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Incredible films will be brought to the big screen at Plymouth Arts Cinema this month with releases such as A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Sister Wives, and more!
Check out the full programme here...
Where to find us
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 Box Office during these times: 01752 206114.
Standard £9.00 | Matinees £7.00 | Bringing in Baby £4 | Over 60s £7.75 | 25 & Under, Students, AUP Staff, Budget - Unwaged and low income £4 | Friends 10% discount and £6 on Tuesdays. Please bring relevant ID if you are eligible for a discount.
The Girl with the Needle (15)
- Friday 31st January – Thursday 6th February
Fri 31, 5.45pm
Sat 1, 8pm
Tue 4, 5.45pm
Wed 5, 2.30pm & 8.30pm
Thu 6, 5.45pm
Dir. Magnus von Horn, Denmark/Poland, 2024, 123 mins. In Danish with English subtitles. Cast. Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri.
A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, The Girl with the Needle is a dark fairytale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world.
Both eerie and exquisite, the film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen. When she ends up unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, the charismatic Dagmar takes her in to help run an underground adoption agency for unwanted children. The two women form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
Based on a chilling true story, The Girl with the Needle presents a masterful gothic vision with profound contemporary resonance.
"...a macabre and hypnotic horror, a fictionalised true crime nightmare...and kept at an almost unbearable pitch of anxiety by Frederikke Hoffmeier’s nerve-abrading musical score." (Peter Bradshaw)
Babygirl (18)
F-Rated | MUBI GO
- Friday 31st January – Thursday 6th February
Fri 31, 8.30pm
Sat 1, 2.30pm & 5.30pm
Tue 4, 8.30pm
Wed 5, 6pm
Thu 6, 8.30pm
Dir. Halina Reijn, Netherlands / USA, 2024, 114 mins. Cast. Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas.
Nicole Kidman is the high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Romy (Kidman) is in a rut in her life. Frustrated sexually by her husband (played by Antonio Banderas), she's on the hunt for something new. When a new twenty-something intern (Harris Dickinson) joins the company, Romy is convinced that she has found exactly what she needs to find satisfaction. But as the power balance of employee/employer shifts, who can be really sure of who the boss is in the relationship?
A Complete Unknown (15)
- Saturday 8th – Friday 14th February
Sat 8, 2.15pm (Descriptive Subtitles) & 8pm
Tue 11, 5.45pm
Wed 12, 8.15pm
Thu 13, 5.45pm
Fri 14, 5.45pm
Dir. James Mangold, US, 2024, tbc 140 mins. Cast. Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro.
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. As he forms his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement and, refusing to be defined, makes a controversial choice that culturally reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.
Vermiglio (15)
F-Rated
- Saturday 8th – Wednesday 12th February
Sat 8, 5.15pm
Tue 11, 8.30pm
Wed 12, 2.30pm & 5.45pm
Dir. Maura Delpero, Italy, 2024, 119 mins. In Italian with English subtitles. Cast. Tommaso Ragno, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi.
1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps, the Second World War looms as a distant, but constant, threat.
When refugee soldier Pietro arrives in the village, his presence disrupts the dynamics of a local teacher's family when he's drawn to the teacher's daughter Lucia romantically. As the film unfolds over four seasons marking the end of the war, the couple's relationship leads to an unexpected fate...
As Italy's selection for the Oscar's® in 2025, Vermiglio uncovers the hidden depths of lies and secrets in what is apparently an idyll in the mountains.
Escapes – The Sloth Lane
Dartmoor Calling + intro and Q&A
- Thursday 13th – Saturday 15th February
Thu 13, 8.30pm + intro
Sat 15, 6pm + intro
Dir. Charlotte Bill, UK, 2024, 43 mins.
Dartmoor Calling tells the story of the people who saved Dartmoor from development from the 1950s – 1980s led by Sylvia Sayer. We go on to meet today’s activists who struggle for land access rights, and the activists and farmers restoring nature on Dartmoor.
Made in collaboration with The Stars are for Everyone, Dartmoor Preservation Association, the Lost Giants and Right to Roam. Supported by players of the National Lottery.
Both screenings will have an introduction and short Q&A by representatives of the charities in the film.
A percentage of profits from ticket sales will be donated to Stars are for Everyone, DPA and Right to Roam.
Produced by Clapham Film Unit with Dartmoor Preservation Association,
Thanks to the Stars are for Everyone, The Lost Giants and Right to Roam,
Supported by players of the National Lottery.
Hard Truths (12A)
- Friday 14th – Thursday 20th February
Fri 14, 8.30pm
Sat 15, 8pm
Tue 18, 5.30pm
Wed 19, 2.30pm (Descriptive Subtitles)
Thu 20, 8pm
Dir. Mike Leigh, UK, 2024, 97 mins. Cast. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jo Martin, Bryony Miller, Michelle Austin.
