Independent Cinema for Everyone

Based on a true story of hope, determination and principles, The Rochdale Pioneers is about a group of working men who, against a backdrop of poverty, prejudices and harsh working conditions, set about changing the unfair society that they lived in.

The screenplay centres on Rémy and Mélanie, two 30-year-olds who live in the same neighbourhood in Paris. Festival pass: Get tickets for all 3 films for £15 per person.

Recently graduated Lilian comes to New York to move in with her boyfriend. Fed up with her sense of entitlement, lack of drive and reliance on her absentee father, he quickly breaks up with her, leaving her desperate for a new home.

Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer”, Judy Garland.

Voted the greatest British film of all time by Time Out, Nicholas Roeg's thriller has been programmed as a companion film to Bait whose director Mark Jenkins cites this as one of his favourite films.

Back by popular demand and stunningly shot on a vintage 16mm camera using monochrome Kodak stock, Mark Jenkin’s film is a timely and funny, yet poignant tale that gets right to the heart of a Cornish community facing an unwelcome change.

One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfill an age-old desire: to start his own family.

Donna Tartt’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 novel has been adapted beautifully for the screen. It’s wonderful on the page, but it’s also meaty, dense, twisty, and utterly entrancing film. It’s a story that stretches from New York to Ams...

Matthias, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water polo team.

This film announces at the outset that it’s “based on an actual lie.” The lie is actual because the filmmaker once told it in her own life and the lie serves as the pretext for what becomes a funny, emotionally intricate and deeply moving tale ...