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We have a really great bunch of volunteers; if you love film and want to join us, please get in touch. We are especially looking for anyone who might be good on the technical side of screening films, we also need social media enthusiasts who can help promote the festival, as well as anyone interested in film who can help setting up events (lots of lifting and carrying) and working at front of house (looking after and making events enjoyable for filmgoers).
Dreamworks animation, Christmas favourites
thrillers, action blockbusters, award winners
children's and family matinees - including free child and family places
world cinema magic
films at Hepworth, Netherthong and Holmfirth Civic Hall
See you there!
Dir. Ryoo Seung-Wan (Korea 2021 122mins 12)
Terrific and thrilling true action tale of Korean diplomats from North and South trapped in a civil war battle in Somalia. Absorbing story, with a muscle-clenching, fast and furious third act.
Doors and bar/refreshments open 6.30pm
Family Matinee Fun. . .
Dir. Pierre Perifel (US 2022 99mins U)
Dreamworks animated action comedy with a crackerjack fun-loving criminal crew of animal outlaw thieves who try to be model citizens. Marvellous fun; great family film.
Doors and refreshments open 2.30pm
Children attending to be accompanied by a responsible adult please
Dir. Joseph Kosinki (US 2002 131mins 12A)
Navy pilot veteran Tom Cruise commands the screen as he trains a detachment of graduates for a special assignment whilst confronting his deepest fears and the ghosts of his past in a movie action blockbuster epic.
Dir. Marian Cohn/Gaston Duprat (UK 2021 116mins 15)
Antonio Banderas in an hilarious and hugely enjoyable skewing of the movie business with a brilliant Penelope Cruz in line for an Oscar in her role of autocratic and neurotic film director.
Family Matinee Film . . . our Christmas present to you - ADMISSION FREE
Dir. Bob Clark (US 1983 93mins U)
This true holiday classic is a richly nostalgic funny and wonderfully enjoyable tale of a Christmas past. Start off your family Christmas here.
To assist with seating, please reserve your place/s via BUY TICKETS ONLINE button (you will not be charged)
If you missed this at our October Film Weekend at Hepworth. . . don't miss it this time round (out on general release soon, out in the Holme Valley first)
Dir. Kim Hopkins (UK 2022 95mins 12)
A second chance to see this award-winning documentary. A joyous, uplifting paen to the power of cinema and Bradford’s amateur film-making club. Made in Yorkshire, Yorkshire humour, Yorkshire candour - a Yorkshire must see.
Dir. Fernando Leon de Aranoa (Spain 2022 120mins 15)
Spanish Oscar entry is a wickedly funny workplace satire with a powerhouse performance from Javier Bardem as the good guy/rogue owner of a company that manufactures scales.
Dir. Fernanda Valadez (Mexico/Spain 2021 99mins 15)
Audience award winner at Sundance is a striking magical realist take on migration as a mother searching for her son lost at the border gradually descends into desperation.
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