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/ Season

Big Screen Musicals – Season 2

Screening Sep 2024 – Mar 2025

A season of the world's greatest stage musicals, with award winning productions captured live on West End and Broadway stages! Tickets from £10.

/ Festival

French Film Festival UK 2024

Films screening this November and December

We’re delighted to welcome the French Film Festival UK back to Phoenix for their annual glittering celebration of the best in French language cinema.

/ Season

Noirvember

Films screening throughout November

To mark Noirvember – the annual celebration of Film Noir – we present this mini-season from Park Circus, curated by film critic Christina Newland.

/ Season

Old School Action

Films screening this November and December

A selection of glorious action movies that as a teenager you probably thought were the best films ever made. Maybe you were right.

/ Leicester Jazz House

Leicester Jazz House Presents

September – February

This autumn we’re delighted to be hosting a series of live performances in partnership with Leicester Jazz House, bringing world class performers to our intimate Screen 2 stage.

/ Festival

Leicester Comedy Festival

Fri 7 – Sat 22 Feb 2025

Leicester Comedy Festival is back at Phoenix with a programme that's bigger than ever!

Access Cinema

Regular screenings for people with differing access needs, to give all our customers the chance to enjoy a great cinema experience.

Audio described screenings

For our customers who are blind or have slight loss, many films now come with audio description, where a recorded narrator describes the on-screen action during gaps in the dialogue.

Autism friendly

For children and adults on the autistics / Asperger’s spectrum, these screenings have reduced sound levels, partially raised lighting, no trailers and freedom to move around.

Descriptive subtitles

For anyone who is deaf or has hearing loss, we show subtitled versions of the latest English language movies in our main cinema screens.

Phoenix Leicester

Phoenix is Leicester’s centre for independent cinema, art and digital culture. Films and art deserve to be experienced somewhere special – which is why the whole Phoenix team works hard to make Phoenix a place where everyone can feel welcome and inspired.

Following a multi-million pound expansion, Phoenix now boast four state-of-the-art cinema screens, and shows everything from micro-budget independent films to the latest Hollywood blockbusters, plus film festivals and special events. And as an independent venue, the team handpicks Phoenix’s cinema programme specifically for Leicester audiences, so you’ll see things at Phoenix that aren’t screening in any other local cinemas.

With two superb galleries, Phoenix’s digital art programme presents exciting and innovative work by local and international artists; and short courses, workshops and activities provide opportunities for people of all ages to learn about and create their own film and art.

Our newly opened Café Bar offers a stylish and comfortable place to see friends and relax over a meal and drinks, or meet with clients and catch up on some work.

Phoenix believes that film and art have the power to enhance lives, and for many customers Phoenix staff make the difference. With a clear passion for their work, you’ll find many are studying film or art locally, or are involved in the wider creative community Phoenix attracts.

And as a local charity, all earnings go back into developing Phoenix’s creative programmes, enabling them to reach out to more people.

We hope to see you soon.