1 - 7 July Exclusively at Vue Cinema Hull
INDEPENDENT / WORLD DOCUMENTARY / PREMIERES / PREVIEWS
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WELCOME TO THE SIXTH ANNUAL HULL FILM FESTIVAL Join us to discover the very best in new film from around the world, with titles that are criticallyacclaimed, unashamedly independent, and a slice of cinema‘s exciting future. This year’s programme features 16 brand-new films, all Hull exclusive screenings, and we’re proud to be hosting multiple regional Premieres. The festival opens with the Yorkshire Premiere of the rip-roaring British comedy drama Animals, starring Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat, followed on the first night by Franco-German drama Transit, a modern update of the seminal 1942 novel. Our closing day is a celebration of the best of foreign-language film, with big screen romance set in modern Mumbai in Photograph; challenging space opera from Denmark and Sweden in Aniara; and wry, seductive French comedy-drama in Non Fiction. Other great foreign language film comes to us from France, with erotic, kitsch mystery in Knife+Heart; and Russia, with Leto‘s explosive look at the Soviet-era underground rock scene. Striking British films with a hint of local interest come in the form of The Last Tree, a powerful coming-of-age tale partly set and shot over the bridge in Lincolnshire; and the visceral and stylish pop music drama Teen Spirit, directorial debut of Max Minghella, son of the late Anthony Minghella, a graduate of Hull University and an honorary son of the city. We have documentary covered with two contrasting films: Hail Satan? takes a look at the controversial rise of America‘s newest religious movement; while The Biggest Little Farm follows an attempt to establish an eco-friendly agricultural paradise in drought-ridden Los Angeles. Other great English-language film includes a scandalous 1950s love affair in Tell It To The Bees; the realities of modern British romance in Only You; genre-bending psychological thriller The Dead Center; and a hard-hitting portrayal of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in Hotel Mumbai. Put it all together, add great value tickets, discounts for Hull Independent Cinema members and under-25s, and daily and weekly passes, and you can afford to sit back and enjoy it all. We’d like to acknowledge the support this year of our host venue Vue Cinema Hull. Don’t miss the chance to join us there to enjoy films how they should be seen - on the big screen with an attentive audience. See you at the festival, Damien Greco Festival Director
THANKS TO OUR FESTIVAL PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS
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TICKETS AND ADMISSION TICKETS Standard
Hull Independent Cinema Member / Student /Under-25s
£8
£6
Day Pass (Weekdays 2 films)
£12
£10
Day Pass (Weekend 3 films)
£18
£16
Full Festival Pass Monday 1 July - Sunday 7 July
£60
£50
Individual Film
WHERE TO BUY Online: Book online at www.hullfilmfestival.co.uk By phone: Call Hull Box Office/Eventim on 0844 249 1000
In person: Tickets can be bought from the Hull Film Festival stand at Vue Cinema Hull 30 minutes prior to the start of a performance. They will not be sold from Vue’s concession counter or by their staff.
All films run without adverts and trailers and will be preceded by a short introduction from the festival team. The screening room opens 10-15 minutes before the programme begins, although the venue is open earlier. Hull Film Festival reserves the right to refuse admission to audience members arriving after the advertised start time. Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Tickets are not available from the Vue Cinema website or box office on-site, and are not included in Vue’s £4.99 ticket deal. Advance tickets can only be purchased by phone or online, not in person. Full programme details and times are subject to change; please check our website and social media before purchasing tickets or travelling to an event.
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Hull Film Festival 2019 Schedule 1 - 7 July 3.30PM
6.00PM
Mon 1 July
Tue 2 July
Wed 3 July
Thu 4 July
Fri 5 July
Sat 6 July
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM 2018 | 91 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
Sun 7 July
PHOTOGRAPH
2019 | 110 min | 15
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8.30PM
ANIMALS
TRANSIT
2019 | 109 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
2017 | 101 min | 12A
TELL IT TO THE BEES
THE LAST TREE
2018 | 106 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
2019 | 100 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
GWEN
ONLY YOU
2018 | 84 min | 15
2018 | 119 min | 15
HAIL SATAN?
THE DEAD CENTER
2019 | 95 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
2018 | 93 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
TEEN SPIRIT
KNIFE+HEART
2018 | 93 min | 12A
2018 | 102 min | 18
LETO
HOTEL MUMBAI
2018 | 128 min | 15
2018 | 123 min | 15
ANIARA
NON-FICTION
2018 | 106 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
2018 | 108 min | No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
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ANIMALS
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
Sophie Hyde
Language English
Mon 1 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £8/£6 UK | 2019 | 109 min
Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee
Join us as we get the Festival off to a rip-roaring start with this refreshingly frank, lived-in film about the messiness of life.
