + drinks #Scalarama2017

The Christmas Steps Pub 2 Christmas Steps, Bristol BS1 5BS, Bristol, United Kingdom

Scalarama Film Festival is coming back to Bristol! A DIY celebration of cinema taking place every September, for everyone, by everyone. A great opportunity to get involved with local repertory cinema with support from Scalarama - put on a screening, write about movies, help with promotion and more. Scalarama is open to everyone, no restrictions, […]

Scalarama Glasgow April Meet-up

The Old Hairdressers 20 - 28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual DIY celebration of Cinema, for everyone, by everyone, everywhere, every September. Love films? Would you like to nurture a more vibrant, more diverse film culture in Glasgow? Whether you already organise film screenings (or want to), programme a cinema/festival/venue or have no idea at all where to start - come along […]

I want to be a cinema – Friday night social and screening!

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual festival of independent cinema that takes place for the whole month of September. People from across the city come together to put all kinds of films on in venues of all shapes and sizes. Would you like to know more? Come along to one of our meetings and get involved! This […]

Scalarama Edinburgh meet up

The Banshee Labyrinth 29 - 35 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Scalarama is a month-long celebration of cinema that takes place in cinema and non-cinema venues each September across the UK. Would you like to nurture a more vibrant, more diverse film culture in Edinburgh? Whether you already organise film screenings (or would like to!), programme a cinema/festival/venue, or have absolutely no idea where to start […]

Scalarama Stirling – May meet-up

Following from our "I Want to be a Cinema" meetup in March, this is an open meeting to share updates on any ideas for film screenings and events, or to come up with new ideas. The focus is on Scalarama film festival (September) which is an opportunity to collaborate and share a platform for your […]

Scalarama Glasgow May Meet-up

Kinning Park Complex 43 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual DIY celebration of cinema, for everyone, by everyone, everywhere, every September. Love films? Would you like to nurture a more vibrant, more diverse film culture in Glasgow? Whether you already organise film screenings (or want to), programme a cinema/festival/venue or have no idea at all where to start - come along […]

Scalarama Nottingham Think-in

Broadway Cinema 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

This year, the volunteers behind Scalarama Nottingham want to create our most ambitious Scalarama Film Festival ever. To achieve this, we need you! To be as varied and inclusive as possible, we need as many of you as possible to become a meaningful part of both planning and creating this year's festival. So if you've […]

Informal Scalarama Leeds catch-up!

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

This will be a drop in session for people who want to keep in touch, have a drink and a chat, maybe to update the rest of the group on their plans. We have no agenda or talks this time, but Leeds co-ordinators Laura and Alice will be there for a couple of hours between […]

Scalarama Edinburgh meeting #2

Royal Dick Bar at Summerhall Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

So this is the creepiest picture I managed to find of the venue we are having our next meeting at:) You will have to enter Summerhall, proudly march right past the reception to the back door, find yourselves in the courtyard and see this beauty in front of you. It will be the room that's […]

Bristol: June Meet-Up + Drinks #Scalarama2017

The Christmas Steps Pub 2 Christmas Steps, Bristol BS1 5BS, Bristol, United Kingdom

Hey film friends, Join us for a meet-up to chat all things Scalarama! At this meeting we’ll be talking about the shared programme and how to get involved. You can tell us your ideas or how your event is going and any support you might need. Scalarama Film Festival is a DIY celebration of cinema […]

Scalarama Stirling – June meeting

Macrobert Arts Centre University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

A meeting for those interested in screening films in Stirling - during Scalarama season in September, and beyond. All welcome - even if you've not come to previous meetings. ---- September is approaching and with it our Scalarama plans are getting a sense of urgency! Let's get together and see where we're at and how […]

Planning meeting #3

Brudenell Social Club 33 Queens Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

Scalarama is coming! Throughout the month of September there will be screenings taking place across the galaxy organised for just one goal: maximum participation in this glorious collective dream that we call cinema. Events arranged by July 10th can be included in the national Scalarama newspaper. Let's get our heads together to plan our regional […]

Scalarama Glasgow June Meet-Up

Grosvenor Cafe 24 Ashton Lane, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual DIY celebration of cinema, for everyone, by everyone, everywhere, every September. Love films? Would you like to nurture a more vibrant, more diverse film culture in Glasgow? Whether you already organise film screenings (or want to), programme a cinema/festival/venue or have no idea at all where to start - come along […]

Scalarama Edinburgh ’17 meeting #3

Royal Dick Bar at Summerhall Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dudes and dudettes, we are having the #3rd one coming! Feels like those wheels are now in motion and nothing can stop this cart of randomest movies rolling down on Edinburgh full force this September! So let's gather and celebrate and talk further action. I did my best and emphasized 68 times how important it […]

I WANT TO BE A CINEMA DIY WORKSHOP

International Slavery Museum 3rd Floor, Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Our first ever DIY workshop I WANT TO BE A CINEMA @ Scalarama Liverpool. f you’ve always dreamed of owning a cinema or fancy your hand at showing films to others – but don’t know where to start – you’ve come to the right place.! The workshop will give you a deep insight in how […]

Scalarama Brighton and Beyond meeting

ONCA Gallery 14 St George's Place, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom

A meeting to discuss the Scalarama launch event in August at ONCA Gallery, plus marketing, distribution, flyer and other details that still need covering ahead of September.

Free

Scalarama Launch Party!

ONCA ONCA, 14 St George's Place, Brighton, United Kingdom

Join us for the launch party of Scalarama Film Festival! Live DJ set & Refreshments from Bluebird Tea Co., Barefoot Wine & Bubbly & Higgidy. Scalarama is a month of film running throughout September. 30 days in which cinemas across the world celebrate watching motion pictures together; where cities, towns and villages are transformed with […]

Scalarama Glasgow 2017 Programme Launch

Matchbox Cineclub 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Matchbox Cineclub host the launch of Scalarama Glasgow's 2017 programme, with a preview of the full September season and a special surprise screening. Scalarama is an annual DIY celebration of cinema, in venues all across the UK and beyond through the whole month of September. In 2016, Glasgow exhibitors screened cult films, documentaries, shorts, concert […]

Jobriath A.D + live music // Scalarama Leeds 2017 programme launch

Left Bank Leeds Cardigan Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Jobriath A.D. // Scalarama Leeds programme launch The film Jobriath A.D (2012) is Kieran Turner's fascinating documentary about 70s glam rock musician Jobriath. Jobraith is considered to be "the first openly gay rock star" and was dubbed "the American Bowie". He was also, tragically, one of the first rock stars to die of AIDS. He […]

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Scalarama Liverpool 2017 Programme Launch

The Baltic Social 27 Parliament St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Celebrating our 3rd year as part of one of the most exciting cinema DIY festival on earth #Scalarama, we have organised an exciting launch film programme where everyone is invited! No etiquette, no ticket, no nada.. only your presence is needed. Embrace the Scalarama spirit in one of the most upbeat bars in town, the Baltic […]

Scalarama Edinburgh OPENING Party!

