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This February Plymouth Arts Cinema is screening some of the most anticipated films of the year. Oscar-nominated Hamnet will grace the screen, as will Emerald Fennells Wuthering Heights and Song Sung Blue featuring Kate Hudson.

Where to find them

Our venue is located inside Arts University Plymouth’s main campus at Tavistock Place. Go through Arts University Plymouth’s main entrance and turn right, you will face our Box Office and Café-Bar.

Opening Times and How to Book
 The Box Office and Café-bar open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm; Wednesday: 1-8.30pm; Saturday: 1-8pm). You can call the Box Office during these times: 01752 206114.

Ticket Prices
Standard £9.50 | Matinees £7.50 | Over 66 £8.25 | 25 & Under, Students, AUP Staff, Budget (unwaged/ low income) £4.50 | Bringing in Baby, Family screenings £4.50 | Friends 10% discount and £6.50 on Tuesdays.

                          

Hamnet (12A)

F-RATED

Friday 23 January - Wednesday 4 February

  • Fri 23, 5.45pm
  • Sat 24, 2.30pm & 8pm
  • Tue 27, 5.45pm
  • Wed 28, 2.30pm (Descriptive Subtitles)
  • Wed 28, 8.15pm
  • Thu 29, 8.15pm
  • Sat 31,  5.15pm
  • Tues 3,  5.45pm
  • Wed 4,  5.45pm

Dir. Chloe Zhao, UK, 2025, 126 mins. Cast. Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley.

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. After falling deeply in love together amidst the spiritual surroundings of the English countryside, William and Agnes Shakespeare face a heartbreaking tragedy which transforms their lives forever. A film of extraordinary power in its intimate, devastating reckoning with grief, Hamnet is stunningly composed with a naturalistic, deeply human grace by director Chloé Zhao, while Jessie Buckley’s unforgettable, unflinchingly committed central performance is one for the ages.

                 

Song Sung Blue (12A)

Friday 30 January - Thursday 5 February

  • Fri 30, 8.15pm
  • Sat 31, 8pm
  • Wed 4, 2.30pm (Descriptive Subtitles)
  • Thu 5, 8pm

Dir. Craig Brewer, US, 2025, 132 mins. Cast. Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson.

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band experience – with the gloriously tongue-in-cheek moniker of Lightning and Thunder – proving it’s never too late to find love and follow your dreams. When hope is lost, love finds a way in this crowd-pleasing triumph, navigating the highs of success and lows of heartbreak for an ordinary couple with an extraordinary dream, brought rousingly to cinematic life by the magnificent Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman – and an irresistible soundtrack to boot!

                          

The Tale of Silyan (12A)

Green Screen | Programmer's Pick | F-Rated

Tuesday 3 - Thursday 5 February

  • Tue 3, 8.30pm
  • Wed 4, 8.30pm
  • Thu 5, 6pm

Dir. Tamara Kotevska, North Macedonia, 2025, 80 mins. In English and Macedonian with English subtitles. With. Nikola Conev, Jana Coneva, Aleksandra Coneva.

A farmer grappling with poverty takes an injured white stork under his wing, in this visually arresting part-documentary / part-fable from the Oscar®-nominated director of Honeyland.

In the fields of Macedonia, faced with the harsh realities of new government policies, farmer Nikola finds himself unable to sell his land or crops. As his family leaves in search of a better life abroad, he takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he rescues an injured stork.

As he nurses Silyan back to health, an unlikely bond emerges between man and animal. The result is a deeply moving, beautifully shot film that touches on climate change, economic migration, resilience and the quiet power of connection in unexpected places.

                  

The History of Sound (15)

Friday 6 - Wednesday 11 February

  • Fri 6, 5.45pm
  • Sat 7, 8pm
  • Tue 10, 8.15pm
  • Wed 11, 5.45pm (Descriptive Subtitles)

Dir. Oliver Hermanus, US, 2025, 128 mins. Cast. Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Chris Cooper.

In 1917, Lionel - a young, talented music student - meets David at the Boston Conservatory, where they bond over a deep love of folk music. Years later, Lionel receives a letter from David, leading to an impromptu journey through the backwoods of Maine to collect traditional songs. This unexpected reunion, ensuing love affair, and the music they collect and preserve, will shape the course of Lionel’s life far beyond his own awareness. Beautifully made and finely performed, this is a tender, aching chronicle of a love, centred around the power of music, whose echoes are felt for a lifetime.

                         

H is for Hawk (12A)

Programmer's Pick | F-Rated

Friday 6 - Wednesday 11 February

  • Fri 6, 8.30pm
  • Sat 7, 5.30pm
  • Tue 10, 5.45pm
  • Wed 11, 2.30pm (Descriptive Subtitles)
  • Wed 11, 8.30pm

Dir. Philippa Lowthorpe, UK, 2025, 115 mins. Cast. Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Denise Gough, Lindsay Duncan.

Philippa Lowthorpe’s beautifully realised and emotionally charged adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s award-winning memoir is stunning.

