- Film screenings take place on the first Thursday of each month
- All tickets cost £7
- Doors open from 6.30pm; films start at 7.30pm. There is no admittance after the film begins
- You can buy tickets in advance online (booking fee applies) or from the Riverport Café at the St Ives Corn Exchange
- You can also buy tickets at the screening itself, if seats are still available (cash only)
Hard Truths
7:30pm, Thursday 6 November 2025
- Starring: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin
- Director: Mike Leigh
- 97m
- Cert: 12A
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments — brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
La Bohème (A Royal Opera House performance)
7:30pm, Thursday 20 November 2025
- Director: Richard Jones
- 118m
- Cert: N/A
- Tickets £10
A Royal Opera House Production. Sonya Yoncheva and Charles Castronovo lead an award-winning cast in Richard Jones’s acclaimed 2020 production of Puccini’s most heartrending opera. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus in some of the composer’s most luscious and memorable music. Spectacular designs by Stewart Laing for this Royal Opera production set the passion, friendship, comedy and tragedy in late 19th-century Paris. The production evokes the vulnerability of youth amid the harshness and glamour of the big city, and contrasts the poverty of the bohemian’s attic home with the splendour of Paris’s shopping arcades on Christmas Eve.