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Would-be writer Laura and her free-spirited bestie Tyler share a messy Dublin apartment and a hearty appetite for booze, Molly and one-night stands. Yet when Laura falls for Jim, a charming but straitlaced classical pianist, Tyler worries that the party may soon be over.
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Comedy / Drama “Hyde’s generous, freewheeling film is a pleasingly disorderly addition to the stillunderpopulated ranks of female friendship studies...” – Guy Lodge, Variety
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TRANSIT Christian Petzold
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Mon 1 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
German, French with English subtitles
£8/£6 Cast
Germany / France | 2018 | 101 min
Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese As fascism spreads, German refugee Georg flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papershe is carrying. Living among refugees from around the world, Georg falls for Marie, a mysterious woman searching for her husband--the man whose identity he has stolen. Adapted from Anna Segher’s 1942 novel, TRANSIT transposes the original story to the present, blurring periods to create a timeless exploration of the plight of displaced people.
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Genre Drama / Thriller “By turns intimate and expansive, “Transit” is a thrilling, at times harrowing labyrinth of a movie.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times
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TELL IT TO THE BEES
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+ Language English
Annabel Jankel Cast Tue 2 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £8/£6
Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Gregor Selkirk
UK | 2018 | 106 min Genre The Scotland of 1952 is no place for the fainthearted When mill worker Lydia is abandoned by her philandering husband, she struggles to pay the rent and feed herself and son Charlie. Local doctor Jean is one of the few to help and a friendship develops that blossoms into a romance that will scandalise the town. A sensitive adaptation of the Fiona Shaw novel that captures oppressive small town life and the way love has the power to challenge narrow minds and deeprooted prejudices
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Drama / Romance “A sweet but sedate romance, anchored by a terrific turn from Holliday Grainger.” – Lewis Knight, Daily Mirror
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THE LAST TREE
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
Shola Amoo
Language English
Tue 2 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull Cast
£8/£6 UK | 2019 | 100 min
Sam Adewunmi, Denise Black, Gbemisola Ikumelo
Partly shot just over the Humber in Lincolnshire, The Last Tree is a fresh and thoughtful first-person take on the coming-of-age story.
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Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take.
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Drama “Thoughtfully alternates universal adolescent insecurities with urgently specific minority politics.” – Guy Lodge, Variety
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GWEN William McGregor
Language English
Wed 3 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £8/£6 UK | 2018 | 84 min
In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family. Anchored by terrific performances, Gwen is a stylish, atmospheric anti-patriarchal take on folk horror.
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Cast Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Mark Lewis Jones Genre Drama / History / Horror “Clever, beautiful and wellacted, Gwen proves to be an unexpected delight. It’s a slow burn, but one worth seeking out.” – Joe Lipsett, Bloody Disgusting
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ONLY YOU Harry Wootliff
Language English
Wed 3 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull Cast
£8/£6
Laia Costa, Josh O’Connor
UK | 2018 | 119 min
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Elena, 35, and Jake, 26, meet by chance on New Years Eve, fighting for the same taxi. But, instead of going their separate ways after a shared ride, they start a passionate relationship. Within weeks they are living together, and not long after they talk about starting a family.
Drama / Romance “Wonderfully natural and feels like an indie with realism and heart, and mostly that is down to the brilliant lead performances.”
But, as the seasons pass, reality catches up with them. Falling in love was the easy part, but can they remain in love when life doesn’t give them everything they hoped for?
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– Lewis Knight, Daily Mirror
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HAIL SATAN?
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
Penny Lane
Language English
Thu 4 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £8/£6 USA | 2018 | 95 min
A look at the intersection of religion and activism, tracing the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple is calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation’s soul. But are they for real? Smart, witty and thought-provoking, Hail Satan? is an entertaining dispatch from the frontline of the fight for social justice and religious freedom.
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Featuring Jex Blackmore, Lucien Greaves Genre Documentary “A crowd-pleaser. Wickedly funny, fascinating and niftily made.” – Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter
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THE DEAD CENTER
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+ Language English
Billy Senese Cast Thu 4 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs
£8/£6 USA | 2018 | 93 min
Genre A hospital psychiatrist’s own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side. An intelligent piece of genre-bending film-making that demonstrates a keen understanding of the horrors present in the everyday world.
