Upcoming events
Film Screening | Junction
Free
Have you just completed your end of year film project for college or university? Is your short film under 10 minutes and you would like to screen it, then let us know by emailing: info@somersetfilm.com
Our Junction events are an opportunity for local creatives and film fans to network, watch current projects and discover how the work was made. We'll be screening shorts from local filmmakers.
Wellington Film Festival | The Greatest Showman: Sing-a-Long
Free | Pre-booking required | Cert PG
The Sunday afternoon picnic musical on the Wellington School playing field is The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman and telling the story of P T Barnum who created and ran the world’s most famous circus.
Wellington Film Festival | Jurassic Park
Cert 12 A
A pragmatic paleontologist touring a new theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with saving a couple of young kids after a power failure causes the park’s cloned dinosaurs to break free and run amok. Sounds a bit far-fetched as a movie plot but 30 years ago Jurassic Park took the world by storm.
Wellington Film Festival | Saturday Night Fever
Cert 18
John Travolta performs as the troubled Tony Manero – Brooklyn paint store clerk by day and undisputed king of the dance floor by night. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
Wellington Film Festival | Untouchable
Price £5 | Cert 15
Based on a true story of friendship between a paralysed millionaire confined to a wheelchair and his street smart ex-con caretaker UNTOUCHABLE depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty, kindness and humour between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
Wellington Film Festival | Six Inches of Soil
Price £5 | Cert PG
Post-film discussion with Guest Speaker
The film Six Inches of Soil is a British independent full feature documentary shining a spotlight on soil health and regenerative farming. It tells the inspiring story of young British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food – to heal the soil, our health and provide for local communities.
Sold Out - Wellington Film Festival | Metropolis with Palooka 5
Price £10
We present Fritz Lang’s 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent classic ‘Metropolis’ (1984 cut – 1 hr 20 mins). The plot sees Metropolis as a home home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life.
To accompany ‘Metropolis’ ‘sci fi surf’ band Palooka 5 will providing a live soundtrack to Langs classic.
SOLD OUT - Wellington Film Festival | Home (Schools Film Screening)
Free for groups of students from local Primary Schools.
When Oh (Jim Parsons), a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people.
Event | Junction
Free
Do you love watching and making films? Junction events are an opportunity for local creatives and film fans to network, watch current projects and discover how the work was made. We'll be screening shorts from local filmmakers, read more.
If you have a short film (under 10 mins) you would like to screen, email: info@somersetfilm.com
Film Screening | A Man from the Sun
Tickets: £5.25 - £6.50
Join us for a special film screening to mark the 75th anniversary of the HMS Empire Windrush arriving in Britain and to celebrate the Windrush generation today, read more.
Event | Seed the Day
FREE
We are taking part in Seed the Day, after browsing the vegan market in the High Street come to The Engine Room to; hear from artists involved in making work linked to environmental themes, watch environmental films featured in the 2023 Frome International Climate Film Festival, take part in our plant and seed swap.
Event | May Junction
FREE*
Do you love watching and making films? Junction events are an opportunity for local creatives and film fans to network, watch current projects and discover how the work was made. We'll be screening shorts from local filmmakers, read more.
If you have a short film (under 10 mins) you would like to screen, email: info@somersetfilm.com
Fashion Reimagined
Free*
Trailblazing fashion designer Amy Powney is on a mission to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment and transform the way we engage with fashion, read more.
Book your seat
Film Friday - for Neurodiverse Audiences ‘My Life as a Courgette’
Our final 'Film Friday' screening will be chosen by our team at Somerset Film, they chose, My Life as a Courgette, CERT PG (2016), a vibrant stop-motion animation.
Uplifting animated tale about a foster home for kids. Life is difficult for a boy who likes to be called Courgette until a girl called Camille arrives and changes everything.
Tickets cost £2 and include a cup of tea/coffee /squash. Under 14's must be accompanied by an adult.
For further details click the ‘Book Here’ link.
Seed the Day
FREE
As part of Seed the Day we will be organising a seed and plant swap and screening environmental films featured in the 2022 Frome International Climate Film Festival here at The Engine Room.
Encanto (SOLD OUT)
Free but pre-booking required
This event is sold out, which is part of Wellington Film Festival. It’s the picnic movie for the final afternoon of the Festival. Bring a rug, the kids and some popcorn and settle down in front of a very big video screen to watch the animation that surprised everyone by topping the music charts, find out more.
This Good Earth
Adults £6 (includes a complimentary drink) | Children free
This event is part of Wellington Film Festival. This Good Earth is film-maker Robert Golden’s passionate warning about the dangers lurking in the way food is produced and processed in the modern world, find out more.
Peter Pan
Adults £6 | Children £3
This event is part of Wellington Film Festival. Once upon a time movies were silent. Not quite true. The films from a century ago were usually accompanied by live music. So our showing of the 1924 Peter Pan comes with a score provided by classical harpist Elizabeth Jane Baldry. She also narrates the story of how the only surviving print of Peter Pan was discovered and restored in the nick of time, find out more.
Wellington On Screen
Free
This event is part of Wellington Film Festival. In early March 2020, ten local residents embarked on a music and film-based project with Actiontrack Performance Company and Somerset Film to creatively capture life in the town. Just a few weeks later, Covid brought our established day to day routines to a halt and changed them dramatically over the ensuing months. This is a chance to see the completed final work and to hear the music specially composed for it, find out more.
