On September 25th 2025 the Riverside was 110 years old.

Our technical assistant, William Caley, has made a new film which looks back through the Riverside archive to when the cinema was built in 1915 and traces our 110 year history, and features a few recently newly filmed interviews with Pat Betts, Stuart Saunders and Tina Wiseman.

Our current manager, Neil, and Technical assistant, Will, have for the past few years been working on researching the cinema’s history and collecting all the material together to make a book (now available from the box office!), and this new documentary film.

Come along and celebrate our exciting and fascinating history for our 110th birthday.

SUFFOLK SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL

Suffolk Shorts film festival returns to The Riverside for its 4th year with one day packed with 38 shortlisted short films from all over the world, and a special showcase for local filmmakers. The 4 award winners will be announced on the day.

New Voices: all genres of short films were considered for this category, with the focus being on storytelling in new ways. The shortlist of 9 films features a very hard hitting UK military drama, a short wistful animation, and a multinational imagining of a world where traditional cinema is extinct. New stories from new voices.

SUFFOLK SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL

Suffolk Shorts film festival returns to The Riverside for its 4th year with one day packed with 38 shortlisted short films from all over the world, and a special showcase for local filmmakers. The 4 award winners will be announced on the day.

Unique perspectives: films on the fringe from a diverse range of perspectives. Each film offers a fresh lens on the world, flipping the script on reality. Dance, ice skating, a deep dive into the otherworldly bog biome, moody lo-fi music and clay modelling, and a reconstruction of memories on 16mm Kodak film. This program dares you to see the world differently.

SUFFOLK SHORTS

Suffolk Shorts film festival returns to The Riverside for its 4th year with one day packed with 38 shortlisted short films from all over the world, and a special showcase for local filmmakers. The 4 award winners will be announced on the day.

Narrative Shorts: Whether it’s unspeakable comedy, gripping drama, or something entirely original that defies genre, these short films deliver unforgettable stories. Featuring the 2025 BAFTA winner based on a true story, a window into the world of precocious French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, and a graphic imagining of a hidden threat to a surgeon on her last day in theatre. These are the storytellers of the future.

SUFFOLK SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL

Suffolk Shorts film festival returns to The Riverside for its 4th year with one day packed with 38 shortlisted short films from all over the world, and a special showcase for local filmmakers. The 4 award winners will be announced on the day.

East Anglian showcase: We champion local filmmaking. For this category we have discovered short films that tell East Anglian Stories, films made by East Anglian filmmakers and films that have been made in East Anglia. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by actor/director Joshua Dickinson.

Screening in tribute to the late Robert Redford who sadly passed away on the 16th September 2025.

“Immensely enjoyable to watch – glowingly photographed, wittily scripted, and with superbly confident performances from Paul Newman and Robert Redford.” David Wilson, Monthly Film Bulletin, April 1970 “Most of what follows is true,” announces the opening caption, setting the playful tone for this tale of bank-robbing outlaws who find the Old West getting too hot for them, before heading for new pastures in Bolivia. As that caption suggests, writer William Goldman and director George Roy Hill are less interested in authentic historical atmosphere – or a conclusive answer to the mystery of the real Butch and Sundance’s ultimate fate – than in having fun, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford making a wonderfully relaxed double act. The laidback 1969 vibe is further enhanced by the hints of ménage à trois with moll Etta Place (Katharine Ross) and music by Burt Bacharach, including the hit song ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’.

Screening in tribute to the late Robert Redford who sadly passed away on 16th September 2025.

Two green reporters and rivals working for the Washington Post, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), research the botched 1972 burglary of the Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex. With the help of a mysterious source, code-named Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook), the two reporters make a connection between the burglars and a White House staffer. Despite dire warnings about their safety, the duo follows the money all the way to the top.