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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]