Foy plays Helen Macdonald, a Cambridge academic who, following the death of her beloved father - a veteran photojournalist and nature lover - retreats from the human world and turns to nature instead, taking on the training, care and feeding of a goshawk. This all-consuming task soon dominates her daily schedule and all her attention to the exclusion of work, family, friends and the state of her home, but what begins as a way to cope with her grief gradually evolves into a healing, transformative journey of connection.

Foy gives an exceptional, career-best performance.

                                   

NT Live: Hamlet (12A)

Saturday 7 - Thursday 12 February

  • Sat 7, 1.30pm
  • Thu 12, 7pm

Tickets: £16 | Over 66: £14 | Student and Under 25: £12.

PAC Friends will receive 10% off (please note membership complimentary tickets are not eligible for this event).

Group discount (£10 per ticket) available for school groups of 10 students or more, please contact our Box Office to book.

Dir. Robert Hastie, 180 mins with interval.

Cast. Hiran Abeysekera,

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining.

                                                  

Nouvelle Vague (12A)

Friday 13 - Wednesday18 February

  • Fri 13, 5.45pm
  • Sat 14, 8pm
  • Tue 17, 5.45pm
  • Wed 18, 2.30pm
  • Wed 18, 8.30pm

Dir. Richard Linklater, France, 2025, 106 mins. In French with English subtitles. Cast. Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin.

A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, Richard Linklater reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave.

Marbeck plays Godard at the dawn of his career, directing Seberg and Belmondo as star-crossed lovers, filming with unorthodox spontaneity on the streets of Paris. Working alongside other key players, friends and creative collaborators like Francois Truffaut – who’s shooting The 400 Blows – Claude Chabrol, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville and Jacques Rivette, the pressure to produce a masterpiece is impossible to escape…

Beautifully shot in monochrome, Nouvelle Vague is an ode not just to Breathless and the art of filmmaking, but to a transformative period that spawned modern cinema.

                          

No Other Choice (15)

Friday 13 - Thursday 19 February

  • Fri 13, 8.15pm
  • Sat 14, 2pm
  • Sat 14, 5pm
  • Tue 17, 8.15pm
  • Wed 18, 5.30pm
  • Thu 19, 8pm

Dir. Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2025, 139 mins. In Korean with English subtitles. Cast. Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon.

Park Chan-wook returns with this satirical black comedy/thriller about a husband and father who takes violent action after being laid off.

Man-soo had it all: a loving wife, two talented children, and two happy dogs. But after 25 years of loyal service for a paper manufacturing company, he is suddenly made redundant. As his redundancy pay dwindles rapidly, he begins to take merciless measures to scoop a coveted position in a new company, leading to wild, and ever more absurd, acts of violence designed to dispatch the competition.

A chilling satire on workplace politics and ruthless status-seeking, No Other Choice is a continuously and deliciously surprising film that more than deserves its comparisons to Parasite. Winner of the Peoples' Choice Award at TIFF.

                           

Half Term Family Friendly Film: Little Amélie (PG)

F-rated

Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 February

  • Wed 18, 11am
  • Sat 21, 11am

Dir. Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, France/Belgium, 2025, 78 mins. Cast. Loise Charpentier, Victoria Grosbois, Yumi Fujimori.

Based on the novel Métaphysique des tubes by Amélie Nothomb, this film centres around a toddler born to her Belgian parents in Japan.

After over two years in a vegetative state, little Amélie suddenly awakens to the world around her - triggered by a piece of white chocolate. Seizing life and all it has to offer with glee, Amélie's sudden progression makes her believe she is a god. But, sure enough, she is soon brought down to earth — and brought to understand that she is part of a much bigger picture. Amelie uncovers the world around her in this beautiful, mature and oh so human depiction of the transition from infancy to childhood.

2025 Audience Award Winner at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

                        

Iris 2025: Best Bits (15) + Intro

Thursday 19 February, 6pm

Tickets £5.50 / £4.50

Programme running time: 65 mins

Seth Edmonds from Team Iris will introduce the screening.

Award winners, audience favourites from the opening night - unforgettable stories from the 2025 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

From a haunted tollhouse to a high-rise reckoning, from quiet self-discovery to a love song by the sea, these films capture the brilliance, beauty, and bravery that define Iris. Featuring Y Tolldy, Blackout, One Day This Kid and Never, Never, Never, this programme celebrates the very best of Iris 2025 — films that moved audiences, impressed juries, and reminded us why Iris has never been just a festival.

https://irisprize.org/

Y Tolldy (15) – 2025 Opening Night

Dir. Dan Thomas, Wales / UK, 10 mins. Welsh with English subtitles

When Emyr visits his hometown with his partner, a decade after vowing not to return, a chance meeting with his old school bully turns into a terrifying battle against forces they cannot explain.

Blackout (15) – 2025 Best British Winner

Dir. Chris Urch, UK, 15 mins. English, no subtitles.

When a young man living in a high-rise is disturbed by domestic violence in the flat next door, he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside – sometimes it’s with us all along.

