Village Cinema

The Village Cinema runs from September through to June and is generally on the third Saturday of each month: the dates and films are announced in the Parish Magazine, on this website (below), on posters around the village, and on social media.

In its first season, the Village Cinema showed a variety of films, blockbusters such as No Time to Die and Black Widow, Oscars-winners such as King Richard and West Side Story, new British films such as Dream Horse and The Duke, and more thought-provoking films such as Belfast and First Cow.

The original Slinfold Village Cinema ran on Friday evenings during the winter months from 2002 to 2012. It was a popular social gathering for villagers, as well as providing a good evening’s entertainment. The main feature film was always preceded by the popular and often amusing Slinfold Newsreel recording aspects of village life over the previous month – and we show selected excerpts from those old Newsreels before each film.

Ever since that original cinema ceased operating, the number one request people made of the Village Hall was to bring the cinema back, but the costs of doing so were prohibitively high. Then in 2021 the Village Hall was the beneficiary of very generous bequest from the estate of the late Janet and Alan Chisholm, and the trustees decided that the money should be spent on installing cinema-grade projection and sound equipment for a cinema, and anyone else, to use. This has proven to be an inspired decision, with the cinema being a great success – attracting 50-60 people per film, out of a capacity of 64, since lockdown restrictions were ended.

Admission details

Admission: £5.00

Doors open at 7:00pm (unless stated otherwise). Please arrive in good time.
Films start at 7:30 p.m.

Wine, soft drinks, snacks & ice cream are available beforehand and during the interval.

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