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.
Sisters Pansy and Chantal are chalk and cheese, but their close bond is the foundation that their extended family is built upon.
Lately, life has proven too much for Pansy, her anguish manifests in relentless criticism of the world, leaving her husband Curtley, son Moses, and Chantal walking on eggshells. Things come to a head over the course of a Mother’s Day weekend.
Leading British filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with another well-observed drama that delicately traces the bonds that bind families together. In Hard Truths, Leigh reunites with Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies), who delivers a performance so intimate in its details, it could almost be moments from a home movie.
The Brutalist (18)
- Saturday 15th – Wednesday 19th February
Sat 15, 1.30pm
Tue 18, 7.30pm
Wed 19, 7pm
Dir. Brady Corbet, UK/US/Hungary, 2024, 215 mins including a 15-minute interval. Some subtitles. Cast. Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce.
This monumental drama is an ambitious American epic starring Adrien Brody as a Jewish Hungarian architect who flees Europe at the end of World War II to rebuild his life in an unfamiliar land.
László Tóth arrives in America in 1947 with barely anything to his name, eagerly hoping to soon be joined by his wife Erzsébet from Budapest. Settling in Philadelphia, fate brings the Bauhaus-instructed genius into the orbit of wealthy businessman Harrison Lee Van Buren, whose path to the American Dream leads him to both professional success and personal chaos…
Brody and Corbet both picked up Golden Globes for their work and are frontrunners in their categories for the Oscars®. A towering achievement and a potent examination of the dark connections between capitalism, power, trauma and art, it’s one of our films of the year – and it more than earns its expansive running time. Truly majestic.
I Am Martin Parr
- Thursday 20th February, 6pm
One-Night Only Preview Screening
Dir. Lee Shulman, UK, 2024, 67 mins.
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.
Memoir of a Snail (15)
- Friday 21st – Wednesday 26th February
Fri 21, 6pm
Sat 22, 8.15pm
Wed 26, 6pm
Dir. Adam Elliot, Australia, 2024, 94 mins. Cast. Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana.
From Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, a morsel of hope emerges when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky.
Memoir of a Snail is 100%-CG-free stop-motion with an incredible voice cast including Nick Cave and Eric Bana, and precisely the heart-warmer we all need.
Celebrating David Lynch: Blue Velvet (18)
- Friday 21st – Wednesday 26th February
Fri 21, 8.30pm (Introduced by Anna Navas, Director and Film Programmer)
Wed 26, 8.30pm
Dir. David Lynch, USA, 1986, 120 mins. Cast. Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper.
As a celebration of the life of Director David Lynch, who died in January, we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see the film that introduced audiences to his very personal blend of neo-noir, fairy tale, surrealism and small-town Americana. Blue Velvet is the stuff of vividly unsettling nightmares, centring on Jeffery, an ordinary young man, who is drawn into the nightmarish world of a cabaret singer after he finds a severed ear on a backlot, unaware that a monstrous mobster is the ruler of this domain. Packed with memorable moments combining the beautiful and the grotesque, the film is imaginative, mesmerising and often profoundly unsettling.
Spirited Away (PG)
- Wednesday 19th – Saturday 22nd February
Wed 19, 11am (Family Friendly and Bringing in Baby) (English Language)
Sat 22, 11am (Family Friendly and Bringing in Baby) (English Language)
Sat 22, 5.30pm (In Japanese with English subtitles)
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2001, 124 mins. Cast. Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino.
Winner of the 2003 Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature, Hayao Miyazaki’s wondrous fantasy adventure is a dazzling masterpiece from one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation.
Chihiro’s family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba. Put to work in a magical bathhouse for spirits and demons, Chihiro must use all her wits to survive in this strange new place, find a way to free her parents and return to the normal world.
Overflowing with imaginative creatures and thrilling storytelling, Spirited Away became a worldwide smash hit, and is one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (15)
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Saturday 22nd – Tuesday 25th February
Sat 22, 2pm
Tue 25, 7.30pm
Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, France/Germany/Iran, 2024, 168 mins. In Farsi with English subtitles. Cast. Soheila Golestani, Misagh Zare, Setareh Maleki.
Himself no stranger to the wrath of Iran’s theocratic regime, Rasoulof depicts the dangers of complicity with state repression.
Shot entirely in secret, The Seed of The Sacred Fig centres on a family thrust into the public eye when the father Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran.
As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan.
The announcement of The Seed of The Sacred Fig led to threats of severe punishment from the Iranian government forcing some cast and crew to leave the country. They continue to live in exile.