Our home at Summerhall this year will be open to all scalaroamers to come together and celebrate the start of this beautiful month of September, full of hand-picked exciting cinema to hide from the rain in! Come round to the Royal Dick Bar, chin chin some extravagant cocktails and locally brewed beer with us, meet […]

Free

Programme Launch Drinks/Celebration! #Scalarama2017

The Christmas Steps Pub 2 Christmas Steps, Bristol BS1 5BS, Bristol, United Kingdom

With September upon us, so is Scalarama! Join us at this meet up to learn all about the films, exhibitors and events taking place in Scalrama Bristol 2017. They'll also be plenty of beautiful printed programmes for you to pick up and start distributing as well! So come join us for a few drinks, invite […]

Free

Lost Highway (35mm)

Kicking off Scalarama Brighton and Beyond in true Scalarama style is a late-night screening of David Lynch's surreal psychological thriller Lost Highway. This noir-influenced spine-chiller follows a jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) who, after a bizarre encounter at a party, is framed for the murder of his wife (Patricia Arquette). In prison, the man inexplicably transforms into a […]

£8.60 – £11.60

Scalarama Opening Party with Short Film Showreel

Blend Coffee Shop Avenue C, Sneinton, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual celebration of independent film screenings, film clubs, plus weird and wonderful DIY cinema nights. It takes place nationally (and internationally) every year throughout September. With homages to the midnight B-movies of Scala Cinema's heydey to cult, classic, contemporary, international and local films, you'll find it all during Scalarama. Join us for […]

Kaliman in the Sinister World of Humanon

Hold Fast 50 Newton Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

Kaliman in the Sinister World of Humanon (Kaliman en el Siniestro Mundo de Humanon Mexico 1976 Director: Alberto Mariscal Cast: Jeff Cooper, Milton Rodriguez, Lenka Erdo, Manuel Bravo Spanish with English sub-titles. For our first Scalarama screening this month, we present a trash classic to melt your brain! The Incredible Kaliman lands in Rio de […]

VIDEO BACCHANAL

Nice N Sleazy 421 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The ‘90s in cinema were an amazing nightmare. A sugar-syrup throb of VHS scanlines, dire fast food tie-ins and probably the weirdest time in Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. Come join the Video Namaste boys in a wee trip through the weird videoshop hellscape of 90s cinema and all the amazing stuff that orbited it. Have a […]

SELMA

Dr Martin Luther King Jr Building At the entrance to Albert Dock, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Selma tells the amazing story of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights and his historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. This screening will include a display of civil rights objects from the International Slavery Museum's collection along with the chance to make your own Martin Luther King badge and view rare Black […]

Free

Blue Gate Crossing & Hebei. Taipei

50 George Square University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Blue Gate Crossing (2002) “Should you give your first kiss to the boy who likes you or the girl you like?” MENG Ker-Rou and LIN Yue-Zhen are high school friends who can talk to each other about everything and anything. On the school grounds one early summer, Yue-Zhen  develops a crush on the charming ZHANG […]

£4

Death Watch

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Death Watch (1980) follows the story of Katherine Mortenhue (Romy Schneider) who gets famous for having an incurable disease in a future where death from illness has become extremely unusual. Journalist Roddy (Harvey Keitel) has a camera implanted in his eye which transmits what he sees so it can be relayed back to the television […]

£6

EatFilm presents Batman Returns

Sloans The Argyll Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

On a snowy Christmas night, Tucker and Esther Cobblepot throw their deformed infant child Oswald into Gotham River, fearing he would become a menace to society after attacking their pet cat. His basket floats to an abandoned zoo and is found by a flock of penguins who raise him as one of their own. 33 […]

£7.50

STUDENT CREATIVE FAYRE

SAE Institute Uk Georgia House, 38 Pall Mall, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Scalarama Liverpool is participating in the Student Creative Fayre  a promotional platform for local services and businesses, celebrating the creative industries and some great local independents in Liverpool. The event will include talks on a a variety of interests: anything from local support services, lifestyle information, to student discounts. SAE Institute is one of the world’s […]

Free

The Love Witch

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Following on from her feature debut Diva, Anna Biller directed, wrote, produced, scored and created all of the sets and costumes for her next film, The Love Witch. As that title suggests, Elaine (Samantha Robinson) is a witch who uses magic potions and spells to make men fall madly in love with her, and usually […]

£6 – £10

A New Leaf

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Based on Jack Ritchie’s short story The Green Heart and directed by the great Elaine May, A New Leaf stars Walter Matthau as Henry, a once-rich bachelor who has spent his entire inheritance. Desperate to marry into further financial support, he meets Henrietta (May), a shy, awkward, though independently wealthy botany professor. What follows is […]

£6 – £10

THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN

HUS 12 Tithebarn St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Director : Karel Zeman // Year : 1962// Nationality : Czech Republic (In Czech with subtitles) When Tony the astronaut lands on the moon, the last thing he expects to find there is Baron Munchausen enjoying a glass of wine. Our fantastic voyage with this odd couple combines animation and live action in a dazzlingly […]

£5
Event Series Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes + Director Q&A

Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes + Director Q&A

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

OXIDE GHOSTS: THE BRASS EYE TAPES (Michael Cumming, 2017) Made from hundreds of hours of unseen material from his personal archive, director Michael Cumming’s film shares insights into the process of making the legendary TV series Brass Eye. Michael directed both the pilots and the series and, over a two-year period, witnessed the highs and […]

£8
Event Series Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes + Director Q&A

Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes + Director Q&A

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

OXIDE GHOSTS: THE BRASS EYE TAPES (Michael Cumming, 2017) Made from hundreds of hours of unseen material from his personal archive, director Michael Cumming’s film shares insights into the process of making the legendary TV series Brass Eye. Michael directed both the pilots and the series and, over a two-year period, witnessed the highs and […]

£8

Document Film Festival 2017 Programme Launch + Screening

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Be the first to get your hands on the Document 2017 brochure at our official programme launch. Featuring highlights from this year’s programme and a screening of Justin Schein’s controversial documentary Left on Purpose. "A bonfire of documentary ethics", Left on Purpose collides radical politics, mental illness, addiction and the ageing process. Ultimately, it exposes […]

