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Wind, Tide and Oar

Wind, Tide and Oar (PG)

Saturday 17 May 20252:30pm
Thursday 22 May 20255:00pm

Wind, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing, shot on 16mm film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of those who travel solely by harnessing the natural elements alone, following a diverse array of traditional boats and uncovering the unique rhythms and motivations of engineless navigation.


Journeying through rivers, coastlines, and open seas, spanning the UK, the Netherlands, and France, Wind, Tide & Oar creates a contemplative space, addressing themes of ecology, heritage, traditional skills, and maritime history. Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Wahl offers a poetic and intimate perspective on a millennia-old craft, upended by the invention of mechanised power.


Through the film’s reveries, sailing becomes a means to explore our interaction with and responsibility to the environment. It invites deep reflection on our relationship with nature, our understanding of and commitment to sustainability, and our care for the world around us.


The film is shot around Suffolk, Cornwall and Essex.



Die Walkure ROH 2025

Die Walkure ROH 2025 (12A Live)

Sunday 18 May 20252:00pm

Love and death, gods and mortals, heroes and villains: it’s all here, in the thunderous second chapter of the Ring cycle. Following the glittering triumph of Das Rheingold in 2023, Barrie Kosky and Antonio Pappano plunge back into Wagner’s mythic universe. Christopher Maltman’s Wotan returns alongside an international cast including Elisabet Strid as Brünnhilde, Lise Davidsen as Sieglinde and Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Siegmund.


It has become the most performed opera of the cycle, loved and admired for its nuanced and intelligent exploration of complex family entanglements, expressed through music of astonishing power – perhaps nowhere more so than in the glorious music for the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde.

The Last Musician of Auschwitz

The Last Musician of Auschwitz (12A)

Monday 19 May 20257:30pm
Wednesday 21 May 20252:30pm

How can there be music in the worst place in the world?


Told through the words of victims of Auschwitz who played and created music during the terrors of the Holocaust, this film shows how, in the most brutal and dehumanizing situations, music could be a lifeline, a way to give testimony, and even a way to resist. Woven throughout are new interpretations of musical works written by victims of the camp, mainly filmed at resonant locations in the environs of Auschwitz. Between them, they touch on themes of loss, longing, and cultural memory, and address head-on the barbaric and murderous regime at Auschwitz.

A New Kind of Wilderness

A New Kind of Wilderness (12A)

Tuesday 20 May 20252:00pm4:15pm
Wednesday 21 May 20255:00pm
Thursday 22 May 20257:30pm

In this Sundance-selected documentary, Englishman Nik and his Norwegian wife Maria attempt to forge a new life on a farm in her homeland’s lush woodlands. Their goal is to live sustainably, putting as little strain upon the planet as possible. But when the family suffers a tragedy, Nik’s resolve to continue on this singular mission is severely challenged and the ‘normal’ world comes knocking. Can they maintain some version of this idyll or is it a paradise out of reach?


Bearing comparison with the events of Captain Fantastic (2016) but played out with the complexities and inescapable truths of real life, A New Kind of Wilderness is not just a heartbreaking portrait of the endurance of a family, but also a breathtaking trip into the Norwegian wilderness. The kind of unfolding, surprising, intimate and honest documentary portrait that can only emerge over years of hard-won access,


A New Kind of Wilderness is for anyone who wants to (re)discover the power of family and think about different ways of striding this Earth.

Meet the Author: Alison Weir

Meet the Author: Alison Weir (12A Live)

Tuesday 20 May 20257:30pm
Alison Weir is the bestselling historian and novelist who has published almost 40 books, selling more than three million copies worldwide. She writes fiction and non-fiction and has most recently completed the highly acclaimed Six Tudor Queens series about the wives of Henry VIII.

She will be speaking to us about her latest novel, the surprising, compelling and fascinating life of Cardinal Wolsey - scholar, priest and politician, and close friend of Henry VIII.

Born in Ipswich, Wolsey had a modest upbringing but his flair and intelligence was quickly recognised by local schoolteachers and at just eleven years old he was sent to Oxford to study.

He went on to enjoy the world of academia but the church was the route he needed to pursue to achieve the power, wealth and influence he sought and, though he lacked a spiritual calling, he gained patronage from the Archbishop of Canterbury and then a place beside the King.

Wolsey came to be the richest and most powerful man in the land, but all the time he maintained a secret, other life.

Ultimately he was forced to make choices, and came to pay the highest price for his success.

The life and court of Henry VIII never fails to excite and fascinate and this is a fabulous tale of loyalty and friendship, wealth and power, deceit and compromise.

Alison Weir is a passionate and engaging speaker. Come and hear her talk about her research into Thomas Wolsey, her prolific writing schedule, and her desire to excite and inspire us with her biographies of the kings and queens through history.

Alison will be in conversation with Catherine Larner at The Riverside.

Early bird tickets are ?22 (including a copy of 'The Cardinal' RRP ?25) if purchased before 1 April.

After 1 April, tickets are ?25 (including the book).  One further ticket may be purchased for ?12.

Please include your surname when booking your ticket - this will be your reference when collecting your book on the night.
MI: The Final Reckoning

MI: The Final Reckoning (TBC)

Friday 23 May 20253:00pm (Closed)7:00pm (Closed)
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Tom Cruise returns to the role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt who is seeking the location of the destructive A.I. known as the Entity, a search set in motion by the events of the seat-gripping Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning - Part I from 2023.


Tickets on sale from 28th April

Sutton Hoo Special Event

Sutton Hoo Special Event (12A Live)

Saturday 24 May 20259:30am

Screening of a Time Team Special, The Sutton Hoo Ship – Rebuilding a Legend, followed by a fascinating Question & Answer session with Helen Geake (Time Team) and Martin Carver (Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York).


We're delighted to share a brand new Time Team Special film presented by Sir Tony Robinson!


In 1939, on the eve of war, a huge ship burial was discovered at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, laden with golden treasures, befitting Anglo-Saxon royalty. Now, a team of shipwrights and volunteers at The Longshed in Woodbridge are building a scale reconstruction, as acccurately as possible, using traditional methods.


Over the last few years, Time Team has been following the incredible building project, gradually watching the ship take shape. Join us for the story so far...



Michelangelo: Love & Death

Michelangelo: Love & Death (U)

Sunday 25 May 20253:00pm

Michelangelo - Love and Death offers a cinematic journey through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican, to the print and drawing rooms of Europe, to explore Michelangelo's tempestuous life. The film goes in search of a greater understanding of this charismatic and enigmatic figure, both through his relationships with his contemporaries and his ongoing artistic legacy.


The film invites audiences to intimately examine Michelangelo’s art and artistic process - from the Carrara quarries where Michelangelo sourced his marble, to the new technology being used to attribute works. The film also offers a rare chance to get up close to the mesmerising Rothschild Bronzes, which, following an extensive research project carried out by Academics in Cambridge in 2015, were positively attributed to Michelangelo after over a century of debate.


Key contributors to the film include art critics Martin Gayford and Jonathan Jones, Deputy Director of the Vatican Museums Professor Arnold Nesselrath and contemporary artist Tania Kovats.


Filming locations include Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Carrara marble mines, the Medici Chapel and the Vatican. These beautiful locations, combined with high-resolution views of Michelangelo’s greatest works, convene to create a staggering visual experience.