“A thriller of propulsive skill and blunt emotional force, marrying the muscularity of an action film to the psychological intensity of a chamber drama.” - The New Yorker
“You’ll be unable to look away for even a second” - Collider
NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Wednesday 26th – Thursday 27th February
Wed 26, 2pm
Thu 27, 7.30pm
Tickets £14 / £12 concessions. PAC Friends 10% off (please note membership complimentary tickets are not eligible for this event).
Dir. Max Webster, 167 mins. With Sharon D Clarke and Ncuti Gatwa.
While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
Iris on the Move: Best of IRIS 2024 (15)
- Tuesday 25th February, 6pm
This programme, curated by the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is a showcase of the standout films from Iris 2024, featuring award-winning stories that explore love, identity, and the human experience.
The screening will be introduced by Seth Edmonds (Team Iris).
Programme running time: 60 mins
Tickets £5 / £4 concessions.
Sister Wives (15) – Winner: 2024 Iris Prize Best British & Co-op Audience award
Dir. Louisa Connolly-Burnham, UK, 2024, 28 mins.
Two sister wives married to the same man start to develop feelings for each other.
JIA (12A) – Winner: 2024 Youth Jury Award
Dir. Vee Shi, Australia, 2023, 15 mins.
A grieving Chinese mother travels to Australia and embarks on a road trip with Eric, to remember her late son. Ming’s conservative values are tested when she learns Eric was her son’s lover.
Blood Like Water (15) – Winner: 2024 Iris Prize
Dir. Dima Hamdan, Palestine, 2023, 14 mins.
Shadi embarks on a secret adventure, and accidentally drags his family into a trap where they only have two choices; either collaborate with the Israeli occupation or be shamed and humiliated by their own people.
Supported by Film Hub Wales as part of the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), made possible by the National Lottery
Jeremy Deller’s English Magic & Putin’s Happy (12+)
- 27th February, 5.45pm
Free (booking essential)
Our next screening as part of our The Triumph of Art public programme will be a double bill of films by Jeremy Deller, Putin’s Happy (2019) and English Magic (2013). Made during a period that radically shaped the socio-political climate we find ourselves in today, these films interrogate British identity in the years leading up to the 2016 EU referendum and its aftermath. Hear Jeremy Deller discuss his work in more depth on 28th February at The Box.
A selection of banners from Deller’s 2013 English Magic, made for the British Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, will be on view in The Box’s North Hall from February 7th until the 5th of May, thanks to the Modern Institute and The National Gallery.
This event is part of The Triumph of Art, a nation-wide project by artist Jeremy Deller. It was commissioned by the National Gallery, London, as part of NG200, its Bicentenary celebrations. The Triumph of Art is being developed in partnership with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Mostyn in Llandudno, The Box in Plymouth and The Playhouse in Derry-Londonderry. Supported by Art Fund.
Iris on the Move: Heroes, Heartbeats, and Shorelines (15)
- Thursday 6th March, 6pm
This programme, curated by the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is a dynamic collection of films that explores identity, transformation, and the unexpected connections that shape us, from superheroes to shorelines.
Programme Running Time: 70 mins
Tickets £5 / £4 concessions.
Teth (15) – 2024 Opening Night
Dir. Peter Darney, Wales, 2024, 12 mins.
Following surgery, Ioan and his father adapt to their new relationship as father and son, that is until the dog mistakes a nipple for a chew toy.
Where Are All the Gay Superheroes (15) – 2024 Opening Night
Dir. Tom Paul Martin, UK, 2023, 15 mins.
An LGBTQIA+ crowd-pleaser, combining elements of sci-fi, drama and comedy. Professional superheroes Sterling and Meridian have just finished saving the day (again) when suddenly, they find themselves in a rare moment alone. The suits come off, but when old tensions and old enemies return, our “heroes” learn the dark truth about who they are underneath.
Façade (12A) – Winner: 2024 Micro Short Award
Dir. Sophia Vi, UK, 2024, 2 mins.
Following gender affirming facial feminisation surgery, a transgender woman contemplates what it means to be alive using the words of William Shakespeare’s most famous speech – ‘To be or not to be…’
Boys in the Water (15) – Highly Commended, 2024 Iris Prize
Dir. Pawel Thomas Larue, France, 2023, 39 mins.
End of summer on the Breton coast. Oscar invites his group of friends to spend a week’s vacation at his grandparent’s house. He hasn’t been back to his childhood home for years – not since he came out as a trans boy. On the beach, the gang meets Malo, a handsome local guy, also trans. The story is about their meeting, which will turn everything upside down.
Supported by Film Hub Wales as part of the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), made possible by the National Lottery
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