EatFilm presents Big Daddy

Sloans The Argyll Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Immature 32-year-old bachelor slacker Sonny Koufax lives in New York City and refuses to take on adult responsibility. Despite having a law degree, he refuses to take the bar exam, works one day a week as a toll booth attendant and lives off a sizeable legal settlement from a minor accident. His girlfriend, Vanessa, threatens to […]

£7.50

Cowards Bend The Knee with Live Score by Ela Orleans

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Matchbox Cineclub present Guy Maddin's Cowards Bend The Knee, with brand-new live score written and performed by Ela Orleans, plus Q&A with journalist Brian Beadie. Guy Maddin is one of the most distinctive and idiosyncratic directors currently working. The Canadian auteur has mined and subverted the imagery and style of late silent and early sound cinema […]

£10

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

A documentary on the music and career of the influential musician Scott Walker. Scott Walker first became famous in the 1960s, as lead singer of the pop trio The Walker Brothers. The film follows his musical and personal journey into his later career as solo artist, avant garde composer and more recently, record producer. Artists he has […]

£5 – £6

Metropolis + Dmytro Morykit live

Scalarama Brighton and Beyond, Brighton Digital Festival, and the Duke of York’s Picturehouse are proud to celebrate the Duke’s 107th birthday with this unique screening of Metropolis, with a live piano accompaniment from Scottish-based musician Dmytro Morykit. Written by Thea Von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang, Metropolis is a German silent expressionist film regarded […]

£10.50

Dreamwork’s Home

Merseyside Maritime Museum Albert Dock, Liverpool, United Kingdom

When Oh (Jim Parsons), a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip (Rihanna) who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand […]

Free

Bees Make Honey present Pan’s Labyrinth

Nottingham Writers' Studio 25 Hockley, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Bees Make Honey are proud to present a one-off screening of Pan's Labyrinth from the visionary director, Guillermo Del Toro.  The film will be screened in the basement of Nottingham Writers' Studio. There will be a dark fairytale theme to the evening with work by local artists and themed drinks to celebrate this strange and […]

MERSEYSIDE POLONIA PRESENTS : THE CRUISE (REJS)

Merseyside Polonia 5 Covent Garden, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Merseyside Polonia presents : The Cruise ( Rejs) regarded as Polish cinema's first 'cult' film..

£2 – £3

EatFilm presents Superbad

Sloans The Argyll Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

High-school seniors Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) have high hopes for a graduation party: The co-dependent teens plan to score booze and babes so they can become part of the in-crowd, but separation anxiety and two bored police officers (Bill Hader, Seth Rogen) complicate the pair's self-proclaimed mission. Macaroni Cheese, chilli beef nachos […]

£7.50

Do the Right Thing

Wharf Chambers Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The event is the launch of Leeds Cineforum, previously The Arts PGR Film Club.   Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film by Spike Lee. The Oscar nominated film centers around the racial tension in a Brooklyn neighbourhood, bubbling just beneath the surface, which finally explodes on the hottest day of the […]

£3

DIFFERENT TRAINS 1947

In September 2016, Steve Reich performed #DifferentTrains in front of a sold out crowd at Edge Hill Station. Boiler Room were there on this special evening to capture this event and we're delighted, for the first time, to share their film of Steve Reich's performance with the London Contemporary Orchestra.

£22

Video Namaste presents: Johnny Mnemonic screened on Laserdisc

Flying Duck 142 Renfield Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

As part of Glasgow Scalarama: Plug your Windows 95 OS into your neck port and wait a week for it to start up. Jump through the 0's and slide down the 1's in a multifarious network of gunfights and cybertravel as Video Namaste screen turbo-cool JOHNNY MNEMONIC in full futuristic and absolutely not out-dated LASERDISC. […]

Scalarama Edinburgh CLOSING Party!

Back at our cosy Summerhall lair and pleasantly tired after 6 months worth of preparation, we will be bringing Scalarama Edinburgh '17 to its grand finale – you must be there to celebrate with us! It will be your chance to pour out all the compliments to our curators, optionally paired with some bits of useful observations […]

Free

Song of the Sea

Merseyside Maritime Museum Albert Dock, Liverpool, United Kingdom

This beautifull hand drawn animation follows the story of ten year old Ben who lives with his father Conor, a lighthouse keeper, and his young sister Saoirse. Their mother has disapeared and Ben has a resentful relationship with Saorise who is mute. Unknown to all of them Saorise is a selkie like her mother, who […]

Free

Celtic Animation Film Festival

81 Renshaw 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool, Merseyside

first festival-in-a-festival, the Celtic Animation Film Festival showcases animated films from those submitted to this year’s inaugural competition. As part of Liverpool Irish Film Festival

£5.80

Letter to Brezhnev

Museum of Liverpool Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Free screening at Liverpool Museum of Liverpool - Global theatre, ground floor

Free

Atmosphere | A Zed & Two Noughts

Alt-w LAB City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Peter Greenaway's visually stunning 1985 film was the first with his "most important collaborator" cinematographer Sacha Vierny. A story of twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce who, after losing their wives in a freak car collision with a swan outside the zoo where they work, develop a curious attachment to the car's driver Alba, who […]

£10

Jingle Bell Rocks!

Jingle Bell Rocks! ...searching for the Soul of Christmas Music. A festive film event in conjunction with The Culture Vultures & Scalarama Leeds. 5.00pm - 6.00pm Before the screening, join us at the Hyde Park Picture House as local authors Clare Fisher & Chris Nickson present some of their favourite Christmas stories.   6.00pm - […]

£5.50 – £8.00

Scalarama Leeds 2018 organising meeting #1

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

What is Scalarama anyway? Come along and ask us this and many other important questions as we embark on the path to our next festival of pop-up cinema and rep programmes around the city in September 2018! All welcome, no need to RSVP. Just look (or ask) for Laura and Alice in the bar at […]

Scalarama Glasgow 2018 February Meet-up

Saramago 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Want to run a film festival? Now you can! Join us to plan for Scalarama 2018, taking place again all through September this year. This meeting, we'll look at what needs doing and who wants to do what - and hear everyone's ideas + plans. Open to all and all are welcome - if you […]

FIRST MEETING SCALARAMA 2018

The Brink 21 Parr St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

FIRST SCALARAMA LIVERPOOL MEETING OF 2018- 186 DAYS  TO  #SCALARAM

Scalarama Leeds meeting: who wants to be a cinema?

