/ Film

The Choral 12A

Screening from Fri 7 Nov
★★★★ – The Times
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/ Film

Palestine 36 12A

Screening from Fri 7 Nov
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/ Filmwallahs

Sholay PG

Sat 15 Nov, 7.15pm
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/ Film

Dragonfly 15

Screening from Fri 7 Nov
"★★★★ – Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough are superb" – Guardian
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Frankenstein 15

EXTRA SHOWS: Screening until Thu 13 Nov
"★★★★★ – Guillermo del Toro's gory and glorious creation is a triumph" – Radio Times
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/ Film

Bugonia 15

EXTRA SHOWS: Screening until Thu 13 Nov
★★★★★ – Telegraph
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/ Season

Too Much: Melodrama on Film

Screenings from Nov – Dec
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/ Festival

French Film Festival UK

Screenings from Nov – Dec
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/ Season

Filmwallahs Season

From October 2025
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/ NT Live

NT Live: The Fifth Step 15

Thu 27 Nov, 7pm | Sat 29 Nov, 5.15pm (captions) | Sat 29 Nov, 7.30pm | Thu 4 Dec, 7pm
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/ Exhibition on Screen

Caravaggio 12A

Thu 20 Nov, 6.30pm | Sun 23 Nov, 3.30pm
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/ Digital BlackCentric Week

Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. 15

Fri 7 Nov, 7.30pm

Screening as part of Digital BlackCentric Week. After years of there only being a single 35mm print available for screenings, Leslie Harris’s ground-breaking Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. has been digitally restored in 4K.

Screening today
7.30pm
/ ESRC Festival of Social Science

Babel + Q&A 15

Fri 7 Nov, 7.45pm | FREE Screening

★★★★ – Empire. A free screening and Q&A of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's epic Oscar-nominated psychological drama spanning cultures and continents.

Screening today
7.45pm

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/ Leicester Jazz House

Leicester Jazz House Presents: The Brandon Allen Quartet N/A

Thu 13 Nov, 8pm

We're delighted to welcome Leicester Jazz House back to Phoenix for a new season of performances for 2025/26, this month featuring The Brandon Allen Quartet.

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Extreme Cinema 18+

Sat 15 Nov, 11.30am

Extreme Cinema examines the cultural, aesthetic, and ethical boundaries of cinema that shocks, unsettles, and challenges audiences. What makes a film ‘extreme’? Is it purely a matter of graphic content, or something more complex?

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Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote 15

Sun 30 Nov, 7.30pm | Tickets £21 (+£1.25 admin fee for non-members)

Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote comes to Leicester with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “A Fashionable Way to Die”.

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Exhibitions & Talks

/ Artist talk

Artist Talk: Demystifying Quantum Computing Art N/A

Mon 17 Nov, 6.30pm | Free

With their exhibition Quantum Computing Art currently on show in our Café Bar, we invite you to join us for a talk from artists Ernest Edmonds and Jonathan Knoblauch that will demystify quantum computing and its role in art.

/ Exhibition

Sue Gollifer Retrospective

Fri 19 Sep – Sun 11 Jan | Phoenix gallery, Free

Following its London show, we are excited to bring this collection of rarely-seen original works by artist and printmaker Sue Gollifer to our gallery, alongside complementary video material.

/ Exhibition

Quantum Computing Art: Ernest Edmonds and Jonathan Knoblauch

Thu 2 Oct – Mon 29 Dec | Café Bar, Free

We present the latest collection of work from internationally renowned computer art pioneer, Ernest Edmonds, which use quantum computers to generate elements of the ever-evolving artworks.

About Cinema

Phoenix is an independent cinema screening the best films from around the world, from micro-budget foreign pictures to Hollywood blockbusters.

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About Art

Phoenix’s art and digital culture programme presents free exhibitions by artists from across the world, supported by Arts Council England and De Montfort University.

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Whether for pleasure, professional skills or education, Phoenix's short courses, talks, workshops and screenings make learning rewarding and fun.