"It's been called ska, it's even been called blue beat and rock steady but when these bands start swinging, our young people are in agreement, the only word for it is FUN!"
Get your best black and white checkerboard outfit ready as Jumbo is celebrating all things ska for Scalarama Leeds with Feel Good Film Club Experience's screening of concert film Dance Craze!
Milk Teeth Productions are back with a new edition of their regular short films evening, NXNE!
Come and watch the finest shorts God's Own Country has to offer! Most filmmakers will be in attendance, so this is a great way to find future collaborators for your next film project.
There will be two halves of short films and a 30-minute interval, for an opportunity to network and spin the infamous Milk Teeth wheel of fortune!
This screening is part of Scalarama Leeds 2025 Film Festival, a DIY celebration of pop-up cinema and independent film exhibition.
From director “Michael J. Paradise” (not his real name), The Visitor is a beautiful and baffling sci-fi horror mash up of The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Posing as a kindly babysitter, mysterious cosmic entity Jerzy Colsowicz travels to Earth in search of foul mouthed eight year old Katy Collins, the only living descendant of the evil alien mutant Zatine. Their battle of wills may determine the fate of humanity, and even the universe!
Obsessed with defeating death, brilliant but deranged medical student Herbert West invents a glowing green serum that can reanimate dead tissue. Roping in his sceptical roommate and fellow student Dan Cain, the two perform increasingly dangerous experiments on dead bodies that spiral out of control.
Loosely based on a H.P. Lovecraft short story, this deliciously camp, darkly comic cult favourite blends grotesque, glistening body horror with outrageous slapstick - a descent into madness and joyous chaos!
An exciting programme of animated short films curated by the amazing Leeds Animation Workshop. These animations were made in many different countries - even Leeds.
Some you may find thought-provoking, some beautiful, some funny, some inspiring - these are films you don't get chance to see anywhere else!
This screening is part of Scalarama Leeds 2025 Film Festival, a DIY celebration of pop-up cinema and independent film exhibition.
This September, you are invited to go behind the scenes of the city's thriving creative community for the 3rd year of Leeds Open Studios – a one-day celebration of local talent taking place on Saturday 13th September.
Spanning beyond the city centre and across the wider Leeds area, this exciting event gives residents and visitors the rare opportunity to step inside working artists' studios, meet the makers, and experience the rich diversity of creative practices happening across the city.
This true crime drama was Bob Fosse’s final film, it was a stark departure from the musicals he is better known for. Eric Roberts in a career defining role stars as Paul Snider perhaps the sleaziest person to ever inhabit the silver screen. Mariel Hemingway stars as Dorothy Stratten, playboy bunny turned actress. Cliff Robertson stars as Hugh Hefner.
The Speed Sisters are the first all-women race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five athletes have sped their way into the heart of the Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, Speed Sisters documents a journey of steadfast resistance against occupation, driven by the determination for justice, and a free Palestine.
Part of our New Programmer's Scheme, Hidden Hand presents the occult classic Häxan.
A monochromatic descent into paranoid vindication, where dissidents are ostracised and persecuted by the state. Once banned and censored across the world, Benjamin Christensen’s fictionalised documentary spans the Middle Ages to the 20th century, offering a haunting reflection on the machinery of unquestioned power.
After discovering a secret stash of gold and dividing it up between them, Bruce Li and his friends are hunted down by a group of ruthless criminals and assassins. Can Bruce and his high kicking kung fu skills save himself and the people he cares about most from their horrible fate? Find out in this gritty, neo-realist forgotten classic of the Bruceploitation genre from famed Shaw Brothers director Kuei Chih-Hung (The Boxer's Omen, Killer Constable)!
Also known as The Gold Connection.