Baines Wing Seminar Room (3.06) University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual festival of independent cinema that takes place for the whole month of September. People from across the city come together to put all kinds of films on in venues of all shapes and sizes. Would you like to know more? Come along to one of our meetings and get involved! All […]

Scalarama Glasgow: How To Run A Film Festival

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Scalarama is a DIY celebration of cinema that takes place every September while championing alternative film culture all year round. Inspired by the eclectic programming of the legendary Scala Cinema, since 2011, groups and individuals who have a passion for movies have united to celebrate and encourage watching films together. Join a mix of local […]

Scalarama Leeds June planning meeting

Join us for the next Scalarama Leeds planning meeting at Outlaws Yacht Club. Scalarama's celebration of cinema is fast approaching, less than 100 days away! It's time to get your screenings confirmed and start filling up our calender with some amazing film events! 

DIY WORKSHOP Chce byc kinem/I want to be a cinema

Merseyside Polonia 5 Covent Garden, Liverpool, United Kingdom

If you’ve always dreamed of owning a cinema or fancy your hand at showing films to others – but don’t know where to start – you’ve come to the right place.

Scalarama Sussex 2018 Launch Night

ONCA Gallery 14 St George's Place, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom

What is Scalarama? A month of film: 30 days in which cinemas across the world celebrate watching motion pictures together; where cities, towns and villages are transformed with screenings popping up in unexpected places; and where classic, rare or locally made films get an annual showing impotenzastop.it/. Since 2011, every September, cinemas, film clubs and […]

John Waters’ Polyester in Odorama! | Scalarama Scotland 2018 Launch

The Seamore Community Cinema 304 Maryhill Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Join us for the launch of the Scalarama Scotland 2018 programme, and a rare screening of John Waters' Polyester (1981) as it was intended - in original scratch 'n' sniff Odorama! Meet Francine Fishpaw, tortured suburban housewife. With a pornographer husband, a pregnant teenage daughter, and a son with a foot-stomping fetish, Francine smells trouble […]

Free

Feel Scala : Scalarama Liverpool 2018 Programme Launch

The Baltic Social 27 Parliament St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

We are up for cinema partying in Liverpool !  Join us in THE launch  of Scalarama Liverpool  2018 programme where everyone is invited and you can not missed! No etiquette, no ticket, no nada.. only your presence is needed. Embrace the Scalarama spirit in one of the most upbeat bars in town, The Baltic Social, be […]

PRINCE – PURPLE CELEBRATION

Toxteth TV 37-45 Windsor St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Prince Purple Rain on our big VHS cinema screen
With karaoke and Prince soundtrack in our VideOdyssey arcade

£8 – £10

Scalarama Leeds 1968 Opening Night Party!

The Brudenell Social Club 33 Queen's Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

Why 1968? 1968 was a year that practically ripped up American culture - Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated within days of each other, Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist and Star Trek shocked the world with American television's first interracial kiss. Young men forcibly recruited for the Vietnam war burned […]

FREE

Flicker+Pulse

Chapel FM Arts Centre Old Seacroft Chapel, York Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

Come and see an amazing time-lapse film of a beautiful English walled garden and then join us for home-grown food and drink on the Chapel FM allotment. Using real-time and time-lapse footage, the film explores the relationship between the seasons and the plants and people who work within the walls of the garden. Locked into […]

Pay-What-You-Can

You Were Never Really Here

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

From the director of Ratcatcher and We Need To Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here is the brutal and defiantly masterful new film by uncompromising British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, and stars an ever-excellent Joaquin Phenoix as a damaged Gulf War veteran and former FBI agent turned assassin for hire, tasked with rescuing a […]

£6 – £10

Eat Film presents Castaway

Sloans The Argyll Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Obsessively punctual FedEx executive Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is en route to an assignment in Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive […]

£7.5

Jeune Femme

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

France’s answer to Fleabag sees Laetitia Dosch explode onto the screen as Paula in Léonor Serraille’s debut film Jeune Femme, a live-wire comedy and an excessive exercise in humour and urgency which explores modern life’s everyday misfortunes. Back in Paris after a long absence and finding the key to her boyfriend’s apartment no longer works, Paula […]

£6 – £10

Films We Love: Urok/The Lesson

Liniclate Isle of Benbecula, United Kingdom

In The Lesson, school teacher Nadezhda (Margita Gosheva) struggles against the odds to keep her home, her family and her integrity intact. An act of theft in her classroom is just the beginning of an escalating series of challenges, as Nadezhda faces financial precarity at home that sees her seek ever more risky solutions. The ethical […]

£3 – £5

La Pointe Courte

“I felt I needed to invent my cinema. With La Pointe Courte, I just jumped in, in the most radical fashion.” Anticipating the style and attitude of the French New Wave by a number of years, Agnès Varda’s directorial debut remains as fresh and as original as the day it was made. La Pointe Courte […]

£5 – £7

Bristol Bad Film Club presents… SAMURAI COP – Malvern

Malvern Theatre Grange Rd, Malvern, United Kingdom

Bristol Bad Film Club is going on the road… and we’re bringing Samurai Cop to Malvern!  Imagine a low-budget version of Lethal Weapon where Mel Gibson spends most of his time being racist to the Japanese, attempts to sleep with anything that moves and walks around in his pants a lot. That’s Samurai Cop, but there is […]

£9

Joe Dante’s The Movie Orgy

The Old Hairdressers 20 - 28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Movie Orgy (Joe Dante, 1968) 280 minutes A mind-bending predecessor to the modern mash-up, The Movie Orgy is also the Rosetta Stone for Joe Dante’s oeuvre and a must-experience for movie fans and cinephiles alike. Before The ‘Burbs, before Gremlins, before The Howling, before he started his career cutting trailers for Roger Corman, director […]

Free

Hands On Activity : African myths and legends

International Slavery Museum 3rd Floor, Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Discover amazing African folk tales and mythology and create your own beautiful artwork to take home.   Family Friendly Event. Free drop-in event, no need to book

Cléo from 5 to 7

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Shot in Paris during the height of the Sixties, Varda’s second film Cléo from 5 to 7 tells the story of Cléo, a pop singer who passes her time drifting through different locations and conversations while awaiting the results of a vital and potentially life-changing medical examination. A forerunner to the French New Wave, Cléo from […]

£6 – £10

The Gleaners and I

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

During the dawn of the digital age in the late 1990s and early 2000s, The Gleaners and Iemerged as one of the first true masterpieces to evolve from the new and (at the time) relatively unexplored format. Taken from the old pastime of gleaning (collecting leftover crops from fields after they have been harvested), Varda’s […]

£6 – £10

One Sings, The Other Doesn’t

“I’ve had friends who’ve been very important in my life. In L’Une chante, l’autre pas I’ve told their story as if it were a novel.” After a hiatus from making feature films to focus on having a family, Varda’s return to filmmaking was largely inspired by her involvement in the French Women’s Movement of the 1970s, which […]

