Upcoming events
Short Film Screening: We need to talk about… death
Free drop-in screening
As part of ‘Dying Matters Week 2025’ we’re proud to screen a film that amplifies voices often overlooked. Biggerhouse Film has produced a film which brings together incredible people with learning differences who courageously open up about loss, love, and the grief they carry, in the film Eric talks about losing his sister.
Event | Christmas Sparkes
Free
An outdoor projection event in Burtle, featuring a live performance by sound artist Matt Davis, and recorded material from the Burtle Silver Band.
Bring your camping chairs and blankets to this special event which marks the culmination of a year-long project to digitise the C S John Sparkes film archive then see more of the extensive archive in the Village Hall after the projections, read more.
Film Screening | Fire in Babylon
Free | Cert. 12
A documentary on the West Indies cricket team's rise to being the best in the world, and one of the greatest cricket teams the world has ever seen, in the late-1970s and how they maintained that invincibility in the 1980s.
Film Screening | A Village Apart, Villages Together - Archive Film Event #3
Free
Inspired by C S John Sparkes and his use of film to document life in the village of Burtle, the local landscape and farming, Somerset Film presents an evening of heritage film. This is the third of three screenings.
Film Screening | A Village Apart, Villages Together - Archive Film Event #2
Free
Inspired by C S John Sparkes and his use of film to document life in the village of Burtle, the local landscape and farming, Somerset Film presents an evening of heritage film. This, the second of three screenings, will explore farming and local industries.
Event | TYCA Festival 2023
Free
Taunton Youth Culture & Arts Festival 2023 will have several stages showcasing; circus performers, musician, poets and filmmakers.
Come and see new short films created by our BFI Alumni, film screening starts at 12noon, and continues on a loop all day. Find out which films are being showcased, read more.
The Oil Machine & Discussion with Climate Action Taunton
Free
THE OIL MACHINE | Country: UK | Year: 2022 | Duration: 82’ | Cert PG
Film screening and discussion of new film ‘The Oil Machine’ revealing the true price of our dependence on oil to be hosted by Somerset Film and Climate Action Taunton, read more.
Odette (SOLD OUT)
Adults £6 | Adult Ticket with with Cream Tea £6.50 | Children £3
This event is sold out, which is part of Wellington Film Festival. Where better to watch the classic b/w biopic celebrating WW2 heroine Odette than in the stylish tearoom named in her honour? Anna Neagle plays the young British woman parachuted into occupied France to support the resistance and then captured and tortured by the Gestapo, find out more.