Award Winning Independent Cinema

Typist Artist Pirate King is showing at Plymouth Arts Cinema from Friday 17th November 2023 – Wednesday 22nd November. Director Carol Morley will be joining us for an introduction and Q&A for the screening on Friday November 17th.

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Oil literally erupts from the land of the Osage Native American nation, and they become incredibly wealthy. The opening sequence shows the elders burying a ceremonial pipe that symbolises the death of their old ways, and underlines that for their children they will have to live in the materialistic and greedy … Continue Reading

A project of time and reflection, The Nettle Dress records a seven-year mission by textile artist, Allan Brown, to make a garment entirely from wild nettles.

Filmed by Dylan Howitt, Allan explains the painstaking process of collecting, threading and weaving nettles into fabric, while recounting his first encounter with the prickly … Continue Reading

Trying to pin down the chaotic, surrealist world of Salvador Dali, Daliland is a biopic that doesn’t lack ambition. Directed by Mary Harron and scripted by John Walsh, this film explores the last decade of the artist’s life. 

We enter Daliland … Continue Reading

I was never that great at maths so I’m not entirely certain what kind of love triangle the three central characters in Ira Sachs’ absorbing film Passages form but it definitely isn’t one of those where all the sides are equal.

The key player in this Parisian ménage à trois is … Continue Reading

A pitch-perfect satire, celebrating the proudly insular world of musical theatre, mockumentary Theater Camp chronicles life at a kids’ performing arts retreat.

The film starts at the camp’s final performance of the season, and gives us the drama with an early narrative twist. As we follow camp founder Joan … Continue Reading

Can you remember a virus that led to the deaths of over 6 million animals? Speak to a farmer, vet or anyone from an agricultural background and they’ll most definitely remember 2001’s Foot and Mouth outbreak. It was a national crisis resulting in the mass culling of cows, sheep and … Continue Reading