£5 – £7

Bristol Bad Film Club presents… SAMURAI COP – Bath

Komedia 22-23 Westgate St, Bath, United Kingdom

Bristol Bad Film Club is going on the road… and we’re bringing Samurai Cop to Bath!  Imagine a low-budget version of Lethal Weapon where Mel Gibson spends most of his time being racist to the Japanese, attempts to sleep with anything that moves and walks around in his pants a lot. That’s Samurai Cop, but there is […]

£8

Black Panthers (1968) + Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975

Black-E 1 Great George Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Scalarama Liverpool marks 50 years since 1968 to see what impact that revolutionary year had on the world and what can we learn from the past to deal with the current state of affairs. We'll be launching the BLACK POWER strand of this programme with an event at the Black-E looking at the legacy of […]

£4 – £5

Eat Film presents Happy Gilmore

Sloans The Argyll Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

All Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) has ever wanted is to be a professional hockey player. But he soon discovers he may actually have a talent for playing an entirely different sport: golf. When his grandmother (Frances Bay) learns she is about to lose her home, Happy joins a golf tournament to try and win enough […]

£7.5

STUDENT CREATIVE FAIR

SAE Institute Uk Georgia House, 38 Pall Mall, Liverpool, United Kingdom

For the second year  in a Scalarama Liverpool is participating in the Student Creative Fayre

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Dinner and a movie

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

A Dinner & Cinema experience at the Little Reliance Cinema! FILM STARTS AT 7:30PM WITH DINNER FROM 6PM TICKETS ARE  £13    AVAILABLE FROM THE BAR OR OVER THE PHONE. 0113 295 6060

£13

Secret Cinema Scalarama Special

Inkwell Arts 31 Potternewton Lane, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, United Kingdom

The Secret Cinema has been one of Inkwell Art’s huge success stories and has been running for over six years bringing communities together using the magic of cinema and the power of good wholesome food. We are hosting a special evening offering a unique cinema and dining experience in our warm friendly gallery space in […]

£10

Mortido

Mortido is a short film by Miska Morning, it explores childhood imagination and memories in a tale of mourning a loss of a father, set somewhere between dark horror and a bittersweet fairy tale.

£5

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Memory Matinees

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

A free screening of the 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Set in the 1850s, Adam goes into town seeking a wife to run the household. He finds Milly, a waitress, and persudes her to come home with him to his ranch in Oregon. There, she discovers that Adam and his six brothers, […]

FREE

FILM UP NORTH SEASON : BRASSED OFF

Warrington Borough Council 26-30 Horsemarket Street, United Kingdom

CineWire and Warrington Borough Council team up to present Brassed Off  as part of the season "Film Up North " a season of great British films with local and regional connections.

£5 – £7

FREAKY FRIDAY – FRIDAY THE 13TH ( PART 3)

Toxteth TV 37-45 Windsor St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The nights are still blessedly light - but in darkened rooms, the longer nights can stink of fright.

£8 – £10

Radio Atlas: The Double + experimental silent shorts

Chapel FM Arts Centre Old Seacroft Chapel, York Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

On a dark night, in a small Danish town, Thomas Andersen has a violent encounter with his double. A screening with a difference - Radio Atlas brings you incredible subtitled audio in languages other than English. The story of two young men who lived in Viborg, a small town in Denmark, both with the same […]

Pay-What-You-Can

The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union

The Old Fire Station Gipton Approach, Leeds, United Kingdom

Filmed to commemorate its centenary this year, this new documentary film traces the history of the Fire Brigades Union since its inception at the end of the First World War, and the contribution the union has made over ten decades to improve public and firefighter safety through its campaigning work. It is being screened in […]

£2

The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union

The Old Fire Station Gipton Approach, Leeds, United Kingdom

Filmed to commemorate its centenary this year, this new documentary film traces the history of the Fire Brigades Union since its inception at the end of the First World War, and the contribution the union has made over ten decades to improve public and firefighter safety through its campaigning work. It is being screened in […]

£2

Night of the Living Dead

The Little Theatre 17 Vale Road, Rhyl, United Kingdom

Part of the Wicked Wales Youth Film Festival George Romero's debut feature was not the first zombie film, but it may be the best. This story of strangers battling an invasion of the undead defined and drove the genre. Its intensity still thrills, while the unknown cast, led by Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea, carry […]

£3

O!PLA – “Oh! Polish Animation”

Merseyside Polonia 5 Covent Garden, Liverpool, United Kingdom

O!PLA - "Oh! Polish Animation" returns back to Liverpool in an new brand edition brought by Big Cinema Adventure and Merseyside Polonia

Films We Love: Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Port Ellen Isle of Islay, United Kingdom

In the film that introduced the world to Jacques Tati’s memorable creation, the affable yet clumsy M Hulot takes his vacation, encountering all the delights and curiosities of a sunny seaside town. Whilst there he meets all sorts of people, from the hotel proprietor, to guests playing tennis, restaurant staff and children, who all come […]

£3 – £5

Off the Beaten Path

For many of us from the first moment we enjoy the freedom that comes with riding a bike another thought occurs – where can I explore ? where will this bike take me ?  As riders have ventured further bikes have evolved to carry them on their journeys. “Off the Beaten Path” is an adventure cycling film celebrating […]

£6

Eatfilm presents Moulin Rouge

Sloans The Argyll Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

The year is 1899 and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come […]

£7.5

Single Takes

Brighton based film collective, Octopus Films, presents 12 short film monologues covering the full range of human experience. Funny, mysterious, surreal, tragic and heartwarming - just like life. Octopus Films are a Brighton based short film collective made of up of professional filmmakers, keen enthusiasts and students. We have been working together since 2015 and […]

£3 – £5

Show + Tell

What’s the best film you’ve never heard of? Show + Tell invites guests to play a trailer and tell us something strange about a film they love, or love to hate. Physical Impossibility’s Show + Tell is a confessional, a soapbox, a chance for our guests to spread the word or clear their consciences. Come […]

Free

Me Before You: The Piss Take

Ever wanted to talk back to the film Me Before You, abelism and 'cripping up'!? Now is your chance! Presented in partnership with Fabrica, The Other Screen invites you to our most interactive live cinema event yet. In the style of midnight movies and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, each audience member will be given a […]

Free – £8

Deliver Us

A short Horror shot in Brighton about a woman who gets stuck in a lift with a weirdo lift attendant, later she realises who he is! Doors open at 7, film at 7.30pm

£5

LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL

MAKE. NORTH DOCK Unit 1, 34 Regent St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Luc Besson and Jean Reno at there best and Natalie Portman's wonderful in her debu

The Battle of Algiers

Fresh Perspectives and Fabrica present the Battle of Algiers as part of Uprising: the Spirit of '68. More info to follow Doors from 7pm, feature starts at 7:30pm

Crumb at The Little Reliance Cinema | Thought Bubble festival

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

A special Scalarama + Thought Bubble screening of the 1994 documentary Crumb by Terry Zwigoff. The master of the misfit film, Zwigoff creates a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of America's most iconic, innovative and prolific underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb. Crumb's notorious career began in 1968 with the publication of the first issue of Zap comix […]

£5

Young Adventurers Cinema : The Florida Project

Liverpool Central Library William Brown Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Florida Project follows Moone a mischevious young girl and her friends as they explore the world around them, living in a motel near Disneyland.