Absolute Beginners (12)
Adults £5 | Over 12s £3.50
This event is part of Wellington Film Festival. Set against a backdrop of emerging teen culture and rising racial tension in late 50s London, Colin MacInnes' cult novel is brought to the screen in Julien Temple's lavish musical adaptation, find out more.
Heritage Films
Adults £5 | Children £3.50
This event is part of Wellington Film Festival. The festival’s evening of heritage films is an eclectic mix of new material and archive footage from sources as varied as The Box archive in Plymouth to family attics. It wouldn’t be Wellington if there wasn’t material from the major factories such as Tonedale Mill, Swallowfield and Relyon but there is also a lovely black and white recording of the town celebrating the 1936 Coronation. Who knows, you might spot your great-granny amid the bunting, find out more.
Scene with BFI Film Academy
Free for groups of students from local Secondary Schools and Colleges.
The big screen can inspire us to bring our stories to life and fill us with ambitions to make a feature film. But short films are often the starting point for emerging talent to showcase their creative ideas and ability. This is a chance to see recently commissioned films that are making headlines in festivals. Come and find out how they took their first steps into the industry and what support there is locally for you to make your first film, find out more and how to book.
2040 and Archive Film Workshop (SOLD OUT)
SORRY, THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing our world today. Into Film will lead a short workshop for primary students (KS2).
Followed by the film screening of Damon Gameau’s 2019 environmental film 2040 (rated PG). A thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful film about how we can all make a positive difference to the world in big and small ways, find out more.
Film | Down by the River - Bridgwater Arts Centre
A FREE evening of film exploring flood risk in Somerset and celebrating local community resilience.
‘Down by the River’ is a new documentary filmed during the summer of 2021. Commissioned by Somerset Rivers Authority and produced by Somerset Film, this beautifully shot film reveals the hidden challenges of the local landscape and gives a voice to local volunteers, highlighting the extraordinary work they do.
The evening at Bridgwater Arts Centre will also include archive film of Somerset from the archives. Highlights of these entertaining and instructive local old films include historic events as well as local groups such as the Home Guard and fundraising carnivals. The films reveal how communities have responded, not just to flood risk, but the many challenges they have faced over the years.
This free event promises to illustrate how valuable the experience of the past is in responding to new challenges such as climate change.
Light refreshments will be available.
Film | Down by the River - Westlands, Yeovil
A FREE evening of film exploring flood risk in Somerset and celebrating local community resilience.
‘Down by the River’ is a new documentary filmed during the summer of 2021. Commissioned by Somerset Rivers Authority and produced by Somerset Film, this beautifully shot film reveals the hidden challenges of the local landscape and gives a voice to local volunteers, highlighting the extraordinary work they do.
The evening at the Westlands Entertainment Venue will also include archive film of Somerset from the archives. Highlights of these entertaining and instructive local old films include historic events as well as local groups such as the Home Guard and fundraising carnivals. The films reveal how communities have responded, not just to flood risk, but the many challenges they have faced over the years.
This free event promises to illustrate how valuable the experience of the past is in responding to new challenges such as climate change.
Light refreshments will be available.
Film | Down by the River - Burrowbridge Coronation Hall
With apologies - tonight’s screening is cancelled. We have emailed and called everyone who has booked. We will email again shortly with details of the re-scheduled event. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Film | Into Film Festival showing of Coraline
FREE film screenings for schools, as part of the national spring Into Film Festival.
Coraline (PG) 100 mins
When Coraline discovers a secret path to a parallel universe, she finds a world where she's never told off and it's always cake for dinner.
Places will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis, with attendance this year limited to one school group per event to help us to ensure the safety of all attendees.
Film | Into Film Festival showing of Wreck-It Ralph
FREE film screenings for schools, as part of the national spring Into Film Festival.
Wreck-It Ralph (PG) 97 mins
Disney dazzles with this inventive comedy that imagines what would happen if arcade game characters could come to life.
Places will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis, with attendance this year limited to one school group per event to help us to ensure the safety of all attendees.
Film | Into Film Festival showing of Coraline
FREE film screenings for schools, as part of the national spring Into Film Festival.
Coraline (PG) 100 mins
When Coraline discovers a secret path to a parallel universe, she finds a world where she's never told off and it's always cake for dinner.
Places will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis, with attendance this year limited to one school group per event to help us to ensure the safety of all attendees.
Film | Into Film Festival showing of Wreck-It Ralph
FREE film screenings for schools, as part of the national spring Into Film Festival.
Wreck-It Ralph (PG) 97 mins
Disney dazzles with this inventive comedy that imagines what would happen if arcade game characters could come to life.
Places will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis, with attendance this year limited to one school group per event to help us to ensure the safety of all attendees.
Film | Down by the River - The Regal Theatre, Minehead
A FREE evening of film exploring flood risk in Somerset and celebrating local community resilience.
‘Down by the River’ is a new documentary filmed during the summer of 2021. Commissioned by Somerset Rivers Authority and produced by Somerset Film, this beautifully shot film reveals the hidden challenges of the local landscape and gives a voice to local volunteers, highlighting the extraordinary work they do.
The evening at the Regal Theatre will also include archive film of Somerset from the archives….