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Festival Films for Friday 28 October 2022

Fri, 28/10/2022 - 2:00pm
£5.00
100mins

Dir. David Lean (US 1955, 100mins PG)

Make an afternoon of it. . .

Katharine Hepburn is wonderful in Lean’s favourite film (re-mastered) as the American spinster whose dream of romance becomes a bittersweet reality in a glorious technicolour VenIce.

Like all David Lean films, Summertime should be seen on the big screen. . .


Fri, 28/10/2022 - 7:00pm
FREE EVENT
119mins

Dir. Paul Greengrass (US 2020, 119mins 15)

Tom Hanks at his very best in this intriguing and excellent western based on a novel by Paulette Giles. The true story of the former soldier who reads the newspapers to small communities in the West.  

As part of Holmfirth Film Festival's aim to bring film to a wider audience and at a time when many within our community cannot afford to 'go out', this is one of 10 FREE events we hope will bring an opportunity to get out.  If you would like to see this film, please book online (click on BUY TICKETS ONLINE - you will not be charged) or pick up a free ticket from Oxfam Bookshop, Holmfirth.


Fri, 28/10/2022 - 7:00pm
£5.00
95mins

Dir. Kim Hopkins (UK 2022, 95mins 12)

This award-winner at Sheffield Doc-Fest is a joyous uplifting paean to the power of cinema and Britain’s oldest amateur film-making club in Bradford. A must-see!


Fri, 28/10/2022 - 7:00pm
£5.00
106mins

Dir. Craig Roberts (UK 2022, 106mins 12)

True story of Maurice Flitcroft who achieves his ambition of playing at The British Open Golf Championship having never played the game before. A heart-warming gem. Mark Rylance is excellent, yet again, in this role.


Fri, 28/10/2022 - 7:30pm
£5.00

Film, music and animation, Sony-Award-winning BBC presenter David Bramwell delivers a magical candle-lit dream journey in search of the supernatural secrets of rivers which haunt his memories. Travelling back in time to battle with his fear of ‘what lurks beneath’, he unearths the myths associated with our waterways, their symbolic power and history. 


Festival Films for Saturday 29 October 2022

Sat, 29/10/2022 - 11:00am
FREE
93mins

Wonderful tear-jerking true story of the dog who kept vigil for ten years at the train station where he once greeted his owner every day.  Co-star Richard Gere has never been better. Grownups may cry.

As part of Holmfirth Film Festival's aim to bring film to a wider audience, this is one of 10 FREE films which we hope will bring an opportunity for families to get out to an event. If you would like to come to the film, please book online (click on BUY TICKETS ONLINE - you will not be charged) or pick up a free ticket from Oxfam Bookshop, Holmfirth.


Sat, 29/10/2022 - 12:00pm
FREE
74mins

Dir. Jennifer Peedom/Joseph Netzi (UK 2020, 74mins U)

Timeless, ground-breaking cinematic odyssey exploring the relationship between humans and river. Written by British writer on landscape, Robert McFarlane, narrated by Willem Defoe, music by Radiohead.

As part of Holmfirth Film Festival's aim to bring film to a wider audience this is one of 10 FREE events we hope will bring an opportunity to 'go out'.  If you would like to see this film, please book online (click on BUY TICKETS ONLINE - you will not be charged) or pick up a free ticket from Oxfam Bookshop, Holmfirth.


Sat, 29/10/2022 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION FREE - donations collected on day for Ukraine Red Cross
88mins

Dir. Roxy Toporowych (Ukraine 2017, 88mins 12)

This remarkable and entirely relevant first film is a love story between a photojournalist and a wounded soldier set in modern day post-revolution Ukraine. Beautifully filmed and superbly acting. 

This is one of 10 FREE EVENTS being offered as part of our October FIlm Festival.  If you would like to see the film, please book online (click on BUY TICKETS ONLINE - you will not be charged) or pick up a free ticket from Oxfam Bookshop, Holmfirth.

There will be the opportunity at the event to make a donation to Ukraine Red Cross for anyone who wishes to do so.


Sat, 29/10/2022 - 2:30pm
FREE
97mins

Dir. John Ford (US 1946, 97mins 12)

Classic of American cinema made in the aftermath of the Second World War. Now beautifully restored. Henry Fonda is monumental in Ford’s mythic and melancholic version of the gunfight between Wyatt Earp and the Claytons,


Sat, 29/10/2022 - 7:00pm
£5.00
159mins

Dir. Baz Luhrmann (US 2022, 159mins 15)

Epic, big-screen high-excess spectacle (and mostly fictional biog of the King of Rock n Roll) that blasts from the screen in waves of excitement. Pure cinematic entertainment.


Sat, 29/10/2022 - 7:00pm
£5.00
93mins

Dir. Panah Panahi (Iran 2022, 93mins 15)

Enchanting and magical family road trip with a sick dog across the Iranian countryside. Wonderful photography, superb acting, joyful, heart-breaking and surreal humour in one of the year’s best.


Sat, 29/10/2022 - 7:00pm
£5.00
106mins

Dir. Graham Moore (US 2020, 106mins 15)

Mark Rylance - again!  On top form as the English tailor who must outwit a bunch of violent gangsters. Highly entertaining and gripping crime drama from another debut director.


Sat, 29/10/2022 - 7:30pm
FREE
111mins

Dir. Fran Kranz (US 2021, 111mins 15)

The best film of last year? Two sets of parents meet following an unspeakable tragedy. An intimate out-of-nowhere triumph by a debut director, with astonishing acting.

As part of Holmfirth Film Festival's aim to bring film to a wider audience and at a time when many within our community cannot afford to 'go out', this is one of 10 FREE events we hope will bring an opportunity to get out.  If you would like to see this film, please book online (click on BUY TICKETS ONLINE - you will not be charged) or pick up a free ticket from Oxfam Bookshop, Holmfirth.


Festival Films for Sunday 14 April 2023

Fri, 14/04/2023 - 7:00pm
Adults:
£5.00
139mins

Dir. Park Chan-Wook (Korea 2022 139mins 15)

One of the best of the last year - snubbed by the Oscars but a winner everywhere else. A twisted, obsessive, Hitchcockian-style romantic mystery. A detective investigating a man’s death falls for the dead man’s wife/suspect.


Fri, 14/04/2023 - 7:00pm
Adults:
£5.00
125mins

Dir. Frances O’Connor (UK 2022 125mins 15)

An imagined Emily Bronte brought to life in a very good biographical period drama with a wonderous central performance (Emma Mackay), excellent first-time direction and great visuals. Hugely enjoyable.


Fri, 14/04/2023 - 7:00pm
Adults:
£5.00
110mins

Dir. Eva Hussen (UK 2021 110mins 15)

Excellent acting from Colin Firth and Olivia Colman in a slow-burning, gut-wrenching atmospheric romantic period drama based on the Graham Swift novel.