£4 – £5

BILL MURRAY’S BIRTHDAY – LIFE LESSONS

Toxteth TV 37-45 Windsor St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Bill Murray's birthday - Life Lessons learned from comedy icon Bill Murray
Discussion in the VideOdyssey video shop followed by screening of Quick Change in our VHS cinema

£8 – £10

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

The Art Station 42 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

To echo the restoration of Yellow Submarine (1968) earlier this June, there is more of The Beatles coming to Edinburgh this September! A Hard Day's Night (1964) to start with on Friday 21st: to see where it all began, to get ourselves into the pure black and white mischief and celebrate life! The Beatles in their feature […]

£5

Grease (40th Anniversary!)

Seaford Community Cinema Barn Theatre, Saxon Lane, Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Yes, community cinema is Staying Alive, and we’re going back to 1959 California with the fantastic and ground-breaking musical drama Grease. Directed by Randal Kleiser this 1978 film starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It tells the story of Danny and Sandy who fall in love at the beach, only to find themselves very much […]

£5 – £6

Women Over 50 Film Festival 2018

As #MeToo and #TimesUp shine a light on the film industry's dark side, Women Over 50 Film Festival fights back with short films that amuse, astound and agitate, celebrating the work of older women on both sides of the camera. WOFFF18 presents 2 feature films, over 50 short films, an all-female panel event and a […]

£4 – £8

Across The Universe (2007)

The Art Station 42 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

To echo the restoration of Yellow Submarine (1968) earlier this June, there is more of The Beatles coming to Edinburgh in September! Curious Cat | Cinema Club is making its opening party with Across the Universe (2007) – a magical mystery party you won't wanna miss!  Featuring 33 Beatles compositions, Across the Universe  is one of the most polarising musicals ever […]

£5

The Passion of Joan of Arc (35mm) + Live Score from Heliopause and This Ship Argo

Marking the 108th anniversary of the Duke of York’s and the 90th anniversary of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s powerful masterwork The Passion of Joan of Arc, Scalarama and the Duke’s are presenting this seminal silent film from a rare 35mm print with a new and original live score performed by Heliopause and This Ship Argo. This […]

£12.20 – £14.20

Women Over 50 Film Festival 2018

As #MeToo and #TimesUp shine a light on the film industry's dark side, Women Over 50 Film Festival fights back with short films that amuse, astound and agitate, celebrating the work of older women on both sides of the camera. WOFFF18 presents 2 feature films, over 50 short films, an all-female panel event and a […]

£4 – £8

Food for Real Autumn: Taking Root

Squash 112-114 Windsor Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Squash's seasonal events return with their Autumn edition, taking place at their new headquarters on 112-114 Windsor Street, L8 including films, workshops and of course lovely food! Taking Root Lisa Merton, Alan Dater, USA, 2008, 81 minutes Discover the story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into […]

Pay what you feel

Films We Love: Cleo from 5 to 7

Brodick Isle of Arran, United Kingdom

Cleo, a singer living in Paris, awaits the test results of a biopsy – she meets friends, makes friends, wanders the city and attempts to deal with the limbo-like state of waiting. Writer/Director Agnès Varda vividly captures the atmosphere of Paris in the 1960s, unfolding the narrative in real time to create a nimble, spirited […]

£3 – £5

Video Bacchanal: HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, QUIZ ME

The Old Hairdressers 20 - 28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Yes, that’s correct, fellow freeks! It’s the second annual channel hopping, toenail popping, scanline worshipping Video Namaste Bacchanal!! Last year’s was a dive into the weird cinema world of the 90’s, this year we’re turning ourselves into a pseudo quiz show multimedia cinema-paraphenalia hellparty!! 1st Prize is a signed Hawk from the set of Hudson […]

Free

POSTPONED: Sin Bin of the City & Whose Streets?

Kuumba Imani Millenium Centre 4 Princes Road, Liverpool, United Kingdom

EVENT POSTPONED Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we will be postponing this event - we will look to reschedule this for mid-late October. Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused. -------------------------------------------------- Scalarama Liverpool, a month-long film season across Merseyside, marks 50 years since 1968 to see what impact that revolutionary year had on the world […]

£4 – £5

Women’s Animation From Near And Far

This 90-minute programme, presented by Leeds Animation Workshop, will include the premiere of a new short film made at the Workshop, as well as a couple of old and new favourites from the local women’s collective, set up 40 years ago.  Also showing: a selection of films by women animators from the UK, and around the […]

£5.50 – £7.80

Eatfilm presents Clueless

Sloans The Argyll Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover. When Tai becomes more […]

£7.5

The Bromley Boys + Q&A with Brenock O’Connor

Cinema Saltdean St Nicholas Hall, Saltdean Vale, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom

1970: England is preparing for the defence of the World Cup. Bromley FC had seen better days: playing and crowd support are embarrassingly poor. David, nevertheless, is a big fan; he longs to be in the inner sanctum of his beloved club. Teams opposing Bromley lose count of the number of goals conceded. Gambler-Manager McQueen […]

£5.50

Scala Cinema Book Launch Party

Scala Music Venue Kings Cross London, United Kingdom

It was the legendary cinema that banned Shane McGowan for his exploits during an All-Nighter, fought the ‘Video Nasties’ bill and was prosecuted for showing A Clockwork Orange… 25 years later the Scala Cinema is back for one night only to launch a new book featuring the complete collection of its iconic monthly programmes from […]

La Belle et la Bête

More beautiful than ever in a new 4K digital restoration, Jean Cocteau’s spellbinding, sensuous and poetic masterpiece was recently described by Guillermo del Toro as ‘the most perfect cinematic fable ever told’. A hapless merchant, lost in a dark forest, seeks refuge in the castle of a hideous monster who threatens to kill him unless […]

£4 – £8

Images of Apartheid + Q&A

Kinning Park Complex 43 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (Calum Waddell, 2018) Matchbox Cineclub and Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival present the untold story of the B Movies that flourished under the brutal regime of race-segregation and political persecution. From the maker of 42nd Street Memories and American Grindhouse, Images of Apartheid uncovers the […]

Free

Creature Feature! Godzilla 1985

Toxteth TV 37-45 Windsor St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Join VideOdyssey as we press play on our VCR and head on a voyage to desolate Tokyo in 1956. Laid to ruins by the rampaging Godzilla.

