15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

After living undocumented in the UK for two years, Nigerian migrant Isio is caught and sent to the Hatchworth Removal Centre. She hopes for a fair asylum hearing and is convinced that, as long as she strictly follows the rules, she will be released – even if her charismatic new roommate Farah tells her this is a naive mistake.

Classic film sessions: They're classics for a reason!. An exciting mix of English language films from Britain, Hollywood and the world, every Wednesday at 2pm. (If no film is listed for a particular Wednesday, that means there is a private booking that day).The tickets are available from our website as well as in person at the cinema, group bookings welcome.x

The selection of five Shorts films. Supported by Portsmouth City of Sanctuary.

HAYAT (2019) dir. Rendah Haj

Running time 14 mins

TSKATULBO (2023) (tskahll-TOO-boh) dir. Toby Andris

Running time 24 mins

MIGRANTS (2020) dir. Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise

Running time 8 mins

INFANCIA DESTERRADA (2022) dir. Alberto Arnaut Estrada & Diego Rabasa

Running time 16 mins

AZIZA (2019) dir. Soudade Kaadan

Running time 13 mins

Everybody to Kenmure Street is a 2026 documentary film directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra that chronicles the Kenmure Street protests, the community resistance to a Home Office immigration raid in Glasgow's Pollokshields neighbourhood in 2021.

The film premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance.

Join us this special sing-a-long outdoor cinema at the prime location: Portsmouth Cricket Club. Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical. Sing a-long!

(Bar will be available - please don't bring your picnic to this venue)

Southsea Arts Hidden Talent Live Music Night 11th edition!  Celebrations of young people’s live music performances for Saturday evenings.If you wish for your band to be included in these activities, please email us for details and scheduling opportunities. admin@southseacinema.co.uk

NO Re-admission policy apply.

£6 ticket

PROGRAMME

6PM (Doors open)

Pistol --  6.30PM

True Blue --7.15PM

Minerva – 8PM

Please reserve your tickets in advance, these events are popular.

An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.

Supported by Friends Witout Borders

RECOVERY FILM CLUB Welcome to our new independently run film club. This club runs once a month. Come and see some of the best cinema that celebrates recovery in life. We will blend a range of films that highlight substance misuses and share the films to champion Recovery.

 Open to the public  

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

A Steven Spielberg classic film at Portsmouth Cricket Club. An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home. Bar will open at the Portsmouth Cricket Club. Bring your torches, lights for the event please.

🎬 SEND-Sational Cinema Sessions 🎬

Join us at Southsea Cinema & Arts Centre for relaxed, inclusive film screenings designed especially for young people with SEND and their families  on Saturday mornings or Tuesday afternoons. We havead justable volume/lights

Flexible seating and baby changing facilities 💜 Carers go FREE! Come along for a comfortable, welcoming cinema experience for everyone. Please reserve this in advance

Get ready, Southsea! 🔥

King Willy Will is bringing an exclusive live show to the stage at Southsea Cinema & Arts Centre on Saturday 27th June!

Expect an unforgettable night packed with live music, special guests, and DJs spinning late into the night. 🚨

🕕 Doors open: 6PM

🎫 Advance tickets: £15

🔞 16+ Event

Limited tickets available — book early to avoid missing out! 🔥

A Private film screening for the Dickens Fellowship. We will share a film from 1934.

A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.

An unique international cinematic and culinary experiences every month. We've curated a season of great films from diverse countries, combined with an authentic street food dish prepared by native chefs.  The first Thursday of every month. Come join us, let our films and chefs give you a little flavour of their home. Doors open at 6PM for food and drink at the licensed bar, with the film starting at 7PM

5th February Ethiopian

5th March Bolivian

2nd April  Japan

7th May Polish

4th June Italian

Get ready for this sing a-long film under the stars t Portsmouth Cricket Club! Years after the original film, Sophie prepares for the grand opening of the Hotel Bella Donna, in memory of her mother. Bereavement is handled sensitively but some sex references may be unsuitable for the very young.

George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck interweaves clips, readings from Orwell's diary, cinematic references, and modern-day footage to craft not only a portrait of the writer, but a fresh take on how prophetic his work has become.

Back again due to popular request!

A full documentary film building on the National Emergency Briefing. It will feature footage from the event, with reactions from members of the public and some more familiar faces.

The screening is 7pm. The film will present the national implications of climate and nature breakdown - along with positive actions - into a single, accessible account designed for screening in communities across the UK

We have 30 - 45min for panel discussion run by Portsmouth Climate Collective afterwards. This is a free screening but we will accept donations

Donation £3

Top notch outdoor film experience for families at Portsmouth Cricket Club! When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner. Look for the online free golden tickets for children for this screening please. :)

Southsea Arts Poetry Collective presents: Our Poem Reading day, this is a free event - please bring your poems or your music...See you soon!!  Please reserve your place, this is a very popular event.

We are delighted to show this film for Portsmouth 100 Celebrations at Portsmouth Cricket Club. This is a free public screening, please reserve your place.

 When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

🔥 DNB / Liquid Exclusive lands at Southsea Cinema & Arts Centre on Saturday 25th July! 🔥

Get ready for an explosive evening of liquid drum & bass featuring Creatures, Lees, Replete, Bacca, Roni, Vylan, and Azi, hosted by MCs Dunn, Barney Rubble & Moobsie.

🕓 4 PM – 11:30 PM

🎟 £10 online / £15 on the gate

⛔ Last entry: 8 PM | 18+ Only

Secure your tickets early and experience a full night of heavyweight vibes, energy, and bass! 🎶.

No Re-admission policy applies

We are delighted to share with you this classic film in outdoor settings at Staggeringly Good Brewery. Members of a street gang known as the Warriors must fight their way from the Bronx to their home turf on Coney Island when they are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader. Bar will be open, please do not bring your drinks. Come with your gang!

Join us for this classic film screening at Staggeringly Good Brewery Angst-ridden youth Jimmy Cooper escapes the drudgery of his postal job as a member of the Mods, a sharply dressed gang constantly at odds with their rivals, the Rockers. When the Mods and Rockers clash in Brighton, it leads to both trouble and an encounter with the lovely Steph. Returning to London, Jimmy, who aspires to be like Mod leader Ace Face, becomes even more disillusioned...

 This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.    12+

'" I was born a spotter.' Thus, we are introduced to Gus Gascoigne, young, spotty, perpetually cheerful and completely bemused by anything that isn't involved with his sole interest - trainspotting. Touching, ironic and consistently hilarious, Anorak of Fire, which enjoyed a long run at London's Arts Theatre, after the Edinburgh Fringe, is a guaranteed audience-pleaser."

Come along and support local art and craft market at our venue please!  11pm-8pm on 21-22-23 August. We are looking forward to host first evening market in our town!!!

Shorts::Cut Film Festival Short Listed film Screening will be on Friday 23rd October 6:00pm at Southsea Cinema, SHORTS:CUT LOCAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (2hrs)

Also, we will announce the 2025 festival winner this evening.