Award Winning Independent Cinema

Thank you to Mark Cousins for a brilliant evening on 21/10/24 talking us through his film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, a documentary about the painter Wilhemina Barns Graham who worked in St Ives and whose work is held in … Continue Reading

#Noticethistree is a series of interventions about protest and loss across the UK www.noticethistree.org

On the 14th May as part of Plymouth’s Urban Tree Festival 2024 run by Plymouth Tree People, we invited people to come together to ‘Notice This Tree’ in  … Continue Reading

On Saturday 20th January, Fotonow ran a guided photography walk exploring Plymouth in the afternoon, with the theme Document Your Community.
Emma Booth from Fotonow gave an introduction to the film Tish and talk about Fotonow’s socially engaged approach to photography.
“It was fantastic to be able to programme and … Continue Reading

The centrepiece of a UK-wide celebration, Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger, the 1948 film The Red Shoes, returns to the big screen. The event, which hopes to introduce the bold, transgressive film-making of directors Michael Powell … Continue Reading

How to Have Sex is a sun and alcohol-soaked tale of three teenage girls on a post GCSE bender in Crete, with the singular mission of getting laid. As such, it shares a familiar aim of films like American Pie, and … Continue Reading

Ever heard of Cecil Rogers? What about Bill Miller? Perhaps, if you are a rugby fan, the name Jimmy Peters is familiar? If you have no idea who I am talking about, don’t fret. A two-year project from the arts collective Wonderzoo called Hidden Figures of … Continue Reading

2023 was a season of mixed fortune weather-wise for Open Air Cinema at Tinside Lido, but we did manage a couple of beautiful balmy evenings by the sea. Here are some pictures taken by photographer Amber Amare (@amberfilms_) at the screening of Roman Holiday.
We are … Continue Reading

Well, it has finally happened. After 12 summers of running Open Air Cinema events in the glorious and temperamental British summertime, we had an almost total washout on the first weekend of the year. I guess our luck had to run out some time and it may as well be … Continue Reading