£8 – £10

Open Mic Night: Scalarama Special

Chapel FM Arts Centre Old Seacroft Chapel, York Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

For one month only in September we are teaming up with the Scalarama film festival in Leeds and are asking people to out a bit of a film-twist on their performances—film music, dialogue, comedy…that kind of thing. And yes we can screen short films too…have fun! “What a brilliant, brilliant place to perform in.” In […]

Donations welcome

Little Adventurers Cinema Club Workshop

Frederiks 32 Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

An exciting and fun creative workshop for children. Sign up to run a cinema from the inside: make posters, trailers, props and more

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

This was one of the sensations of 2017, and was the closing film of the Leeds International Film Festival. It also won the Oakwood Cinema ‘audience choice’ vote earlier this year! Three Billboards is an unusual film; it deals with murder, revenge, grief and loss, as well as police violence and racism, but it is […]

£4 – £5

Suffragette

Merseyside Maritime Museum Albert Dock, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Inspired by the true story of the women who inspired the world, Suffragette tells the inspirational story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who risked everything in the fight for equality.

Leeds Palestinian Film Festival: Film + Food Fundraiser

Woodhouse Community Centre 197 Woodhouse Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds Palestinian Film Festival Fundraiser We need to raise funds for this year's Film Festival in order to pay for some great films and travel expenses for speakers coming from other places. Please come and support us! Along with a tasty Middle eastern buffet we'll be showing one of our favourite Palestinian films, The Wanted […]

£10

Films We Love: Things to Come

Lochgilphead , United Kingdom

In Things to Come Isabelle Huppert plays Nathalie, a philosophy professor navigating life in middle-age with a graceful defiance. Throughout Hansen-Løve’s absorbing film she faces a series of trying experiences including an unwell mother (screen legend Edith Scob), political protests, marital infidelity and career compromises. Nathalie’s is a compelling and authentically told story, as we […]

£3 – £5

Free Shorts Screening + Pre-Festival Party w/ emerging DJs!

Nice N Sleazy 421 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

World of Film Festival presents a FREE film screening of current international short films followed by music from emerging DJs. The DJs playing after the screening are emerging DJs living in Glasgow. We want to give those artists a chance to play their sets after our screening so people can hang out and chat or […]

Free

Rosemary’s Baby

The original 1968 classic as part of the Scalarama Season. Joining the Scalarama season during September with a season of cult and iconic movies. This year focusing on the Spirit of 1968. A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, […]

£6 – £7

Bristol Bad Film Club presents… SAMURAI COP – Oxford

The Ultimate Picture Palace Jeune St, Cowley Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

Bristol Bad Film Club is going on the road… and we’re bringing Samurai Cop to Oxford!  Imagine a low-budget version of Lethal Weapon where Mel Gibson spends most of his time being racist to the Japanese, attempts to sleep with anything that moves and walks around in his pants a lot. That’s Samurai Cop, but there is […]

£8 – £9.50

Celtic Animation Film Festival

Returning for the second year, the Celtic Animation Film Festival celebrates and encourages new and emerging Celtic and international animators to forge an ongoing global community to share practice, tell stories and reflect on Celtic culture and concerns.

£5

Scalarama Liverpool 2019 First Meeting

Toxteth TV 37-45 Windsor St, Liverpool, United Kingdom

this will be the first of three planning meeting of Liverpool's Scalarama 2019. Andy has kindly let us have it at Videoddysey which (if you don't know) is pretty close to the Anglican in Toxteth.

Free

Scalarama Liverpool 2019: I Want to be a Cinema

We are gearing up for our September celebration of cinema and we have already had some excellent ideas for film screenings. Don't worry if you didn't come to the first meeting, as there is still plenty of time to submit events. Our I Want to be a Cinema workshop should provide you with all the […]

Free

Sing-along SAW | Scalarama Scotland programme launch

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Dare you sing SAW? Witness James Wan's horror classic spliced with live drag performances inspired by its goriest scenes, all to celebrate the launch of Scalarama's 2019 programme! Matchbox Cineclub and Pity Party Film Club present SAW as you've never seen it before - ripped to shreds and reassembled, as local drag terrorisers slice up […]

Free – £12

Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records at Brudenell Social Club

Brudenell Social Club 33 Queens Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

Scalarama Leeds Programme launch at the Brudenell Social Club The first screening in Leeds of a brand new doumentary that traces the history of the world's most iconic ska, reggae and rock-steady record label, Trojan Records. Trojan Records started in Jamaica in 1968 with Duke Reid’s Trojan Sound System. Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records […]

£5.50 – £7

Scalarama Merseyside 2019 Launch!

Welcome one and all to the Scalarama Merseyside launch for 2019! We’ve got so many amazing film events on this September so let’s celebrate all our hard work and all the exciting screenings to come. To warm us up we will have a screening of short films from the Aesthetica Short Film Festival followed by […]

Free

B-movie Double Bill: Gun Crazy & Detour

Commencing Scalarama Leeds 2019 is a deadly double bill of B-movies. Taking us into the early hours of September 1st is a film noir pairing featuring two of cinema’s most iconic and unforgettable femme fatales, anti-heroines played with delicious deviance by Ann Savage (Detour) and Peggy Cummings (Gun Crazy). Both films transcended the boundaries of […]

£5.50 – £7.80

Weird Weekend

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Weird Weekend Cult Film Festival | 30/08-01/09/19 A weekend of strange and unseen cinema from around the world, showcasing orphans, outcasts and outliers, old and brand-new. Expect 12 films over three days - premieres, guests and plenty of bonus content at Glasgow's cult film festival. Matchbox Cineclub have scoured the world to bring you some […]

Free – £20

Radical Home Cinema: Brunch Screening @ FourWalls

Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes. This event aims to break down the boundaries between public and private audiences, to present films in unexpected places and to turn the viewing experience into something completely new. Radical Home Cinema is part […]

Free

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents: At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The first selection is Brazil's first horror film- At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) - which features the first appearance of Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) of the Coffin Joe Trilogy. A wicked undertaker whose […]

Suggested Donation

Rafiki

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Inspired by Ugandan Author Monica Arac de Nyeko’s 2007 Caine Prize-winning short storyJambula Tree, Wanuri Kahiu’s acclaimed Rafiki (meaning ‘friend’ in Swahili) is a tender love story about the blossoming romance between two young women amid familial, societal and political pressures. In Nairobi, Kena (Samantha Mugatsia) is helping her father campaign for a local election […]

