Seasons & Festivals

As rare screening with live piano accompaniment from Hastings composer and musician Mike Hatchard. Part of our new strand, Sunday Silents. Louise Brooks dazzles as the dangerously appealing seductress Lulu in a gripping moral fable that is as tragic as it is charming. It's not not only a landmark film in the canon of Weimar cinema, but of the silent film era. G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box is a ...

This screening is a Knitflix Cinema presentation, inviting crafters and knitters to enjoy a relaxed 'lights-up' screening of the latest new releases and fashion based films in the cosy comfort of the Electric Palace this winter. Co-curated by Beryl Bailey in partnership with St Leonards' knitting and wool shop Flock. Includes a short knitting workshop before each screening. The story of a ga...

With Q&A with screenwriter Angela Pell. Written by Hastings-based Angela Pell, Snow Cake is our Classic Sunday screening for the Divergence Film Festival. At its core is Sigourney Weaver's nuanced performance as Linda, an autistic woman. Following a car accident in which his hitchhiking passenger is killed, Alan (Alan Rickman) makes the journey to pay his respects to the girl's mother. When ...

This screening continues our Cult Cinema Weekender - a celebration of strange and wonderful supernatural films as part of Hastings' Jack in the Green Mayday celebrations! Hosted and curated by Katie Spooner from Strange Frames, our film club that celebrates the offbeat, grotesque and arcane. Magick Hastings is a poetic exploration and an esoteric mystery tour of the town’s occult layers,...

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family - forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity and whether love can take a new form. The film will be introduced by Jake and Chris from Hastings Comedy Festival, plus short...

When an over zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far - his brane explodes. Thats “brane” not “brain” - but that means someone has to sort out the mess he has created. Our hero Corey Harlan is sent in - kicking and screaming - to find the heart of the brane and its creator Anton Chambers. Now manifested as a normal townhouse hosted by the enigmatic and multi-dimension...

Fright Night is co-curated and co-hosted by Emily Booth and Kim Foster-Taylor, and includes a short introduction before each screening with trivia and insights into the history of the horror film. A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competit...

To celebrate what would have been Miles Davis' 100th birthday week we present the ultimate documentary about the man, with introduction and Q and A with director Mike Dibbs. Fellow musicians, friends, lovers and family all agree that Miles Davis could be an objectionable old goat. Virtually all the contributors to this expansive documentary have a shocking anecdote to tell; Miles stealing their...

Youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-gay love story set in London in 1977, days before the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations. The hedonistic world of pirate DJs Chris and Caz is shattered when a close friend is killed while cruising in the local park. The black community suspect the National Front, but the police pull Chris in as a suspect. This beautifully crafted p...

Buddhist Sunday Mornings is curated by Chris McKenna, local buddhist practictioner, along with our annual Electric Buddhist Film Festival, the second largest Buddhist Film Festival in the UK. Before each screening Chris will lead a short meditation and introduction to the film. This 90-minute documentary chronicles the life and spiritual quest of Nicholas (Nicky) Vreeland, who for the past t...

Part of the B-Movie Fan Club . Join us on the last Sunday night of every month for an enjoyable romp into low-budget, horror and sci-fi. All tickets £7.50 and include free space candy. The night is hosted by Robin Knowles, who has been been running the club for over 12 years. Come and join the schlocky fun. Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers...

Two sisters are separated by the expanse of death. Parker, an actor in Los Angeles, returns to her hometown in search of answers after the sudden and violent loss of her estranged sister, Indiana. As Parker revisits familiar yet forgotten ground, she must escape the immense gravity of Indiana’s passing without surrendering to its encroaching darkness. Told through a non-linear and haunting lens...

Buddhist Sunday Mornings is curated and hosted by Chris McKenna, local buddhist practitioner. He also programmes our annual Electric Buddhist Film Festival, the 2nd largest Buddhist Film Festival in the UK. Before each screening Chris will lead a short meditation and introduction to the film. Tracing Transcendental Tone is a multiple award-winning feature documentary that follows a pilgrimage t...

Part of the B-Movie Fan Club . Join us on the last Sunday night of every month for an enjoyable romp into low-budget, horror and sci-fi. All tickets £7.50 and include free space candy. The night is hosted by Robin Knowles, who has been been running the club for over 12 years. Come and join the schlocky fun! Scott Warrington (Mauritz Hugo) returns to his childhood home in Louisiana after learnin...

After a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly, if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. But events at a festival have her feeling manipulated. Only later, do the consequences of that relationship leave her trapped in a nightmare. This screening continues our Cult Cinema Weekender - a celebration ...

