Cinema Social

Cinema Social offers your community group, grassroots organisation or not-for-profit the opportunity to book a private screening at HOME for FREE!

With Cinema Social, we want to bring people together for a shared, uplifting and inclusive cultural experience at HOME's welcoming and relaxed space. This offering is exclusively for groups who are making a difference, supporting young people and communities, or working to make positive change. Our cinema has 36 seats and 2 wheelchair spaces available and we require a minimum of 4 weeks notice to schedule your film.

How does it work?

If you want to bring your your group to HOME and enjoy a cinema trip for free, please fill in the form found in the link below. We need a minimum of 4 weeks notice in order to schedule your film and for each screening we can offer a maximum of 36 seats and 2 wheelchair spaces. There are a limited number of funded trips each year and new groups that have not already experienced Cinema Social will be prioritised. Groups that attend Cinema Social will be required to complete a monitoring & feedback form, in order for HOME to report to funders.  

Register for Cinema Social

You can choose from a wide selection of films from the film menu below, and arrange your trip to HOME on your preffered date. (Subject to availability)

Pick your film

Polite Society

Ria - an aspiring martial artist and stuntwoman - attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

 
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Evelyn - an exhausted Chinese-American woman - journeys through time and space on a mission to finish her taxes

Summer of Soul

A powerful documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival: a watershed moment in modern Black history and culture. 

24 Hour Party People

Steve Coogan stars as Tony Wilson in this raucous retelling of the rise and fall of Factory Records.

Barbie

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. 

 
Next Goal Wins

A maverick coach tries to turn around the world's worst football team in this heartfelt underdog comedy. 

Wilding

A young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. 

Grand Theft Hamlet

Two actors - out of work and living through lockdown - attempt to stage a production of Hamlet inside the world of Grand Theft Auto. 

Slow, Small but Steady

Keiko surprises everyone when she overcomes adversity to win her first two boxing fights. But when an unexpected incident threatens the closure of her gym, she is pushed further than she thought possible. 

 
Suffragette

A stirring drama, inspired by the true story of the women who changed the world. 

 
Rye Lane

Yas and Dom, two twenty-somethings both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London.

The Queen of My Dreams

Azra is worlds apart from her conservative muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Karachi, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming-of-age in Canada. 

 
Robot Dreams

Dog is lonely; whiling away long evenings in his Manhattan studio apartment. Tired of his solitary life, he decides to purchase a friend: Robot, a fun-loving companion.

 
The Old Oak

The fate of The Old Oak, the last remaining pub in a North East village, hangs in the balance, and is complicated further by the arrival of Syrian refugees. 

 
Wicked Little Letters

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal when its residents begin to receive a series of unusual letters. 

Four Mothers

A talented novelist on the cusp of literary success is left juggling his work with caring for four elderly women when his friends decide to take an impromptu Pride getaway to Spain.

 
Heroes, Heartbeats, and Shorelines

A dynamic collection of short films that explores identity, transformation, and the unexpected connections that shape us, from superheroes to shorelines. 

With thanks to Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival www.irisprize.org 

Films in this programme:  
Teth: Following surgery, Ioan and his father adapt to their new relationship as father and son. 
Where Are All the Gay Superheroes: An LGBTQIA+ crowd-pleaser, combining elements of sci-fi, drama and comedy. 
Façade: Following gender affirming facial feminisation surgery, a transgender woman contemplates what it means to be alive. 
Boys in the Water: End of summer on the Breton coast. Oscar invites his group of friends to spend a week’s vacation at his grandparent’s house. He hasn’t been back to his childhood home for years – not since he came out as a trans boy. On the beach, the gang meets Malo, a handsome local guy, also trans.

  
My Beautiful Laundrette

In a Pakistani community of 1980s London, Omar and his friend Johnny take over a run-down laundrette. Against a background of racial tension, their relationship blossoms to love.

Pain and Glory

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life, as past and present come crashing down around him.

 
Carol

Therese Belivet spots the beautiful, elegant Carol perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences. 

Hocus Pocus

Three wild witches return from 17th-century Salem after they're accidentally conjured up by pranksters on a fateful Halloween night.  

 
Casper

When a "ghost therapist" and his daughter move into a drafty old mansion to exorcise its otherworldly inhabitants, they meet a friendly young ghost and his outrageous uncles. 

 
Coco

Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colourful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events

 
The Addams Family

Life in the Addams family household begins to unravel when they face-off against a crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration. 

Hotel Transylvania

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed.