Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s multi-award winning film PARALLEL MOTHERS, starring Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit, opens Hull Independent Cinema’s new season of film on Tuesday 5 April at Vue Cinema Hull Princes Quay.
It is the first of fifteen titles that include the best of independent and world cinema, a festival of music documentaries and a silent film with live piano accompaniment. Screenings take place at Vue Cinema, Hull Truck Theatre and Humber Street Social, organised by Hull Independent Cinema, a local charity which exists to bring the best of independent, foreign language and speciality film to local audiences.
Highlights of the new season include Joanna Hogg’s sumptuous sequel THE SOUVENIR PART II starring Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton; the final film of Joachim Trier’s Oslo Trilogy THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD; the bewilderingly self-referential THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT starring Nicolas Cage as a fictionalised version of himself; and the powerful and innovative animated refugee documentary FLEE.
Special events in the programme include an in-person live Q&A featuring the director of new British documentary HOSTILE, examining the impact of the British Government’s “hostile environment” immigration policy; and a festival of music documentaries with three films in three venues over three days, organised in partnership with DOC’N ROLL FILM FESTIVAL. HIC’s regular partners Yorkshire Silents also return with a screening of 1928 classic BEGGARS OF LIFE. starring Louise Brooks, accompanied by a live improvised piano score.
James Russell, Chair of Trustees at Hull Independent Cinema, said, “Our first full season of the year has been a great success and we’re really looking forward to keeping up the momentum with this new programme. There are lots of great new films around now and narrowing them all down to the final programme was a difficult job! We’re delighted to offer Hull audiences a programme of fantastic films and great special events they can’t see anywhere else in the city.”
This year Hull Independent Cinema is introducing a new benefit for HIC members, who will be able to buy tickets for one specially selected film for just £1. This season’s choice is Kosovan drama HIVE, winner of three awards at last year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Full details of the film programme, how to buy tickets, and how to become an HIC member are available on the HIC website (hullindependentcinema.com), and printed copies of the film programme are also available at all screenings and from bars, cafés, shops and other locations around the city.
Programme Summary
all films start at 7.30pm except those at Hull Truck Theatre which start at 7.00pm
- Tuesday 5 April, Vue: PARALLEL MOTHERS | Pedro Almodóvar | 2021 | Spain | Cert 15
- Wednesday 13 April, Vue: FLEE | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | 2021 | France / Denmark / Norway / Sweden | Cert 15 | Documentary
- Thursday 21 April, Truck: LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | 2021 |Chad / France / Germany | Cert 15
- Tuesday 26 April, Vue: THE SOUVENIR PART II | Joanna Hogg | 2021 | UK / USA | Cert 15
- Wednesday 4 May, Vue: HOSTILE | Sonita Gale | 2022 | UK | Cert 12A | Documentary | Live Q&A
- Thursday 12 May, Vue: RED ROCKET | Sean Baker | 2021 | USA | Cert 18
- Tuesday 17 May, Vue: GREAT FREEDOM | Sebastian Meise | 2021 | Austria / Germany | Cert 18
- Wednesday 25 May, Truck: Doc’N Roll – Karen Dalton: In My Own Time | Richard Peete / Robert Yapkowitz | 2020 | USA | No Cert (18+ only) | Documentary
- Thursday 26 May, Vue: Doc’N Roll – REBEL DREAD | William E Badgley | 202 | UK | Cert 15 | Documentary | with recorded Q&A
- Friday 27 May, Social: FREAKSCENE: THE STORY OF DINOSAUR JR. | Philipp Virus | 2021 | Germany / USA | Cert 15 | Documentary
- Tuesday 31 May, Vue: HIVE | Blerta Basholli | 2021 | Kosovo / Switzerland | Cert 15 | HIC members pay just £1
- Wednesday 8 June, Truck: Yorkshire Silents – BEGGARS OF LIFE | William A Wellman | 1928 | USA | Cert U | silent film with live piano accompaniment
- Thursday 16 June, Vue: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD | Joachim Trier | 2021 | Norway / France | Cert 15
- Tuesday 21 June, Vue: COMPARTMENT No 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | 2021 | Finland / Russia / Estonia | Cert TBC
- Wednesday 29 June, Vue: THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT | Tom Gormican | 2022 | USA | Cert TBC