This screening continues our Cult Cinema Weekender - a celebration of strange and wonderful supernatural films as part of Hastings's Jack in the Green mayday celebrations! Hosted and Curated by Katie Spooner from Strange Frames, our film club that celebrates the offbeat, grotesque and arcane. 17th-century England... A rural farming community has fallen under a spell of evil. The devil hi...

This screening continues our Cult Cinema Weekender - a celebration of strange and wonderful supernatural films as part of Hastings's Jack in the Green mayday celebrations! Made for Play for Today and rarely seen on the big screen, this TV gem is a must-see for anyone seriously interested in England's pagan past. Penda's Fen is a multi-layered reading of contemporary society and its personal, s...

The Wicker Man. Devout Christian policeman Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) finds himself summoned to a remote Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a child. On arrival, Howie finds himself isolated and humiliated by the actions of the island's community, who belong to a bizarre pagan cult led by the charming Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). As preparations for a ritual celebrat...

Our annual Jack in the Green screening of the cult horror classic, The Wicker Man, screening as part of our Cult Cinema Weekend. The ultimate in Folk Horror, join us on Sunday 3 May for The Wicker Man. The film follows a devout police sergeant’s search for a missing girl on a remote Scottish island—only to uncover a secretive pagan society with dark intentions. As mystery and ritual intertwine,...

Electric Palace is delighted to present our Andrew Kötting Weekend, a celebration of films by the internationally recognised filmmaker and artist. His career started with early live-art, often absurdist pieces, through darkly comic shorts teasing out the melancholy surrealism at the heart of contemporary Englishness to eight resolutely independent feature films that take biography, landscape an...

Andrew Kötting’s complex docu-essay about his daughter Eden, who has Joubert syndrome, steps outside conventional filmmaking grammar. The Memory Blocks takes the viewer on a wild visual journey, using a neurodivergent perspective that reveals how memories shift and transform, challenging our understanding of how we recall and process past experiences. This gala screening celebrates the Hasti...

When British filmmaker Andrew Kötting decided to tour the perimeter of Great Britain with his grandmother 'Big Granny' Gladys and his daughter Eden, he brought a film crew along. The result is this humorous and picturesque documentary. Starting at Bexhill-on-Sea and with an intermission at John O’Groats for a natter and drinks. En route they get to meet Keith Leech, Andy Hemsley and other Jack-...

Freya is using science to try and make her life more successful. Although she only got a 2:2 from the University of Brighton, so perhaps she shouldn’t back herself on that ability. With over 50K followers online and millions of views, her science jokes are quickly becoming a cult favourite.

Join Krystal as she fingerblasts you into her life and finds out in real time which of her anecdotes are funny and/or interesting. Some of it might be about sex. Some of it might be about divorce. Or why Americans involuntarily get really into the American flag around age 50. And why she might possibly never be let back into her own country. Age restriction 18+

In my comedy career, work life, and actual life, people have tried to fight me. Jaz Mattu Fights His Audience is a show about all those moments and how I deal with conflict, wrapped in one absurd, multimedia stand-up experience. Please don’t try to fight me during the show. “Truly unique.” (ENTERTAINMENT NOW ★★★★) “Ambitious and innovative.” (FEST) “Mattu has a great deal of creativity and in...

Following his hit sellout debut show, Jin Hao Li is back. This time, he’s taking you to the moon. LOL. Edinburgh Comedy Awards | Best Newcomer Nominee ★★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★★ The Skinny ★★★★★ The Age ★★★★ Observer

Award-winning Drag King, comedian, writer and podcaster Jodie Mitchell co-founded the queer women, trans, and non‑binary comedy collective The LOL Word, and writes and performs as their macho Glaswegian alter‑ego John Travulva with Pecs Drag Kings—winning an Off‑Broadway Award in 2020. They have appeared on Comedy Central Live and Channel 4’s Jokes Only A Lesbian Can Tell, and served as a writer o...

A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, Lilo & Stitch is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Come early and get involved in designing a 'friendly alien' in our craft workshop before the film - or spot the ND famous faces around the cinema in our treasure hunt - all part of the ticket price...

Oska Bright Film Festival is the world’s leading festival for films made by or featuring learning disabled or autistic people. Supported by the BFI and Arts Council England, they produce the BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying festival, deliver accessible screenings, and nurture the next generation of filmmakers. We are delighted to be screening a selection of some of this year’s favourites and stando...

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. H is for Hawk follows Helen (Foy), who, after the sudden death of her father (Gleeson), loses herself in the memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She turns to the ancient art of falconry, rooted in European tradition, training a wild goshawk nam...