£6,

Madeline’s Madeline

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

A sensorial and immersive trip into a teen’s psyche, Madeline’s Madeline boldly dissects mental health, racial tensions, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance. Starring Miranda July, Molly Parker, and standout newcomer Helena Howard, this is relentless, electrifying cinema that solidifies Josephine Decker’s position at the forefront of contemporary experimental filmmaking. Sixteen-year-old Madeline has […]

£6,

Happy as Lazzaro

The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Winner of Best Screenplay at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is a beguiling and luminous magic realist fable which echoes the surrealist films of cinematic masters like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini and Derek Jarman. Beautifully shot on super 16mm, the film follows the sweet natured peasant Lazzaro […]

£6,

Lions Love (…and Lies)

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

Agnès Varda brings New York counterculture to Los Angeles. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men, Viva, of Warhol Factory fame, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who created and starred in the rock musical “Hair,” delight in one another's bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics. […]

£5

Int. Slavery Museum presents: Lights, Camera, Activism

Anthony Walker Education Centre, International Slavery Museum International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Exploring themes of identity and activism, with short films making a big impact! Get a closer look at the museums collections too.

FREE
Event Series Reel Tours: Liverpool Film Location Walking Tour

Reel Tours: Liverpool Film Location Walking Tour

Williamson Square, outside Playhouse Theatre ( meeting point) Williamson Square, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Reel Tours is a cinematic adventure through the streets of Liverpool. Join us as we explore the city’s relationship with the silver screen, which dates from the latter days of the 19th Century right up to some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of recent years. We provide a walking tour, in which you will visit many […]

£15
Event Series Reel Tours: Liverpool Film Location Walking Tour

Reel Tours: Liverpool Film Location Walking Tour

Williamson Square, outside Playhouse Theatre ( meeting point) Williamson Square, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Reel Tours is a cinematic adventure through the streets of Liverpool. Join us as we explore the city’s relationship with the silver screen, which dates from the latter days of the 19th Century right up to some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of recent years. We provide a walking tour, in which you will visit many […]

£15

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents: Macunaíma (1969)

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The second offering of this collection is comedy Macunaima (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1969. Based on the 1928 book by Mário de Andrade, the modern-day parable follows the misadventures of Macunaima, a black man who is […]

Suggested Donation

SAE LIVERPOOL’S FRESHERS FAIR 2019

SAE Institute Uk Georgia House, 38 Pall Mall, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Once again Scalarama is taking part in one of the most exciting fairs in Liverpool, the SAE'S freshers fair, a promotional platform for local services and businesses, celebrating the creative industries and some great local independents in Liverpool. The event will include talks on a a variety of interests: anything from local support services, lifestyle information, […]

Transition Liverpool presents INHABIT

Liverpool Quaker Meeting House 22 School Lane, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Transition Liverpool presents a film night as part of their monthly cafe at Quakers Meeting House. Join them from 6.30pm for food with the film at 7pm. Free but donations welcome to go towards the cost of the film. INHABIT - dir. Costa Boutsikaris - 2015 - documentary - 1h 32mins Synopsis: Inhabit is a […]

Free / donations welcome

Memory Matinees: The Glenn Miller Story

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

James Stewart and June Allyson star in a delightful biography of Glenn Miller, a talented young trombone player who became one of the most popular big-band leaders of all time. This is a funny, celebratory and sympathetic tribute to a talented musician who, at the outbreak of World War Two, was willing to travel to […]

Free
Event Series Reel Tours: Liverpool Film Location Walking Tour

Reel Tours: Liverpool Film Location Walking Tour

Williamson Square, outside Playhouse Theatre ( meeting point) Williamson Square, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Reel Tours is a cinematic adventure through the streets of Liverpool. Join us as we explore the city’s relationship with the silver screen, which dates from the latter days of the 19th Century right up to some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of recent years. We provide a walking tour, in which you will visit many […]

£15

Kaleidoscopic Realms: Japanese Experimental Shorts of the ’70s & ’80s

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

A programme of short films by directors Naoto Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Aihara and Toshio Matsumoto. The films, spanning from 1975 up until the mid '80s, range from abstract experimentalism to more recognisable narrative structures, but all distort and challenge expectations of aesthetics, storytelling and recognition of oneself on film. Short films often offer a fleeting insight […]

Free – £8

Seahorse

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Seahorse (Jeanie Finlay, 2019) 1hr 31m Queer Classics and Matchbox Cineclub are delighted to screen Jeanie Finlay's documentary, Seahorse, the story of a dad who gave birth, which follows Freddy McConnell's journey through the pregnancy and birth of his son. Seahorse is an intimate documentary following Freddy McConnell's journey as a pregnant trans man, from […]

Free – £8

Open Day at the Hyde Park Picture House

The Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds is a Grade II listed cinema, built in 1914. Visitors can explore the beautiful auditorium of the historic cinema and learn lots of fun facts about the building on a self guided tour anytime from 10am - 3pm. The Hyde Park Picture House is a fully functioning cinema […]

FREE

Portrait of Jason

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the inimitable Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about his experiences as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and […]

£5

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents: How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (1971)

Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The final installment in this mini-series will be How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971). A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a […]

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Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Totally Fucked Up (Gregg Araki, 1993) 1hr 25m The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995) 1hr 30m Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997) 1hr 25m A rare opportunity to see Gregg Araki’s '90s New Queer Cinema classics: the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy of Totally Fucked Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). A kaleidoscope of pop culture, […]

Free – £12

Rosa Luxemburg

Liverpool Left Film Club screens Rosa Luxemburg (1986) Dir. Margarethe von Trotta Rosa Luxemburg was a towering figure on the revolutionary left of the German and Polish socialist movements. Born into a Jewish middle-class family, she had, by the age of 18 already been involved the organising of a general strike in Warsaw, for which four […]

£4.76

Hail Satan?

Alert!!  #newrelease2019 As charming and funny as it is thought-provoking,  Hail Satan? chronicles the extraordinary rise of one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history,  The Satanists. Hail Satan? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). Director: Penny Lane Year 2019.   Duration […]

£3 – £5

Mexican Silent Film with Live Music: “Ghost Train”( El Tren Fantasma)

The Fashion Hub 14 Gildart Street, United Kingdom

The UK Premier of “El tren fantasma” (Ghost Train). Mexican Silent Film with Live Music performed by the pianist José María Serralde. About this Event “ caused an outstanding impression at the Festival with his exciting musical treatment...” Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2014 Catalogue “Bringing this film with Ensamble Cine Mudo, is for me a […]

£9.21