Hepworth Village Hall

Festival Films at Hepworth Village Hall

Fri, 25/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
97mins

Dir. Petra Vople (Switzerland 2017, 97mins 12)

Unbelievably, Swiss women did not have the vote in 1970, then a demur housewife in a small time village decided to get political and win the vote for women. This fictionalised entertaining crowd-pleaser delivers a genuine and rousing sense of sisterhood in Switzerland's entry to the Oscars.


Sat, 26/05/2018 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION £5
108mins

Dir. Angela Robinson (US 2017, 108mins 15)

The true story of the writer of the feminist superheroine Wonder Woman, the secret life shared by him, his wife and their female lover, and the attacks on the wartime comic for sexual perversity.


Sat, 26/05/2018 - 7:30pm
Children
£4.00
Adults
£5.00
ADMISSION £5
102mins

Dir. Maysaloun Hamoud (Israel/France 2016, 102mins 15)

This exhilarating first feature from Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud caused a sensation in Israel for her depiction of three free-spirited and joyful modern Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv. She extracts wonderful performances from the actors in this slyly subversive award-winning feminist drama.


Sun, 27/05/2018 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION £5
180mins

THE PARTY

Dir. Sally Potter (UK 2017, 68mins 15)

Potter's short, sharp and at times disconcerting dark comedy about Middle Class mores showcases British acting at its best with great performances and sparkling dialogue from Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson and Timothy Spall.

GLORY

Dir. Kristinia Grozeva & Peter Valchanov (Bulgaria/Greece 2017 99mins 12)

Beautifully acted and often very funny fable about a honest and innocent railworker who comes across a large cache of money and sets off a tale of corruption and eventual tragedy as the hard-edged PR people (a wonderful Margita Gosheva) take over. Another gem from these Bulgarian directors (The Lesson, 2015).


Sun, 27/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
117mins

Dir. Martin Provost (France 2017, 117mins 12)

Two outstanding performances from two of France's greatest actresses, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot, as the still wild but dying former mistress of her father and the inhibited and hurt daughter, now a midwife, who meet again after thirty years. A moving film of warmth, depth and emotion that is entirely a pleasure.


Fri, 07/06/2019 - 7:30pm
Adults
£5.00
88mins

From the team that produced last year's highlight about two brothers and sheep, this absolute gem was Iceland's entry to the Oscars. A near perfect Fargo-like social drama with great acting, complex, tender and ironic tale of neighbourly disputes that is also tragic.

 

Dir. Hafstein Gunnar Sigurdsson (Iceland 2017 88mins 15)


Sat, 08/06/2019 - 2:00pm
Children
£4.00
Adults
£5.00
96mins

Starring Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh in their first film, this is a captivating adaption of J. L. Carr's novel set in Yorkshire in 1920 about former soldiers scarred by their experiences. Excellent English romanticism rarely seen but now re-released and remastered after the original print was feared lost.

 

Dir. Pat O'Connor (UK 1987, 96mins PG)

 

Film will be followed by a discussion led by the Two Valleys Book Club.


Sat, 08/06/2019 - 7:30pm
Adults
£5.00
85mins

Denmark's entry to the Oscars is a gripping abduction thriller done in real time. The Guardian said it was a 'masterclass in wringing breathless tension from just a few key ingredients' - man in a room, a female and a gun. Excellent director, editing and superb central performance by Jakob Cedergren.

 

Dir. Gustave Moller (Denmark 2018, 85mins 15)


Sun, 09/06/2019 - 2:00pm
120mins

An extraordinary, unsettling and starkly imaginative version of the Lewis Carroll tale. Not only different to the other productions but by far the best. First aired on the BBC on 28 December 1966 and starring a whole host of 60s British actors, it challenges the notion that we are now living in the golden age of television.

Dir. Jonathan Miller (UK 1966, 70mins PG)

Followed by a selection of the very best international short films screened by the Festival over the past ten years. Including films from Spain, France, America and the UK:

HBCC - Gaspar Palacio (France)

La Piñata - Manuel Arija (Spain)

La Carte - Stefan Le Lay (France)

Bon Appetite - Jon Turner (Manchester, UK)

The Adventures of Octocat - David O'Reilly (Ireland)

Fool's Day - Cody Blue Snider (USA) - Parents please note that this file contains some gore! (But in a fun way!)

The Runaway - Victor Carrey (Spain)

image - La Carte

image - The Adventures of Octocat

image - Fool's Day

NO TICKET REQUIRED.  This is a free event with a contribution collection - well worth the money!


Sun, 09/06/2019 - 7:30pm
Adults
£5.00
86mins

This documentary proved to be one of the most popular screenings from the Festival - and deservedly so. The story of three lost boxes recovered in Mexico in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos of WWII, contained 4,400 negatives of the war photographers of the Spanish Civil War, including those of Robert Capra. Beautiful score by Michael Nyman.

 

Dir. Trisha Ziff (Mexico 2011, 86mins 12)

 


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!


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.


Sun, 30/10/2022 - 7:00pm
£5.00
94mins

Dir. Colm Bairead (Ireland 2022, 94mins 12)

The surprise of the year is an exquisite, lyrical and deeply moving tale of a neglected girl from a dysfunctional family in rural Ireland who is sent to live with foster parents. A real gem.