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Thriller / Supernatural “A creepy collision of the psychological and the supernatural...a masterclass in rising tension.” – Anton Bitel, SciFi Now
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TEEN SPIRIT Max Minghella
Language English
Fri 5 July | 6.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull £8/£6 UK / USA | 2018 | 93 min
Violet is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fuelled soundtrack, Teen Spirit is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.
Cast Elle Fanning, Agnieszka Grochowska, Zlatko Buric, Rebecca Hall Genre Drama / Music “Max Minghella’s sweet and touching directing debut, is both proudly clichéd and refreshingly different.” – Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
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KNIFE+HEART Yann Gonzalez
Language
Fri 5 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
French, Spanish with English subtitles
£8/£6 Cast
France / Mexico / Switzerland | 2018 | 102 min
Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury A deliriously kinky queer horror thriller set in 1970s Paris. After a break-up, a gay porn producer launches herself into her latest and most ambitious film production. But as shooting gets underway, one of her stars is brutally murdered. Soon it becomes terrifyingly clear that a homicidal maniac is intent on bumping off the cast, one by one. An erotically kitsch love letter to European Giallo, American grindhouse cinema and ’70s gay pornography, the film was shot on 35mm and is accompanied by a throbbing soundtrack from M83.
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Genre Drama / Mystery / Horror / LGBTQ+ “This magical, erotic, disco-tinged horror-thriller is like cinematic candy.” – Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times
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THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+ Language English
John Chester Featuring Sat 6 July | 3.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
John Chester, Molly Chester
£8/£6 USA | 2018 | 91 min
Genre Documentary
The inspiring documentary chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland outside of Los Angeles and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.
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“A thoughtful and often profoundly moving portrait of the remarkable work involved in producing mindful food - and an eloquent reminder that so much of what we take for granted on our plates is, in its own everyday way, a miracle.” – Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
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LETO Kirill Serebrennikov
Language
Sat 6 July | 6.00pm | Vue Cinema Hull
Russian, English, with English subtitles
£8/£6 Cast
Russia / France | 2018 | 128 min
Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk Avant-garde Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the big-screen with a tribute to the early years of Russian rock.
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Leningrad, in the summer, early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the trajectory of rock n’roll music in the Soviet Union.
“A marvelous biopic that is as energetic as a T-Rex song and as pompous as a Lou Reed song.”
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Biography / Drama / Music
– Víctor López G., Espinof
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HOTEL MUMBAI Anthony Maras
Language
Sat 6 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Greek, Russian, Arabic, Urdu, Persian with English subtitles
£8/£6 Australia / USA / India | 2018 | 123 min
A gripping true story of humanity and heroism, vividly recounting the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Refusing to leave their guests, the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter choose to risk their lives to keep everyone safe. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
Cast Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi Genre Drama / Thriller / History “A chilling and valuable reminder of acts of madness, and acts of heroism, that should never be forgotten.” – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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PHOTOGRAPH Ritesh Batra
Language
Sun 7 July | 3.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull
Hindi, Gujarati with English subtitles
£8/£6 Cast
Germany / India / USA | 2019 | 110 min
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect. In Photograph, the intimate rhythms of classic Indian cinema combine with a hint of the Bollywood common touch to tell a familiar story in a transporting and evocative way.
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Genre Drama / Romance “Feels like a throwback to the old-fashioned big screen romances of yore.” – Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International
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ANIARA
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
Pella Kågerman
Language Swedish with English subtitles
Sun 7 July | 6.00pm | Vue Cinema Hull £8/£6 Denmark / Sweden | 2018 | 106 min
Emelie Jonsson, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian
With a distinct feel of J G Ballard about it, Aniara is a stylish and thought-provoking take on societal breakdown.
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Based on a prescient epic poem by Swedish Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson, the astounding and eerie ANIARA charts the fate of the human race after they have destroyed the planet. A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.
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Drama / Sci-Fi “Swedish existential dread in outer space, with a suicidal AI, ritualistic orgies and a giant galactic shopping mall: this striking first feature is a work of daunting ambition.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International
CLOSING FILM YORKSHIRE PREMIERE
NON-FICTION
No cert (TBC) Entry 18+
Olivier Assayas
Language French with English subtitles
Sun 7 July | 8.30pm | Vue Cinema Hull Cast
£8/£6 France | 2018 | 108 min
Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne
Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) for this wry, slyly seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature.
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Set in the Parisian publishing world, the film traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer begins blurring the line between fact and fiction, using his real-life love affairs — including a passionate fling with an actress who happens to be married to his editor — as fodder for his explosive new novel.
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Comedy / Drama / Romance “An enticing blend of the comic and the serious, a smart and sassy examination of the way we live now.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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