Important Notice

Following this summer’s Lockdown measures, we hope to resume screenings later this year.

Our last three screenings in the current run that were scheduled in March  (PARASITE, LITTLE JOE and PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) were postponed.

Thank you for your patience through these difficult times, and if you have any questions about future plans for Filmhouse Sunderland please contact us at admin@filmhousesunderland.co.uk

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La Dolce Vita (12A)

Director: Federico Fellini.  Italy 1960. 176 mins. In English and Italian, French and German with English subtitles. What better way to open Filmhouse Sunderland than with this glittering reissue of Federico Fellini’s acclaimed masterpiece. Presented in a beautiful 4K restoration, La Dolce Vita is the satirical story of Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni), a gossip journalist living and...

2040 (PG)

Dir. Damon Gameu.  Australia 2019. 92 mins. Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to...

Pink Wall (15)

Dir. Tom Cullen. UK 2019. 82 mins. An intimate, modern-day romance, Pink Wall follows the six-year relationship of Jenna (Tatiana Maslany) and Leon (Jay Duplass). Told through six defining moments along their journey together, the film explores how both friendship and resentments grow between them as the pressures of adult life get in the way.  Bracingly honest, the film features two fantastic performances from the leads,...

The Runaways (12A)

Dir. Richard Heap. UK 2019. 113 mins. An atmospheric and uplifting celebration of childhood and family, The Runaways is a fantastic new road movie in the style of classic British adventure films.  After a family tragedy and the arrival on the scene of their wayward uncle, fresh from prison, three runaway children (including BAFTA winner Molly...

Midnight Traveller (15)

Dir. Hasan Fazili. Qatar/UK/Canada/UK 2019. 88 mins. In English and Persian, Turkish and Bulgarian with English subtitles. The international migration crisis is shown in intimate, stark detail in this new documentary from Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili. The film starts in 2015, when the Taliban placed a bounty on Fazili’s head.  Forced to flee with his...

Weathering With You (12A)

  Dir. Makoto Shinkai. Japan 2019. 1hr 52mins. In Japanese with English subtitles. (Tenki no ko) CAST: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Ogumi, Sei Hiraiyzumi This dazzling Japanese animation comes from the visionary director Makoto Shinkai, creator of the 2016 global hit Your Name. In the summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs...

Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blache (PG)

  Dir. Pamela Green. USA 2018. 1hr 43mins. CAST: Alice Guy, Richard Abel, Marc Abraham This incredible documentary delves deep into cinematic history to tell the story of the very first female filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, revealing for the first time the full scope of her life and pioneering work. Having completed her first film in...