• Little Amélie or The Character of Rain (PG) Borderlines Film Festival

    Studio One

    An astoundingly beautiful animation that is driven by the joy and confusion of a little girl’s discovery of the world and her place within it. In late 1960s Japan, Belgian toddler Amélie finds the world a perplexing mystery until a rapturous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity about, well, everything. Exploring the […]

  • Michael Starring Ben

    Festival Theatre Grange Road, Malvern

    Take a journey back in time to remember Michael Jackson – the man, the music and the magic. Michael Starring Ben is a hit theatre production starring the UK's ultimate Michael Jackson tribute star, Ben Bowman. Not only does he look and sound like the King of Pop, but he's honed his routine so carefully that […]

  • The Last One for the Road (15) Borderlines Film Festival

    Studio One

    A whimsical, occasionally melancholic and very charming romp through the Italian countryside in the company of two ageing boozers. Carlobianchi and Doriano are charismatic criminals with big personalities and a […]

  • The Secret Agent (15) Borderlines Film Festival

    Cinema

    Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius, Bacurau) delivers a rich, novelistic political thriller. 1977 Brazil: Amid the revelry of Carnival, widower Marcelo arrives in vibrant, violent Recife. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is on the run from mercenary killers and the […]

  • Everybody to Kenmure Street (15) Borderlines Film Festival

    Cinema

    A UK Home Office dawn raid in Glasgow sparks one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. On the morning of Eid, May 2021, police swooped on two local men facing deportation in Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood. Hundreds of residents left their daily routines to take to the […]

  • All That’s Left of You (12A) Borderlines Film Festival

    Cinema

    On sale Friday 6th February Teenager Noor chases a friend through the streets of Nablus, only to be drawn into an intifada – with fateful consequences. Inspired by the real-life experiences of Palestinian American filmmaker Cherien Dabis, her own family, relatives and friends, the film powerfully explores the shared humanity of those forced to confront […]

  • 2Faced Dance: Tomorrow

    Festival Theatre Grange Road, Malvern

    Tomorrow is a physical response to the things we struggle to say with words. As the world feels ever more at odds with itself, how do we find our place? In this new, highly-anticipated work from choreographer Tamsin Fitzgerald, 2Faced’s extraordinary male company explore the future, with their trademark no-holds-barred approach of stunning athletic performance […]

  • Resurrection (15) Borderlines Film Festival

    Cinema

    Virtuoso Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night) returns with a film that heralds the death of cinema while magnificently celebrating it. Spanning a century, Resurrection divides into six chapters, each taking place in a specific cinematic era and genre, from actualities, through expressionism and noir to the vampire film. In the future, […]

  • Enzo (15) Borderlines Film Festival

    Cinema

    On sale Friday 6th February The final film from Laurent Cantet (The Class) offers a low-key but sensitive observation of class and sexual awareness from a teenager’s point of view. 16-year-old Enzo flouts the expectations of his well-off family by quitting school and signing up as an apprentice on a building site. Disconnected from his […]

  • Soul Brothers Syndicate

    Festival Theatre Grange Road, Malvern

    As seen on the BBC Northern Soul at the Proms! The Soul Brothers Syndicate, featuring Darrell Smith, Judith Ude & Grace Curran bring to you a breath-taking live show with their 20-piece Northern Soul Orchestra playing less tribute and more homage to the music known as Northern Soul. The band bring their own unique spirit […]

  • Taste Traditions: Keeping Local Foods Alive (PG)

    Cinema

    Two short films from 50 years ago, featuring characters from farming communities in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. All of them were keen to keep alive centuries-old local food and cooking traditions. In Andrew Snell’s films there is fishing for lamperns on the river Severn in Worcester down to the spectacular trapping of salmon with lave […]