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.


Sun, 16/04/2023 - 7:00pm
Adults
£5.00
83mins

Dir. Blerta Basholli (Kosovo 2021, 83mins 15)

Outstanding, inspiring and searing debut drama based on a true story that won the audience award at Sundance. Fahrije’s husband is missing from the War in Kosovo, she and other women set up a co-operative business selling honey but are immediately met with misogyny and hostility by the remaining men in the village.


Sat, 06/05/2023 - 2:00pm
FREE
157mins

Dir. Ken Hughes (UK 1970, 157mins 12)

Richard Harris (Cromwell) and Sir Alec Guinness (Charles 1st) star in the last of the British film industry epics.  The divine crowned King involved in a power struggle with Parliament that leads to Civil War. We know how it ends.


Fri, 12/05/2023 - 7:30pm
Adults
£5.00
95mins

HEPWORTH FILM NIGHT

Dir. Clio Barnard (UK 2022, 95mins 15)

A middle-aged love story set in Bradford celebrating the miracle of connection. Excellent British realist film with very good lead acting and fine direction from the ever impressive Barnard.

This event is pay on door.  Doors open 7pm.


Fri, 09/06/2023 - 6:30pm
Adults
£5.00
118mins

12A

HEPWORTH FILM NIGHT + SOUL DISCO

Dir. Ahmir Thompson (US 2022, 118mins 12A)

Or, when the revolution could not be televised… Multi-award-winning documentary on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival celebrating Afro-American music (Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and many others…)

Film screens at 6.30pm - followed by dancing to the summer sounds of 60s Soul Music.

This event is pay on door.


Fri, 13/10/2023 - 7:30pm
£5.00
110mins

Dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji (Bhutan 2019, 110mins 12)

The only Bhutan entry to the Oscars is a sweet-natured and satisfying story full of beautiful moments of an aspiring singer living with his grandmother who dreams of getting a visa to visit Australia.

HEPWORTH FILM NIGHT https://hepworthvillagehall.org.uk/film-night/

Film starts 7.30pm

Admission £5  Pay on door for this screening 


Fri, 27/10/2023 - 7:30pm
£5.00
120mins

12A

Dir. Tarik Saleh (Sweden/France 2022, 120mins 12A)

A student and lowly fisherman’s son becomes entrapped as an innocent pawn in the power games between religious and political elites in Egypt’s corrupt system. An engrossing thriller.


Sat, 28/10/2023 - 7:30pm
£5.00
114mins

Dir. Dominik Moll (France 2022, 114mins 15)

This year’s winner of the French Oscar (Cesar) for best film is a terrific police procedure investigation of a real murder with a devastating fallout from a senseless act of violence.


Fri, 10/11/2023 - 7:30pm
£5.00
139mins

Dir. Daniel Scheinert (US 2022, 139mins 15)

A Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane sci-fi action adventure, where she alone can save the world. This year’s Oscar winner.

HEPWORTH FILM NIGHT https://hepworthvillagehall.org.uk/film-night/

Film starts 7.30pm

Admission £5  Pay on door for this screening


Sun, 12/11/2023 - 7:30pm
£5.00
91mins

(UK 1945, 91mins 12)

An Englishwoman travels to the Hebrides to marry an older, wealthier fiancé but the weather keeps them islands apart. Haunting, romantic and witty, this is for many their favourite P&P film.

Admission £5 - or see separate entry for Special £10 Ticket (admission to all four Powell and Pressburger films screening Autumn 2023)

 


Fri, 26/04/2024 - 8:00pm
DISCO NIGHT
 
If you’re a fan of great 60s, 70s and 80s music, grab your dancing shoes and head off to Hepworth Village Hall 
 
Friday 26 April from 8pm
Steve Dorril DJing in aid of Hepworth Village Hall and Holmfirth Film Festival
 
Admission £5 on door
 
Photo image by Fidel Fernando on Unsplash

Fri, 11/10/2024 - 7:30pm
£5
84mins

Dir. Charlotte Regan (UK 2023, 84mins 12)

 

This vibrant and comedic directorial debut exploration of a father daughter relationship is the best UK independent film of the year.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEY8_9n2U8

 


Sat, 19/10/2024 - 7:30pm
£5
118mins

Tribute to Alain Delon (1935 - August 2024)

 

Dir. Rene Clement (France 1960, 118mins PG)

 

The first and best portrayal of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley character. The film that brought to the attention of cinema a major talent and… the coolest man in the world.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWnvLNTzt-k

 

 


Fri, 01/11/2024 - 7:30pm
FREE
100mins

Dir. Claude Lelouch (France 1966, 100mins 15)

After the suicide of his wife, widower and single parent (Jean-Louis Trintignant) meets by chance a widow and single mother, Anouk Aimee (who died in June 2024) in the ultimate French romance. Oscar winner for best international picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImgcEbrLQnM

 

Entry to this film is free (or you may wish to make a donation to the festival) but please book a ticket online to ensure a seat.

 


Fri, 08/11/2024 - 7:30pm
£5
90mins

Dir. Jim Archer (UK 2022, 90mins PG)

 

Utterly charming comedy about a lonely Welsh inventor of quirky mechanical compliances that seldom work.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JfWZd4CtIE&t=46s


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