One Day This Kid (15) – 2025 Iris Prize Winner

Dir. Alexander Farah, Canada, 18 mins. English & Farsi with English Subtitles.

As told by filmmaker Alexander Farah through a deftly composed array of small yet pivotal moments, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own while always conscious of his father's shadow.

Never Never Never (15) – 2025 Opening night

Dir. John Sheedy, UK/ Australia, 18 mins. English & Welsh with English Subtitles

A poignant and heartwarming story set in a Welsh fishing village. Henrick (Ché) and Arwyn (Iwan) share a bond that transcends friendship, filled with unspoken longing and love. Henrick's love for Shirley Bassey's music is his way to overcome the conservative views of their community. The film explores the struggles of Henrick and Arwyn as they navigate their feelings for each other in a society that may not fully accept them. This is the thirteenth film made by a winner of the Iris Prize.

                                              

The Chronology of Water (18)

F-Rated

Friday 20 - Thursday 26 February

  • Fri 20, 5.45pm
  • Sat 21, 2.30pm (Descriptive Subtitles)
  • Sat 21, 8pm
  • Tue 24, 8.15pm
  • Wed 25, 5.45pm
  • Thu 26, 8.15pm

Dir. Kristen Stewart, US/France/Latvia, 2025, 128 mins. Cast. Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Tom Sturridge, Kim Gordon, Earl Cave.

Lidia is a young woman who finds escape from an abusive home through competitive swimming in the 1980s. After her athletic dreams are derailed, she navigates love, loss, addiction, sexuality, and her own self-destructive impulses while discovering her voice, and healing, through the transformative act of writing.

A journey through the sensuous and the sensual, Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is a poetic and unflinching exploration of identity, self-discovery and resilience, brought vividly to life through Stewart’s assured directorial vision.

Come in. The water will hold you.

                           

The President’s Cake (12A)

Programmer's Pick

Friday 20 - Thursday 26 February

  • Fri 20, 8.30pm
  • Sat 21, 5.30pm
  • Tue 24, 6pm
  • Wed 25, 2.30pm
  • Wed 25, 8.30pm
  • Thu 26, 6pm

Dir. Hasan Hadi, Iraq/US/Qatar, 2025, 105 mins. In Arabic with English subtitles. Cast. Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat.

In 1990s Iraq, young Lamia lives with her ailing grandmother, Bibi, eking out an existence in a remote village. Disaster strikes when Lamia is ‘honoured’ with baking the cake for her school class’s mandatory celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday. In other circumstances, this might be an innocuous responsibility, but Bibi and Lamia can’t afford the ingredients, and the last family that didn’t comply was dragged through the streets.

A child’s eye view of a dictatorship, The President’s Cake skilfully navigates between the comic and the tragic.

Hasan Hadi’s heartbreaking The President’s Cake, a multiple award winner at Cannes, is an unforgettable look at a country crushed by poverty and international sanctions and ruled by a sadistic, greedy, and vain tyrant.

                        

My Father’s Shadow (12A)

Friday 27 February - Wednesday 4 March

  • Fri 27, 6pm
  • Sat 28, 8pm
  • Wed 4, 2.30pm
  • Wed 4, 8.30pm

Dir. Akinola Davies Jr, UK/Nigeria, 2025, 98 mins. Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, English with English subtitles. Cast. Sopẹ́ Dìrísù, Chibuike Marvellous Egbo, Godwin Egbo.

This extraordinary debut feature is both intimate and epic. A deeply personal family story set against the turbulence of 1993 Lagos during a pivotal national election promising a shift from military rule to democracy in Nigeria. When young brothers Remi and Akin unexpectedly accompany their oft-absent father to the city to collect his long-overdue salary, what unfolds is a rich journey through memory, masculinity, and a country on the cusp of fragile transformation.

Drawn loosely from Davies’ own experiences and co-written with his brother Wale, the film begins in rural quiet and gradually delves into urban disarray, as the boys try to make sense of their father, the city, and the shifting codes of a world they’ve barely known. What emerges is not a story of easy reconciliation, but of slow recognition — the difficult work of seeing someone clearly, perhaps for the first time, and finding something in them more profound than expected.

                                   

Wuthering Heights (tbc)

F-Rated

Friday 27 February - Thursday 5 March

  • Fri 27, 8.15pm
  • Sat 28, 2.30pm
  • Sat 28, 5.15pm
  • Tue 3, 8.30pm
  • Wed 4, 5.45pm
  • Thu 5, 8.30pm

Dir. Emerald Fennell, UK, 2025, 130 mins. Cast. Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Owen Cooper.

Emerald Fennell, director of 2023's provocative Saltburn, teams up again with Jacob Elordi alongside Margot Robbie to bring a stylish (and no less 'aggressively provocative') retelling of Emily Brontë's much-loved novel.

Brontë's passionate and tumultuous love story is set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff (Elordi) and Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie).

With an iconic soundtrack penned by Charli xcx and sumptuous costuming from Oscar®-winning Jacqueline Durran that would make even Barbie blush, there's only one way to make sense of Fennell's latest film – by coming to see it yourself!   

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